Nagarathna
Hosagoudar
(Call me - Sanjana)
AI Product Manager, Community Builder, Leader
About Me
About Me
WHERE I'M FROM
Originally from Bangalore, India, I'm now in Champaign, Illinois, pursuing my Master's in Information Management at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
THE BEGINNING OF MY PRODUCT JOURNEY
At 23, I built web3onwards — a web3 product community born out of a need to help students learn by building real products. What began as a small group grew into 750+ members across 10+ universities. Along the way, I delivered talks and workshops to audiences of 500+ students, sharing lessons on product thinking, leadership, and building in web3.
WHAT I DO NOW
Today I'm an AI Product Manager focused on building user-centric, data-driven products. I've launched 3 products end-to-end, bringing together design thinking, data insights, and cross-functional collaboration to turn complex ideas into scalable, real-world solutions.
THE DOMAINS I'VE BUILT IN
Domains: Healthcare | web3 | Consumer Tech | EdTechDriving roadmap execution, aligning stakeholders, and launching AI-driven features that improve user outcomes and business impact.
BEYOND PRODUCTS
Building web3onwards taught me more than any project ever could. It showed me the power of teamwork, shared purpose, and how communities can turn ideas into something far greater than individual effort. That experience shaped my mission — to build products that inspire collaboration and create real impact together.
Podcasts I'm listening to lately
Lately what have I been doing?
- •Building agentic AI projects.
- •Designing Power BI and Looker Studio dashboards to turn raw data into actionable stories.
- •Won 1st place at Smith+Nephew intern poster competition for an SEO-driven digital health strategy.
- •Documenting my everyday life on Instagram.
web3 product community I built
SWE24 conference, Chicago, IL
Summer Product Intern'25 @ Smith+Nephew
Mentoring young women in the community
My Social Media Presence
Experience
Skills
Product Management — JIRA, Confluence, Trello, MS Project, Asana, Miro
Management Methodologies — Go-to-Market, Feature Prioritization, Roadmap Planning, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Product Strategy, Product Lifecycle, User Stories, Operations Research, Cost Estimation & Pricing Strategy, A/B Testing
Tools — Tableau, Power BI, Google Analytics, Google Suite, Microsoft Suite, Atlassian
Design — Figma, Balsamiq
Programming Languages — Python, SQL
Leadership
- Built partnerships with 10+ universities, leading workshops and keynotes that established web3onwards as a leading student-led blockchain community in Bangalore.
- Started "Workday Saturdays," a weekly co-working program that united 50+ students for collaborative building and peer learning.
- Mentored 20 young women in product management, helping them build confidence and step into leadership and technical roles.
Work Experience
Product Manager Intern
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Smith+Nephew
May 2025 - Aug 2025Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 2025 - Aug 2025- •Collaborated with cross-functional team to define product requirements and launch a pediatric ENT digital platform, improving CTR by 40% and ensuring HIPAA-compliant data handling throughout the product lifecycle.
- •Applied data analytics and automation in A/B testing to evaluate campaign performance, uncovering insights that increased conversion rates by 35% while improving customer outcomes.
- •Conducted competitive analysis and user journey mapping across pediatric ENT solutions to identify unmet customer needs, enabling data-informed feature prioritization and contributing to a 20% increase in engagement for targeted awareness campaigns.
- •Led comprehensive SEO analysis across 200+ queries, identifying high-intent keywords and driving a 45% boost in organic visibility within 6 weeks.
- •Shortlisted and prioritized top-performing keywords using Google Search Console, SEMrush, and GA4, aligning keyword strategy with clinical relevance and user intent to improve search ranking and content discoverability.
Product Lead
Champaign, Illinois
GreySide
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025Champaign, Illinois
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025- •Co-founded and directed product vision for a mobile-first news platform tailored for Gen Z, simplifying news consumption through 5-minute summaries.
- •Led the core team across design, product, and content — implementing UI/UX strategies that reduced drop-off rates by 30% and achieved a 45% increase in retention during beta testing.
- •Executed the go-to-market strategy, acquiring 150+ daily beta users through collaborations with student organizations and leveraging a 12K Instagram following (2.5M+ reel views).
- •Guided early adopters and design interns, ensuring alignment between feedback loops, UX flows, and product iterations.
Product Manager
Bangalore, India
dw3ll
Jul 2022 - Jul 2024Bangalore, India
Jul 2022 - Jul 2024Product Strategy & Roadmap
- •Launched and executed end-to-end product strategy and roadmaps for DeFlix and the web3onwards EdTech Platform, driving both from concept to MVP.
- •Collaborated with executive leadership to align roadmap priorities with business goals, optimizing sprint planning, delivery timelines, and cross-functional execution.
AI & Automation Initiatives
- •Developed a custom Google Sheets PM system replicating JIRA workflows, automating backlog tracking and saving $400/month in tooling costs.
- •Conceptualized an AI-driven movie recommendation engine using OpenAI GPT-4 and ML models, achieving 95% accuracy in personalized suggestions.
GTM & Growth Execution
- •Designed and launched the GTM strategy for the EdTech platform, onboarding 300+ students in the first month and ensuring a steady contributor pipeline.
- •Leveraged analytics insights to track retention, feature adoption, and user satisfaction, optimizing product iteration cycles.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- •Led a 40-member cross-functional team (engineers, designers, testers) across ideation, design, and deployment phases.
- •Implemented Agile processes and sprint retrospectives, improving feature delivery speed by 30% and reducing release friction.
Projects
Co-founded GreySide, a Gen-Z news platform that delivers short, unbiased summaries under 100 words, designed to help students and young professionals stay informed in under 5 minutes daily. Led the product life cycle from concept to MVP: defined problem hypotheses, led UX/UI design, set up a content intelligence workflow with real-time curation, and integrated AI summarization for contextual learning.
As part of IS 514: Information Consulting, led a simulated consulting project with Astronics Corporation, developing an actionable AI integration roadmap for aerospace and defense products. Drove cross-functional research using issue trees, customer analysis, and data modeling to uncover opportunities for AI-driven fault prediction, pilot vision enhancement, and power optimization.
Built a student-driven web3 education platform that helped 300+ learners build blockchain products hands-on. Designed end-to-end learning journeys with mentors, community sprints, and live project showcases to teach real-world product execution.