VRUSHABH CHOTALIA

Senior Product Management Leader | Digital CX Strategist

Dubai, UAE.

About

Accomplished Product Management Leader and Digital CX Strategist with over 8 years of expertise, driving digital transformation and shaping customer experience across mobility, automotive, and retail sectors. Proven ability to lead product discovery, define strategies, and deliver high-impact solutions end-to-end within rapidly scaling digital ecosystems. Adept at transforming tech-led organizations into product-led entities by leveraging strong PM fundamentals, AI-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve significant business outcomes and user growth.

Work

Al Futtaim EV Automotive

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Senior Manager Customer Experience

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Summary

Managed and optimized customer experience across 11 retail stores, digital platforms, and contact centers, enhancing user journeys and operational efficiency for a leading automotive group.

Highlights

Successfully delivered a Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle (CPOV) program for Polestar within 52 days of joining, contributing to a 5% improvement in used car sales.

Spearheaded full-funnel website redesign and experimentation initiatives, optimizing user flow, UX, and boosting conversion rates by 11.2% and engagement by 32%.

Developed an MVP of a real-time AI-based call analytics platform using MS Azure, extracting insights from 85% of inbound calls to enhance customer service.

Scaled the BYD UAE app to over 8,500 active owners through strategic feature prioritization and coordination with OEM, leveraging user behavior analysis and interviews.

Established VoC 2.0 and NPS frameworks, led 12 journey mapping workshops, and redesigned 5 high-friction customer touchpoints.

Breeze Consultancy

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Digital CX Strategist

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Summary

Leads strategic customer experience initiatives and digital transformation roadmaps for diverse clients, driving significant improvements in engagement and revenue through product-led strategies.

Highlights

Co-led development of a comprehensive CX strategy and 12-month implementation roadmap for a fashion retailer, integrating mobile apps and virtual experiences, projecting a 45% increase in visitor engagement and a +22% uplift in NPS.

Led a comprehensive CX and UX audit for a real estate firm, uncovering key friction points responsible for a 12% drop-off in the conversion funnel and outlining actionable fixes to recover lost revenue.

Designed and implemented a WebRTC-based website conversion tool, building the business case, project plan, and integration playbook, achieving a 75k AED revenue uplift within a two-week project.

Led the end-to-end design and rollout of a digital loyalty program, including rewards and cash-based incentives, from business case ideation through full implementation.

Udrive Car Sharing

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Customer Experience Manager

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Summary

Managed and optimized customer experience product initiatives for the region's largest car-sharing company, leveraging data analytics to reduce churn and enhance user engagement.

Highlights

Transformed an underperforming 50-agent CX department through comprehensive digitalization, restructuring, and performance management, improving CSAT by 7% and delivering AED 1.5M in annual savings over 3 years.

Conceived and launched a referral program combining UX optimization, pricing strategy, and CRM integration, boosting referral-driven acquisition by 12% while reducing Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) by 5.4%.

Tackled high churn rates by implementing a Voice of Customer (VoC) program and 8 key CX initiatives, resulting in a 9.4% boost in word-of-mouth and a 2.1-point increase in Google reviews.

Built an internal operations fleet management system, reducing manual workload by 40% and improving asset utilization by 15%, contributing to a 7.3% increase in booking rates and generating +AED 1.21M in OPEX impact.

Designed automated support intervention workflows across multiple touchpoints, reducing monthly churn by 18% through personalized user engagement.

Dash Mobility

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Product Manager

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Summary

Led product development and operational launch for UAE's first e-scooter sharing startup, driving rapid user growth and successful acquisition.

Highlights

Launched micromobility service from zero to 1,000+ trips in 90 days, deploying 100+ e-scooters across 5 locations with a 12-person team in 56 days.

Secured angel and seed funding to develop proprietary tech stack and IoT hardware, achieving 12.3% month-over-month user growth.

Led the venture to get acquired by a leading UAE mobility-sharing company, overseeing the integration of the scooter fleet into the host platform.

Partnered with RTA, DoT, and FTA for conducting pilot test concepts across 3 emirates.

Fertifood Organics

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Product Manager

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Summary

Spearheaded end-to-end product development for an automated composting machine, driving efficiency and sustainability initiatives.

Highlights

Led end-to-end product development of an automated composting machine, achieving 1.2x faster processing with 30% less human involvement.

Conducted 120+ customer interviews, built and presented prototypes to the Expo 2020 Innovation program.

Partnered with 4 Gated communities to draft a closed-loop waste management program.

Ysquared Metals

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Equity Trader

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Summary

Executed equity trades and managed investment portfolios within the metals sector.

Certificates

SQL

DataCamp

Design Thinking and Innovation

Coursera

Product Analytics

Amplitude

Agile Product Development

Service Design

Coursera

IMI EV Level 1

IMI

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Skills

Product Strategy & Discovery

Product Strategy, Product Discovery, Market Research, User Research, Problem Definition, Business Case Modelling, Innovation Management, MVP Development, Prototyping, Stakeholder Management, Roadmapping.

Product Development & Delivery

Agile Product Development, Scrum, CSPO, Product Launch, Solution Delivery, Iteration Management, Cross-functional Leadership, Process Design, Turnaround Management, e-KYC Verification.

Customer Experience (CX) & UX

Customer Experience Strategy & Design, Service Design, Blueprinting, Voice of Customer (VoC), Consumer Insights, Journey Mapping, NPS Frameworks, CES Score, UX/UI Enhancements, Chatbot Design, IVR Design.

Digital Transformation & Growth

Digital Transformation, Digital Loyalty Programs, WebRTC, Growth Initiatives, Conversion Rate Optimization, User Engagement, A/B Testing, Experimentation.

Data & Analytics

Product Analytics, Predictive Analytics, SQL, PostgreSQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Amplitude, MS Azure, AI-based Call Analytics, KPI Tracking, User Behavior Analysis.

Technical & Automation Tools

AI-driven Insights, Automation, IoT Hardware, Proprietary Tech Stack, Sprinkler, Zapier, Retool, N8N, FreshChat, Intercom, Figma, Framer, Cursor, Replit.

Projects

Virgin Mobile UAE

Summary

Revamped Customer Experience (CX) to improve social media rankings and overall brand perception.

Al Ghurair Automotive

Summary

Developed a comprehensive CX Transformation Roadmap as a strategic case study for job application.

Zed Mobility

Summary

Implemented UI-driven changes to optimize bookings to trip ratio for a mobility service.

HM UAE

Summary

Conducted a Customer Journey Audit and developed an Optimization Strategy.