Gaurav Sharma

Making complex ideas useful.

I’m an Associate Product Manager at Paytm shaping agentic travel experiences.

Explore my work

01 / Portfolio

Experience

Where I have shaped product direction, improved user journeys, and worked with teams to ship.

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Paytm

Associate Product Manager

Full-time • September 2026 - Present

• Working on Check-in, a new Paytm Travel initiative exploring an agentic travel experience for a new-age audience, with a design approach distinct from conventional travel apps. • Collaborating with data science, engineering, product, and business teams to shape the experience and technical approach. • Working on evals for the AI layer, improving how we assess agent behaviour and use the findings to refine the experience. • Designing AI-driven automations to remove repetitive work and reduce operational overhead across the travel journey.

Current initiative

Check-in · Paytm Travel

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Times Internet

Associate Product Manager

Full-time • June 2026 - August 2026

• Led product initiatives for the TOI One ecosystem across TOI, ET Markets, and ET News, focused on discovery, personalisation, first-party data capture, and Day 0 churn. • Built AI-powered products using LLMs, embeddings, and RAG pipelines for content intelligence, workflow automation, and personalisation. • Improved video product and distribution, contributing to 50% revenue growth across the web video vertical. • Led Defence HQ, an AI-native defence intelligence platform using LLM pipelines for conflict detection, summarisation, classification, and real-time visualisation. • Wrote PRDs, prioritised roadmaps, defined success metrics, and coordinated engineering, editorial, and business teams through launch.

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Times Internet

Associate Product Consultant

Consulting • September 2025 - May 2026

• Improved the TOI App games funnel from 18% to 74% through analytics-led UX changes, experimentation, and clearer navigation. • Integrated ET Markets into the TOI ecosystem, expanding the content offering for a finance-focused audience. • Worked across content, product, and growth teams to improve engagement, session depth, and retention through data-backed decisions. • Built AI-powered newsletter and game-generation pipelines that reduced editorial effort by over 90%, turning a three-person, full-day workflow into a one-hour review. • Conducted user research, competitor analysis, and product experiments to identify growth and adoption opportunities.

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Times Internet

Product Management Intern

Internship • July 2024 - September 2025

• Owned the games vertical on the TOI App, increasing overall app retention by 13% and achieving 65% D1 retention among game-playing users. • Drove retention and engagement through iterative launches, funnel optimization, and UX improvements across interactive content. • Set up end-to-end product tracking using Google Analytics (GA4) and Microsoft Clarity to identify drop-offs and inform product decisions. • Conducted competitor analysis and user research to guide feature strategy and editorial innovation.

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IIC, GTBIT, GGSIPU

President

President • July 2023 - August 2024

Leading the council in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship within the institution. Organized events, workshops, and collaborations to promote a culture of innovation and creativity among students. • Hosted numerous events and workshops to inspire and educate students on various aspects of innovation and technology. • Collaborated with team members and external partners to bring valuable resources and opportunities to the council. • Implemented new initiatives to support student projects and startups, providing mentorship and guidance. • Encouraged cross-disciplinary collaboration and networking to enhance the innovation ecosystem within the institution.

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02 / Case studies

The work behind the outcomes.

A closer look at the product questions, decisions, and results behind my work on the TOI App.

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Featured / Games funnelTOI App Games Funnel OptimizationImproving discovery and entry points for the Times of India App games experience.18% to 74%Games funnel progressionRead the story

03 / Portfolio

Featured Projects

A selection of things I have designed and built, from web products to mobile experiences.

Shoe-ping (E-Commerce)

A web application that showcases a collection of shoes, allowing users to view, add, edit, and delete products. The application uses MongoDB, Express, Node.js, and EJS for rendering dynamic content.
Shoe-ping (E-Commerce) project preview

Geet-Ify

A mobile music application built with React Native and Flask API, featuring song suggestions, playback controls, and a sleek user interface.
Geet-Ify project preview

SehatSutra AI (Healthcare Solution)

AI-powered healthcare system with Aptos blockchain integration for secure payments and real-time diagnostics.
SehatSutra AI (Healthcare Solution) project preview
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04 / Portfolio

Why hire me?

AI product thinking, measurable automation, and the judgment to turn new capabilities into useful experiences.

I turn emerging AI capabilities into useful product experiences, with the judgment to take an idea from discovery to delivery.

I bring technical fluency, evidence-led decisions, and hands-on collaboration with data science, engineering, design, and business teams.

Agentic AI products

Shaping Check-in at Paytm Travel: an agentic travel experience designed around a new kind of user journey.

AI evals & iteration

Improving evals for the AI layer to assess agent behaviour, find gaps, and guide product improvements.

Automation with impact

Built AI-assisted newsletter and game-generation workflows at Times Internet that cut editorial effort by over 90%.

Product direction

User research, PRDs, prioritization, and ownership from an early idea through launch.

Evidence-led decisions

Funnel and cohort analysis with GA4 and Clarity to locate friction and measure changes.

Delivery across teams

Clear coordination across design, engineering, editorial, and business to get work shipped.