Product Manager · Bengaluru
Turning ambiguity into products people use.
I build 0→1 products across AI, B2B SaaS, and digital platforms—bringing together customer insights, product strategy, and execution to create business impact.
Shalinee Kumari
Bengaluru, India
500+
Researchers onboarded
50+
R&D projects converted
78%
Internal R&D adoption
63%
Repeat research rate
Selected outcomes across products I’ve built and scaled.
My Journey
From enterprise software to 0→1 products.
Each role moved me closer to the product decisions: from implementing enterprise software, to solving customer problems, to owning products from strategy through adoption.
2017
B.Tech
KIIT
2021
HighRadius
Enterprise fintech
2022
MBA
NMIMS Mumbai
2023
Kripya
PLM · Reliance Retail
2024
Product Space
PM fellowship
NOW
Scimplify
AI · Scientific R&D
NOW
Aug 2025 – Present
Product Manager, Scimplify
AI · Scientific R&D · B2B SaaS
I owned product across the Scinode ecosystem, Scimplify’s platform for taking science from idea to commercial reality. It has three sides: Scinode Customers, Scinode Admin for the internal business team, and Scinode for Researchers for labs, CROs and scientists. I also took on Scinode Deep Research and the R&D module in Nucleus.
- Scinode Customers: built the platform foundation and core workflows, from enquiry to delivery at scale.
- Scinode Admin: built the business team’s side of the ecosystem, from opportunities and proposals to project tracking.
- Scinode for Researchers: took it from 0→1 through product strategy, execution, launch and growth.
- Scinode Deep Research: took it from 0→1: defined and launched the AI research workspace.
- Nucleus R&D: owned the internal R&D workflow, from route selection to scale-up, with budgeted against actual cost tracked end to end.
Quarter awardThe No-Snooze AwardScimplify · View ↗
What I lead
Turning ambiguous problems into products, from first idea to real-world adoption.
Mar 2024 – Dec 2024
Product Management Fellow, Product Space
Product strategy · Discovery · Analytics
Worked across market research, user discovery, product hypotheses, PRDs and prototypes.
Gold Badge, Product Management Fellowship
What I took forward
Discovery and structured product thinking.
Aug 2023 – Aug 2025
Product Consultant, Kripya Solutions
PLM · Centric PLM · Reliance Retail
Centric PLM is Centric Software’s product lifecycle platform for fashion and retail. I worked with Reliance Retail on their internal workflows, customising the product to fit how their business runs.
- Discover: understood the business needs with Reliance Retail’s internal stakeholders and mapped their current workflows.
- Design: translated those needs into configured workflows and customisations on Centric PLM.
- Deliver: built and rolled out the workflows across design, sourcing, merchandising and operations.
30%+ operational efficiency70% less manual effort40% better cross-functional execution60% faster time to market
Client services awardGame Changer 2024Kripya Solutions · Reliance Retail · View ↗
What I took forward
Domain complexity becomes product opportunity.
2022 – 2024
MBA · NMIMS Mumbai
Jun 2021 – Aug 2023
Associate Technical Consultant, HighRadius
Enterprise fintech · B2B SaaS · Credit risk
I worked on HighRadius’s credit risk product, Credit Cloud, as a technical consultant: translating enterprise customers’ business use cases into technical solutions.
- Understand: took each customer’s credit-risk use case and the requirements behind it.
- Translate: turned them into technical solutions, working with product managers.
- Go live: took enterprise customers live across EMEA and the US.
19+ enterprise go-lives18% shorter onboarding cycle26% efficiency from internal automation
Applause Award
What I took forward
Enterprise problem-solving and technical fluency.
2017 – 2021
B.Tech · KIIT
Behind the products I built
Products I’ve Built
Real products, real challenges, and the decisions behind the outcomes.
Scimplify
Scinode ecosystem
Scimplify’s platform for taking science from idea to commercial reality. A request moves from the customer, through the business team, to the partner that does the work. Scinode Admin is the bridge across all of it, including Scinode Deep Research.
Scinode Customers↔Scinode Admin↔Scinode for Researchers and manufacturers
Customer side
Scinode Customers
- Built the platform foundation and core workflows, from enquiry to delivery.
- Designed request journeys for each request type, with routing to the right platform.
- Added project tracking across the customer, Scimplify and the partner platform.
