# Resume Master 2026

_Source: `2026 Resume Master Doc.docx`_

Darsh Shah (he/his)
 (+1) 224 706 4188 | darsh.shah@kellogg.northwestern.edu
EDUCATION
2022-2024 Kellogg School of Management | northwestern university Evanston, IL
Master of Business Administration degree, June 2024
 - Market & Management Science Major | GMAT: 770
 - Club Involvement: Student Association (Alumni Engagement), India Business Conference
 
2013-2016 NARSEE MONJEE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND ECONOMICS | MUMBAI University Mumbai, India
Bachelor of Commerce | CGPA: 6.62/7.00 
 - Apprenticeship: Grant Thornton, top-5 public accounting firm; led PCAOB financial audits; received ‘Performance Recognition Award (Among ~100 employees across 200+ global offices and 5000+ employees) 
Experience
2021-2022 SHARECHAT (Google-backed unicorn, Indian TikTok-equivalent, 180M users) Bengaluru, India
Product Manager, Live Social Audio, April 2022 – July 2022
 - Leveraged user personas, qualitative and quantitative research, and data insights to launch monetization product for creators, increasing retention by 50% and daily streamed minutes by 1.6B ($14.4M revenue impact)
 - Devised product roadmap for gaming feature as engagement initiative, drafted PRDs, secured engineering bandwidth, owned feature P&L end-to-end; increased app-level average daily time spent by ~2 mins (40M DAU)
 - Improved user support experience by implementing JIRA service desk and self-service help page (Confluence) and establishing customer support team and turnaround SLAs, reducing customer complaints by 38%
Manager, Special Projects & Strategic Finance, September 2021 – March 2022 
 - Advocated for org-wide Salesforce adoption; interviewed sales staff (users), outlined product requirements, supervised development, led roll-out and trainings, attaining 99% adoption among ~400 users in 3 months
 - Led GTM strategy and execution for short-video ads product; defined customer value prop, long-term roadmap, and collaborated with AI-feed team for feature prioritization, achieving $60M ARR within 6 months of launch
 - Partnered with product team to design and roll out A/B tests on self-serve advertising (B2B) website, leveraged findings to streamline user journey, reducing funnel drop-offs (~35%) and enhancing monthly sign-ups by 120k+
 - Received accelerated promotion (in exception of regular appraisal framework; top 1% among 2k employees)

 
2017-2021 RAINSHINE ENTERTAINMENT ($75M media search fund; interests in content, gaming, and web3) Mumbai, India
Manager, Corporate Development & Finance, May 2019 – September 2021 
 - Led $3M investment in Nepali-language streaming platform, scoped potential market opportunity, created offline subscriber onboarding model to overcome limited regional online payment penetration 
 - Launched long-format journalism platform (fiftytwo.in), secured $3M allocation to build initial team and content pipeline, devised product strategy to leverage long-form content to develop high-value documentaries
 - Built a revenue model for gaming-as-a-service product, performed market assessment, defined success metrics (acquisition cost, churn-rates and subscriber retention, customer LTV), facilitating $1M investment decision
 - Drove post-merger integration of five companies, renegotiated cost drivers and developed first-of-its-kind centralized HR system enabling group-wide resource-sharing, growing profits by $2.5M, enabling break-even
 Assistant Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, October 2017 – April 2019
 - Optimized performance marketing campaign by creating and executing a renewed geographic targeting strategy, achieving 50% profit growth through significantly lower CPI (and improved in-app advertising CPMs)
 - Championed organization-wide data management and analysis best practice by building proprietary Python program to automate data from 10+ data sources into centralized data lake
ADDITIONAL Data
 - Technical Skills: Python, MySQL, Big Query, Figma (wireframing), Tableau, Retool, JIRA, HTML/CSS
 - Certificate: Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (all exams cleared in first attempt, top 1%)
 - Built 15k+ strong Discord community recognized by United Nations (India), crowdsourced medical infrastructure availability data and built information delivery tool reaching 1M+ users on Twitter and Instagram 
 - Mentoring: Taught life skills and after-class tutoring to 76 at-risk kids across Mumbai public schools, volunteered with Teach for India and Make a Difference; currently mentoring and financing education for 6 kids 
 - Interests: Self-taught coder, amateur music producer (compose progressive house music with FL Studio), casual gamer (PS5 – Gran Turismo 7, God of War Ragnarök, Fortnite)