Professional Summary
Most recently Product Manager / Associate Product Manager at Certif-ID, with practical ownership over compliance-heavy HR tech experiences across candidate onboarding, document validation, and operational workflows. I translate ambiguous constraints into measurable activation, adoption, and operational improvements by aligning engineering, compliance, operations, and design around clear tradeoffs.
Core Strengths
- Compliance-first product discovery and decision alignment.
- Mobile and web onboarding activation improvements.
- Structured analytics, instrumentation, and experiment tracking.
- Cross-functional delivery with compliance, operations, and engineering partners.
- Translating regulatory requirements into PRDs, acceptance criteria, and validation logic.
Selected Experience
Certif-ID International GmbH
Product Manager / Associate Product Manager · Feb 2025 – Nov 2025
- Owned roadmap prioritization, experimentation, and delivery cadence for mobile onboarding and activation while preserving compliance guardrails.
- Worked with analytics and behavioral signals to unlock a 35% lift in onboarding conversion and a 24% lift in feature adoption, keeping mobile, web, and backend validation aligned.
- Coordinated with design, engineering, compliance, and operations to frame tradeoffs, define APIs, and sequence releases under tight capacity constraints.
Product Management Intern · Oct 2024 – Jan 2025
- Coordinated GDPR- and ISO 27001-aligned work streams, translated compliance requirements into structured briefs, and documented validation logic for candidate and partner workflows.
- Mapped dependencies between mobile and web systems to expose operational risks ahead of feature delivery.
Working Student Product Owner · Feb 2024 – Sep 2024
- Authored PRDs, acceptance criteria, and API expectations for document validation and candidate progression logic that operations teams rely on.
- Partnered with backend, mobile, and sourcing partners to surface workflow dependencies and sequencing expectations.
- Contributed to the automation that cut candidate profile validation time from 30–45 minutes to approximately five minutes.
Earlier Experience
- Growth Marketer, TargetG - Digital Marketing Agency · Feb 2022 – Jun 2023: Improved audience engagement by 27% through funnel analysis, message testing, and structured experimentation.
- Business Operations Manager, CEM Plywoods · Jun 2017 – Jun 2019: Worked directly on customer feedback, service issues, and operational coordination in a high-touch environment.
Featured Proof
- 35% onboarding conversion improvement while balancing compliance and engineering capacity.
- 24% feature adoption lift driven by analytics-informed reprioritization.
- Candidate validation automation that reduced per-profile work from roughly 30–45 minutes to five minutes, letting operations focus on higher-value program work.
Education
- MSc Business Management & Project Management, Gisma University of Applied Sciences · 10/2023 – 11/2025 | Potsdam, Germany Thesis: An Analysis of Sprint Planning, Stakeholder Engagement, and Acceptance Criteria in Preventing Scope Creep in Agile SaaS Development.
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Bangalore University · 07/2019 – 09/2022 | Bangalore, India.
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)
- IBM Product Manager
- Intermediate SQL
Languages
- English
- German
- Hindi
Contact
- Email: contact.chetanchhangani@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chetan-chhangani
- Location: Berlin, Germany