Applications are open for Sept'24 cohort. Kindly submit your application on or before 25th August 2024.
This is a 16-week semi-structured coaching program tailored for product professionals looking to elevate their careers in Product Management. This program provides personalized mentorship from seasoned industry experts who understand your unique challenges. Through one-on-one mentoring sessions and the group mentoring sessions, the mentees get a comprehensive understanding of product management, with a focus on hands-on learning and project-based activities. Gain valuable insights, ask relevant questions, and apply practical strategies to reach your professional objectives.
Experienced Product Professionals (8+ years)
Practising Product Managers
Product Analysts & Product Marketiers
Entrepreneurs seeking Product coaching
Greatlearning
Associate Vice President, Head of Product and Growth, Greatlearning
Abhishek has 20 years of experience primarily in product management across B2C and B2B space. He is passionate about building consumer centric products that solve real life problems. Abhishek has successfully launched and scaled some of the innovative and industry-first products and features while working at Great Learning, Freecharge, Snapdeal, Amazon and Mahindra Comviva. His key areas of interest are monetization, growth, problem solving and new product launches.
Amadeus Labs
Sr Director Product Management, Amadeus Labs
Abhishek is an accomplished B2B SaaS product leader with a successful track record in driving growth, fostering innovation, and delivering customer success. He brings a wealth of expertise in product management, product development, sales, and customer experience, and is passionate about building high-performing teams and collaborating with stakeholders to identify new opportunities and drive innovation.
Genesys
Sr. Director and Head of Product Management, Genesys
A seasoned professional with keen business sense and deep expertise in product management and marketing. Two decades of significant experience in innovating, creating, growing, and launching technology products for businesses and consumers. I have a track record of launching and growing products with multi-million dollar revenues worldwide. Proven ability to cultivate key relationships and deliver large-scale projects on schedule on budget. I am passionate about developing exceptional teams with proven ability to recruit & retain top performers. An out of the box thinker and have time and again proven it, during complex decision-making. A team player, working across cross functional and cross geo teams ensuring synergy and success.. An out of the box thinker and have time and again proven it, during complex decision-making. A team player, working across cross functional and cross geo teams ensuring synergy and success.
Salesforce
Sr. Director, Product Management, Salesforce
With over two decades of experience, I am a seasoned product manager specializing in building B2B and B2B2C enterprise applications. My expertise spans product design, development, delivery leadership and most recently leading a team of product managers. Motivated by a passion for identifying and solving customers' needs, I transitioned from a role in product development to product management. I have experience in Human Capital Management (HCM), CRM, and Financial Services domains, where I have a proven track record of conceptualizing and launching innovative features.
Salesforce
Director of Product Management, Salesforce
Skilled Business development leader with 15+ years of industry experience currently in athenahealth. Demonstrated leadership in building strong global customer/partner relationship, translated the market needs and vision into product road maps for business. With my experience in Technology, Product management, Solution design in the area of Services and Interoperability helps me drive business strategies to customer outcome.
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A 20+ year veteran, Mangesh is a leader and innovator (8+ patents) with a proven track record in building successful tech products from the ground up. He thrives on driving product strategy, roadmap, and metrics, scaling teams, and delivering impact across domains like retail, payments, and social media (Meta). Passionate about user focus, he identifies key cohorts, builds high-performing teams, and leverages his strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills. Expertise in AI/ML empowers him to build predictive models and use computer vision for fresh produce quality, inventory, and fraud detection. Beyond his business success, Mangesh shares his knowledge as a visiting faculty at IIM and other management institutes.
OLX
Product Leader, OLX
As a seasoned product leader with 18+ years of experience, I specialise in enhancing customer experiences and driving business growth for global online marketplaces. My expertise spans e-commerce, consumer apps, enterprise systems, and supply chain domains. I've successfully developed and launched diverse products, focusing on solving real problems and creating positive impacts worldwide.
