About

Narayanarao Rayapureddy is a seasoned Product Manager with a passion for building exceptional consumer products. He is currently working at PhonePe, where he is responsible for building a 0-1 KYC platform for different PhonePe products. Narayanarao is comfortable with ambiguity and thrives on creating order out of chaos, making him an invaluable asset to any team. Prior to joining PhonePe, Narayanarao worked at Zoomcar, where he led the payments charter. He boosted payments success rate by 11% by launching UPI payments, 'buy now, pay later' options, downtime messaging for payment failures, and native OTP. He also reduced the refund timeliness from 7 days to 6 hours for 88% of refunds by enabling instant refunds and automating the calculation of the charges. Narayanarao's experience also includes working at HaikuJAM, where he led a cross-functional team of 8 members from the idea stage to product launch. He was responsible for the product management of Inspo, a machine learning-based B2C product that helps content creators and marketers in brands and agencies with their content needs and positioning. He also managed the HaikuJAM App, a collaborative poetry writing app that was featured by Google Play in the 'Made in India' apps section. Narayanarao launched weekly writing challenges and streaks, which increased time spent by daily active users to ~40 mins, an increase of 45%. He also boosted Day 1 retention of users by 37% by launching a revamped onboarding experience. Narayanarao holds a B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Sciences degree from Sasi Junior College. He has 9.03 years of relevant experience and is skilled in product management and ML.