Sarang Nafdey

• Heading the studio product and business operations for the Jet's Gaming IP division
• Product and Design direction for Sachin Saga Pro Cricket. Led the team from first-playable stage to the Launch and took the product into LiveOPs.
• Building and owning the Product Roadmap for Sachin Saga Franchise
• P&L and Product performance ownership
• New initiatives, Strategy, Growth, building the team

Founded Republicka in 2017, to create games that we like to play.

• Soft-launched Fantasy Sports product, Predicta, built from ground up, Predicta features Dream Team, Predictions and Quiz
• Led the product, built the game-economy, designed the Acquisition campaigns and contributed on the back-end engineering
• Pitched the products to Investors and Publishers
• Designed and produced World Casino (Social Casino) & Spot Ludo, which were shelved at different stages of development

• Led the growth for the product for Daily Deposits, Retention and Conversion
• Conceptualized and Built features for improving engagement, sessions and Onboarding experience
• Contributed for Pitch-Deck for investors and the Product roadmap

• Managed the P&L to account for Game revenue, UA spends, cost for internal, external and vendor resources
• Roadmap planning for setting up game direction and Product goals
• Crafting new features & tweaks to push Growth and brings delight to players
• Tracking the game performance against Business and Product KPIs
• General production activities - Scrums, Sprint planning, Reviews, Capacity planning, LiveOPs scheduling
• Led the unit responsible for Zynga's Match-3 Portfolio (Crazy Cake Swap, Crazy Kitchen and Ice-Age Artic Blast) and worked on Zynga's biggest game on the web Farmville 2

• Grew the Mobile development vertical of the studio
• Handled the P&L of the division, budgeting
• Supervision of Production team leads
• Conception and Pre-production of Prince of Persia - Time Run and Carebears - Belly Match

• Direct supervision of Production leads, Dev leads, QA Manager, Production support staff and HR/Admin managers
• Defining and reviewing production plans and roadmaps
• Establishing and promoting a collaborative relationship between the local and globally dispersed production teams and various other stakeholders including Senior Leadership, Legal, Finance, HR etc
• Planning the recruitments, defining the allocations of the teams with Production leads and HR
• Working with stakeholders across the organization to foster career and people development, Tracking performance evolution of individuals.

• Project management, resource allocation, planning, scheduling and delegating work for the development teams
• Tracking the projects and ensuring the timely deliveries
• Coordinating with stakeholders and business teams across the Gameloft offices

QA Lead

Dhruva Interactive | Nov '04 to Apr '07

QA Lead

Paradox Studios | Apr '04 to Nov '04

Verification and Validation Engineer

RelQ Software | July '03 to Apr '04