Vedant Yogesh
First product hire at a YC-backed startup. Helped scale companies from 0→1 and 1→100. Chasing questions, learning by doing, and still smiling at the “oops” moments. Growth keeps me moving and fun keeps it interesting.
Currently
Leading product at Firstwork (YC S24), where we’re rethinking how companies manage frontline teams and ops globally. We use AI and fast experiments to shorten hiring from days to minutes and keep the workforce compliance. It’s early, it’s hard, but I love figuring out what’s possible and how fast can I ship it.
Work Experience
Founding Product Manager
Firstwork Inc↗YC-backed agentic platform ($5.5M Seed) | Automating compliance for frontline teams
Oct 2024—Present, Remote
- •Built the base platform, five AI agents, workflow builder, app marketplace & e-signing tool to fast-track compliance and hiring.
- •Helped scale the company to $1M revenue in under a year with rapid MVP launches (AI phone caller, Slack evals).
- •Onboarded enterprise clients; saved 84,000 man-hours, scaled workforce by 2.5x.
- •Set up GTM, delivered demos, hired first team members, automated billing for predictable cash flow.
Product Manager
Onsurity Technologies↗India's leading SME Insurtech Series B ($88M funding) | 8,000+ companies | 1.5M+ lives covered
Jan 2024—Oct 2024, Bangalore
- •Generated ₹91.3 lakh in 4 months with new business model automation.
- •Enhanced wellness revenue by 34.2% MoM by redesigning core flows.
- •Launched a B2B insurance service, generated 500+ qualified leads, delivered ₹46 lakh in new revenue.
- •Used data-driven decision making to prevent ₹77 lakh annual loss.
Associate Product Manager
Keka HR↗India's largest SaaS Series A ($57M from WestBridge Capital) | 10,000+ businesses | 1.5M+ payrolls monthly
Oct 2021—Jan 2024, Hyderabad
- •Scaled workforce management product (15% revenue contribution, 45% usage growth).
- •Expanded into 4 new countries by adapting to compliance and workflows.
- •Raised upsell by 32% with workflow automator.
- •Redesigned onboarding, reducing setup time from 2 days to 20 min for SMB clients.
- •Resolved repetitive concerns, cutting weekly helpdesk tickets by 86%.
Skills & Expertise
Thoughts & Writing
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