About

A founder-grade PM with engineering roots.

Senior product manager with 5 years shipping and scaling 0→1 products across fintech, AI, and platform, on a CS and full-stack engineering foundation.

Owns strategy, roadmap, and experimentation for B2B2C and enterprise surfaces serving 300K+ users - lifting conversion 45%→66%, driving 100% YoY growth, and scaling an AI-native platform to 300+ customers as co-founder/CPO.

Brings the technical depth to ship fast with engineering - the arc runs from CS and full-stack, through enterprise systems at Paymentus, fintech product at Refyne, to founder-CPO at DigiStay.

Manthan Bhardwaj

Trajectory

The arc

Oct 2024 – Presentrole

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer · DigiStay

AI-native PMS for independent hotels. Scaled 0→300+ hotels, built a 40-person team, closed two angel rounds.

Aug 2022 – Sep 2024role

Product Manager · Refyne

India’s largest EWA platform. Lifted conversion 45%→66%, drove $600K/mo embedded lending, 100% YoY growth.

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022role

Software Development Engineer I · Paymentus Corporation

Enterprise bill-payments platform for US utilities. Owned multi-tenant system design and integrations.

8.5/10 CGPAeducation

MBA, Business Management · NMIMS, Mumbai

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies.

8.2/10 CGPAeducation

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering · UIET, MDU Rohtak

University Institute of Engineering & Technology, Maharshi Dayanand University.

1.5 yearsmilestone

Founder, Geekhub · Student-portfolio startup

Early founder experience building a student-portfolio product.

Capabilities

What I bring

Product

Product StrategyGTMA/B Testing & ExperimentationUser ResearchPRDs & RoadmappingStakeholder ManagementP&L OwnershipOKRsAI / LLM IntegrationEmbedded Finance0→1

Tools & Tech

JiraMixpanelSQLFigmaReactNode.jsAWS

Education

Foundations

MBA, Business Management

NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies) · Mumbai

8.5/10 CGPA

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

UIET, Maharshi Dayanand University · Rohtak

8.2/10 CGPA

Recognition

Awards & early work

Presented DigiStay to PM Narendra Modi · Devbhumi Rajat Utsav, Uttarakhand

Showcased DigiStay's AI-native PMS to the Prime Minister at the Devbhumi Rajat Utsav summit.

"The Visionary" · Refyne

Awarded for product vision and impact.

"Critical Thinker" · Paymentus

Awarded for systems thinking and problem-solving.

Founder, Geekhub · Student-portfolio startup

1.5 years building a student-portfolio product.

TCS CodeVita 2020 · 4th place

Global competitive-programming contest.

HackerRank Collegiate Cup 2021 · Top 10

Collegiate competitive-programming championship.