Hariharan's Profound AI Rep
Hariharan is a product leader with experience across consumer products, operations, and conversational AI.

Hariharan V
I want to learn AI from the trenches and contribute across product, revenue, and infrastructure.”
Hariharan V
On moving into AI

Hariharan V
Experience

- Drove 0-to-1 product development across Rummy (Points, Pool & Deals), Ludo, and Fantasy Cricket, authoring comprehensive game design documents to align tech, design, and compliance teams - Led end-to-end product lifecycle — from market research and feature planning to UI/UX design and QA — with a relentless focus on player experience, monetization models, and regulatory readiness - Wore multiple hats: Navigated cross-functional responsibilities including Product, UX, QA, Tech partnerships, and Legal — ensuring progress across all verticals in a high-pressure, resource-constrained environment - Designed intuitive game interfaces from scratch, balancing compliance needs with retention and engagement mechanics tailored to Indian RMG players - Despite early closure due to macro funding challenges, delivered a fully spec’d, test-ready gaming product suite with lean resources, demonstrating startup agility, resilience & product management fundamentals

- Built MVP for blockchain-based casual games; included biometric onboarding for 18M+ users. - Reduced FTUE (First-Time User Experience) drop-off by 28% and boosted LTV by 14% via leaderboard & live engagement. - Collaborated asynchronously with game design and data teams across geographies.

- Championed 10+ Lineup App Features across 100+ App Screens & Dashboard in 0-1 mode, orchestrating research, PRDs, design feedback, seamless collaboration with the Tech team & QA - Navigated the journey from Roadmap inception to PRDs, Designs, Tech Discussions & QA, culminating in App Launch Readiness for IPL within a 6-month timeframe down from 9 months - Quality tested the core 'T20 Lineup Predictions' Cricket prediction Model & Optimiser to ensure accuracy of insights & competitiveness in it's MVP version - Ensured IPL readiness with Agile methodology (Scrum), team stayed focussed & in high spirits

- Scaled 'Call Break' game to the top 3 of MPL's revenue-generating games in 24 months - Led a 15-member cross-functional team: engineers (NodeJS, Unity, ReactJS & Java), designers, business - Received Best Team Award for Callbreak's exceptional growth in H2 '22 - Achieved exceptional growth in H2'22, H1'23 via Leaderboards, Tournaments, CB Fantasy & CB Trump - Enforced 10+ fraud indicators, incl. Multi-account blocking, Hand Analyzer, Player collusion checks - Led 20% of MPL's DAU, with significant active user retention - Boosted new user retention by 7% through game help features & lowered RTP 0-0 by 5% - Implemented 20+ data-driven features, enhancing revenue, ATV by 20% & GPU by 10% - Elevated MPL wide Matchmaking, enriching higher lobbies, organic engagement, & funnels by 80% - Analyzed 20+ competitors, 100+ UX benchmarks & 5000+ player VOC for CS Tickets/PWAU at 0.2% - Creating a cost-effective CleverTap alternative, to save on significant product costs
-As an IT Consultant, I spearheaded the digital task-force to digitize Business processes, measure-analyze business metrics to provide real-time & periodic reporting in the Home Services category within the People, Finance, Sales & Operations teams - Enhanced the Customer Engagement with IVRS Round-robin call pickup method, ensuring a 3X & 10X increase in Hot to Warm Pipeline of Leads than previously Lost Leads. - Engaged with Hubbler, a No-Code App Platform to further integrate the digitization of the Business Processes resulting in a 60% faster deployment with crisp requirements, QA & team trials. - Business Funnel Clarity for Top Management & Across Departments saving 150 man hours/week & bringing endless delight in-a-click right from people management, slot checking & booking, finance current & historical status, pending payments adjustment in current works to recording sales & service follow-ups. - Every department is digitized to ensure even a 100X jump would be handled in a streamlined manner to avoid internal chaos & customer disappointments

- Handled 'Zero to One' Business Development - Prexo / Used Phone Sales - Areas of responsibility: Business Management, Sales (Offline & Online), Pricing, Warehouse Sales Operations, Stock & Payment Reconciliation with Finance (Udaan Business) - Led business development, sales operations, pricing, invoicing, and inventory and warehouse management. - Liaised with Amazon India Used Phones Team and led an internal team of 3-10 members (sales & operations). - Leveraged Udaan.com, clocking 0 to 10,000+ Units sales in 4 months on the platform with <3% sales returns. - Leveraged the platform Backmarket for cross border E-commerce sales in France and handled P&L responsibility. - Boosted profit margins by 20% and increased average revenue per unit by 5%. - Developed the Business Requirement Document (BRD), UI Wireframe and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT). - Executed strategies to clock profits worth INR 30 Lac/6 mo (moved from 20% loss to 8% profit). - Customer Module: Registration, Order Creation, Historical Tracking - Admin Module: Invoicing software, Dashboards, Sales, Stock & Payment Reconciliation - Assisted in other business sales tasks (Covid Safety Products) to ensure overall Company & professional growth. - Used phones business (Sales Division) was closed due to Covid-19

