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Zeel Patel
Product Manager with AI & Analytics DNA
I turn ambiguous problems into structured decisions by combining product thinking, AI, data, and execution discipline.
My Work Experience
Past Work Experience (Aug 2021-Aug 2025)
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist | Strategic Hiring Partner | Product Owner
I am a seasoned technical professional having 4+ years of experience working with fast paced delivery teams at an intersection of strategy, execution, and stakeholder management.During course of my work. I was often challenged to own many ambiguous problem spaces, take structuring decisions, and deliver outcomes across complex, cross-functional environments.I consistently took ownership of complex problems—whether it was unclear role definitions, tight timelines, evolving client expectations, communication challenges or talent-market constraints—and converted them into structured, actionable plans that delivered noteworthy results with speed and quality.
Execution & Delivery Ownership
I owned initiatives end-to-end—from requirement definition to outcome delivery—ensuring speed, efficient quality, and reliability resulting early success in delivery multiple times, also achieving 100% offer-to-join rate for a recent year and a half saving sales team huge efforts in client retention.Independently owned and delivered critical client engagements (Direct, Managed Services, BOT), contributing to 15–35% revenue growth on multiple projects within healthcare, pharma, biotech and life sciences domains.
Stakeholder management & cross-functional leadership
Worked closely with Executives, Product leaders, Engineers, Clients, and Internal teams for $M projects—balancing competing priorities and maintaining alignment throughout execution for fast paced ambiguous projects.Became a go-to problem solver for upper management, unblocked bottlenecks in high-pressure scenarios and delivered outcomes benefiting them.Gathered requirements from clients and made sure cross functional teams understand it, this drove real success.
Data-Informed Thinking
Using AI and Data, advised strategies to internal teams equipped with lesser resources, mastered market research strategies and pipeline analytics and used performance metrics to guide prioritization and ensure delivery efficiency.Providing myself multiple achiever of month, quarter recognitions alongside winning prestigious yearly awards surpassing targets by 171%.
My Mentorship & Community
Built ProjectOS App and self-started IdeationX community to help committed individuals with my mentorship around career transition guidance and Project Management, Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, Lean Six Sigma and other career development spaces.
My Tech Stack & Skills
Product Management Tools
Agile & Scrum
JIRA Cloud
Six Sigma Tools & Minitab
Miro, Mural, Trello
Amazon AI Services
Prompt Engineering
Analytics
Management / Strategy Consulting Frameworks & Tools
others...
Certifications
Aha! Product Management Professional Certificate
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - Grant Thornton
Management Consulting Specialization - Emory University
Mckinsey Forward Program
AI & Agility - Scrum Alliance
Responsible AI Practices - AWS
Education
Bachelors of Business Administration - BBA | SGGU
Featured Projects & Live apps
AI Hiring Intelligence Assistant — RAG System Product Implementation
A RAG-approach Generative AI System, built to save time of recruiters and stakeholders in a company, made using Amazon AI Services, Prompt Engineering and Foundation Models.
AI Admission Decision Intelligence
An AI-powered decision support system to estimate any student's admission likelihood in a university factors affecting multiple variables.
ProjectOS — Career Transition & Portfolio Discovery Application (MVP)
ProjectOS is an MVP mobile & web application that helps early-career professionals and career switchers discover, join, and execute portfolio-worthy projects with peer support— eliminating fragmented searches across social media, content platforms, and cold outreach.
Operational Excellence & Process Optimization – Container Terminal Congestion Reduction (Lean Six Sigma).
Structured Operational & Process Improvement project to reduce severe truck congestion and waiting times at container terminal entry and exit gates.
Women's Health India — Holistic Wellness Companion (MVP).
An AI Powered Women-focused wellness app designed to support lifestyle decision-making around PCOS, hormonal balance, fitness planning, and stress management.
My Community
IDEATIONX
Mentor for a community full of career professionals with diverse skillsets.Created in aim to discuss trending breakthroughs in Technology.Helping individuals in need of career guidance respective to technical subjects like:Product Management
Project Management
Business Analytics
Management Consulting
Lean Six Sigma
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning, and other domains.
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AI Hiring Intelligence Assistant — RAG System Product Implementation
Built a retrieval-augmented generation AI assistant to help recruiters instantly access structured insights from large, fragmented hiring documents.Designed a RAG workflow combining embeddings, vector search, and prompt grounding to deliver evidence-based responses.Transformed manual, error-prone document navigation into fast, reliable decision support for hiring workflows using AI.
Tech Stack
AWS Bedrock
Amazon Opensearch
Vector Databases
Prompt Engineering
Generative AI
Foundation Models
Project Gallery
AI Admission Decision Intelligence
Built an AI-powered decision support system to estimate university admission likelihood, designed to inform decisions under uncertainty.Trained and evaluated regression models using AutoML taking the system through the full ML lifecycle by deploying it as a live endpoint and validating real-time predictions beyond experimentation.
