Rishi Venkat
Innovative Product Manager & Tech Enthusiast
Experience
Associate Product Manager
Shopify
July 2025 – Present
Shipping payments infrastructure and retail POS features for millions of merchants. Working across checkout, fraud, and in-store commerce to drive merchant growth.
- Led a multi-processor payments expansion in France, adding support for eight new payment methods, coordinating across devs, data scientists, PMMs, and support in four product areas, and driving $8M+ GPV through new payment methods within one month of launch
- Shipped a payment recovery solution to recover 5,500 declined transactions within two months of release, identifying the opportunity, defining product behavior using data analysis, and establishing target metrics and a guardrail framework to enable a confident release decision ahead of a crucial volume period
- Scoped and shipped two POS search improvements: variant flattening in search results and inline autocomplete suggestions
- Driving end-to-end delivery of a CSV user import feature, the top retail merchant frustration, conducting merchant interviews to validate scope, defining edge case and error handling behavior, and building interactive prototypes to accelerate alignment
Associate, Tech & Digital Advantage
Boston Consulting Group
Sept 2024 – July 2025
Built internal GenAI tooling and drove AI strategy for a large energy enterprise. Integrated ML-based demand forecasting for a major pharma retailer, improving accuracy and driving profitability.
- Sourced and managed 30+ pilots for novel internal GenAI tool, synthesizing user feedback into product requirements, and implementing internal marketing campaigns that drove a 44% increase in usage
- Designed comprehensive AI strategy and data governance framework, presenting key insights and actionable recommendations to senior leadership at a prominent utilities company
- Facilitated the integration of a novel ML-based demand forecasting method for a major pharmaceutical retail company, improving accuracy by 3% and generating an additional $10M in profits
Summer Associate (Product Strategy)
Boston Consulting Group
June 2023 – Aug 2023
Built a patient portal syncing healthcare data across EHR systems for a large hospital system. Advised leadership on product commercialization and critical architectural decisions.
- Researched $2B market, built pricing and P&L models, and advised leadership on healthcare product commercialization
- Guided critical decision on architectural implementation of navigation bar, reconciling tech debt and functionality considerations by collaborating with Product Marketing and Engineering teams
- Mitigated up to 30% user drop-off by engaging cybersecurity, engineering, and UX teams in crucial feature decision
Product Management Intern
Porsche Digital
June 2022 – Aug 2022
Defined a gamification and personalization roadmap for a luxury car marketplace. Secured additional funding by proving product success through competitor analysis and user research.
- Identified market opportunity and developed product roadmap for gamification/personalization features on car auction site, expected to improve experience for 10k+ monthly active users and generate $180k+ additional revenue in 2023
- Secured 6 mo. additional funding for new product by proving success in 7 performance metrics through competitor analysis
- Defined pain points, needs, and opportunities for 3 user personas by conducting 182 surveys and 5 user interviews
Product Management Intern
Root Medical Translation Inc.
Jan 2022 – May 2022
Led a 7-person team to ship a B2B medical translation MVP from zero. Determined pricing and go-to-market strategy by running a full business case to evaluate product impact.
- Led team of 5 engineers and 2 designers to ship Microsoft Blazor-based MVP for medical translation platform
- Determined pricing and go-to-market strategy by running business case to valuate total product impact
Finance Intern
NextRound Partners
June 2021 – June 2022
Built financial models powering $50M+ in venture fundraising and key business decisions for global clients. Identified and corrected critical modeling errors, restoring stakeholder confidence.
- Spearheaded development of adaptable financial models used by global clients to both raise $50M+ in venture funding and make integral business decisions by providing monthly runway projections, sales growth data, and business cost structure
- Identified and rectified $300M+ modeling errors within client projections, enabling stakeholder confidence
Co-Founder, General Partner, Tutor
Genius Test Prep
June 2019 – Aug 2021
Founded and scaled an affordable tutoring business, earning $10k+ in profit in the first 18 months. Grew customer acquisition by boosting Facebook ad click-through rate through A/B testing.
- Earned $10K+ profit in first 18 months by offering affordable tutoring services to 100+ students, receiving a NPS of 71%
- Increased Facebook ad click through rate by 131% by A/B testing target audience and ad body copy
