Shivan Bindal
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Santa Monica, United States
Toptal member since March 27, 2020
With over a decade of hands-on product management experience at both small and large organizations, Shivan is a seasoned PM with an exemplary track record. He thrives in uncertain and demanding situations due to his laser-like focus, which helps him to accomplish goals across the entire product lifecycle from start to finish. The industries he's most familiar with product-managing are the cloud, IT software, fintech, construction project management software, and machine learning tools.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Business to Business (B2B)
- Business to Consumer (B2C)
- Construction
- Fintech
- Software
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Startups
Work Experience
Product Manager
LevelCredit
- Managed partnerships with accounting systems and consumer portal products.
- Built and maintained payments processing product for rent and leasing fees.
- Curated the residential experience for rent reporting to three bureaus and in product offers for back reporting and subscriptions to report rent across two product lines.
- Collaborated with senior leadership on roadmap and strategic initiatives.
- Wrote product stories for business and technical requirements.
- Communicated business requirements to the technical implementation team.
- Built out standard product management practice with processes.
Product Manager
Zest AI
- Built a new SaaS product offering for underwriting risk evaluations for new borrowers.
- Regularly performed product discovery and validation with customers.
- Conducted in-depth market and competition research.
- Developed and delivered market-facing product collateral to support GTM and event activities.
- Drove product adoption through product documentation and training.
Software Architect / Product Manager
OneRiver Asset Management
- Worked with an offshore development team to build a marketing website.
- Worked with an offshore development team to build an investment dashbord portal for LPs and investors in ORM funds.
- Designed backend systems for scale.
- Integrated into external financial systems - Integrata.
- Designed front end user experience.
Product Manager
BigPanda
- Worked with a distributed sales team and product marketing to enable sales for new product launches.
- Drove product evangelism and validation with Fortune 100 customers and customer advisory board.
- Collaborated with senior executives on building, maintaining, and communicating the product roadmap.
Product Manager
Procore Technologies
- Launched four new teams while building the platform division of R&D for over 30 people across product, UX, QA, and engineering.
- Worked with senior executives to build the product vision, the strategy for SaaS platforms, and also to execute it.
- Analyzed business data and performance reports as part of a complex process to maintain market traction.
Product Manager
RightScale
- Built and delivered to market 15 different modules as part of a globally distributed SaaS platform with tens of thousands of monthly active users with seven concurrent development teams.
- Produced and regularly presented product roadmaps to the organization and customers with business stakeholders; also managed the customer advocacy group.
- Served as the product visionary responsible for global integration expansion across Amazon, Citrix, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Rackspace.
Project Manager
Symphony Services
- Worked with Avery Dennison and built a wallpapering consumer ecommerce site for scale.
- Worked with Medtronic Diabetes to revamp their entire online ecommerce shopping product including backend operations.
- Designed complete end to end user experience.
- Managed business requirements and communicated to development team.
- Managed client feedback and integrated agile practices into development.
Project History
Rent Reporting App
Led the design and development for a rent-reporting product.
Education
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego - San Diego, CA, USA
Certifications
Building Products Customers Love
Silicon Valley Product Group
Practical Product Management
Pragmatic Marketing
Skills
Tools
Jira, MySQL Workbench, Confluence, Sequel Pro, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom
Paradigms
Agile Product Management
Industry Expertise
Construction, Banking & Finance
Other
Business to Consumer (B2C), Business to Business (B2B), Software, Startups, Software as a Service (SaaS), Go-to-market Plans, Story Mapping, Product Management, SaaS, Product Roadmaps, Early-stage Startups, MySQL, User Stories, Product Owner, Product Ownership, Digital Product Management, Team Mentoring, Apps, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Fintech, Data Analysis, Product Strategy, Financial Systems, Team Leadership, Competitive Strategy, Strategic Planning & Execution, Market Research & Analysis, Microsoft Office, BlueJeans
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