ADITYATEJA

BHIMAVARAPU

## Product Manager

San Francisco, CA

Aditya Teja Bhimavarapu is a visionary Product Manager based in San Francisco, CA, specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software. He holds a Master of Science in Product Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. Aditya founded Projects Yard, a platform aggregating candidate portfolios, achieving Product Hunt Top 10 status and onboarding over 1,000 users. He also served as a Product Manager Consultant at PNC Bank, identifying a $2 billion opportunity by repositioning a banking app with AI-driven guidance. Previously, as Manager at ICICI Bank, he managed a $650M portfolio, implemented a multilingual financial document parsing tool reducing turnaround time by 25%, and scaled onboarding to include 15 Fortune 500 companies.

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## Experience

My professional journey and the amazing teams I've been part of

### Product Manager Consultant

**PNC Bank**  
Jul 2025 — Nov 2025  
- Led mixed-methods discovery (surveyed 90+ SBOs, interviewed 10) to quantify pain points of Small Business Owners in managing finances.  
- Analyzed 16 competitors & articulated a Service Void - SBOs lacked predictive advisory tools, repositioning the banking app from neat dashboards to differentiated AI-driven guidance.  
- Translated insights into PRDs, service blueprints, and a prioritized backlog; aligning design, data science, & business stakeholders on scope, metrics.  
- Iterated quickly on customer feedback using rapid UX Prototyping on Figma and Claude Code.  
- **Unlocked a $2 Bn + opportunity**

### Founder, AI Product Manager

**Projects Yard**  
Dec 2024 — Jan 2026  
- Spearheaded from conception to launch, initially developing the full-stack solo before leading cross-functional team of 3 to deliver a platform with strong product-market fit serving tech professionals, recruiters.  
- Built platform projectsyard.com, a portfolio aggregator and project showcase tool where candidates can display projects in STAR format case studies and build entire portfolio pages in under 15 mins.  
- Conducted market research (100+ students, 10+ recruiters) and identified gap: Portfolios & Projects take time to create, have low discoverability. For recruiters, it’s difficult to assess skills using just resume.  
- Onboarded 1000+ users, 3000+ visitors and 17,000+ page views by orchestrating a multi-channel GTM strategy combining University Career Centers, Product Launch (#8/ 400+) and offline booths.

### Manager, Corporate Banking

**ICICI BANK**  
Mar 2023 — Oct 2024  
- Managed a portfolio valued at $650M comprising of 45 large corporations including Fortune 20 companies.  
- Owned end-to-end implementation of tool that parsed client financial documents from 60+ languages, converted other currencies to Indian Rupees and auto filled in proprietary Excel Model. 
- Initiated a multi-country taskforce, creating a sales funnel strategy of partnering with foreign companies before their India entry, by clearly identifying and mapping client touchpoints.  
- Delivered 26 C-Suite business presentations, effectively influencing strategic decisions with clear insights on portfolio growth.  
- Resulted in annual revenue of $7M.

### Marketing Intern

**GALDERMA**  
Mar 2022 — Jun 2022  
- Performed a deep-dive analysis of acne market by conducting 900 interviews and 10 focus groups resulting in crucial insights about the purchase drivers and impact of sales channel on willingness to pay.  
- Helped formulate positioning and communication strategy for 4 acne care products – cleansers, face wash and moisturizer based on consumer preferences based on primary & secondary research.

### Senior Analyst

**CAPGEMINI**  
Sep 2020 — Sep 2021  
- Contributed to development of data warehouse to predict credit card default probability by using fine-tuned gradient boosting model implemented on Apache Spark.  
- Developed program in PySpark to streamline and semi-automate code documentation, making it more intuitive for users and saving over 1K man-hours annually per team.  
- Improved model accuracy by 3%. Save over 1K man-hours annually per team through automation.

## Education

Where I built the foundation of my expertise

### CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Master of Science in Product Management  
Class of 2025

### INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Master of Business Administration  
Class of 2023

## Links

[GitHub](https://github.com/a-bhimava) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-teja/)