Aayush Khera.

Product Manager
AI Products · Enterprise SaaS · LegalTech · Automotive

0→1 Builder · Product Strategy · Product Discovery · Enterprise Product Ownership

I build products that ship, from 0→1 AI products to enterprise platforms serving global markets.

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Experience

7+ Years

Product & strategy across AI, Enterprise SaaS, LegalTech, Life Sciences and Automotive

Current

Senior Product Consultant

Cognizant · PLM & QMS · Life Sciences

Product Ownership

Nissan Digital India

PIM & Spare Parts Pricing platforms

0→1 Product

Ligit AI

AI legal assistant for the Indian market

Education

MBA · IIM Kozhikode

B.E. Mechanical · Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala

Certifications

PSPO · PMP · CLSSGB

Professional Scrum Product Owner, PMP and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

About

My career didn't start in Product Management. It evolved into it.

From engineering and automotive product development to strategy, enterprise platforms, startups and AI products, every role taught me something about how products actually get built, adopted and scaled.

I started in EV and hybrid vehicle development, where product decisions are validated by telemetry, simulation and customer usage rather than opinion. The MBA at IIM Kozhikode gave that instinct a business frame, and product ownership at Nissan Digital India turned it into shipped enterprise platforms used across regional markets.

Ligit AI was different: no roadmap, no users and no pricing. I used 30+ conversations with lawyers to shape an MVP that people were intrigued by, open to trying, and willing to consider moving away from their existing systems for.

Today at Cognizant I work in the most unforgiving environment for product delivery there is: Regulated Life Sciences, where discovery, traceability and release governance have to hold up to scrutiny.

What connects all of it is the same habit: get close to the problem, decide what matters, and ship.

  1. Engineering & Automotive

    Engineering foundation and EV / Hybrid product development at Maruti Suzuki, moving into product strategy.

  2. Business & Product

    An MBA at IIM Kozhikode, followed by enterprise product ownership at Nissan Digital India across discovery, strategy, roadmapping and execution.

  3. 0→1 & AI

    Ligit AI: AI product strategy, customer discovery, pricing, GTM and an enterprise pilot.

  4. Enterprise Product Leadership

    Cognizant: Regulated Life Sciences products across PLM and QMS, from discovery to release governance.

Highlights of my work

What I've shipped

Regulated enterprise delivery, a 0→1 AI product, and global platforms, with the outcomes they produced.
Regulated Enterprise Product Delivery

Cognizant

Senior Product Consultant · PLM & QMS · Life Sciences

Aug 2025 – Present

Own end-to-end delivery of Regulated Life Sciences product capabilities from discovery through production release, across PLM implementation and a QMS platform covering incidents, complaints, change and vendor management.

130+
Functional requirements defined
~25%
Reduction in downstream rework
~20%
Faster UAT-to-production
0
Missed production gates in 4 cycles
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0→1 AI Product

Ligit AI

Chief Product Advisor — Fractional · AI · LegalTech · 0→1

Jul 2025 – Nov 2025

An AI legal assistant for the Indian market, positioned as "The Paralegal You Never Had." I led the full 0→1 product journey: vision, positioning, customer discovery, MVP strategy, pricing and go-to-market, through to an enterprise pilot.

30+
Customer discovery interviews
5-tier
Pricing & packaging model
46–89%
Projected gross margins
1
Enterprise pilot secured
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Enterprise Product Ownership

Nissan Digital India

Product Owner · PIM & Pricing Platforms

Mar 2024 – Jun 2025

Owned two global enterprise platforms end to end: a B2B Product Information Management system serving multiple regional markets and an AI-driven spare parts pricing platform.

€1.6M
Annual cost savings (PIM)
€500K
Revenue leakage eliminated (SPRIMS)
88%
Operational efficiency gain
40%
Faster product launches

Enterprise SaaS · Global B2B

Product Information Management (PIM) System

A global B2B PIM platform serving multiple regional markets, with AI-powered metadata tagging, intelligent asset classification and automated validation pipelines.

Annual cost savings
€1.6M
Annual cost savings
Operational efficiency
88%
Operational efficiency
Faster asset retrieval
70%
Faster asset retrieval
Faster product launches
40%
Faster product launches
  • 16% improvement in product data quality
  • 25% better downstream digital experience
  • PRDs, user stories, wireframes and API specifications
  • Cross-functional alignment across Engineering, UX, Marketing and Compliance
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Enterprise SaaS · AI Pricing

Spare Parts Pricing Management System (SPRIMS)

A cloud-native pricing platform with AI-enabled optimization, real-time pricing intelligence and profitability dashboards.

