About

Sameer Divate is a dynamic Product Manager with over 7 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working at Dream11, a leading fantasy sports platform, where he has developed multiple white-label solutions for various boards like BCCI, ICC, Cricket Australia, New-Zealand Cricket, ISL, and ECB. Sameer has excellent communication skills and is proficient in speaking the language of developers, sales, operations, higher management, and legal. He has worked in both B2B and B2C worlds and has a B-1/B-2 US VISA valid till 2026. Sameer is a highly empathetic and responsible individual who understands customer pain points with ease and takes ownership of his work. He possesses sharp analytical skills and can comprehend complex concepts effortlessly. Sameer has impactful presentation and public-speaking skills and is an expert in ideation and conceptualization. At Dream11, Sameer has conceptualized and built a platform called MSD (Managing Systems at DreamSports) for the operations team that focuses on efficiency, speed, and accuracy. He has helped reduce error rates by 50% across fantasy sports operations and achieved a 90% reduction in the time it takes to declare winners from 30 minutes to 3 minutes. Sameer owns the MSD platform that is responsible for all product operations and internal functions. Sameer has also conceptualized, launched, and experimented with a next-gen Pro Desktop Terminal for top 2% Dream11 users. He has owned everything from design, communication, analytics, MIS, as well as publishing health metrics. Sameer has owned the entire Sports-Operations portals within Dream11, making enhancements wherever necessary. Prior to Dream11, Sameer worked as a Product Manager at Zycus, a SaaS-based flagship analytics and dashboard-based product organization. He led a team of 20+ engineers to ideate, write specifications, groom, develop, and test +200 features. Sameer collaborated with cross-functional teams and supported sales and pre-sales teams to ensure differentiating factors and new enhancements were highlighted. He also evaluated and conducted commercial and legal negotiations with multiple third-party BI vendors. Sameer holds an MBA in Marketing from K J Somaiya Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth. He has also completed HSC from Mithibai College and SSC from Bombay Cambridge School. Sameer is proficient in Product Management, AI, testing, Mobile, and