About

Kumar Shubham is a highly experienced Product Manager with over 6 years of experience in the field. He is a keen user experience researcher, tinkerer, and fashion enthusiast. Kumar has expertise in various domains such as dating/social network, e-commerce, fashion, retail, crowdfunding, and hospitality. He possesses 5 specific skill sets that sum him up, including influence skills, decision-making skills, business knowledge, vision, and product management. Kumar has worked in diversified and versatile internet industries and earned valuable experiences throughout this journey. Currently, Kumar is a Mentor for Product Management at upGrad, where he is mentoring professionals transitioning to product management. He is also a featured speaker for webinars. Previously, he worked as a Product Manager - Revenue at Bumble, the parent company that operates Badoo and Bumble, two of the world’s largest dating and connection apps with millions of users globally. Kumar worked on the revenue segment of the app Badoo and Bumble having a combined 550Mn+ user base. Kumar also worked as Head of Product at Ketto, where he ideated and created product both app and website from scratch. He was responsible for rapid prototyping, creating lo-fi, hi-fi designs, wireframes, mockups, deciding and evaluating product feature, and recognizing, researching prominent and key fashion product services, using this insight to build features and services at Flyrobe. Kumar also collected user data from app, Facebook, which included user profile, demographics behavior, their interaction with the product both on the website and the app, etc. This insight was used for recommendation along with the data captured by is used to create reports to be used by the marketing team for campaigns. Kumar has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University, a Full Stack Web Development degree from Free Code Camp, and a High School degree from St. Karen's High School. He has a strong tech stack that includes product management, research scientist, MySQL, and test. Kumar is an active team leader and player, with overall professional work experience of 6+ years working with diverse teams.