Pav Rao

I've been a developer, a copywriter, a stand-up comedian and a few other things. Product management is where they all meet.

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Case studies

Build

My training app: when a spreadsheet stops being enough

The question: How do you plan and log every kind of workout in one place?
What I did: Built my own app with Claude, for one very demanding user: me.

Write-up coming

Build

World news digest: voices the Western press rarely hears

The question: How do you put non-Western perspectives in front of readers every week?
What I'm doing: A weekly digest, built and tested as I go.

In progress

Just the CV

Pav Rao, London. Looking for associate product manager roles.

Emailpav0107@gmail.com

Phone07799 113911

GitHub

Advertising work

Stand-up

PrototypingBuilds products with AI, including a personal training app and automated weekly digests for AI, Product Management and global news using Claude and Gmail.
Working with engineersFull-stack developer at Mumsnet, one of the UK's largest online communities with 32 million monthly visitors. Worked in a small Agile team alongside product managers and designers.
Product trainingKing's College London Product Management Career Accelerator, November 2026 to May 2027, including a six-week Employer Project.
Discovery and insightSenior advertising creative for clients including Honda, Nokia, Google, Macmillan Cancer Support, RSPB and Reprieve. Used research, case studies and interviews to find the insight behind the work.
Selling ideasPitched work to senior clients and internal teams, handling feedback and objections to get work bought.
Testing and iteratingPerformed stand-up comedy to audiences of up to 500, winning the Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year competition and getting to the semi-final of the BBC New Comedy Awards. Audience feedback (sometimes warm, sometimes brutal, always unfiltered) led to dozens of rewrites to hit the sweet spot.
Data and analysisStudied Physics with Astrophysics MSci at the University of Bristol, which meant four years in a world almost exclusively filled with numbers and Greek letters. It also meant an understanding of methods, predictions, repeatable results and analysis.