ANSHU PANDEY

Product @ ShareChat | Strategy @ OYO | Consulting @ Indus, PWC anshu.x.pandey@gmail.com|+91-9651073228

EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
YEAR DEGREE/CERTIFICATE INSTITUTE, CITY CPI/%
2018 B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 7.3/10
2013,2014 XI, XII: AP State Board (Board Topper) FIITJEE Junior College, Visakhapatnam 99.77%, 98.3%
2012 X: CBSE Board Navy Children School, Visakhapatnam 10/10
• Achieved 99.92% in CAT20 and 99.93% in XAT21 and secured admits to IIM A, B, C, L, K, I and XLRI JSR, FMS Delhi
• Secured ranks of 890(top 0.005%) and 1182(top 0.0008%) in IIT JEE Advanced’14 and JEE Mains’14 respectively
• Received the prestigious KVPY Scholarship and Fellowship with an AIR of 295
• Selected for INSPIRE scholarship for being the Board Topper securing the highest marks in the state in all subjects in XI Boards
• Secured top 1% in National Standard Examination in Chemistry (NSEC) and was thereby selected for INChO
• Secured State Rank 6, 8, 11, 27, 184, 433 in various national level Science and Cyber Olympiads
• Was awarded the Best All Rounder Award and General Proficiency Award in classes Vth, VIth, VIIth, VIIIth and Xth
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
ShareChat, Product Lead (Apr’20-present)
Led consumer experience on a vernacular social media platform with a 160M user base with a team of 15+ engineers, designers, analysts, QC, DS, UXRs
• Designed and implemented 30+ AB experiments centred around follows, improving follows per DAU by 50% and feed retention by 10%
• Improved comment health and overall commenting experience impacting comments per DAU by 20%, commenter retention by 12%
• Undertook ad-hoc projects which have led to platform-wide gains in likes per viewer by 8% and creator retention by 5%
• Build a 0 to 1 close-knit community focussed 'Groups' product to be a USP feature in the market with an adoption of 55M users
• Build a 0 to 1 privacy product ‘Private Profiles’ impacting 40M users impacting platform retention by 10%
• Awarded ‘Ashoka Award’ for exceptional performance and user empathy among 900+ employees in 2020-21
OYO Rooms, Lead Strategy Analyst (Jan’19-Mar’20)
Worked cross-functionally with supply, operations, product and pricing teams to optimize availability for a portfolio of 250k rooms
• Reduced reactive approach to churn management by building a machine-learning based Churn Prediction model (Accuracy-c90%)
• Formulated One-Time Settlement product with an impact of INR 20cr & All-In deal structures reducing check-in denial from 3.1% to 1.6%
• Introduced the concept of DSRN which was adopted company-wide as the default supply-health metric increasing availability to 86%
• Launched incentive-schemes budgeting 30 lakhs monthly for 2000+ employees managing communication and pay-outs
• Developed visualization dashboards, a network visibility tool with 6.5k daily views enabling efficient portfolio management
• Trained and mentored 6 analysts in supply division in the use of data tools like SQL, Presto, R, Python
Indus Insights, Associate (Jun’18-Jan’19)
Undertook a US based private equity backed credit card venture focused on subprime lending as a client, for which
• Performed in-depth analysis to optimize the performance of the prior bankrupt portfolio and worked on monthly campaign strategy
implementation with a focus on improving utilization and reducing delinquencies
• Formulated a CHAID model to analyze authorized users, based on which, refined the solicitation strategy
• Managed end-to-end development of visualization dashboards using Tableau, DOMO, VBA for the CXOs, show-casing marketing and
collections metrics and recommended insights derived from the tests carried out
• Recommended a strategy to adjust the influence of the adverse select factor for multi prospect households thereby mitigating losses for
the client and reducing charge-offs by 20% for a FICO segment
• Buddy Sessions: Mentored 10+ candidates from major IITs, BITS, NITs, DU for cases and guesstimates
PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC), Consulting Intern (May’17 -Jul’17)
Amongst 20 interns from all over India selected for Summer Internship Program which resulted in a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO)
• Implemented SAP systems for an automobile-based client, formulating a road map for optimizing their manufacturing
• Executed multi-level production analysis on SAP for 3 crucial components manufactured by the client single-handedly
• Regulated Master Data, Material Resource Planning, Shop Floor Planning for effectual running of production cycles
• Result: Reduced manual dependency by over 40% increasing database management efficiency by over 200% for the client
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Coordinator, Dance Club, IITK: Led a 3-tier team of 10 secretaries to conduct 10 events, 3 flash mobs, 50+ productions with a cumulative
footfall of 20k managing a budget of 3lakh and spearheaded teams of 30+ members to victory in 6 national level competitions
• Overall Coordinator, Galaxy 18, IITK: Supervised conduction of 52 events of 8 different clubs with participation of 6k+ in IITK’s cultural
fest managing INR 20lakh and took various initiatives to increase participation.
• Contingent Leader, Inter-IIT & Mood Indigo: Led a contingent of 120 students participating in the first Inter-IIT Cult Meet and Mood
Indigo 16, Asia’s largest inter-college cultural festival, facilitating logistics and grievance redressal
• President, Association of Mechanical Engineers: Acted as an interface between faculty and students and worked towards improving
student-faculty interaction as head of the ME student body comprising of over 600 students
EXTRA CURRICULARS
• Represented IITK in ‘India’s Got Talent’ 2016 as the choreographer leading a team of 36 members
• Won ‘Dance Trophy’, Parliamentary debate at the first ever InterIIT Cult Meet competing against teams from 15 IITs
• Won multiple city and district level quiz and debate competitions throughout schooling