About
Haniya Amjad
Product manager with 3+ years of experience, most of it in B2B. Right now I run retention for an edtech program in 500 plus schools across 8 Indian states.
How I work
I read an industry fast, reduce a problem to what must be true, and weigh what users need against what the business needs before deciding.
- 01 Read the industry fast Market, money, and who pays for what
- 02 Decode first principles Strip the problem to what must be true
- 03 Balance user and business Experience that grows the business
What this stands on
Work experience
Assistant Product Manager, a skill development company · edtech
May 2024 to Present · Chennai · an edtech program in 500 plus schools across 8 states
- Own retention across 8 states. Contained school dropout from 26% to about 20%, with ₹1.4 crore at risk, and drove a record ₹3 crore plus year of new business, a first in the program's 20 year history
- Took a 40 lesson science curriculum program from needs assessment to deployment in 241 schools
- Run a feedback system covering 1,200 plus teachers and 80% plus of partner schools
- Build the dashboards leadership reviews run on, tracking dropout exposure, a ₹54.5 lakh upsell pipeline and 97% plus collection efficiency
- Coordinated the end to end launch of Orator, a Class 4 communication program, with ₹40 lakh plus projected from 100 schools
Product and Marketing Lead, Pear Diamonds
December 2023 to April 2024 · Chennai · contract
- Built the brand strategy, business model and go to market architecture from scratch for an early stage venture
- Turned feasibility studies, competitive positioning and segmentation into pricing and product strategy
Lead, Operations and Compliance, deposit taking NBFC
February 2022 to September 2023 · Chennai · NBFC
- Owned RBI and MCA regulatory compliance, and reviewed data, risk and credit policies
- Managed operations, budgeting and planning, and produced the business intelligence reports senior management decided from
Assistant Lead, Growth, SAWO Labs
June 2021 to November 2021 · Bengaluru · seed stage SaaS
- Defined a unified KPI and alignment framework across 5 departments
- Conducted market research and revamped the partnership strategy across 25 plus platforms
Social development and volunteering
Jagriti Yatra, G20 edition
November 2023 · winner, BGT award for innovation in education
- Selected for a 15 day, 8,000 kilometre train journey engaging grassroots enterprises across Tier 2 and Tier 3 districts
- Researched gaps in education access with village communities and structured the findings into an enterprise model
- Won the Biz Gyan Tree award for innovation in education among 500 plus participants nationwide
Program Manager, U&I Trust
2019 to 2022 · volunteer
- Led 35 learning centre leaders delivering after school education to underserved children
- Raised ₹50 lakh plus in funding and designed student level learning outcome metrics
- The centre won the best performing centre award
Education
Post Graduate Program in Management, Finance
Great Lakes Institute of Management · 2025
- GPA 3.46 of 4
BA Economics
M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women · 2021
- GPA 8.66 of 10
- Best research article award for a case study on India's rural urban divide using randomised controlled trials
- President of the ARTH Economics Association
AI First Product Management, Airtribe
Airtribe
- Topics covered: product thinking, user research, problem framing, UX evaluation, PRD writing, product communication, metrics and analytics, growth and prioritisation
- A capstone spanning all of it, published on this site with a working prototype
What I work with
Program design and execution, stakeholder mapping, research and data analysis, root cause and demographic studies, progress reporting, and cross functional project management.