Aaditya Raghu
Product Consultant (part-time) at SecureMyScholarship
Computer Science at University of Wollongong
United Arab Emirates
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Product Consultant (part-time) at SecureMyScholarship
Product manager with 5 years of experience building impactful 0-1 products and growing a bootstrapped startup to $1M annual revenue & $1.2M in funding. Behind the fancy titles is a product enthusiast who believes in putting the user first. I have a proven track record of identifying key opportunities, driving growth in a results-based environment, and using ruthless prioritization to juggle limited resources. Looking for problems to solve and products to build.
Experience
SecureMyScholarship
Chief Technology Officer
November 2021 - October 2024
Defined and led product strategy for SecureMyScholarship and Lock&Stock and set the product team’s OKRs.
Pivoted and scaled the Lock&Stock app that went on to save over 2 million minutes of screen time for users in 80+ countries.
Improved sign-up completion from 14% to 82%, then scaled the user base 40x while growing stickiness ratio from 23% to 39%.
Improved median screen time reduction from 12 minutes to 145 minutes per day per active user.
Improved SecureMyScholarship.com’s visitor to lead conversion from 4.5% to 39%.
Created a WhatsApp bot to process 5x raw leads per day, improve response time from 1 day to < 30 mins & allow the admissions team to focus on only qualified prospects.
Represented the company as part of the UAE Ministry of Education’s delegation at Bett UK 2024.
Oversaw engineering solution design & managed up to 11 engineers. Served as the Product Owner in the Scrum process.
Technical achievements can be found on LinkedIn (or on request).
SecureMyScholarship
Head of Product
August 2020 - November 2021
Led SecureMyScholarship.com from ideation to MVP to official launch.
Launched an internal information management product that improved scholarship proposal lead time from 3 days to 1 day.
Led 2 additional products from ideation to prototyping to user feedback.
Facilitated week-long design sprints for each product to ensure stakeholder alignment amidst rapid requirements gathering phases.
Shelved these products to focus on SMS despite positive user feedback.
Designed and managed primary SQL database and designed API spec for the SecureMyScholarship backend.
Lock&Stock (now SecureMyScholarship)
Project Manager
January 2020 - August 2020
Launched and oversaw a referral program that accounts for 50% of company revenue in 2023 and 2024.
Led a website redesign for Lock&Stock that improved product discovery and increased partnership requests.
Managed 10 internal projects ranging from highly requested feature releases, to optimizing internal processes, to developing webscrapers to automate data collection and using Zapier to improve internal workflows and processes.
Managed 300+ global brands and their offer listings on the Lock&Stock app.
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