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Himanshu Singh
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Professional (3/6)
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Education Tech Jobs Search and Employment Service Mobility Tech
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Evaluated for VP of Product and
Consumer PM role archetypeⓘ
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Communication
Strategy
Design
Technology
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- User experience design
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3.3/5
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3.6/5
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Experience
Head of International Experience
- IXL Learning
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Feb 2020 – Jul 2020
Mandate – grow revenue and active users for 14 international editions in 6 languages.
Channels:
– Family subscriptions (B2C)
– School/ District subscriptions (B2B and B2B2C)
– Teacher subscriptions (B2B2C)
Skills acquired: User research, user stories, user experience design, analytics and quantitative testing, team management and mentorship, agile development, strategy and roadmap planning, go-to-market strategy.
Head of Operations, Content & Credentials
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Aug 2019 – Feb 2020
Got things done to grow business by 100% Y-o-Y.
A few responsibilities include:
– Align cross functional efforts and prioritize learning product launch plan to hit revenue goals
– Build operational muscle by setting up processes and systems to scale business for 30% employee growth
– Expanded Coursera’s presence in Latin America and Russia with first ever non-English learning programs
Principal Product Manager, Content & Credentials
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Dec 2017 – Aug 2019
Channels: B2C and Institutions
Products: Online Degrees, MOOCs
Launched education products in business, tech, data and health across the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. User enrollments and revenue in launched products grew more than 100% YoY.
Lead a 50+ person cross-functional team to identify, prioritize, launch more than 12 learning products with some of the biggest brands in higher-ed.
Skills acquired: user persona and stories, product roadmap planning, decision making, leadership, management, negotiations, product-market fit (new product design, new business model design), product growth strategy, pricing and competitive analysis.
Founder
- Prowess
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Sep 2020 – Present
Hiring is broken and the current signals for skills (pedigree, a day of interviews and referrals) are ineffective and biased at best. We need an unbiased, merit based system that empowers product professionals to showcase their skills and fast-track their career.
Prowess is building an anonymous skills evaluation and progression system where professionals can
1. Learn from a community of practice.
2. Demonstrate skills by sharing their work or taking on new challenges.
2. Improve their craft with anonymous expert feedback.
3. Standout as a professional with expert vetted portfolios.
Anyone, irrespective of their background, can use Prowess to showcase their skills and differentiate themselves in the job market. Check us out at www.showprowess.com!
EdTech Fellow
- On Deck
- Full-Time
- Jul 2021 – Present
Learn, connect, and build EdTech companies with founders and operators around the world.
Senior Product Manager, Content & Credentials
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- Mountain View
- Jun 2016 – Dec 2017
Product: Online Degrees
Built learning product team from scratch for the biggest product at Coursera (Online Degrees) by defining learning product roadmap and strategic growth plan while leading cross functional teams. Launched learning products with revenue more than $50M.
Business Development Manager, MOOCs
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- Mountain View
- Oct 2015 – Jun 2016
Product: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)
Managed and grew high impact partnerships, resulting in $XM annual revenue while increasing access to education for millions around the world.
• Achieved 200% revenue growth and educated 5M+ learners by monetizing Stanford and launching 50+ MOOCs.
• Negotiated multimillion-dollar partnerships with top tier creators to secure content worth $XM.
Corporate Strategy Manager
- Cummins Inc.
- Full-Time
- Indianapolis, Indiana Area
- 2013 – 2015
Sector – Automotive, Transportation and Energy
Products – Telematics system, Trucks, Engines, Generators, Batteries, Filters
Project work with the CEO’s office –
– New market entry assessments, product partnerships and path-to-market strategies
– Product growth strategy
– Product portfolio management and expansion
– Organization design and restructuring
Skills acquired – strategy (growth, portfolio management, go to market planning), acquisitions, competitive analysis, data analysis, financial modeling, stakeholder management, team management
Key results:
– Implemented Go-to-Market strategy for rural electrification product by defining the business model and partner engagement model in Asia and Africa, enabling electrification in thousands of villages
– Created strategic growth plan for $XB business unit, resulting in product partnership and JVs.
– Defined risk mitigation framework to assess threat from disruptive technologies. The framework is used by business unit head.
Manager – Digital Transformation and Performance Improvement
- PwC
- Full-Time
- Jan 2010 – Jul 2012
Sectors – Consumer Goods, Tech and Chemical
Led multiple 15+ member teams to execute projects in technology transformation, operations effectiveness, and product portfolio strategy.
Skills acquired – leadership, team management, user experience research, product development, strategy, problem solving, operations improvement, project management, customer success, user acceptance testing, user support.
Examples –
• Led 7-member team to gather user requirements, design workflows and launch financial management tool at 120 sites of a chemical company, saving 3 days in books closing time for 3K users.
• Enforced effective disbursement of $500M World Bank grant to 170 research centers (10K employees) by designing fund disbursement framework, mapping regulations to product features and conducting usability testing, resulting in 100% adoption and compliance.
Senior Associate – Digital Transformation and Performance Improvement
- PwC
- Full-Time
- Aug 2007 – Dec 2009
Sectors – Consumer Goods, Government, Industrials
Built and launched enterprise SaaS product solutions that saved millions in finance, operations, supply chain and service functions at companies with over 20K employees.
Skills acquired – user research, conceptual modelling, user persona definition, user journey mapping, product development, user testing, bug identification and resolution, data analysis, leadership, communication and stakeholder management.
Work-streams – product strategy, user research, operations improvement, supply chain management, organization design and digital transformation.
Projects:
• Launched route optimization tool at a consumer goods company by creating a route recommendation framework based on SKUs distribution and order history at 17 warehouses, resulting in 80% reduction in delivery delay rate.
• Build a custom order management application that used real time inventory and sales data to decrease order processing time by 70% at 7 locations of an industrial company.
Degree Programs
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
- University of Virginia Darden School of Business
- General Management
- Aug 2007 – Dec 2009
• Elected Student Body Executive Vice President (1 out of 320) – removed redundant student club leadership positions to increase accountability among officers.• Elected Class Secretary, Alumni Relations (2 out of 320) – co-led one of the biggest class gift campaigns in school’s history.
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
- Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
- Electronics and Communications Engineering
- Aug 2007 – Dec 2009
Lots of math, logic, programming, VLSI design, and network theory combined with student club leadership experience. Classes I enjoyed the most – Data Structures, Scientific Computing, C, C++, UNIX, Java, Microprocessor Programming, Network Theory, Digital Signal Processing, Probability Models and Stochastic Analysis, VLSI Design.