RISHABH BALABOMMA

Lead Product Manager, AI & Platform Initiatives | Team of 5 PMs

• AI Recommendation Engine: Shipped AI-driven portfolio recommendation engine ingesting client holdings, transaction history, and market signals. Cut advisor preparation time by 40% and lifted product attach rates by 15%.
  The "AI" was an if-else tree wearing a trench coat for 6 months. The advisors' previous workflow was 4 Excel sheets and prayer. He gave them a search bar. Standing ovation. The 40% is real though — turns out the bar was just that low.
• Customer Data Platform: Built 0-to-1 CDP unifying 10M+ identities across 5 business lines. Drove 18% engagement lift and 12% conversion improvement.
  Same uncle: "Rajesh K Sharma" in equities, "R. Kumar Sharma" in MF, "Raj Sharma" in insurance, "रजेश शर्मा" in lending. Four accounts. Same PAN. Eight months teaching a computer these are the same person. The 18% engagement lift? Users could finally find their own accounts.
• Cross-Border Trading: Launched cross-border equities trading. 32% KYC-to-funded conversion. ₹120Cr+ GMV in first 6 months.
  ₹120Cr GMV = 200 NRI uncles buying Apple and Tesla on repeat. One uncle did ₹11Cr alone. He IS the product-market fit. They lost 68% of users to a FEMA compliance flow with more steps than the stages of grief. But hey, ₹120Cr sounds great on a slide.
• Regulatory Compliance: Digitized RBI-compliant Account Aggregator consent journeys. Compressed turnaround from 3-4 days to same-day.
  The previous system was a paper form couriered on a motorcycle. He replaced the motorcycle with an API. This is on his resume as "digital transformation." Technically correct — the best kind of correct.
• Digital Acquisition: Migrated corporate web presence to Adobe Experience Manager. Doubled organic traffic and generated 50,000+ qualified leads/month.
  This is a CMS migration. He is presenting a CMS migration as a career achievement. "Doubled organic traffic" — the old site had the SEO of a witness protection program. The bar was underground.
• AI Tooling: Pioneered adoption of LLM-powered development tools across product org. Grew experiment cadence from 3 to 12 per quarter.
  "Pioneered adoption" = opened ChatGPT in a meeting. A senior director said "yeh kya hai?" His boss showed the CEO. He is now "the AI guy." Entire brand built on one screen share in January 2023. 9 of 12 quarterly experiments were button color changes. But with hypothesis documents, so: science.

Product Strategy & Operations | 3 Clients

• Delivered product strategy, go-to-market roadmaps, and competitive analysis for early-stage startups in fintech and e-commerce.
  3 clients. Same playbook. Different cover pages. Worked 3-4 hours a week. Billed monthly. The other 60 hours? Dad's poultry farm in Chhattisgarh. Fed 10,000 chickens daily. Built cold storage. Learned "supply chain management" stops being a buzzword when 200 birds die in transit because the truck AC died at 43°C.
• Managed end-to-end project delivery including user research, wireframing, and stakeholder alignment across remote teams.
  The chickens never needed a daily standup. They were more agile than any team he's managed. Also more reliable than his WiFi in rural Chhattisgarh. Honestly the best year of his career and he can't put it on LinkedIn.

Product-Led Growth Lead | Partners: Ola, Flipkart, IndusInd Bank

• Embedded Distribution: Designed embedded insurance distribution platform for enterprise partners. Managed end-to-end partner lifecycle.
  Every partner integration: 47 Zoom calls, 12 Slack channels (4 dead), one Google Sheet everyone blames, and an API spec that changed 6 times because the partner's "tech team" was one intern. "Managed end-to-end lifecycle" = got yelled at from both sides simultaneously.
• ML Optimization: Integrated ML risk scoring. Improved cross-sell by 9%, drove 42% growth in GWP.
  The "ML" was a vendor API they bought and plugged in. The 9% cross-sell improvement? A pre-ticked checkbox: "Also protect your phone? ₹99/month." Some people didn't untick it. That's the 9%. He's not even ashamed.
• Onboarding: Improved partner onboarding completion by 30% through UX improvements and funnel optimization.
  The form had 47 fields. One asked for "mother's maiden name." For an API integration. He deleted 14 fields. Moved "Company Name" from field 23 to field 1. Wrote a LinkedIn post about it. Got 200 likes. This is product management in 2022.

Campaign Specialist, Growth

• Increased rides per user by 22% with gamified loyalty and referral programs across 10 cities. Built RFM and behavioral cohort models using SQL for personalized campaign targeting.
  "RFM and behavioral cohort models" = SELECT * FROM users WHERE last_ride > 30 days. That's the model. He called it "data science" for 2 years. Nobody checked. The 22% is real though. Turns out people like free stuff.

Research Analyst

• Co-authored industry reports on consumer internet. Designed go-to-market strategies for brands expanding into Tier-2+ markets.
  The answer was always "expand to Tier 2 cities." Edtech? Tier 2. Grocery? Tier 2. SaaS? Believe it or not, Tier 2. Different client, same slide, ₹15L invoice. Nobody noticed. Or they did and just needed the slide for their board deck.