Renuka Thakur

Product Leader | AI | GTM Strategy | @Swym | ex-Shopify, Philips, Simpl, and Startups

Bengaluru6.3k followers

Swymex-ARISTOTLex-1000 Women Initiative

I’m a product and business leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and AI products across India and global markets.
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I’ve led products at Shopify (India + North America), Simpl, and now at Swym — where I build data-powered retention marketing products. Whether building 0→1 or scaling 10→100, I thrive at the intersection of product, growth, and GTM. I’ve also consulted for early-stage startups, often working directly with founders to define strategy and accelerate execution. I bring systems thinking, execution clarity, and strong founder empathy to every role.

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SWYMJOB
1. Product, Growth & GTM
  1Y 8M
ARISTOTLJOB
1. Builder
  6M
1000 WOMEN INITIATIVEJOB
1. Executive Advisor
  3M
SIMPLJOB
1. Dir of Product Management
  1Y 10M
BUKUKASJOB
1. VP
  10M
SHOPIFYJOB
1. Country Product Mgr
  1Y 4M
2. Senior Product Mgr
  7M
3. Senior Product Mgr
  2Y 9M
PRODUCT SCHOOLJOB
1. Guest Lecturer
  1Y 3M
BABAJOB.COMJOB
1. Product Mgr
  1Y 11M
PHILIPSJOB
1. Technical Lead
  2Y 11M
2. Senior Software Eng
  2Y

Job: Swym — Product, Growth & GTM · 2024-11 – 2026-07
Job: ARISTOTL — Builder · 2024-06 – 2024-12
Job: 1000 Women Initiative — Executive Advisor · 2024-06 – 2024-09 — The mission of the 1000 Women Initiative is to empower women leaders with our platform that connects, develops, and advances women in their careers. We achieve this through: 1. Connecting: Creating a unique space for women leaders to network and connect with one another. 2. Learning and Development: Providing access to trained leadership coaches to enhance their skills. 3. Career Advancement: Collaborating with individuals and organizations to support women leaders' career progression.
Job: Simpl — Director of Product Management · 2022-09 – 2024-07 — Grew and led the product team of 25+ members to own the vision, roadmap, and product P&L for multiple Simpl Checkout products; worked directly with the CXOs to build product strategy and go-to-market for Simpl's tech products.
Job: BukuKas — VP / Head of Product - Buyer & Storefront · 2021-11 – 2022-09
Job: Shopify — Country Product Manager · 2020-07 – 2021-11 — Led Shopify's Product Development for Indian merchants, which included: - Building Shopify product-market fit - Identifying product gaps - Building new product offerings
Job: Shopify — Senior Product Manager · 2019-12 – 2020-07 — Built B2B wholesale marketplace which evolved into one of the primary products of Shopify called Handshake (https://www.handshake.com/).
Job: Shopify — Senior Product Manager · 2017-03 – 2019-12 — Lead teams to build dropshipping products for Shopify merchant base.
Job: Product School — Guest Lecturer · 2018-09 – 2019-12
Job: Babajob.com — Product Manager · 2015-04 – 2017-03 — - As a part of Product team, I write complete and detail-oriented product requirements documents, ensuring clear communication of those requirements to the business, design, usability and development teams. - Constantly running experiments to improve job seeker database. - Data Analytics: a) Identified the relevant business metrics for IVR product and worked with the analytics team to setup the data pathway and daily dashboards to capture them, thereby enabling the team to make informed decisions based on hard data. b) I track week on week metrics to understand customers. Use the insights from various metrics to improve profile completion and user re-engagement. - Added new key features…
Job: Philips — Technical Lead · 2012-05 – 2015-04 — As a Technical Specialist in the Philips Televisions group, TPVision, my primary role is to lead Philips TV software team through validation of various mainstream, high-end and QFHD product ranges and ensuring time-to-market deliveries. I lead a team of 7 Engineers, through reviewing & tracking of test output, and also enhance the team’s competency levels by constant training sessions on upcoming TV features/technologies and testing processes. My current job responsibilities include review of requirements, internal code reviews, automation scripts reviews, test specifications, design and test strategy, effort estimation, dependency, risks analysis documents and making other technical docu…
Job: Philips — Senior Software Engineer · 2010-05 – 2012-05 — • Successfully validated Philips 2010, 2011 and 2012 LCD Series which are currently in the market. Presently working on Android and MTK TV software. • Worked in Belgium for 5 months to support System testing of DLNA, QFHD and CI+ features. • Digital TV Broadcast standards: Certification of Broadcast standards (DVB-C/ T/T2, CI+/MHEG), creation of Broadcast streams (audio, CI+ and T2). • Review of requirements, test specifications, design and test strategy, effort estimation, dependency and risks analysis documents etc. • Hands-on experience on various tools such as Philips proprietary automation tools, Python scripting, Monkey Runner for Android testing, Quantum data and Fluke generator…
School: Guru Nanak Dev University — Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

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FundraisingB2B SoftwareProduct StrategyMonetizationProduct LeadershiproadmappingTalent ScoutingexecutionEarly-Stage StartupsProduct Road MappingGo-to-Market StrategyWireframingStrategy ExecutionDocumentationProduct ManagementEntrepreneurshipLearning & Development SolutionsArtificial Intelligence (AI)CommunicationInternational Product Development

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