Utkarsh Badoni

AI Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India · utkarshbadoni17@gmail.com · LinkedIn

Summary

Product and project professional with hands-on experience across AI product delivery, early-stage venture building and technical hiring. Google-certified Project Manager and IBM-certified AI Business Analyst. Turns ambiguous business problems into documented processes, project plans and shipped outcomes.

Experience

AI Project Manager

May 2026 – Present · 2 mo

NeuraMach.AI, Pune, India

  • 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.

Founder

Feb 2026 – Present · 5 mo

Vibecheck Innovations LLP, Pune, India

  • 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%.

Technical Recruiter

Nov 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr

Dimensional Thinking, LLC, Remote

  • 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.

Education

MBA, Entrepreneurship

Aug 2025 – Apr 2027 (expected)

Indira Institute of Management, Pune

BCA, Computer Applications

Jun 2019 – Oct 2022

MIT World Peace University, Pune

Certifications

  • Google Project Management Professional Certificate
  • IBM AI Business Analyst Professional Certificate

Skills

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

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

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