Flipkart
Sr. Director, Product Management, Flipkart
Dipika has 18+ years of global Product Management experience at leading product companies in India and the US. At Flipkart, she currently leads Category Growth, launching new businesses such as Electric Vehicles and creating growth levers for Flipkart’s largest business lines. She is recognised for building visionary products and was named one of the Top 100 PMs in India. She mentors PMs and enjoys helping women find their voice in the workplace. Prior to joining Flipkart, Dipika was VP of Supply Chain Product at Myntra where she launched a computer-vision based Tech-led Design platform. At Amazon, Seattle, she was founding Product Manager for Fulfillment by Amazon, where she built the product from zero and scaled it to launch in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan. She has also led Product Management at EY Consulting with stints in Dublin and US. She graduated with a Master in Business Administration from Texas Christian University, US, and has a bachelor's in Management from Bombay University.
ADP
Director of Products, ADP
With over 15 years of experience in product management, Varchas has led the development and delivery of innovative and customer-centric solutions in various domains, such as hyper-personalization, process & task mining, marketing automation, and mobile communication technologies. Currently, Varchas is the Director of Products at ADP, where he leads a 20+ member product management team in India for Workforce Now, a market-leading HCM solution for mid-size organizations in North America. Varchas enjoys engaging with the startup and product community, and mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and product managers through various platforms, such as Nasscom DeepTech Club, iAngels Network, Conquest, and IPL. Varchas holds an MBA degree from Hult International Business School, has several certifications product management, design, strategy and leadership, and multiple publications and patents.
Trestlework
Founder, Trestlework
Shweta a seasoned product leader, started as a techie and moved to product design, focussing on innovation. With extensive experience in fintech, banking and regulatory authority segments, including a founding role in the EMV team, she has designed solutions, managed products, created new ecosystems, and teams. Shweta implemented NCMC standard for transit payments at Paycraft, where she also set up teams, verticals, and processes from scratch. She is now exploring new challenges and giving back to the community.
Zeotap
Vice President, Product Management, Zeotap
Mala is a seasoned product management leader with over 18 yrs of global experience in building products in MarTech, AdTech, eCommerce, Analytics and Healthtech domains. Mala has led cross functional teams in driving 0 to 1 products in startups to scaling $300M+ in revenue in large multi-national companies. Mala is looking forward to mentoring the next generation of product and entrepreneurial talent.
IBM
Data and AI, Platform Product Management, IBM
As a leader in product management, Dr. Maruti is passionate about helping organizations leverage technology to achieve growth. With a focus on building user-centric products across B2B and B2C domains such as retail banking, telecommunications, and HCM, they possess experience working with clients across North America, Western Europe, India, and APAC. Recognized for their skills in design thinking, collaboration, communication, and fostering positive product cultures, they excel at crafting exceptional customer experiences. Additionally, he leads high-performing HIPPO teams and empower individuals through PM mentoring. Adept at navigating complex conversations, they drive success by prioritizing people and products.
Salesevangelists
Founder, Salesevangelists
Chitra Singh is a Sales Mentor & Inspirer with 3 decades of expertise in leading & scaling high performance Sales teams in some of India's largest Banks like Kotak & ICICI. She is the Founder & Chief Mentor at SalesWomentoring, India's first & only community Inspiring women to succeed at Selling. The purpose of this community is to provide an eco system to enable 1 million women to Sell with confidence. She is the National President of the Sales & Business Development Council of WICCI & an empanelled Sales Expert with Voila Experts. She is also an avid blogger, podcast host, keynote speaker and fitness enthusiast. Her happiness boosters are running, singing, nature walks & spending time with her daughter. She is a Diversity champion & a Positive Aging advocate.
Product Leadership Consulting
Product Leadership Consulting
I am a Technology leader with more than 2 decades of global experience in building, marketing, and growing technology companies anywhere between zero to scale and hyper-growth. My career spans technology platforms (databases, middleware, application servers), Contract Management, digital photo merchandise, big data analytics, strategy consulting, agriculture tech, digital transformation, and health tech. At the moment I am leading the adoption of sleep optimization for high performance.
Thoughtworks
Principal Product Manager, Thoughtworks
With over 20 years of rich, diverse experience in the software industry building products that matter, Dinker has built products that have been part of Operating Systems, Paperless Offices, Home Automation and Online Videos. He also founded a startup that built Roo Kids App. Dinker has also worked at CERN and Fermilab, two top particle physics research labs. As Principal Consultant - Product Management at ThoughtWorks, he is currently helping businesses harness the power of product thinking and built right products.
