Product Manager

I build products people come back to.

4+ years building and improving B2C products across engagement, retention, experimentation, and product strategy. Currently at Chimple Learning, working across student and teacher experiences, growth systems, and product analytics.

Product Strategy Product Discovery Growth & Experimentation Engagement & Retention
Get in touch See the work
Reactivation Experiment Chimple Learning, 2025
2.4×
reactivation lift · control vs. nudged
17.66%w/ nudge
7.36%control
269recovered · week 3
2.4x
reactivation lift from a WhatsApp re-engagement pipeline
6→35%
student engagement growth in 3 weeks, Chimple Premier League
25%
course completion increase from data-driven curriculum fixes
35%
student retention lift, BYJU'S Learn & Practice model

Selected work

02 case studies · click to explore
Growth

WhatsApp re-engagement pipeline

Inactive learners were falling out of the funnel with no structured way back in. I architected a WhatsApp-based re-engagement pipeline and ran controlled experiments on nudge timing, message type, and logic to find what actually brought parents and students back.

→ 2.4x reactivation lift · 269 recovered users, up from a baseline of 25
Product

Engagement-first dashboard redesign

The Teacher's App dashboard was purely score-based, disconnected from what actually predicted long-term learning. I redesigned it around engagement — surfacing the metrics that mapped to our North Star of 60 minutes of weekly student engagement, not just test scores.

→ Realigned core product surface to the org's North Star Metric

Experience

2017 — present
Mar 2025 — Present
Product Manager
Chimple Learning ↗ · Bengaluru

Owning engagement and retention across the student and teacher experience — WhatsApp growth systems, gamification, and product analytics.

Dec 2023 — Mar 2025
Curriculum Manager, Product Development
Kidvento Education and Research ↗

Led curriculum-product initiatives grounded in user research and data — 25% lift in course completion, 20% lift in engagement from persona-driven redesigns.

Aug 2023 — Dec 2023
Product Manager
NewOwl AI ↗ (Remote)

Founding product team member; defined vision and roadmap for an AI-powered HRMS and recruitment tool from 0 to 1.

Nov 2022 — Jun 2023
Associate Product Manager
FiveS Digital ↗ · Udaipur

Shipped an Attendance Management Portal and a Decision Management System, cutting handling time by 30%.

2017 — 2022
Content & Product Development
Toppr · Next Education · BYJU'S · Unacademy · StayQrious

Progressed from content development to product roles across ed-tech platforms — building curriculum content, growing a YouTube channel from 10K to 50K subscribers, and leading a team that lifted student retention by 35%.

For full details of my work experience, please click the CV button at the top to access it.

Community contribution

The Product Folks · Jul 2023 — present
Community

Since July 2023, I've been volunteering with The Product Folks ↗, helping build and run product-community events in Bengaluru.

I co-lead the Bengaluru chapter of GrabChai, a monthly gathering for PMs and product builders that can take the form of fireside chats, speaker-led sessions, or hands-on building events. I also volunteer for Bits n Atoms, a quarterly invite-only gathering for senior product leaders, and the annual Bengaluru UnConference.

My work spans event operations, speaker coordination, finding and collaborating with companies and startups for venues, and promoting events through LinkedIn and other social channels.

The Product Folks UnConference Bengaluru volunteer team Bharath at The Product Folks UnConference The Product Folks UnConference Bengaluru team The Product Folks Bits n Atoms event The Product Folks GrabChai Bengaluru community The Product Folks GrabChai Bengaluru community
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Skills & tools

core strengths & tools
Product Strategy PRD Writing Cross-functional Problem Solving A/B Testing & Experimentation WhatsApp Business API Backlog Prioritization Wireframing (Figma) Jira & Confluence Product Analytics Notion
Currently

What I'm looking for

Full-time roles

Product Manager positions at B2C companies in the 10-to-100 growth stage — proven product-market fit, now scaling engagement and retention. Open across industries, not limited to ed-tech.

Consulting

Open to short-term or advisory engagements on engagement, retention, and WhatsApp-native growth for teams that already have a product and need help keeping users coming back.

About
Bharath Bhat

I'm Bharath, a Product Manager who enjoys working on problems where product thinking, user experience, data, and execution come together.

Over the last 4+ years, I've worked on B2C products across engagement, retention, experimentation, and product strategy. At Chimple Learning, that means working across student and teacher experiences, growth systems, and product analytics.

I enjoy taking an unclear problem, understanding what is really happening, and turning it into something a team can build, measure, and improve.

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