Product management is applied empathy, backed by data.
I'm Himanshu Jha, a Senior Product Manager with 11+ years of cross-industry experience spanning Travel & Tourism, Commodity Trading, Energy & Utilities, and Communications & Media. I hold a PGDM in Business Administration from IIM Rohtak, on top of a Computer Science engineering background — a combination that lets me sit comfortably between business strategy and technical execution.
At Publicis Sapient, I currently lead marketing-ops transformation and digital product work for real estate & hospitality brands in Saudi Arabia. Before that, I built and revamped consumer mobile apps for tourism and utilities clients across the Middle East, and led a centralized data platform for a commodity trading firm's China business. Earlier in my career at Cognizant and Amdocs, I worked across CTRM P&L reporting and enterprise product catalogue systems.
I care about understanding the upstream process before proposing a solution, defining clear success metrics, and being honest about what a launch actually proved. I also stay close to how AI is changing product work — I was a semi-finalist in a global Gen AI hackathon.
Beyond client work, I've been a co-organizer of ProductTank Hyderabad since 2021 — part of the global Mind the Product community — helping bring local PMs together for talks and discussion.
Principles I hold myself to
Evidence before opinion
Customer conversations and data come before a single mockup. If we can't state the hypothesis, we're not ready to build.
Small, reversible bets
Ship the smallest version that tests the riskiest assumption — then earn the right to go bigger.
Metrics with teeth
A launch isn't done at ship — it's done when the target metric moved, or we've learned why it didn't.