{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Raja Ramamoorthy",
    "label": "Journalist turned product manager who builds and writes, all at once",
    "email": "adhav.27@gmail.com",
    "summary": "Product manager who came up through the newsroom, first writing about cars for Motor Vikatan, then building digital products at Ananda Vikatan, and now at The Hindu Group, working on Frontline. I work where editorial meets product, on one conviction: a good product is built like a good story, reader first.",
    "url": "https://rajaramamoorthy.com/",
    "location": {
      "city": "Chennai, India"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "url": "https://github.com/RajaRamamoorthy"
      },
      {
        "network": "Ostinato Rigore",
        "url": "https://rajaramamoorthy.substack.com"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajaramamoorthy/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "The Hindu Group",
      "position": "Product Manager, Frontline",
      "startDate": "2022-07",
      "summary": "Part of the cross-functional team (editorial, engineering, and marketing) that doubled Frontline's monthly active users in three years. Launched the magazine's first newsletters, now above 50% open rates that the writers' craft earns; grew subscriber visits 110% in two years; integrated the Piano recommendation engine to lift pages per session from 1.2 to 1.9; drove organic search up 30%; and redesigned the comments experience, growing active commenters from 2,500 to 10,000+."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ananda Vikatan Digital",
      "position": "Product Management Lead",
      "startDate": "2020-11",
      "endDate": "2022-03",
      "summary": "Built and led a cross-functional team of 3 PMs and 6 engineers, cutting delivery lead time 50% and bounce rate 20%. Drove 28K new Play Store reviews and grew total reading time to 113M minutes in October 2021, the No. 1 Tamil ranking on Comscore."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ananda Vikatan Digital",
      "position": "Product Manager",
      "startDate": "2015-07",
      "endDate": "2020-11",
      "summary": "Launched Tamil Flash News, South India's first Tamil short-form news app, to 50,000+ downloads in its first year. Built APPAPPO, a pay-per-article platform that won Bronze for Best Paid Content Strategy at WAN-IFRA 2019, and added collaborative-filtering recommendations that lifted content consumption 50%+."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vikatan Group",
      "position": "Head, Breaking News Desk & Assistant Editor (Motor Vikatan)",
      "startDate": "2012-09",
      "endDate": "2015-07",
      "summary": "Started writing about cars for Motor Vikatan, then led the Breaking News desk through volatile political events, cutting news-to-publish time 40%, and revamped Motor Vikatan's social strategy for a 40% lift in pageviews."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Stoa School",
      "studyType": "General Management Program",
      "startDate": "2021-10",
      "endDate": "2022-03"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Trichy Engineering College, Anna University",
      "area": "Mechanical Engineering",
      "studyType": "B.E.",
      "startDate": "2008-08",
      "endDate": "2012-08"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Product",
      "keywords": [
        "content strategy",
        "personalization",
        "recommendation systems",
        "subscriber growth",
        "SEO",
        "experimentation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Analytics",
      "keywords": [
        "GA4",
        "Piano Insights",
        "Deep.bi",
        "Looker Studio",
        "Amplitude"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lifecycle & CRM",
      "keywords": [
        "WebEngage",
        "CleverTap",
        "Firebase",
        "Piano ESP"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Design & Prototyping",
      "keywords": [
        "Figma",
        "Framer",
        "Balsamiq",
        "Canva"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI & Gen-AI",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude",
        "Gemini",
        "Google AI Studio",
        "Bolt.new",
        "Lovable",
        "Replit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Collaboration & Dev",
      "keywords": [
        "JIRA",
        "GitHub",
        "Airtable",
        "Miro"
      ]
    }
  ]
}