utkarsh badoni

Utkarsh
Badoni

AI Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Ambiguity in.
Shipped product out.

I'm Utkarsh, an AI Product Manager working on the unglamorous middle of product: taking a problem nobody has framed yet and turning it into a plan with owners, dates and a definition of done.

At NeuraMach.AI I run delivery across product, engineering, sales and marketing. That means project plans and dependency tracking, KPI dashboards that give leadership one honest view of progress, and SOPs so the same work doesn't get reinvented every quarter.

Alongside that I'm founder of Vibecheck Innovations, where I've learned the difference between an idea and a validated one: two ventures through market validation, 200+ target users actually spoken to, and investor decks that had to survive questions about the numbers underneath them.

Before both, I was a technical recruiter. An unusual entry point into product, and a useful one.

Experience

NeuraMach.AI, Pune, India

MAY 2026 – PRESENT · 2 MO

Current

AI Project Manager

  • Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Product, Engineering, Sales and Marketing, owning project plans, timelines and dependency tracking.
  • Built KPI dashboards, milestone trackers and status reporting cadences that gave leadership one source of truth on delivery progress.
  • Audited PRDs, workflows and business processes to find bottlenecks, then translated the findings into prioritised process changes.
  • Authored SOPs and operational frameworks that standardised ways of working across teams.
  • Supported the end-to-end launch of an AI platform through stakeholder coordination, release tracking and go-live readiness.
  • Partner with leadership on prioritisation, resource planning and operational reviews.

Vibecheck Innovations LLP, Pune, India

FEB 2026 – PRESENT · 5 MO

Current

Founder

  • Took 2 early-stage ventures from ideation through market validation, defining problem statements, target segments and success criteria.
  • Executed go-to-market strategies for 3 product concepts and validated product-market fit through structured research with 200+ target users.
  • Recruited and managed a 6-member cross-functional team across product, design and operations.
  • Built 3 investor pitch decks with 5-year financial projections for seed-stage conversations.
  • Deployed AI-powered analytics tooling that cut research and decision turnaround time by roughly 40%.
200+
target users researched
3
go-to-market strategies executed
6
person cross-functional team
~40%
faster research turnaround

Dimensional Thinking, LLC, Remote

NOV 2022 – NOV 2023 · 1 YR

Technical Recruiter

  • Owned end-to-end recruitment for 15+ technical roles across software engineering and product.
  • Sourced and screened 100+ candidates through LinkedIn, job boards and referral channels.
  • Reduced average time-to-hire by ~20% by restructuring the screening funnel and introducing structured interviews.
  • Partnered with 5+ hiring managers to define role requirements and build talent strategies.
  • Sustained 90%+ candidate satisfaction scores across all hiring cycles.
15+
technical roles filled
100+
candidates sourced & screened
20%
reduction in time-to-hire
90%+
candidate satisfaction

Self-directed analyses, not client work

Product teardown

Swiggy Instamart growth analysis

The dark-store model, unit economics, and competitive position against Zepto and Blinkit in Indian quick commerce.

Market analysis

EdTech 2.0 in Tier 2 India

Market sizing, customer personas, pricing benchmarks and go-to-market options for the Tier 2 and Tier 3 segment.

Education

  • MBA, Entrepreneurship

    Indira Institute of Management, Pune

    Aug 2025 – Apr 2027 (expected)

  • BCA, Computer Applications

    MIT World Peace University, Pune

    Jun 2019 – Oct 2022

Certifications

  • Google Project Management Professional Certificate

    Google

  • IBM AI Business Analyst Professional Certificate

    IBM

Project & product

  • Agile / Scrum
  • Project planning
  • Roadmap execution
  • PRD review
  • Requirements gathering
  • Stakeholder management
  • Risk & issue tracking
  • Release coordination
  • SOP development
  • Process improvement

Business & analysis

  • Business process review
  • KPI definition & reporting
  • Dashboarding
  • Market research
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Product-market fit validation
  • Financial projections
  • Competitive analysis

Open to product management,AI product management andfounding roles.

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Utkarsh Badoni

Based in

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Availability

Finishing an MBA in April 2027, alongside my current role.

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