Monish Rohira

Monish Rohira

AI Product Manager | SaaS & Marketplaces | 0-to-1 Builder

7 yrs experience · Bengaluru, Karnataka · <10 hrs/week

About

Results-driven AI Product Manager with 7+ years across SaaS, marketplaces, HealthTech, and Mobility. Proven 0-to-1 builder translating LLM/agentic AI research into product decisions, driving adoption growth and reducing operational overhead. Hands-on with Claude Code, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. Founder & Product Lead with experience designing dual-sided marketplace monetization and roadmap strategy from discovery through GTM.

Skills

CanvaClaude CodeCompetitive AnalysisCursorFigmaGo-to-market StrategyJourney MappingProduct StrategyTeam ManagementWireframing

Experience

  • Founder & Product Lead · Zodiac01-01-2024 – 12-31-2024

    Conducted 30+ discovery interviews with therapists and prospective users, translating qualitative insights into 3 validated product iterations that improved therapist onboarding efficiency by ~15% per release. Designed Zodiac's dual-sided marketplace strategy, including 3 subscription tiers for therapists and 2 membership plans for users, alongside engagement and cohort models. Led the end-to-end product strategy for a preventive social wellness platform that matched individuals using complementary strengths, emotional challenges, availability, and travel radius to create professionally facilitated in-person support communities.

  • Founder & Product Lead · 60 Degree Celsius01-01-2023 – 12-31-2023

    Conducted competitive research across 10+ restaurant discovery platforms and mapped 7 key competitors using a 2×2 positioning framework, identifying an underserved opportunity for personalized, dish-level food discovery. Analyzed primary user research to identify Google (62%), Facebook (52%), and YouTube (46%) as the top restaurant discovery channels, shaping the platform's acquisition strategy while designing a dual-sided monetization model with 3 merchant tiers and 2 consumer plans. Led the end-to-end product strategy for a two-sided restaurant discovery marketplace that enabled personalized dish recommendations based on users' taste preferences, cultural backgrounds, dining behavior, and helped restaurants build measurable, first-party customer relationships. Synthesized customer interviews, market research, competitive benchmarking, journey mapping, and product analytics to define the product roadmap, North Star metric, pricing strategy, and iterative feature prioritization using structured PM frameworks.

  • Founder & Product Lead · Indikate01-01-2021 – 12-31-2022

    Conducted 50+ customer discovery interviews with commercial drivers, fleet owners, and ecosystem stakeholders, translating insights into a validated product strategy, TAM/SAM/SOM model, and investor-ready business case for early fundraising discussions. Designed a driver-first ownership and monetization model, introducing private travel collectives to improve ride utilization and increase estimated driver adoption by ~18% over a three-month cohort while evaluating unit economics and competitive positioning. Led the end-to-end product strategy for a commercial EV ownership platform that reduced ownership risk through kilometer-based vehicle upgrades, standardized resale valuation, predictable operating economics, and lifecycle asset management for drivers. Synthesized customer research, market sizing, competitive benchmarking, journey mapping, financial modelling, and iterative product validation to prioritize roadmap initiatives, define marketplace mechanics, and evaluate product-market fit against incumbent mobility platforms.

  • Business Development Associate · Novaders LLP11-01-2018 – 05-01-2018

    Defined user segmentation strategy across SMB and enterprise segments; built 4 buyer personas that informed the product's feature-tier packaging. Improved field-team workflow by integrating GPS + geofencing perimeter logic, reducing manual check-in errors by ~35% based on pilot feedback.

  • Quality Control Engineer · Equipment Fabricators12-01-2018 – 03-01-2020

    Managed 10+ cross-functional team members across 5 on-site installation projects. Improved on-time delivery rate by 20% and reduced rework incidents by 30%. Delivered all 5 projects from installation to client handover with zero safety incidents, maintaining a 100% client sign-off rate.

Education

  • Anna UniversityB.E., B.E. Engineering

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