Business side · the bridge
Scinode Admin
- Owned the portal that connects Scinode Customers, the partner platform for researchers and manufacturers, and Scinode Deep Research.
- Opportunities, proposals, user access and onboarding, supplier intelligence and the product catalog.
- An R&D dashboard that tracks everything happening in Nucleus R&D. Streamlined the entire workflow.
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Partner side · labs, CROs, scientists and manufacturers
Scinode for Researchers
- Took it from 0→1 through product strategy, execution, launch and growth.
- Connected labs, CROs and scientists with relevant R&D opportunities, from first visit to live project.
- Added the ELN for logging experiments after the PO, or on its own.
Alongside the ecosystem
AI research workspace
Scinode Deep Research
- Defined and launched it from 0→1.
- Helps researchers move from a scientific question to an evidence-backed research decision.
- Owned the usage model and go-to-market.
Internal R&D workflow
Nucleus R&D
- Owned the workflow from route selection to scale-up, QC and regulatory, through execution.
- Tracked budgeted cost from paper costing against actual cost, end to end.
- Leadership, project managers, group leaders, chemists, analytical and finance teams on one record.
Kripya Solutions
Centric PLM
Centric PLM is Centric Software’s product lifecycle platform for fashion and retail. Kripya implemented it for Reliance Retail, and I worked on the workflows behind it.
Fashion retail and apparel
Centric PLM · Reliance Retail
- Expedited workflows for Reliance Retail’s fashion and apparel business on Centric PLM.
- Built workflows to capture BOM details for each brand and product type, such as Avasa and Avantakrita, to support sourcing.
- Onboarded Reliance’s suppliers to the platform and maintained their quotes for each product.
Independent work
Product Explorations
Independent work showcasing how I think, solve problems, and design product experiences.
Product design · Assignment
QuantumLeap
A weekly action loop on WhatsApp that turns coaching advice into measurable actions, with a coach dashboard to follow many businesses.
Product strategy · Assignment
Justdial Merchant Growth OS
An independent concept to turn Justdial enquiries into booked appointments clinics can see, with a deck and a clickable prototype.
PRD · Product Space
PhonePe Rewards
A loyalty program with an earn-and-redeem loop that shows up at checkout.
PRD · Self-directed concept
Digii Campus
A two-sided campus registration product, with a PRD, acceptance criteria for both sides and a prototype.
PRD · Health commerce
Gynoveda
A channel for patients to raise non-urgent questions with their doctor, with a phased launch plan.
Product sense · Team capstone, 3rd place
Zerodha
How to bring first-time investors onto Zerodha.
Product sense · Top 10 finalist
Magicbricks
Personas, a journey map and prioritised solutions for the property portal.
Product sense · Self-initiated concept
Pilgrim
A payment and category redesign for the Pilgrim app, built on its real screens. Not affiliated with Pilgrim.
Product sense · Consumer health
HealthCare Plus+
A health app scoped to people managing long-term conditions, with medication reminders at its core.
Product sense · Collaboration
Let’s Slack
Raising engagement in Slack by focusing on community groups.
Product sense · Metrics
PharmEasy
Product flows mapped to the metrics they move.
Product sense · Metrics
PharmEasy × Spotify
The same method on Spotify, with metrics anchored to a north star.
Product research · Team
MakeMyTrip
Why the product exists, what it solved, and what motivates people to adopt it.
How I work
Discover, define, build, measure.
01
DISCOVER
Understand the user, business and problem.
02
DEFINE
Turn ambiguity into product direction.
03
BUILD
Translate strategy into simple experiences.
04
MEASURE
Learn from usage, outcomes and feedback.
Strategy · Discovery · UX · Analytics · Execution · GTM
What I like to solve
Problems that sit at an intersection.
AI × Workflow
Making complex work simpler through AI.
Data × Decisions
Turning information into useful product decisions.
Users × Business
Finding the point where customer value and business value meet.
0→1 × Scale
Taking ambiguous ideas from first principles to adoption.
Selected impact
500+
researchers brought onto Scinode through product-led onboarding and targeted researcher acquisition.
4K+
molecules researched through Scinode Deep Research.
63%
repeat research rate among researchers returning to Deep Research.
78%
internal R&D adoption of the platform.
Contact
Have a complex problem worth solving? Let’s talk.
Send me a note and I’ll get back to you.
Shalinee KumariProduct Manager · Bengaluru
Email
shalineekt@gmail.com
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