Shekhar Suman

Associate Director - Product @ PhonePe

About

Seasoned product leader with 8.5+ years of experience in Product Management and 3 years in hands-on Software Development. Experience in building highly scalable and impactful growth, marketing, and ad-tech products. Expertise in end to end development and shipping of strategic and revenue generating products and managing cross-functional teams and leading them to a common goal.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Internet

Skill

Python (Programming Language), Consumer Products, Stakeholder Management, Market Analysis, Data Analytics, Product Strategy, Product Launch, Product Road Mapping, Product Vision, User Stories, Wireframing, Product Requirements, Problem Solving, Market Research, Customer Analysis, C, C#, Business Strategy, Leadership, Management

Experience

Associate Director - Product

PhonePe

2025-5 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the entire suite of growth, marketing and monetization products for the PhonePe Group. This includes the below product lines: - Ads - Offers and Rewards - Refer and Earn, zpd, app referral (Monetization) - CRM suite - SMS, PN, Email, whatsapp comm. - Recommendation suite - widgets and models - Other central growth platforms Horizontal scope for apps: - PhonePe Consumer app - PhonePe Business app - Indus Appstore - Share.market - Pincode

Group Product Manager

PhonePe

2022-7 - 2025-4 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the entire suite of monetization products at phonepe including ads, rewards and coupons, and refer and earn. Also leading product for cross-publisher monetization for all publishers part of the PhonePe group including consumer app, merchant app and Indus Appstore. Additionally leading the internal offers product for growth of various phonepe group level initiatives. Have previously built the PhonePe Ads SDK, PhonePe Ad Server and Programmatic integrations from scratch. Have helped scale up the business from 0 to X million dollars in monthly revenue. Expertise in delivering high growth and impactful products even through lean teams.

Senior Product Manager

PhonePe

2020-6 - 2022-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the ads product at PhonePe Building the PhonePe Ads SDK, PhonePe Ad Server and Ad Manager from scratch

Product Manager II

Media.net

2019-7 - 2020-6 · 1 yr

Bengaluru Area, India

Led the programmatic demand product. Owned in-house ad exchange and IAB initiatives.

Product Manager

Media.net

2017-5 - 2019-6 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

Led the header bidder product

Program Manager Intern

Microsoft

2016-4 - 2016-5 · 2 mos

Hyderabad Area, India

Microsoft Edge Team

Development Engineer

Pramati

2014-6 - 2015-4 · 11 mos

Hyderabad Area, India

Big Data

Software Engineer

Jabong

2014-1 - 2014-6 · 6 mos

Gurgaon, India

Hacked throughout the day, everyday as the Lead Developer in the team Competitive Intelligence.

Associate Engineer - Product Development

Symphony Teleca

2012-12 - 2013-12 · 1 yr 1 mo

Bengaluru Area, India

Worked as an engineer in the development team at Vista-One-Solutions, which is a part of Symphony Teleca and was a part of its vData development team. http://vista-one-solutions.com/vistaone/Web/me.get?WEB.websections.show&VISTAONE_614

Project Intern

KEC International Ltd.

2012-7 - 2012-12 · 6 mos

Mumbai Area, India

Involved in a major project at KEC International which aimed towards overhauling the current system of manual tendering process to an automated one.

Project Intern - Indian Mobile Initiative

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2011-5 - 2011-7 · 3 mos

Developed a shooting game on Android and was also involved in the development of a social app called 'MeSocial' which focussed on identifying local causes one might be interested in and launching the initiative after gathering sufficient support for it.

Project Intern

Steel Authority of India Limited

2010-5 - 2010-7 · 3 mos

Internship as part of a compulsory Practice School programme of BITS, Pilani. Was involved in doing a detailed analysis of the automated processes which were then in use at the SAIL plant in Durgapur, West Bengal and debugging some Siemens S5 programs as well.