Saran Kumar

AI Product Manager with 1 year 7 months of experience taking an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform from 0→1 as a founding product team member reporting directly to the CEO. Personally ships production features and 40+ AI-assisted prototypes using Claude Code and Codex, compressing prototyping cycles by ~40%, while owning customer discovery, roadmap strategy, requirements engineering, and GTM execution backed by 100+ customer interviews and 30+ BRDs/PRDs/FRDs. Turns behavioral analytics into shipped outcomes, cutting onboarding drop-off from 30% to 20%.

Associate Product Manager - Prodeia (Nuivio Venture Studio) - Chennai, India

(2025-05)

• Partnered directly with the CEO as a founding product team member across four strategic iterations, shaping product vision, positioning, and GTM direction for an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform.
• Defined 50+ product features and authored 500+ user stories plus 30+ BRDs/PRDs/FRDs, translating ambiguous ideas into implementation-ready specs.
• Built 40+ AI-assisted interactive prototypes and shipped production features using Claude Code and Codex, cutting the prototyping to feature release cycle by approximately 40%.
• Designed onboarding as a self-serve flow requiring minimal manual walkthroughs, tracking drop-off via Mixpanel and Amplitude, and cutting it from 30% to 20%.
• Ran 20+ product demos directly with US-based prospects and customers, contributing to 6 conversions to paid customers.

Operations & Business Development Intern - YCH Logistics India Pvt. Ltd. - Chennai, India

(2024-02 - 2024-06)

• Mapped the end-to-end warehouse workflow and identified bottlenecks, improving throughput by ~20% through process optimization recommendations presented to senior leadership.
• Maintained operational dashboards in Excel and Power BI, and supported BD outbound campaigns using Salesforce ERP.

Post Graduate Diploma in Management - Operations and Marketing - XIME, Chennai (2023 - 2025)

Bachelor of Arts - Economics - Loyola College, Chennai (2019 - 2022)