Shubham Borde
Product Manager | 9+ years | Building products on first principles
About Shubham
I help businesses turn ideas into products their customers pay for. 9+ years building products across payroll, HR tech, e-commerce and ERP; grew a payroll product to 34,000+ businesses and INR 6-8M MRR.
Education
Diploma
Bachelor of Engineering
Experience
Functional Consultant
- Built billing, Human Resources and payroll systems for a nonprofit running 10 teaching institutes and 4 hostels; improved employee efficiency 20%; trained 250 employees through workshops.
Functional Consultant
- Delivered a Government of Gujarat ERP (INR 20,000,000) across 33 districts in 7 months, leading a team of 4; reported monthly to an Indian Administrative Service officer and weekly to an Indian Engineering Service officer.
Functional Consultant
- Shipped a legal technology product for lawyers in Germany, from idea to launch; drove pre-sales that contributed to a 20% company revenue increase.
Product Manager
- Built a unified messaging platform across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Gmail, and a Meta lead capture integration into client Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems; drove a 30% sales increase through market research. - Designed a voice-enabled dashboard that turns natural language questions into Structured Query Language (SQL) for ERP data visualization, using Large Language Models (LLM) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). - Led development and launch of 10 products as sole Product Manager across e-commerce, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), healthcare and social media integration; managed 1 project manager.
Product Manager
- Built seller tools and e-commerce features for North America's largest arts and crafts retailer (1,600 stores, 49 US states and Canada), contributing to 103% platform-wide Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) growth. - Shipped features that improved seller adoption 10-15% and Average Order Value 5-8%, and reduced cart abandonment 7-10%. - Led quarterly planning across business, customer support, product and engineering; cut project timelines 20% through structured requirement gathering and stakeholder alignment
Product Manager
- Owned the Payroll Management System end to end, combining biometric attendance hardware (fingerprint, face recognition) with payroll software for 34,500+ business owners across 27+ industries; backed by INR 1,370,000,000 (Series C from Dharana Capital.) - Scaled customer base 3.4x (10,000 to 34,000) and employee coverage 5x (200,000 to 1,000,000+) within 12 months; generated INR 6,000,000-8,000,000 Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and INR 86,000,000-115,000,000 forward Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). - Grew the employee mobile app to 307,000+ Monthly Active Users (MAU) and 131,000 Daily Active Users (DAU); reached a 43% DAU/MAU ratio (2x B2B benchmark); grew Weekly Active Users 65% in 3 months. - Delivered 80+ features across attendance modes, payroll processing, statutory compliance (Provident Fund, Employees' State Insurance, Professional Tax, Tax Deducted at Source, Labour Welfare Fund), leave management (26,000+ MAU), geo-tracking and onboarding. - Launched 3 value-added services: geo-tracking subscriptions, Earned Wage Access via Jify, and group insurance via Zopper; designed one-click payroll, a custom report builder and support for 11 Indian languages. - Directed an 18-person cross-functional team (11 backend, 1 frontend, 2 designers, 4 Quality Assurance); mentored 1 Associate Product Manager and trained the team to run without a dedicated Product Manager.
Senior Product Manager
- Managed 13 projects: accountable for delivery of 6 engineering-led projects, tracking progress through regular team updates and clearing blockers, and actively managed 7 internal products as Product Manager. - Internal products: an employee Learning Management System (LMS), and an audit suite covering code quality and coding standards (Dev Audit), design implementation against WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines (UI/UX Audit), product and project practice such as Jira stories, epics, PRDs and sprint ceremonies (Project Audit), QA checklists and manual, smoke and regression testing (QA Audit), and vulnerability scanning with fixes and improvement suggestions for external client codebases (External Audit). - Managed an org-wide Assessment platform for running any type of employee assessment; recently used it to run a company-wide AI assessment measuring employees' AI knowledge and awareness.
Featured Projects / Portfolio
View All ProjectsMakerplace - Vendor onboarding
- Owned the vendor onboarding flow for the multi-seller e-commerce marketplace of Michaels, a 1,600-store North American retailer. - Owned the product listing creation workflows for marketplace sellers. - Improved product visibility on the marketplace, increasing seller adoption by 10-15% and Average Order Value by 5-8%, and reducing cart abandonment by 7-10%. - Contributed to 103% GMV growth through seller tools and e-commerce features.
ERP for Steel Industry
- Built an ERP product for the steel processing and manufacturing industry. - Won 4 major steel clients and led their migration from legacy systems to the new platform. - Mapped each client's business workflows and built client-specific customizations on top of the core product. - Helped generate ~USD 200K in revenue over 2 years.
Skills
Next connection count?
Join ArthaVerse and turn conversations into outcomes.
Ground Floor, 195/5A2, Gowtham Extension, Sriperumbudur Main Road, Tamil Nadu - 602105