India

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Service Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Growth Product Management

Platform Product Management

Group Product Management

UX Research

Full stack

Data Analysis

Business Transformation

Bachelor’s Degree

Ashay Tejwani

Founder

Usability Testing

Product analytics

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Advanced data analytics

Human computer interaction

Market research

User research

Product roadmap

Adobe Photoshop

Asana

Canva

ChatGPT

D3.js

Figma

HTML

InVision

Java

JavaScript

Jira

Miro

NLTK

Autocad

Google Analytics

Numpy

Confluence

Trello

Python

Team player

Conflict resolution

AI/ML

Brand positioning

Branding

Conversational AI

Brand strategy

Business intelligence

Chatbot

Information architecture

Machine learning

Quantitative research

Partnership

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Empowering senior leadership at large organizations to upskill and adopt new technologies and mental models, currently focusing on AI, Finance, Innovation and Productivity.

MDP @ WeSchool, Welingkar

Mentor for corporate accelerators and startups graduating from cohorts.

A domain agnostic product & strategy consulting firm that helps startups, corporate accelerators and incubators around product, business strategy, culture, fundraising and expansion.

Since 2019, we've worked with over 25 ventures in Healthcare (Mental Health, AI for screening/analytics, COVID-19 care), Fintech (Card based solutions, Insurtech, Payroll, Rewards & Loyalty, Insurance), Manufacturing Tech (DFM, Energy management, Safety, AI for process optimisation), HR Tech (recruitment and agencies), Real Estate (financing & incentive modelling) and MarTech (influencer marketing). 

2 acquisitions, multiple rounds of funding (100k to 5M) and several cohorts of startups advised through VCs, Corporate Accelerators and Social Venture Builders/Grants.

Played a pivotal role in helping the company grow 12.5x (80k to 1Mn customers) and raise a series B round of $35Mn. Created and launched an international travel card vertical (NiYO Global) that provided the best forex rates, unparalleled security and convenience through a linked mobile app. Headed tech, product, data, UI, UX, Customer Success and HR for the global cards business vertical along with existing responsibilities.

Responsible for hiring and grooming the product team as well as setting up internal processes and tools to streamline product development and incorporate best practices. Scaled up the blue collared business from a product perspective, going from a simple salary account to a full stack bank with an innovative assisted banking platform.

Created and iterated on innovative credit products (zero interest), IVR and assisted banking services to set up the Blue Collared product suite at Niyo (Niyo Bharat)

In charge of data driven product enhancements on the portal www.bonappetour.com 

BonAppetour is a global community that connects travelers with local home chefs for unique culinary experiences, anywhere around the world.

Bringing your product ideas to life - upload your design or customize existing products; we help you select the appropriate material and manufacturing process to cater to quantities 1 to 1 million with instantaneous, algorithmic pricing, quality assurance and doorstep delivery. 

Whether you want a personalized gift item or a factory machine part, Rolling Cube is your online digital fabrication partner, bringing the best of scattered manufacturing resources across India at the convenience of your desktop. 

My Role:
Single handedly owned and executed several iterations of the product (www.rollingcube.in) from an idea stage, writing proprietary algorithms for conversion of images into machine friendly formats & products, instantaneous pricing and pooling for digital fabrication.

Also handled B2C Marketing, Social Media Marketing & Campaigns for the venture.

A pre-incubation, materials science based product startup at SINE, IIT Bombay that was working towards economical desalination of Sea Water to address the potable water scarcity issue in India. 
We created filters out of organic waste that could convert sea water into potable water without using electricity or external power with a flow rate of 4L/hr

Worked in 7 different sub-teams spanning across two business units (Investment Banking and Financial Engineering), developing expertise on UI / UX development - identified as a SME (Subject Matter Expert), managing databases, core application development and testing in different technology stacks. 

Contributed to internal Web Development frameworks and developer productivity tools, and introduced Fuzzy Logic as a decision engine to optimize resource utilization.

Part of the core group for NAPA Intern Committee 2015, facilitating a smooth integration of new hires to the firm; buddy to 7 new recruits over the past year.

Active participant in Table Tennis and Musical events / competitions within the firm.

A club focusing on increments in awareness and skill sets of students belonging to the Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Department of IIT Bombay

Ashay Tejwani🇮🇳