Ravi Mishra

Product Director

2022

Starting new things as part of Indeed's Product Incubator.

Founder

2018 - 2022

Product consulting and coaching/teaching. Typical engagements take the form of interim (6-9 months) Head of Product roles at early stage startups (5-50 employees) to set product direction, establish customer-first product culture, and hit relevant milestones to unlock the startup’s next fundraising goals. These engagements are described in detail below. I also serve as a Lead Instructor for Product Management courses at Product School.

Senior Product Manager

2021 - 2022

Head of Product (interim)

2020 - 2020

Helped improve conversion by focusing on initial user experience, as well as iterated on overall product focus, hitting key targets to help Journey get to their next round of fundraising.

Head of Product (interim)

2019 - 2019

Led deep study of customer behavior and shipped product improvements based on learnings, in addition to instilling product culture throughout the org.

Founder & CEO

2016 - 2019

In response to the 2016 election, Awaken was a meditation app offering practices on self-care, relationships, and social change. Recruited team, conceived and led Product, created and produced content, and scaled to ~10k downloads. The project is now being continued in a podcast and in a text message service called KindredText, offering text message conversation, creative, and reflection prompts with similar themes.

Product Lead, New Verticals (interim)

2018 - 2018

Resident Home is a family of D2C bedroom furniture brands (primarily mattresses). I was hired to break ground on new verticals outside the bedroom - served as full stack GM from research and discovery through launch.

Head of Product

2016 - 2018

Led digital product and ecommerce strategy, experimenting with pricing, acquisition, and marketing to drive topline sales growth. Also led projects across the company to revamp packaging and production. I’m an investor in the company and continue to serve as a general strategy advisor.

Senior Technical Product Manager

2015 - 2016

Led one of 4 Product teams at Warby, managed the PMs for two others.

Senior Product Manager (Innovation)

2014 - 2015

Basically traditional PM role with a focus on product innovation reporting to Avaaz's CTO. Areas of focus range from functionality development to management to UX to testing, with the goal being to build our overall movement, deepen engagement with users, and increase our ability to win campaigns.