Manish Kapoor

Applied: PMRank #32 of 45 PM applicantssquad_6@pg27.mesaschool.cono phone found28_manish_kapoor.pdf

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PM rubric (applied role)36.0 / 100Below the line

Criterion	Score	Weight	Points	Evidence	Rationale
PM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience	1/5	30%	6	none	The CV shows no freight, logistics, or supply chain operations experience across any listed roles.
PM-2 Builds from observed pain; peers adopt it	3/5	20%	12	Built extensibility through APIs & Self-service analytics, cutting dev requests by 30%	Provides a single clear example of building self-service tools to resolve developer bottlenecks with documented adoption.
PM-3 Sole ownership with no layer in between	3/5	20%	12	Owned Product vision & roadmap for Enterprise-wide Insights platform, scaling to 12,000+ global users with 300+TB of data, ensuring reliability & performance	Owned roadmaps for internal platforms as a Product Manager 2 within a large enterprise organization with senior management layers above.
PM-4 Discovery directly with operators	1/5	15%	3	none	There is no evidence of direct field research, interviews, or discovery conducted with frontline operational users.
PM-5 Candour: kills, post-mortems, owning what went wrong	1/5	15%	3	none	The CV contains an exclusively success-driven narrative with no mentions of killed products, outages, or post-mortems.

SPM rubric (other role)30.0 / 100Below the line

Criterion	Score	Weight	Points	Evidence	Rationale
SPM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience	1/5	25%	5	none	The candidate has experience in HR tech, enterprise BI/cloud analytics, financial services, and pharma, with no logistics exposure.
SPM-2 Senior-most owner, no one above them in the function	3/5	25%	15	Owning the end-to-end Team Dynamics product, which evaluates candidate–organization fit and drives cultural alignment for hiring decisions	Sole owner of a specific product pillar/area, operating beneath senior management.
SPM-3 Turns fixes into standing practice	1/5	20%	4	none	No evidence of establishing a named standing practice or process that the team maintains independently.
SPM-4 Judgement under pressure, stated plainly	1/5	15%	3	none	Presents a success-only narrative with no mention of hard calls, trade-offs, or failures.
SPM-5 Grows people who then get promoted	1/5	15%	3	none	No evidence of mentoring, team development, or mentee promotions within a professional product context.

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Delhi NCR, India
Phone: | Email: | LinkedIn: [REDACTED]
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Product Manager – Data & AI Platforms
Product leader with 10+ years’ experience in building, scaling and optimizing Enterprise SaaS platforms across
ValueMatrix.AI, Microsoft, American Express and ZS. Proven record of defining Product Strategy, owning roadmaps &
OKRs, Data-driven decision making and partnering with Engineering, Design and Data science to deliver high-
performing, customer-centric products adopted at scale.
WORK EXPERIENCE
ValueMatrix.AI
➢ Senior Product Manager
Oct 2025 – Present • Delhi (Remote)
▪ Leading the cultural-fit assessment pillar in hiring by building DeepTech tools integrated into ATS workflows and
powered by Voice AI analytics
▪ Owning the end-to-end Team Dynamics product, which evaluates candidate–organization fit and drives cultural
alignment for hiring decisions
▪ Partnering with Research and Data Science to shape product roadmaps, define scoring logic, and validate models
using research inputs from IIM-A collaborators
Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd.
➢ Product Manager 2
Apr 2022 – Aug 2025 • Noida, Uttar Pradesh • Org: Enterprise Platform & Services Engineering
▪ Owned Product vision & roadmap for Enterprise-wide Insights platform, scaling to 12,000+ global users with
300+TB of data, ensuring reliability & performance
▪ Launched Copilot-based insights tooling, integrated across global sales teams, improving adoption by 40% and
accelerating decision-making
▪ Defined and executed vision for Customer ROI dashboard linking $400M+ investments to Azure Consumed
Revenue; drove adoption across 8,000+ stakeholders
▪ Partnered with engineering to build data pipelines, ETL workflows, and scalable reporting across Azure
▪ Defined KPIs & funnel metrics for adoption, iterating on experiments to drive top-20 ranked BI solutions (out of
2M+ reports)
▪ Built extensibility through APIs & Self-service analytics, cutting dev requests by 30%
▪ Delivered a Sales Talent Intelligence Platform enabling performance and skills visibility for 10,000+ Customer
Success personnel, improving operational planning and workforce alignment
American Express India Pvt. Ltd.
➢ Product Manager
Oct 2016 – Apr 2022 • Gurgaon, Haryana • Org: Enterprise Digital & Analytics
▪ Led roadmap & delivery of an internal analytics platform serving 6,000+ stakeholders across Marketing, Risk &
Finance
▪ Partnered with marketing and risk teams to derive insight-led strategies impacting 19M+ customers globally across
25 Global markets
▪ Supported RBI India data localization compliance by coordinating migration of employee datasets to approved
data centers, verifying integrity through audit checks
▪ Led data migration & governance of 1,200+ data elements to Big Data platforms, ensuring compliance and quality
▪ Led impact analysis on 4500+ tables; published KPIs to measure platform throughput, turnaround, and data quality
ZS Associates Pvt. Ltd.
➢ Business Operations Associate
Jul 2015 – Oct 2016 • Gurgaon, Haryana • Domain: Incentive Compensation Analytics (US Pharma Client)
▪ Built Sales enablement and Performance analytics platforms for Fortune 100 clients in pharma/healthcare
▪ Automated KPI visualizations in Tableau/Excel, reducing turnaround time by 60%
▪ Aligned compensation reporting with client strategy, ensuring executive adoption
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CORE SKILLS
Product Leadership: Product Strategy & Vision, Roadmap Ownership, Outcome-based OKRs, SAFe/Agile
Experimentation & Analytics: A/B Testing, Funnel Metrics, Usage Telemetry, KPI Frameworks
Data & AI: SQL, Hive, Power BI, Tableau, Data Governance & Compliance, Python (Analysis), AI/ML-Driven Insights
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engg/Design/Data Science, User Research, GTM Alignment, Stakeholder Influence
Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Rally, Figma, Visio
CERTIFICATIONS
SAFe 4 Certified Product Owner / Product Manager — Certified in 2019
Agile Scrum Fundamentals – 2018
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology (Biotechnology)
Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi
2011 – 2015 | CGPA: 7.8/10
Class XII (CBSE)
Rukmini Devi Public School, Delhi
2010 | Score: 91.20%
Class X (CBSE)
Rukmini Devi Public School, Delhi
2008 | Score: 93.80%
ACHIEVEMENTS
Senior VP Award in “Drive Results” category – American Express (2020)
Edward P. Gilligan Innovation Award – American Express (2019)
Analyst of the Quarter at VP Level – American Express (2017)
Featured on DD1 Live TV under youth leadership program (twice) – 2010
Awarded INR 1,00,000 merit scholarship for stellar academic performance – Class X (2009)
PROJECTS & LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES
▪ 2012–2014: Research Project on “Jugaad in Street Entrepreneurship” under IIM Calcutta — Explored Informal
sector Business Innovation
▪ Core team member, Avanti NGO (DTU Chapter) — provided Career counseling for Underprivileged students
▪ Led IEEE Tech Fest & Biotech Fest at DTU — Organized national-level quizzes and workshops
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Languages: English (Fluent), Hindi (Native), Punjabi (Basic), German (Basic)
Hobbies: Travel, Cricket, Badminton, Financial Markets, Volunteer Work