Devansh Jain
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since August 26, 2022
A former engineering team lead and senior product manager, Devansh has founded two companies. He has worked at Accenture and with numerous startups, building B2B and B2C products in fintech, SaaS, and edtech. Devansh enjoys building processes alongside products and specializes in product discovery, product ops, and product culture building.
Expertise
Work Experience
Product Manager
US-based Retail and Services Enterprise
- Formulated and advocated new product development processes at an enterprise client.
- Created discovery, delivery, and product roadmap to achieve strategic company goals.
- Uncovered the true needs of stakeholders and allied business units, created and bought in on a strategy and path to achieve goals.
- Conducted user interviews, and defined product roadmaps, and releases.
Founder
Human Insight Ventures
- Built a software product to help school children become more engaged readers.
- Trained and mentored an engineer, a designer, and product managers.
- Launched an internship program to teach product, design, and engineering.
Product Strategist
Nokaroshi
- Started a product agency to fund my founder journey and worked with four early-stage CEOs building their product roadmaps, prioritizing early features, and building their product teams.
- Shepherded the launch of two different beta products through customer development, usability testing, design, and build.
- Reduced cost of new product development by 70% and accelerated launch by over three months, acquiring 26 paying customers with an estimated annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $30,000.
Senior Product Manager
nanoPay
- Led payment products for a series A startup, pivoted from a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) to an enterprise, and launched white-labeled and API-based offerings for larger customers.
- Oversaw sales and rollout for a Fortune 500 client and 100,000 of their merchants in Canada, with a projected ARR of over $5 million, along with two other deals.
- Terminated two languishing business-to-business (B2B) products, freeing up two product teams and creating $2.4 million of runway for the company over two years.
Software Engineering Team Lead
nanoPay
- Managed a team of seven front and back-end developers building B2B payment software.
- Designed software in consultation with product and design. Wrote code and conducted code reviews and source control as the team implemented features.
- Delivered an extensible rule-based compliance system, integrated with third-party information providers, and sold it to 200 businesses.
Financial Analyst
Accenture
- Performed financial forecasting and controls for over $100 million worth of engagements.
- Simulated deal financials for multiyear enterprise deals to ensure compliance with internal financial benchmarks.
- Supported the entire project financial cycle from pricing, sales booking, invoicing, forecasting, variance analysis, and revenue recognition.
Project History
Artificial Intelligence for Easy Reviews
https://www.easyreviews.ai/Founded an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled marketing technology platform.
Letter Writing Application
Created and sold a service to help people send handwritten letters to their people.
Startup and Career Incubator for Early Career Professionals
https://www.humaninsightventures.com/Helped early career professionals land and navigate jobs in venture capital, engineering, and product.
Education
Diploma in Web Development
CodeCore Programming Bootcamp - Vancouver, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada
Undergraduate Coursework in Legal Studies
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata - Kolkata, India
Skills
Tools
Jira, Figma, Financial Data
Paradigms
Agile, Requirements Analysis, Agile Product Management, Agile Project Management, Marketplace Platforms, Gamification, Scrum, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Continuous Delivery (CD), Low Code
Platforms
ProductPlan
Industry Expertise
Marketplaces, Education Technology (Edtech)
Other
Jobs to be Done (JTBD), User Stories, Discovery, Stakeholder Management, Customer Interviews, User Interviews, Public Speaking, UI Development, Outcome-driven Innovation (ODI), Design Sprints, Product Management, Backlog Management, MVP Product Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Excel Expert, Financial Analysis, Startups, UX Wireframes, User Research, Software as a Service (SaaS), Requirements & Specifications, Discovery Workshops, Product Development, Product Coach, Product Roadmaps, Developer Relations, Product Strategy Consultant, Technical Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Discovery, Use Cases, Data Analysis, Wireframing, Qualitative Research, Technical Writing, Technical Business Analysis, Ideation, MVP Design, Pitch Deck Consultant, Technical Project Management, Project Management, Web & Mobile Applications, Product Leadership, Technical Requirements, Digital Product Management, eCommerce UX, Workflow, Feasibility Studies, Feature Planning, APIs, SaaS, Technical Viability, Product Enhancement, Financials, Product Analytics, Project Planning, Business to Consumer (B2C), Product Consultant, Startup Consulting, Apps, People Management, Culture Management, Requirements, Customer Experience, Business to Business (B2B), Analytics, Continuous Discovery, Data-driven Decision-making, Team Leadership, New Products, Data, Econometrics, Statistics, Sales, Growth, Fundraising, Coaching, Process Innovation, Team Management, Web Development, Feature Prioritization, User Requirements, New Product Development, Strategy, Presentations, Pitch Decks, Finance, Project Finance, Forecasting, Pricing, Customer Research, Emerging Markets, User Feedback, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Market Research & Analysis, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Business Strategy, Consulting, Fintech, Product Design, Conceptualization, New Product Rollout, Pricing Strategy, Go-to-market Strategy, Product Launch, Legal Technology (Legaltech), Marketing Strategy, Channel Strategy, User Experience (UX), Web Applications, Web Scraping, Data Quality, Design, User Interface (UI), Proptech, Quantitative User Research, UX Design, Documentation, Front-end, Back-end, Development, Project Scoping, Roadmaps, Scope, Mobile Applications, Mockups, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Pitch Presentations, Technical Recruiting, Two-sided Marketplaces, Product Growth, Calendars, Scheduling, Task Scheduling, Project Timelines, Scope Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Website Redesign, Data-driven Dashboards, Data Visualization, Databases, Revenue Strategy, Monetization Models, Software Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sprint Planning, eCommerce, API Design, API Documentation, API Platforms, Communication, Business, Enterprise, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Legal, Legal Research, Resumes & CVs, Marketing, Software, Java, JavaScript, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Software Design, Architecture, Software Engineering, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Python, Reporting, Product Delivery, Consumer Applications, Hiring, Technical Hiring
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