Vishal S. | Design Coach

Vishal S.

5.0

Pass that Design case study and Land your Dream PM job!

Studied at University of Illinois at Chicago

Worked at Microsoft

Available today at 8:00 PM UTC

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Available today at 8:00 PM UTC

Usually responds within 6 hours

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Vishal’s Design Qualifications

Experience level: Manager

60+ people coached for Design

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

Vishal has helped clients get into these companies:

I have coached ton of Product professionals interviewing for Facebook and Google for Product Design case studies. Some of those have landed their gig at Facebook, Uber and LinkedIn. Many have noted that my feedback was the best and the most detailed they have ever obtained and that it has been extremely actionable. I also enjoy coaching teaching a PM Bootcamp at UT Austin and sub as a lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill and UColumbia.

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Work Experience

Sr. product manager

Microsoft

January 2023 - September 2023

Enable Notifications for 20+ M365 products and improve Satisfaction to 80% (OKR) and CTR. ▪ Obtained buy-in for an on-boarding program to boost partner on-boarding by 500%/QTR. ▪ Strategized 6 months roadmap to attain 90% user satisfaction for 1B+ notifications across 20 M365 products by Q4 2023.

Sr. product manager

PLANOLY

October 2022 - January 2023

Spearheaded B2C Social Media Management product (iOS / Android / Web) to plan, collaborate and auto-post digital content on social media channels (iOS: 8 million+ users, 4.7 stars). ▪ Grew paid user Retention by 20% and NPS by 3% from iteratively releasing Hashtags. ▪ Attained 20% improvement in GTM by influencing Prototype > Test > Build product cycle. ▪ Obtained 38% lift in Sign-ups from A/B testing hypothesis and aligning experimentation goals.

Lead Product Manager

Cox Automotive

August 2021 - April 2022

Drove Growth and Experience of a 2-sided API Marketplace (Developer portal) by aligning business goals with intuition, architectural capabilities, and customer and competitor research. ▪ Achieved 27% lift on paid subscriptions / QTR from Try-Now based on A/B experiment. ▪ Championed PM best practices (PRDs, A/B testing, wireframing, user testing, feature teams). ▪ Boosted 10% Sellers and 5% Buyers by managing backlog and launching Self-Serve and Checkout ▪ Oversaw 4 scrum teams of 6 developers by directing backlog prioritization, release management and measuring outcomes.

Sr. product manager

Walmart

October 2018 - July 2020

Incubated automation products to Reduce Cost and Improve employee Efficiency, Retention, and Safety. ▪ Influenced business case and roadmap for Load Monitoring Unit (LMU) across 2 facilities. ▪ Achieved 5% trailer utilization and 14% fullness ($6.52M Revenue) by performing POC of LMU. ▪ Conducted 30-40 user interviews and observations to define features addressing key pain points. ▪ Reduced $2.3M labor cost by strategizing and cross-functionally designing Desktop/Tablet features and for Autonomous Rover.

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