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Lokesh Sharma

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Product Director at Proshort
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lokesh Sharma is the Product Director at Proshort, where he is developing a contextual conversational assistant for sales teams. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur, his background includes managing machine learning models at ShareChat, where he saved the company $3 million annually. He prioritizes execution over strategy and values products with high utility.

He is deeply involved with his alma maters community, serving as a Member of the Board of Directors for the IIT Kanpur Alumni Association. Lokesh is also a community builder within the tech industry, having organized an exclusive dinner to connect GTM, Sales, and Revenue leaders in Bangalore.

Lokesh champions a "speed over perfection" philosophy, believing that delivering core features quickly provides more value than a delayed, aesthetically perfect product.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Product Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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AI Product Experience
He publicly critiques and praises the AI feature implementations of major tech companies like Canva and Figma, focusing on practical usability over novelty.
Conversational Sales AI
His current role at Proshort is centered on building AI-driven conversational assistants to directly improve the workflows of sales reps, managers, and CROs.
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Career

Work history

6-2022
Product Director
Proshort
8-2023
Member Board of Directors
IIT Kanpur Alumni Association
9-2020 - 6-2022
Product and Performance
ShareChat
6-2019 - 8-2020
Product Consultant
Sayona Safaris
6-2019 - 6-2020
Product Lead
Furnome
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Education
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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