Sachin Acharya

Principal Product Manager · Retail Tech
Engineer-turned-PM · 11 years · Bangalore, India

Summary

Engineer-turned-Product Manager with 11 years of experience across retail, e-commerce, health & fitness, and gaming. Started as a software engineer before transitioning into product, and grew from Senior PM to Principal PM. Track record of 0-to-1 delivery, user adoption, and measurable impact at scale.

Skills

Product Strategy0-to-1 ExecutionRoad-mapping Stakeholder ManagementAgileUX Gen AI toolsVibe-codingAgent building A/B TestingData AnalyticsSQLPython

Experience

Principal PM — Merchandising Space Planning Walmart Global Tech · 2024 – Present
  • Leading Enterprise Space Planning Platform solving space-allocation and trade-off decisions across stores.
  • Led a suite of AI-driven merchandising tools (Fusion Insights, Daily Rundown, Item Lookup) with data science and engineering.
  • Built the Assortment Repository — a shared pre-catalog item platform structuring messy supplier inputs into a searchable source of truth.
Staff PM — Price & Markdown Optimisation Sam's Club · Sep 2022 – 2024
  • Led Pricing & Exit Optimisation with a team of 15+, automating markdown workflows and boosting user productivity by 85%.
  • Owned end-to-end roadmap for Item-Catalog Pricing transformation; expanded markdown to Dotcom channel and new categories.
Senior PM — Competitor Intelligence Sam's Club · Aug 2021 – Sep 2022
  • Defined strategy for Competitor Pricing; built item-matching tool to map competitor SKUs to own catalog, saving USD X M/year in third-party contracts.
  • Launched Tableau pricing dashboards and a shared ingestion platform adopted by other Walmart tenants, cutting manual effort by 70%.
Senior Product Manager Cure.fit · Dec 2019 – Aug 2021
  • Founding PM for Cult.fit international app (trainer-led coaching) scaled to tens of thousands of users in US and Canada.
  • Shipped 0-to-1 at-home fitness product; integrated Apple Watch & Apple TV (first at Cure.fit).
Intern → Engineer → APM → PM → Senior PM Mech Mocha Game Studios · Jan 2015 – Dec 2019
  • Improved Day-1 retention by 5% via data-led features on Hello Play; cut level-creation effort by 98% with a procedural generator.
  • Engineered Chhota Bheem Himalayan Game — #1 on Google Play Top Free, 7M+ downloads; part of team behind 9 titles with 50M+ total downloads.

Education

B.Tech & M.Tech, Information Technology — IIIT Gwalior (2010–2015)

Linked

PayPay Senior PM Interview Prep — the full prep material for my ongoing PayPay interview process.