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Available full-time from mid-December 2026

Manu Pratap Singh

Product Manager, AI Strategy

Product manager with four years building consumer and platform products from zero to scale. I start from the customer problem, prototype with AI tools to decide faster, and get engineering, design and sales behind one roadmap. Now leading AI strategy at a CRM and automation company while finishing The Lisbon MBA. Available full-time from mid-December 2026.

Based in

Open to relocating

Lisbon London Amsterdam Copenhagen Berlin Dubai

Experience

Aug 2026 – now
Remote

MR Neo

Product Manager, AI Strategy · part-time alongside the MBA

  • Built an AI operating layer in under two months: a knowledge base with read-only codebase access, a sales AI workspace and daily automations.
  • Audited a 60+ page CRM suite, logging 600 bugs and UX issues, and turned the method into AI skills the team uses.
  • Set AI strategy, pricing and positioning: decide where AI features go and lead the AI-first redesign for early 2027.
  • Unblocked a Shopify integration stalled for a month by specifying its hub, API choice and build steps; it has shipped.
  • Set up AI evals with human review: before/after prompt tests, a review of every AI-found bug and fix re-checks on UAT.
< 2 moto build the company’s AI operating layer
Aug 2023 – Jan 2025
Gurgaon, India

XY ADS

Product Manager, Product & Platform

  • Built a self-serve B2B ad exchange from scratch and moved DSP clients onto it: $100k/month in ad spend ran through it, with one client growing to $30k/month.
  • Wrote the OpenRTB PRDs, architected for 100M+ monthly impressions, and integrated DSPs and SSPs by turning each partner’s API docs into build tasks.
  • Hired and led 3 developers and a designer; cut operating costs 15% by moving vendors to long-term, tiered, volume-based contracts.
  • Came in with no AdTech background and within three months was the go-to person on ad serving for colleagues with 5–6 years in the industry.
$100k/moad spend through the exchange I built
Feb 2021 – Jul 2023
Gurgaon, India

GMNG

Product Manager · promoted from Associate PM in 11 months

  • Led a team of nine across development, support and sales, growing a real-money gaming platform to 1M+ users and $500k+ in deposits.
  • Tripled gameplay frequency and lifted revenue 50% in key games through new games, a 7-day habit loop and faster loading.
  • Designed a gamified 7-day onboarding loop for poker: 60% of the targeted cohort converted, adding $40,000 in revenue.
  • Designed a deposit-linked, two-tier referral programme that brought in 200,000+ new users in one month.
  • Turned paid installs into an in-game Offer Wall, then licensed it as a SaaS module to four gaming firms (about $6k/month).
  • As Associate PM, designed Everybody Wins, a second chance on a new player’s first paid game, lifting new-user retention 30%.
  • Cut sign-up drop-off by about 60% by replacing the registration form with one phone-number field and OTP.
  • Contributed to shareholder presentations that secured $100k in development funding.
1M+users on a gaming platform

Current project

Oct 2026 – now
Lisbon

Lará

AI hotel platform, prototyped with AI coding tools

  • AI concierge that books services for guests; allergy alerts reach the restaurant within seconds, even with AI off.
4pitch scenarios working live

Education

Jan – Dec 2026
Lisbon

The Lisbon MBA

MBA International · Católica | Nova

  • Sovena internship: reviewed a 59-product tea range through surveys and social listening, recommended repositioning it from health claims to consumption occasions, and handed over a searchable AI research base.
  • DHL Express consulting project (confidential).
Jun 2026
Boston, US

MIT Sloan

Summer Immersion Certificate

  • Managing Technological Innovation and Global Strategy.
2025
Duke University

Duke University

Certificate

  • Machine Learning Foundations for Product Managers.
2016 – 2020
India

Manipal Institute of Technology

B.Tech, Information Technology · minor in Digital Marketing

  • Final project: a CNN trained on 10,000 images to recognise 100 foods.

Skills

Product
0→1 platformsGrowth & retentionPricing & positioningAPI integrationsConsumer researchHiring & leading teams
AI
AI strategy & adoptionAI knowledge basesAI testing skillsAI prototypingClaude CodeNotebookLMAI evalsWorkflow automationComputer vision
Tools
SQLFirebaseCleverTapAppsFlyerOpenRTBJiraFigmaPostmanGoogle Analytics
Languages

English (fluent, IELTS band 8) · Hindi (native)

Beyond

50m rifle shooting at national level · set up a library for underprivileged children · taught computer skills in Rajasthan