Hitachi Payments
Vice President, Product Management, Hitachi Payments
A seasoned executive with extensive leadership knowledge of turning around and delivering products using thirteen years of Product and Strategic management experience. Currently, working as Head of Product at Hitachi Payments and leading product design, development, and payments business there. Have got rich experience working in payment, e-commerce, and travel industries at Pine Labs, Innoviti Payments, Cox & Kings(Ezeego1.com), Atos Worldline etc."
Verisys
Director Product Management, Verisys
Specialties: Experienced in US health care ,Pragmatic marketing certified , CSPO & CSM
Adobe
Principal Product Manager, Adobe
Abhishek is a product leader with 13 years of Product Management experience building large-scale enterprise products at companies like Adobe, Flipkart, and Pubmatic. He leads the product team in India for Adobe Experience Platform, an enterprise customer experience management platform. He is also an active mentor to aspiring and entry-level Product Managers.
Genesys
Principal Product Manager, Genesys
With nearly two decades of industry expertise, specializing in Product Management, Bansidhar has led go-to-market strategies for B2B Cloud/SaaS products. Passionate about mentoring professionals and enhancing the Indian product ecosystem, he organizes Product Tank, fostering growth through meetups. His innovation drives impactful advancements at Genesys, NICE, and Avaya.
Genesys
Director of Product Management, Genesys
As the Director of Product Management overseeing Data Platform and Analytics at Genesys, I lead a diverse team crafting a robust data services ecosystem, fostering innovation for our partners and clients. With over two decades of experience, I specialize in product development, agile methodologies, and program management. My business acumen spans product strategy, new product launches, GTM strategy, partnership management, pricing, and alliances. On the technical front, I excel in NLP search, conversational AI, data engineering, SaaS applications, API ecosystems, and low code platform development.
Broadridge
Executive Vice President - Product Management, Broadridge
Results-driven leader with experience in Product Management, Technology Delivery, and Operations Management engagements . Experienced in new product builds, executing large scale projects and developing strategies for setting up and executing transformation initiatives
Flipkart
Senior PM- Strategy, Flipkart
Product Manager with 8 years of experience in B2B and B2C product strategy and management across automotive, retail and e-commerce. Currently, driving product strategy for Flipkart, having previously led platform product management charters at Bosch. He is equipped with direct customer facing experience in handling cross functional and cross geographical teams. Expert on product design and execution, he is an agile and scrum practitioner. Udit pursued a full time two-year MBA from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT, Delhi). He's a certified project manager and product owner, having a penchant for design thinking, mentoring and public speaking. He values any opportunity to work in corporate strategy and/or driving technical projects for emerging businesses.
Visa
Director-Global Data Products, Visa
Amit is a seasoned product leader, with over 14 years of experience in the industry, including a focused decade in product management. Having worked with startups, analytical consulting firms, and large Fintechs, he excels in building and scaling AI/ML powered SaaS products for the global markets.
SAP Labs
Director of Product Management, SAP Labs
With over 13 years of experience, I excel in building and enhancing B2B and B2C products, fostering consumer satisfaction. Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, I've led product strategy at SAP Labs, GEP, EA Games, driving innovation and achieving successful go-lives. I am B.Tech graduate, received my MBA degree from NITIE (currently known as IIM Mumbai).
InterviewClub
Founder, InterviewClub
Sumit Singh is a driven leader on a mission to empower product managers globally. He spearheads Pmmixer.club and Interviewclub.co, exclusive communities fostering knowledge and connection within the PM landscape. A graduate of Harvard Business School, IIM Lucknow, and IIT Delhi, his academic pedigree speaks volumes about his pursuit of excellence. Driven by a passion for growth and product, Sumit's expertise spans diverse areas like gamification, payments, loyalty, and launching early-stage businesses. He thrives on the challenge of building innovative solutions and navigating the exhilarating landscape of startups
SAP Labs
Chief Product Manager, SAP Labs
Rajeev is a seasoned product marketing professional who has been working in product management roles at SAP since last 17 years. Rajeev has 25 years of industry experience working in various product companies like SAP, Oracle and IBM. He is passionate about driving global product success from India. He would love to talk about working with Asian and Indian customers in BeB segment, Go-to-market strategies for cloud products, driving product success together with ecosystem partners and product management in the age of cloud and AI.
