I build product systems
people trust.
6+ years building high-stakes consumer products where UX, systems, and business logic must work together — from real-time multiplayer engines to club ops platforms.
Evidence
How I Build
Four things I bring to every product.
Product Foundations
I start with the problem, not the feature. Clear PRDs, real user stories, and a ruthless prioritization framework before a single ticket moves.
Monetization Systems
Revenue is a product problem. I design chip economies, pricing flows, and conversion funnels with the same rigor as the core UX.
Platform & Operations Thinking
Complex products need ops. I build the back-office, the club management tools, and the compliance layer — not just the consumer app.
Cross-functional Execution
Shipping is a team sport. I run sprints, align stakeholders, and keep 10-person pods moving without losing velocity.
Tools: Figma · SQL · Mixpanel · JIRA · Unity collab · React/Next.js
Featured Case Study
PokerBoss
A five-chapter story
Chapter A — The Opportunity
Not just another app.
PokerBoss was a high-complexity multiplayer ecosystem — requiring product thinking across gameplay, economy, operations, trust, and control. A club-based poker platform that needed to feel like a polished consumer product and run like enterprise software simultaneously.
Chapter B — The Challenge
The real complexity.
Chapter C — The System
6 product layers. One coherent system.
Chapter D — My Role
What I owned.
Chapter E — The Outcome
What shipped.
Other Systems I've Shipped
Beyond PokerBoss.
Supporting projects that show range — growth, creator tools, internal ops.
PM Philosophy
How I think about the work.
Complexity is a feature, not a bug.
I gravitate toward products where the hard parts — real-time state, multi-sided operations, regulated economies — are the product. That's where moats get built.
The PM is the connective tissue.
My job isn't to have all the answers. It's to make sure the right people are aligned on the right problems at the right time. Clarity is the deliverable.
Ship to learn, not to launch.
Every release is a hypothesis. I care about what we discover as much as what we deliver. The roadmap is a strategy, not a contract.
Operators are users too.
A product is only as strong as the infrastructure around it. Club managers, agents, admins — if their tools are broken, the consumer experience breaks too.
Career
The arc, in brief.
PokerBoss
Senior Product Manager — Lead
- ›Built entire product from concept to launch
- ›Designed chip economy, club ops, and compliance systems
- ›Shipped multiplayer poker client for iOS & Android
- ›Owned PRD, roadmap, sprint cadence, and stakeholder alignment
Loco
Product Manager — Creator Studio
- ›Built creator tooling for India's gaming streaming platform
- ›Shipped analytics dashboard, monetisation features
- ›Worked across growth, retention, and creator acquisition
Cricket.com
Product Manager — Growth & Onboarding
- ›Led UX redesign of RMG onboarding funnel
- ›+22% conversion rate improvement
- ›−18% funnel drop-off
- ›Data-driven iteration across 3 A/B test cycles
Earlier
PM / Associate PM
- ›B2C consumer product work across fintech and e-commerce adjacent domains
- ›Built core PM skills: user research, PRDs, stakeholder management
If you're building something hard, let's talk.
Open to Senior PM roles — remote or Bangalore. I'm drawn to complex consumer products, multiplayer systems, and anything where the product, ops, and monetization layers need to cohere.
vinaykrishnan.in · Senior Product Manager