Ahmad Naqvi

Director of Product

With 8+ years product managing as a founding member of a successful SaaS startup, I excel in leading product strategy and development.

I’ve driven go-to-market strategies and achieved over 15% annual earnings growth YoY by leveraging team mentorship and customer insights to boost business performance.

My success as a manager is rooted in my eclectic background, as well as my ability to balance critical thinking with care for my fellow team members.


Experience

Director of Product & Integration

08/2020 – present

  • Directed a SaaS product line focused on the NYC residential real estate industry
  • Launched and maintained 20+ digital products including:
    • applications: sales, lease, rentals, renewals, refinance, transfers, alterations
    • board minutes
    • property webpages (currently 3000+)
    • due diligence documents
    • insurance quoting integration
    • questionnaires
    • resident payments
  • Collaboratively researched, designed, developed, tested and released 3,500+ tickets to production
  • Created data-driven product strategy framework to inform overall company roadmap, including:
    • 43 technical build factors
    • 7 qualitative measures
    • 1-5 Likert scale for opinion measurement
    • factor weighting system
  • Developed detailed product development cycle, see link
  • At various times in the company’s growth, directly managed 6 of 10 departments including:
    • Client Services
    • Data
    • Implementation
    • Payments
    • Product
    • Quality Assurance
  • Member of the company’s Executive Committee tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and operations
  • During tenure, company processed:
    • $165,000,000+ worth of payments of processed
    • 128,000+ payment customers
    • $50,000,000,000+ worth of real estate deals
    • 1,500,000+ users across 6,500,000+ sessions
    • 100+ property management company partnerships

Product Manager

09/2017 – 07/2020

  • Launched and maintained multiple digital product lines
  • Planned product strategy in collaboration with COO and developed product lines closely with Engineering team
  • Led and trained multiple team members, including Jr. Product Managers and QA Specialists

Implementation Manager

03/2017 – 08/2017

  • Primary point of contact for 15 property management clients
  • Led on-site product training sessions with existing and new clients
  • Established SOPs for client data retrieval, digitization, storage, analysis, scrubbing, bulk upload, and maintenance

Digital Project Manager

08/2016 – 02/2017

  • Assisted Sr. Project Manager in very early development of 2 projects:
    • BoardPackager – proptech startup
    • Toca Boca – a children’s video app
  • Researched and designed fee system for BoardPackager payments, now utilized by 3000+ building webpages
  • Worked closely with engineering and design teams on backend and frontend components

Project Manager

09/2014 – 08/2016

Honors Professional Assistant

08/2012 – 08/2014


Education

Binghamton University, State University of New York

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy Major & Anthropology Minor

05/2010


Skills + Software

Product Management

  • Roadmapping
  • Market Research
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Vision and Strategy
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Contract Review
  • Business Case Analysis
  • Competitor Analysis
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Focus Group
  • User Flow
  • User Stories
  • Use-Case Analysis

Project Management

  • Scrum
  • Lean Startup
  • Quality Assurance
  • Jira
  • Monday
  • Trello
  • Google Sheets
  • Excel
  • Notion
  • Asana

Operations Management

  • Stripe Administration
  • QuickBooks
  • Slack Administration
  • Google Business Suite Administration
  • Freshdesk Administration
  • Jira Administration
  • Monday Administration
  • Zoom Administration
  • Shopify

Technical

  • SQL
  • Data Flow
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Sites
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Rollbar
  • NewRelic
  • Skylight
  • Postman
  • SendGrid
  • BrowserStack
  • Gherkin

Design

  • Workflows
  • Wireframing
  • Lucidchart
  • Figma Design
  • Figjam
  • Adobe XD
  • Proto.io
  • InVision