I researched, contributed & measured impact across Marketing + Product + Sales + Business: - Curated content and collaterals to drive thought leadership, sales pitches & webinars leading to 15% lead conversion. - Designed social media strategies and campaigns to increase social media presence on LinkedIn by 3x and boosted engagements to 9%. - Generated churn revenue from 25% of dormant customers through a meticulous execution of strategic campaigns. - Analyzed customer data to determine possible churn and opportunities for upselling and cross-selling to drive revenue. - Led cost optimization initiatives in marketing spends & time to save 20% of costs.
- Created and led a team of 20 across departments - Researched, reviewed & spearheaded - f&v vendors / farmers, FPOs, website & app development, business development - apartments / horeca / WhatsApp orders / mobile van sales - Setup three business verticals, drove strategy & sales, quarterly revenue, managed WoW business reviews for steep growth - My thanks to the 2 wonderful founders for their guidance & the team I got to work with - The business could not continue due to lack of funds & closed down
Product Life cycle Management | Strategic Marketing | Business Strategy | Data Analytics - Revamped the product structure for conversion, product discoverability & better user engagement leading to a 50% boost in growth, 60% increase in visibility and 40% reduction in order cancellation. - Increased visibility of low-shelf life products by 60% via cart cross-selling and reduced food wastage by 4.5% and contributing to 5% addition in INR 1 Cr revenue. - Redesigned a 5 step flow to 2 steps with crisp design leading to reduction of 50% in drop-offs, 60% rise in sessions and 80% lesser bounce rate. - Revamped initial login process designed around purchase intent resulting to 50% reduction in launch drop-offs. - Created strategies to aid ease of finding products by introducing filters and introduced an end-to-end full-fledged couponing system, boosting decision time by 40% and increasing MoM orders by 7%. - Acted as SPOC for internal tech team and engagement tools team for the implementation of CleverTap & WebEngage. - Effectively built customer pipeline, increased subscriptions by 10%, referrals by 20% and wallet users by 6% by introducing newsletter subscription module, referral module & cashback. - Redesigned the SMS flow and added live tracking, driving a reduction of 50% in calls and a 40% lesser average call time. - Introduced a full-fledged couponing system with 25+ combination features that impacted the DAU by 10X - Worked on implementation of 2 customer engagement tools (CleverTap & WebEngage); Market research > Tool selection > Events-attributes for marketing planning & segmentation > Data sanity - Positively impacted the customer registrations & referrals by introducing the newsletter subscription module, referral module & cashback options - Redesigned and improvised the SMS flow & added live tracking, much to the delight of customers & customer support team - Owned the product impact data automation.

GTM | Content | Sales Enablement - Develop and execute effective GTM programs across geographies focused on business growth impacting revenue - Create and distribute content for effective lead generation – Product positioning / messaging, Presentations, Videos, Sales Kit, Whitepapers, Blogs, Datasheets, Success stories, Webinars, Brochures, Case studies etc - Communicate the value proposition and provide high value sales tools, training and collateral's to sales teams - Liaise with Sales, Product and operation teams to deliver successful marketing campaigns Digital Marketing | Websites | Events - Successfully managed digital marketing campaigns in both direct and agency environments - Managed multiple online campaigns both organic and paid for multiple channels such as Email, Social, Search, PPC - Designed and executed SEO strategy, User flow, landing pages and webpages - Organize and execute marketing events, including business meet, seminars, trade-shows and product launch @NRF 2017

- Designed strategies for the Identity Access Management industry vertical to identify opportunities worth USD 7M. - Increased unique web visitors up to 200% through SEO, PPC efforts and led 10% YOY growth of web organic resources. - Supported 6+ products with web strategy, content development and end to end event planning for launch efforts. - Launched PR campaigns for product featured ‘Consolidated Audit Trail’ and ‘Real-time Active Directory auditing’. - Provided support in technical marketing (product help, tutorials, training materials, etc), content strategy (Webinars, Blogs, Surveys and Videos) and digital marketing. - Worked with PR agencies, globally to share the latest product news and promote product features globally. - Digital marketing (SMM, e-mailers: leads, release news, promotional, newsletters: lead nurturing, monthly, partner), landing pages & content for SEO, SEM) - Engaged with support team to understand enterprise customer’s pain-points. - Worked with customers for brand building and marketing activities.
- Handled creatives & client management for Numeric Power Systems Ltd., K7Computing Pvt. Ltd., MyTVS & KGS Builders - Presentation note on UPS market understanding & Numeric marketing communications - Spearheaded client engagement strategies, worked on the K7Computing product design revamp, KGS Builders new logo brand manual & developed content-monitored the execution for Integral Coach Factory pitch

Hariharan V
About Me
Hariharan is a product leader whose work spans consumer gaming, e-commerce, marketplaces, business operations, and conversational AI. He combines granular analysis with end-to-end product ownership.
At Nagent, he built Convexa, a conversational agent that answers customer questions from documents and web pages. He also prototyped an AI virtual photoshoot and live preview experience for commerce, which received leadership approval.
At MPL, he scaled Call Break into a top-three revenue product. It served more than 100,000 daily active users and contributed 25% of company revenue, supported by work across retention, tournaments, leaderboards, and fraud controls.
Earlier, he improved discovery and conversion at Licious and built a used-phone operation at RK Group that sold more than 10,000 devices in four months. Across these roles, he has turned ambiguous briefs into measurable products and operating systems.