GEP Worldwide
Associate Director - Product Management, GEP Worldwide
A strong track record of 12+ years in Product Management, Product Strategy, E-Commerce, Procurement, End to End Product Development & Product Launch. Have conceptualized & launched many successful B2B & B2C products. Have mentored 2500+ professionals & Students in Advanced Product Management & Scrum Agile
Exxat
Senior Vice President & Head, Products, Exxat
With close to 15 years of industry expertise, Sonali is a fearless #GET STUFF DONE Product Leader, Creator & Coach who believes in creating a fearless innovative culture & mindset. She has a diverse product expertise in building, growing & leading products & multi-skilled product teams across 0-1, 1-10 & 10-100 journeys across industries & domains.
The Nasscom ProductSkills Mentorship program helped me a lot. I got practical guidance on building strategy, vision and roadmap. I was able to practices the advice given by my mentor (Ravi) on stakeholder management, sharpened my leadership skills and most importantly the art of saying NO
My mentor (Ravi Padaki) provided me with real life examples and situations. He has vast knowledge.
With the help of my mentor (Nilesh Dalvi), I am getting better at strategy and Product decision making where I was struggling earlier. Nilesh has given me enough tools and techniques that empower me to take informed decisions and come up with user friendly strategies.
The mentoring program has been incredibly beneficial for me. I had numerous questions about working in Product Management, and through discussions with my mentor, Abhishek Sahay, we explored various ideas and approaches to tackle different challenges in a PM role.
It was truly enlightening to engage with someone who could understand and validate my thoughts and concerns. Abhishek demonstrated remarkable composure and actively listened to all the issues I shared. The conversations were highly insightful and enriched my understanding, thanks to his depth of knowledge and expertise in the mentorship program.
One of the major helps was getting a better understanding of the technicality in building your own UPI system or integrating with the PG providers, finding the product market fit, etc. Overall, my mentor Mr. Sudhanshu Jha has helped me a lot on my current project of launching the MVP customer facing app.
I had 3 amazing takeaways.
1. The Nasscom Productskills Mentorship program gave me an opportunity to think deeper into my strengths and growth areas. Initially working on the goal sheets was vague and unstructured. However, my mentor Chandrashekar Srinivasan helped me to give it the right shape with his inputs.
2. With numerous numbers of hours to have a conversation with a product leader, I got a perspective about leadership thinking. It also helped me to understand various types of leadership types and thought processes.
3. It gave me a fantastic avenue to connect with product managers and leaders working in various industries and companies. Thank you Nasscom Team!
Megha Ohri (My Mentor) helped me assess my ability and build my confidence. I also needed some help in deciding the future path and role for me and she helped me evaluate my strengths and what I am aiming for which made me choose the right path of growth in product management. The program is certainly a big help especially with its more open format. My initial discussions were biased based on what I wanted to pursue and as we progressed in the sessions the direction changed focusing more on my strengths. The program allowed to do that. So, thanks for this program and my mentor I achieved what I set out to achieve with more clarity and determination.
The program has significantly impacted my growth as a Product Management professional. Mentors like Sudhanshu Jha have provided invaluable insights and real-life examples that greatly aided me during interviews. His deep knowledge and guidance have been transformative, equipping me with the skills and confidence to excel in my career. The program has been an incredibly enriching experience.
Unlike most prescriptive programs, nasscom has come up with an explorative framework driven by the mentees. This helps to setup relevant goals & apt upskilling, based on where the individual needs to grow. The mentor-mentee matching in my case was well done based on our backgrounds & my needs from the program.
The mentors in this program are phenomenal. Their deep industry knowledge and personalized guidance have been instrumental in my growth as a Product Management professional. They provided real-world insights that textbooks and online articles can't offer.
The program is ideal for existing product professionals with minimum 8+ years of professional experience (out of which 3+ must be in products)
No, there are no commercials associated with the program
While there are many benefits of having a coach, you can expect to get practical advice on how to move forward in your career, get advice on your product strategy, clarity, and perspective on the challenges that you might be facing and feedback on the ideas that you want to focus upon.
At this stage, the program is open for anyone with 8+ years of overall experience & 3+ years of product management experience. However, if you feel you have relevant overall experience & a solid reason to get mentored, go ahead fill the form and convince the evaluating team.
The mentorship cohort will be of 16 weeks, however you can continue your informal mentoring with your mentor as is agreeable to you both.
