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Fractional product manager, India

Senior product leadership for Indian startups from a Delhi-based 2x founder who has built for Indian users at Medzin and WisOwl, with US-scale operating experience.

India's startup ecosystem has a seniority gap in product. Companies scale past founder-led product years before they can attract or afford a genuinely senior full-time product leader, because the best ones are concentrated in a handful of unicorns and priced accordingly. Fractional product leadership exists for exactly this gap, and I offer it from an unusual position: Indian founder roots, US-scale operating experience, based in Delhi.

Built for Indian users, twice

Both my companies were built for the Indian market. Medzin was a Delhi healthcare discovery platform I co-founded and grew to 18,000+ users and Rs. 60L ARR on $150,000 of seed capital. There I learned what trust-building takes when your users are patients and your suppliers are clinics. WisOwl AI, the company I co-founded (since acquired), is an agentic hiring platform for the Indian job market: semantic matching built on FAISS and pgvector, 10,000+ organic jobseeker signups, 10+ recruitment-firm and startup customers, zero paid marketing. I learned to build for Indian users (price sensitivity, WhatsApp-first behavior, trust earned in vernacular details) at both companies.

Plus the imported discipline

Between my two companies, I spent eight years working remotely with CaaStle in New York, rising to Associate Director of PM and running growth product across a ~$50M+ ARR portfolio. That's where the measurement rigor comes from: cohort-based decision-making, honest A/B testing (the program I ran lifted cancellation saves to 50%), and roadmap discipline at revenue scale. Indian startups usually get either scrappy-local or polished-global product leadership. Fractional lets you have both in the same person, two days a week.

How fractional product management works in India

  • Fractional: 1–3 days a week owning product alongside your founders, remote across India or in person in Delhi NCR.
  • Sprints: PMF validation, 0-to-1 launches, or AI product scoping as fixed projects.
  • Advisory: a standing weekly call for founders who need judgment more than hands.

Pricing is structured for Indian startup budgets: a fraction of a senior PM's CTC for the days you actually need.

Frequently asked questions

Do you work with startups outside Delhi?
Yes. I work remote-first across India (Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune and beyond), with everything in IST so there's zero timezone friction. Delhi NCR teams additionally get in-person time when it helps.
How does fractional pricing compare to hiring a senior PM in India?
A senior product leader at a good Indian startup runs a substantial annual CTC, and that's before the six-month search. Fractional gets you comparable judgment for the two or three days a week you actually have decisions for, at a correspondingly fractional cost, starting within weeks.
Can you help us raise from Indian and global VCs?
I've raised for my own company and build investor-grade metrics narratives as part of engagements: cohort stories, traction framing, and the product section of the deck. I don't broker introductions; I make the story survive diligence.
Do you understand building for Bharat as well as metro India?
Medzin and WisOwl both served users well beyond South Delhi, and vernacular comfort, price sensitivity, and WhatsApp-first workflows shaped both products. I won't claim uniform expertise across every segment, but I've built for tier-2 users directly.

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