Revenue leakage eliminated
€500K
Revenue leakage eliminated
Fewer pricing errors
40%
Fewer pricing errors
Less manual effort
65%
Less manual effort
Profitability improvement
11%
Profitability improvement
  • 20% better forecast accuracy
  • 30% efficiency improvement
  • Real-time pricing intelligence and profitability dashboards
  • Cloud-native modernization with AI-enabled pricing optimization
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Product Strategy Foundation

Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Product & Strategy Manager · EVs & Hybrid Vehicle Development

Jul 2018 – Feb 2023

My product strategy career began with five years moving from engineering into EV and Hybrid product strategy, where decisions were validated by telemetry, simulation and customer usage rather than opinion.

~34%
Improvement in EV drive range
~36%
Increase in Hybrid Vehicle fuel economy
~21%
Increase in customer satisfaction
~29%
Reduction in decision-cycle time
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Leadership & Recognition

  • Fast Track Promotion: Top 1% of employees
  • ACES Award: 1 in 20,000 employees
  • CEO Award for cross-functional leadership during COVID-19
  • STAR Performer, 2020 & 2021

Builds

Products I've built

Product thinking

Product Teardowns

I like to deconstruct products I use by looking at the problem, user journey, product decisions, friction points and opportunities to improve. I've also designed and run teardown workshops for 40+ members of the Nissan Product Council and helped establish a repeatable teardown framework.

Blinkit

Published · 21 November 2024

Quick commerce with speed as the core product promise.

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Amazon Pay

Published · 22 November 2024

Payments embedded inside an existing commerce habit.

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Google Workspace

Published · 18 November 2024

A productivity suite competing on collaboration surface area.

Read Google Workspace Teardown(opens in a new tab)

Amazon Music

Published · 22 November 2024

Streaming inside a bundled ecosystem.

Read Amazon Music Teardown(opens in a new tab)

Skills

Product Toolkit

Product strategy, data, delivery and the tools behind the work.

Product Management

  • Product Strategy
  • Product Discovery
  • End-to-End Product Ownership
  • Product Road-mapping
  • MVP Definition
  • Feature Prioritization
  • Stakeholder Management
  • GTM Strategy
  • PRDs
  • UX Wireframing
  • Agile
  • PI Planning

AI/ML & Data Analytics

  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI/ML Integration
  • OpenAI API
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Customer Analytics
  • Data Visualization
  • Python
  • SQL

AI Build Tools

  • Lovable
  • Replit
  • Emergent

Tools

  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Figma
  • System Design

Awards

Leadership & Recognition

Product Workshop Lead

Nissan Product Council

Designed and conducted product teardown workshops for 40+ members and established a repeatable teardown framework.

Fast Track Promotion

Maruti Suzuki

Top 1% of employees.

ACES Award

Maruti Suzuki

Awarded by the CEO of Maruti Suzuki for leading development of a next-generation R&D facility. The recognition was given to 1 in 20,000 employees.

CEO Award

Maruti Suzuki

For cross-functional leadership during COVID-19.

STAR Performer

Maruti Suzuki

2020 · 2021

Career journey

Career Journey

A career spanning engineering, automotive product development, AI and enterprise product management.

  1. Aug 2025 – Present

    Cognizant

    Senior Product Consultant — PLM & QMS / Life Sciences

    Regulated Life Sciences enterprise product delivery, discovery through production release.

  2. Jul 2025 – Nov 2025

    Ligit AI

    Fractional / Advisory

    Chief Product Advisor (Fractional)

    0→1 AI LegalTech product: vision, discovery, pricing, GTM and an enterprise pilot.

  3. Mar 2024 – Jun 2025

    Nissan Digital India

    Product Owner — PIM & Pricing Platforms

    Owned a global B2B PIM platform and an AI-driven spare parts pricing system.

  4. 2023 – 2024

    IIM Kozhikode

    MBA

    Business and strategy foundation behind the move into enterprise product management.

  5. Jul 2018 – Feb 2023

    Maruti Suzuki India Limited

    Product & Strategy Manager — EVs & Hybrid Vehicle Development

    Engineering foundation into EV and Hybrid product strategy, benchmarking and decision analytics.

Education & certifications

Foundations

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration — MBA

April 2023 – March 2024

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala

B.E. Mechanical

July 2014 – May 2018

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP®)
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (CLSSGB)

Contact

Let's build something meaningful.

I'm looking for PM roles where strong product thinking, discovery discipline, and the ability to ship in ambiguous environments actually matter. If that's what you're hiring for, let's talk.

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