About

Suraj Shanbhag is a Product Manager with over 4 years of experience in Product Management and Software Engineering for customer apps and tools. He has a keen interest in Technology and Product Management and has been working as a Product Manager for customer app, website, chatbot & Personal assistant at ACT Fibernet. Suraj pursued a flagship 2 year MBA course from the prestigious IIM Bangalore. During the summers of 2018, Suraj interned at Amazon as a Product Manager with the Pricing team. He proposed enhancements to Mapping & Promotion tools that were a part of Amazon Year 2019 launch plan. Prior to that, he worked as a Software Engineer for around 3 years at Robosoft Technologies. At Robosoft, he got an opportunity to develop top apps like Sony Liv (100M+ installs), LivSports, NDTV News & Hindustan Times. Suraj has core competencies in Product Strategy, User Experience, Product Design, Product Roadmap & Launch, Market Research, Go to Market Strategy, KPI & Analytics, Stakeholder Management, and Team Building. Currently, Suraj is a Member of HBR Ascend Select and has previously worked as a Product Manager at ACT Fibernet. At ACT Fibernet, he was responsible for conducting market research to understand consumer behavior/needs, monitoring the landscape and keeping track of the performance of various products, identifying the market need-gaps based on research data, working with internal teams to ideate products to address unmet needs, developing products to meet consumer needs, conducting product testing with consumers and internal teams to consistently improve product performance, defining key strategic objectives for brand performance, and ensuring performance meets objectives. He also co-owned the P&L of the product and was responsible for the end-to-end ownership of product lifecycle – innovation, production, distribution, after-sales, devising the go-to-market strategy, and executing the promotion plan for the launch of the product. Suraj has a Master of Business Administration - MBA from IIM Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering - BE from N M A M Institute of Technology, Nitte. He also has a Pre-University College degree from GAS College, Karwar, and a High School degree from Balamandir High School. Suraj has experience in Product Management, Research Science, Product Design, Software Engineering, and Testing, totaling to 6.95 years of relevant experience.