Shea Parikh
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since December 22, 2020
Shea is a product generalist with experience in everything, from low-code product creation to enterprise-ready applications. After graduating from Davidson College, he joined the Venture for America fellowship, where he did product strategy for a Series A hardware startup. After completing the fellowship, Shea made the leap to start his own company, Jam, where he led products for three years. He's currently a Senior Product Manager at a Series D fintech building more accessible consumer credit.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Deployment
- Airtable
- Enterprise SaaS
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Pitch Decks
- Product Design
- Product Strategy
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
Petal
- Co-led a fifteen-person engineering team building a $68 million product line that provides access to fair consumer credit for millions of Americans.
- Worked with company leadership (CCO, CTO, and VP of Product) to validate, design, and execute new products that grow the company’s revenue.
- Led the execution of a new underwriting policy that led to an 11% growth in card members and a 28% reduction in delinquencies within the first three months.
Founder and Head of Product
Jam
- Arrived at B2B SaaS model after leading 73 customer discovery interviews and validating that companies today need a solution to connect their employees and knowledge-sharing practices better.
- Used customer insights to build an MVP in a weekend that we then bootstrapped to $39,000 ARR.
- Performed product-market-fit testing with 53 users that identified must-have product features.
- Raised $315,000 from angels and institutional investors to build customer-defined features.
- Sourced and closed contracts with leadership at companies like UBS, Citi Group, PatientPop, and OutdoorVoices. Grew ARR to $198,000 with an 82% profit margin.
- Recruited and led a team of three engineers and two sales leads.
- Refactored the entire product stack using low-code platforms (Figma, Airtable, Webflow, and Zapier), reducing infrastructure and maintenance costs by 87% after designing, managing, and launching an eight-month custom product build.
Product Consultant
Western Sustainability Exchange
- Designed and launched the Regenerative Ranch Assessment—WSE’s first-ever digital product built for ranchers transitioning to regenerative agriculture.
- Interviewed 42 ranchers to understand product value and define product roadmap for desired features.
- Built the entire product using low-code and no-code tools to allow for in-house management for the Western Sustainability Exchange's team and self-service experience for Ranchers.
- Launched the MVP that led to a paid sponsorship with the World Wildlife Foundation.
- Managed a team of two engineers, a full-stack engineer and a data engineer, to ship the MVP on budget and schedule.
Product Strategist
VersaMe
- Collaborated with the CEO and CFO to design and launch B2B product strategy, resulting in closing the company’s first B2B contract ($82,000) with the state of South Carolina.
- Executed 110+ customer-discovery interviews that identified librarians as beachhead B2B audience.
- Set up a product analytics dashboard to identify product features that increased daily active users by 17%.
Project History
Head of Product at Jam
Led the design and development of an enterprise SaaS, web application that generated $139,000 in ARR and raised $315,000 in capital.
Intrsect
https://sheasportfolio.webflow.io/work/intrsectLed the design and development of a mobile application for college campuses that captured 82% of Davidson's student body and generated $49,000 in lifetime value.
Education
Higher Certificate in Applied Data Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Bachelor's Degree in Political Economics
Davidson College - Davidson, North Carolina, United States
Certifications
IBM Blockchain Essentials
IBM
Skills
Tools
Slack, Google Workspace, Apple Keynote, GitLab, Photoshop 7, Jira, Figma
Paradigms
Low Code, Agile, Agile Product Management, Agile Project Management, Scrum, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C)
Platforms
Blockchain
Industry Expertise
Venture Capital, Consumer Products, Higher Education, Financial Services, Agriculture
Other
Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Product Development, Airtable, Customer Discovery, Agile Deployment, Growth Marketing, Product Strategy, Web App Design, Web App Development, Enterprise SaaS, B2B Sales Pipeline, Customer Success, Enterprise Sales, Pitch Decks, Growth Hacking, Market Research & Analysis, User Research, Technical Requirements, Product Owner, Technical Product Management, Startups, Product Roadmaps, Brand Marketing, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Requirements, Early-stage Startups, Feature Roadmaps, SaaS Product Management, SaaS, B2B Product Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Pricing, Feature Planning, Product Management, Onboarding, Product Ownership, B2B, Scope of Work (SOW), Estimation & Planning, Lean Startups, Sales Pipelines, Product Growth, Data Analysis, Growth Strategy, A/B Testing, Analytics, Conversion Rate, Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), Mobile UI Design, Product Design, Google API, Microsoft Graph API, Fundraising, Webflow, Design Systems, Front-end Design, Customer Analysis, Hyperledger, iOS App Design, Product Benchmarking, China, APIs, Enterprise Integration, Finance, Content Management, Campaign Management, Brand Management, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Data Analytics, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Project Estimation, Project Timelines, Technical Leadership, Cost Estimation, Mobile Apps, Data Science, Python 3, SQL, Fintech, Compliance, Mapping
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