Tech Stack
Google Vertex AI
Regression Modeling
Model Evaluation (RMSE, MAE, MAPE, R²).
Project Gallery
ProjectOS — Career Transition & Portfolio Discovery Platform (MVP) - Mobile & Web app
An app to help career professionals and switchers find the right projects and people for their domain, without bouncing between social platforms, content threads, and cold messages.This product brings project discovery, contributor matching, and guidance into a single, simple flow aimed at helping users build stronger, more relevant portfolios.Shaped the product around real user input by engaging professionals through self-started mentorship community (IdeationX).Launched the app as a live MVP and improved its usability from time to time.
Tech Stack
Product Management
Product Discovery & Roadmap
User Research, Interviews & Recruitment
UX Design & Iteration
No-Code Product Development
Agile, Scrum
Glide
Google Sheets
Miro, Mural
Project Gallery
Operational Excellence & Process Optimization – Container Terminal Congestion Reduction (Lean Six Sigma, Consulting).
Executed a structured operational and performance improvement project to reduce severe truck congestion and waiting times at container terminal entry and exit gates impacting throughput and service levels.Delivered 75–95% reduction in truck queues and waiting times, improving process capability toward Four Sigma performance.Improved container terminal flow efficiency, reduced congestion risk, and strengthened operational governance.
Tech Stack
Lean Six Sigma
DMAIC
Problem Solving
Management Consulting
Project Management
Process Improvement
Minitab, Miro
Operational Excellence
FMEA
Women's Health India — Holistic Wellness Companion (MVP).
Built a Women-Focused Wellness App to support lifestyle decision-making around PCOS, hormonal balance, fitness planning, and stress management, clearly scoped as non-clinical guidance to ensure user trust and responsible product usage.Led AI product design using prompt-driven controls, leveraging Claude 4.5 Sonnet to deliver consistent, tone-aware wellness responses, and incorporating mood-sensitive interactions to improve user experience and engagement in a sensitive domain.Implemented Responsible AI guardrails and safety constraints for multimodal outputs, including content controls for Amazon Nova Canvas to prevent explicit image generation and ensure policy-aligned, user-safe experiences.
Tech Stack
Product Management
AI Product Strategy
Design & Prompt Engineering
Responsible AI & Guardrails,
AWS Bedrock & LLMs,
User Experience
Risk & Scope Definition
People I work with say
Zeel better know for his ZEAL to never leave a stone unturned.
We both have worked directly for 4 consecutive years straight. Year over Year, Day by Day i have witnessed him getting intellectually evolved amazingly. An association with him led the team, the organisation an amazing success where he has cracked many codes in just 1 go - all at his own!
Zeel brings strong expertise in artificial intelligence, with a deep understanding of how AI can be applied to solve real business problems. His insights in this area have been incredibly valuable, especially in discussions around product direction, data strategy, and emerging tech trends.
Given the blend of organisational proficiency, creative problem-solving, AI knowledge, and passion for building great products. He has an amazing ability to understand diverse perspectives, balance competing priorities, and communicate clearly with both internal teams and external clients.
Zeel consistently built strong, trust-based relationships by actively listening, setting clear expectations, and following through on commitments. His calm, thoughtful approach helped navigate challenging conversations and ensured that all stakeholders felt heard and aligned.
What truly sets Zeel apart is his professionalism and empathy. Clients appreciated his responsiveness and clarity, while team members valued his collaborative mindset and problem-solving skills. Any organization would be fortunate to have someone who represents his work and values as effectively as Zeel does.
I highly recommend him to any team looking for a reliable, client-focused professional with excellent stakeholder management skills.
I had the opportunity to work closely with Zeel Patel and truly enjoyed the experience.
He is someone who combines strong technical skills with excellent client communication. He has a knack for simplifying complex topics and making sure both the client and the team are always on the same page.
What I really appreciate about him is his ownership and reliability—he can be trusted to get things done with quality and on time. He builds strong relationships, works well with the team, and always maintains a positive and professional attitude.
I would strongly recommend Zeel for any role that requires solid delivery, client engagement, and technical problem-solving.
Career Timeline
Ascendion - Aug 2021 till Aug 2025(4 Years).
Ascendion is a leader in AI-powered software engineering, helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. Partners with Global 2000 clients across North America, APAC, and Europe to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation.
Volunteering
Binance Angel- Jan 2022 till April 2022
Guided communities on twitter and cultivated mentality of audience respect to Web 3, Crypto, rightful consensus, securities and importance of decentralization for the world's No.1 Crypto Exchange.
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