Platform • APIs • Subscription lifecycle

Product Manager building API-first platforms and data services people trust.

I work on products that sit between enterprise systems and real-world workflows—telematics data, partner onboarding, and subscription improvements. My focus is on clarity, reliability, and outcomes that scale.

  • Platform & API products
  • Monetisation (pricing, packaging, renewals)
  • AI-ready data services
Portrait of Ayush Kapale

About

I enjoy the practical side of product—turning ambiguous problems into simple flows, aligning cross-functional teams, and shipping improvements you can measure. Lately, that has meant building compliant data services and integrations where onboarding speed and trust matter as much as features.

Experience

Product Manager — IT & Process

VE Commercial Vehicles (Volvo Group & Eicher Motors JV)

Jun 2024–Present

  • Launched a telematics data API service as a monetisation stream; achieved 125% of annual target through pricing/packaging and enterprise adoption.
  • Owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing API products (discovery → requirements → backlog → releases → UAT), aligning engineering, QA, ops, and business.
  • Standardised partner/aggregator integrations and onboarded 60+ enterprises; reduced data enablement from 1–2 weeks to minutes.
  • Embedded DPDP-aligned privacy and data security into onboarding and integrations across API products.
  • Conducted customer research across 5+ cities; translated insights into roadmap priorities that improved onboarding and adoption.
  • Designed multi-brand vehicle verification and onboarding using official registry data (via VAHAN API), reducing onboarding failures by 10% and enabling add-on services.
  • Researched and piloted an internal ERP product for fleet procurement and tracking, delivering 27–30% cost savings.

Skills

Product strategy & discovery

Customer research, roadmaps, prioritisation, OKRs/KPIs, PRDs/BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, GTM planning.

Platform & enterprise

API products, integrations/partners, enterprise onboarding, workflow automation, subscription lifecycle, data products & monetisation.

Delivery & analytics

Agile/Scrum, backlog management, sprint & release planning, UAT, dashboards, Excel, SQL basics.

Tools

Jira, Figma, Postman, Mural, Excel, PowerPoint.

Education

MBA, Technology & Strategy

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur · 2022–2024

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

Indira Gandhi Engineering College, Sagar · 2017–2021

Training

  • Generative AI for Product Managers — IBM
  • Generative AI Foundations & Prompt Engineering — IBM
  • Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design — Google
  • Product Management: Developing and Delivering a New Product — SkillUp
  • Product Management: Building AI-Powered Products — SkillUp

Contact

The simplest way to reach me is email.

ayush.kapale99@gmail.com LinkedIn Resume