Product · Growth · Partnerships

Growth
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Six years closing institutional deals and building the products to deliver on them.

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Consulting and advisory
  • Go-to-market and partnerships strategy
  • B2B sales systems and institutional outreach
  • Product, ops, and execution support when things are still messy
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For edtech and institutions
  • Program design and custom course creation
  • LMS, virtual labs, and AI-enabled learning systems
  • Approvals, localisation, and academic enablement
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Software and AI solutions
  • Custom platform and software development
  • AI integrations, agents, and workflow automation
  • Technical consulting and system architecture
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  • Product, growth, and partnerships leadership
  • 0 to 1 execution across product, revenue, and delivery
  • Useful in roles where strategy and execution both matter
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Case Study

7 Programs. 4 Languages. 4 Weeks.

AICTE approval meeting at India Council for Technical Education headquarters, New Delhi
AICTE NEAT · New Delhi · 2025
AICTE NEAT Approval
Case Study
The challenge

The approval came with a requirement nobody had flagged in the initial brief. All seven programs needed to be available in four Indian languages before the government review panel would consider the submission.

We had four weeks. No translation budget. Two people.

Why it was hard

Machine translation handles everyday language well enough. It handles "Kubernetes orchestration" considerably worse. And this content was going to a government review panel — it had to make technical sense in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi.

What we did

We built a three-pass workflow. AI translation first for speed. Subject-matter review second — finding domain experts in each language who could verify technical terms were rendered correctly, not just literally. Consistency check third before submission.

We ran all seven programs simultaneously, not sequentially. More chaos. But we hit the deadline.

The lesson

The constraint forced a better process than we would have built with more time and money. A professional agency would have taken longer, cost more, and produced something less technically accurate.

"Most impossible deadlines are impossible because people spend the first week arguing about whether they're possible. We skipped that part."
The brief
7 technical programs. 4 Indian languages. 4-week deadline. Zero translation budget.
The process
AI translation plus domain-expert review plus consistency checks — run across all 7 programs simultaneously.
The outcome
All 7 programs approved by AICTE NEAT. Government panel did not flag the translations. Submitted on time.
Journey

Six Years.
One Thread.

The work, in order.

Mar 2026 — Present
Founder & Builder
Beyond Degree · lms.byondegree.com
  • Building an AI-adaptive learning platform with diagnostic assessments, personalised paths, and browser-based coding labs
  • 50+ interactive case simulations built to date
Apr 2023 — Present
VP, Growth & Partnerships
University of Emerging Technologies · Remote
  • Built institutional partnerships across India and the US, closing 20+ B2B deals through direct C-level sales
  • Generated $1M+ revenue through institutional programs and platform delivery
  • Secured approval of 7 programs under AICTE NEAT in 5 months, including multi-language content localization
  • Built 50+ programs from scratch at 2× industry speed, reducing production costs by ~$100K
Nov 2020 — Mar 2023
Head of Product & Operations
University of Emerging Technologies · Remote
  • First employee — built product, operations, and delivery systems from scratch
  • Secured 6 ACE credit recommendations in under 6 months (process typically takes 2+ years)
  • Built LMS and browser-based virtual labs with AI grading and gamification
  • Generated $50K in B2B revenue in 4 months at 5× ROAS
Dec 2019 — Oct 2020
Product Manager
EdHusk · Jaipur, India
  • First product hire — built LMS and onboarding systems for 60+ instructors
  • Designed course delivery operations from scratch
2018 — 2019
Category Management & Outreach Associate
Unacademy · Bengaluru, India
  • Onboarded 50+ educators at 2× peer acquisition rate
  • Built outreach automation across LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram — trained 15 associates on the system
2017 — 2018
Web & Product Associate
CSS Founder Pvt Ltd · Noida, India
  • Delivered client websites end-to-end, coordinating design and development
Projects

What I Build

Project 01
University of Emerging Technologies
Accredited Online Learning Platform

UET offers tech courses that carry US college credit recommendations — students can transfer credits toward a degree at 1,500+ universities. Built from scratch: the LMS, 50+ courses, browser-based virtual labs, government approvals in two countries, white-label deployments for partner institutions, and an institutional sales pipeline across India and the US.

Moodle LMSVirtual LabsACE ApprovedAICTE NEATWhite-label
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Project 02
Beyond Degree
AI-Adaptive Learning Platform

Most courses give everyone the same content regardless of what they already know. Beyond Degree starts with a diagnostic AI interview that identifies your skill gaps across five dimensions, then builds a curriculum around your results. Gamification, case simulations, and browser-based coding labs that work without any local setup.

AI DiagnosticsPersonalised PathsGamificationBrowser Labs
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Project 03
eFlok
Real-Time Collaboration Platform

Led product development of a browser-based collaboration platform — think Miro meets video conferencing. Sole PM working with a 4-person engineering team from concept to paying customers. Built for distributed teams and remote learning workflows.

Product ManagementReal-Time CollabB2B
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Where I've Worked

Worked across
three continents.

India — edtech products, institutional sales, government accreditation
East Africa — remote delivery, cross-timezone execution
United States — ACE accreditation, B2B partnerships
The Person

Beyond the CV

Currently Reading
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

"Either comforting or existentially destabilising depending on the day. Sometimes both at once."

Currently Watching
The Middle
Bingeing it. One of the warmest shows made.
Fringe
For when I want to feel like the world is more interesting than it is.
How I Work

I spend a lot of time sharpening the axe before I swing. People sometimes think I'm slow to start. What they don't see is the groundwork being laid — the research, the frameworks, the thinking that makes execution fast when it actually begins.

The goal has never just been to complete the work. It's to do it better than expected. Quietly better than what was asked for. That's what I aim for every time.

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Shivani Khare is a VP of Growth and Partnerships with six years building institutional partnerships across India, the US and East Africa. Reach her at hi@shivanikhare.com