Rasika Jamburge

Product Manager with 3.5 years of Product Management experience and 7 years of QA leadership, bringing 10+ years of overall experience in building and scaling digital products. Experienced in driving end-to-end product lifecycle across ecommerce, AI-powered experiences, payments, seller platforms, logistics, and customer engagement products. At Glance, led multiple high-impact initiatives across ecommerce, personalization, AI/LLM-powered discovery, checkout optimization, payments, and retention, contributing to improvements in conversion, engagement, and monetization metrics.

Strong expertise in product discovery, roadmap planning, stakeholder management, analytics, experimentation, and cross-functional execution. Currently working as an Independent Product Consultant, helping startups and growing businesses define product strategy, validate ideas, create MVPs, and improve customer experiences through data-driven product decisions. Certified in Product Management (Integrated with Generative AI) from the Indian School of Business (ISB).

Independent Product Consultant - Independent Product Consultant (Freelance)

(2026-05)

• Partnering with startups to define product vision, roadmap priorities, and MVP requirements.
• Driving product discovery, PRD creation, feature validation, and cross-functional execution to accelerate product development.

Product Manager - Glance - Mumbai

(2026-01 - 2026-04)

• Led product strategy and roadmap prioritization across ecommerce, engagement, AI, and monetization initiatives.
• Owned quarterly planning, product prioritization, and business impact reviews with senior stakeholders.
• Spearheaded AI-powered initiatives including personalization, recommendation systems, and visual search capabilities.
• Improved discovery and engagement metrics by approximately 15–20% through data-driven product enhancements.
• Conducted advanced SQL-based funnel, cohort, and behavioral analyses to identify growth opportunities.
• Led privacy, compliance, and platform reliability initiatives in collaboration with engineering and legal teams.
• Mentored junior product team members and promoted product management best practices across teams.
• Defined success metrics and measured business impact across product initiatives.

Associate Product Manager - Glance - Mumbai

(2023-01 - 2025-12)

• Owned end-to-end product lifecycle from problem discovery to launch across ecommerce and marketplace products.
• Defined product vision, roadmap, North Star metrics, and success KPIs aligned with business goals.
• Authored detailed PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and process workflows.
• Led product initiatives across catalog management, seller platforms, order management, logistics, payments, and customer journeys.
• Improved checkout conversion by 10–15% through funnel optimization and UX improvements.
• Increased payment success rates by 8–12% by enhancing UPI, payment gateway, and refund experiences.
• Built AI-powered capabilities including visual search, personalization, and intelligent product discovery experiences.
• Applied RAG-based solutions and evaluated AI use cases to drive operational efficiency and user engagement.
• Designed retention programs, reward systems, and engagement loops that improved Day 1 and Day 7 retention by 12–18%.
• Conducted A/B testing, funnel analysis, cohort analysis, and segmentation studies to drive data-backed decisions.
• Collaborated closely with engineering, design, analytics, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful releases.
• Built pricing and business impact models to support strategic product decisions.

QA Manager / Associate QA Manager / QA Engineer - Glance (incl. Shop101 acquisition)

(2018-05 - 2024-10)

• Led quality strategy for mobile and web platforms across 6+ years, managing a team of 13+ and aligning releases with product roadmap and business goals.
• Established structured release and regression processes, reducing leakage and improving production stability; improved release efficiency across multiple product lines.
• Analyzed user flows and production issues using data to uncover friction points, contributing directly to UX and reliability improvements.

QA Engineer - Kiprosh - Mumbai, India

(2016-02 - 2018-05)

• Analyzed requirements to develop comprehensive manual and automated test plans, ensuring thorough coverage of testing objectives.
• Executed UI, system, functional, and load testing with JMeter to validate application performance and reliability.

Certification - Product Management (Integrated with Generative AI) - Indian School of Business (2025-12)

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology - Finolex Academy of Management & Technology (2015-06)