Subash Rajaseelan has come West to hone his craft and educate the next generation in a system he’s learning anew. Today he is the AI Product Manager at Thinkverse, an AI-powered learning platform focused on K-12 education.
Here’s what you need to know about Subash..
He grew up in Chennai, India. His dad was an entrepreneur who owned a retail storefront selling construction equipment. Surrounded by a strong support system, he stayed active playing cricket and strength training, still maintaining his fitness levels today!
Subash studied electronics & communications engineering at Anna University locally in Chennai before realizing his interests lay in people-facing roles. He joined Extramarks, an edtech company expanding regionally, in a Founding Sales role to help them prove product market fit & drive adoption in a new market.
There was no office and no playbook, just a five person team with a mandate to figure things out. At age 22, wearing multiple hats across sales, operations, and product discovery he began managing people for the first time. Next he transitioned to Freshworks, one of India’s top B2B SaaS companies, and their first SaaS IPO. He sold CRM software, gaining international experience by selling into the U.S. market. His role demanded more consultative selling and provided exposure to product strategy, customer conversations, and experience working closely with engineering and product management.
In 2021 he moved West to Boston for graduate school at Northeastern to pursue a Masters degree in Engineering Management. The move to Boston was about stretching himself, finding new perspectives, and pushing into a new frontier. While studying, he landed a PM internship at B2B fintech platform AliasWire. He didn’t just shadow – he owned key parts of the product lifecycle – improving the full merchant experience from onboarding to repayment flows.
At Northeastern he became the first member of his family to obtain a foreign Masters degree. But Subash’s real accomplishment at Northeastern was founding the Aspiring Product Management Club. What began as a grassroots effort to differentiate product management from project management turned into a thriving organization with 1,000+ members. Today the club has chapters across multiple campuses and helps graduate 50+ product managers each semester.
After graduation Subash joined Thinverse, an AI-powered learning platform focused on K-12 education. He joined pre-revenue, pre-customers, pre…pretty much everything. Today? They’ve scaled to 30+ schools, 4,000+ students, and multiple six figures of ARR.
He runs point on everything from product discovery to user research, engineering handoffs to go-to-market. He conducts user research with teachers and students, working closely with the founders, engineering, and design on product development. He even contributes to their go-to-market strategy and operations in order to improve learning outcomes at scale for their customers.
Building A Learning Engine
Subash is constantly optimizing, driven to align his work to a larger life vision. He believes that the roles he decides to spend his time on shouldn’t just be for a paycheck, they should serve a deeper purpose. Whether it’s solving interesting problems, enabling creativity, or offering lifestyle flexibility he’s always seeking that alignment.
He uniquely spends time evaluating whether he’s growing in his current role, stretching intellectually, and whether his work continues to align with who he is and where he wants to go. This constant recalibration paired with curiosity, humility, and self-awareness has kept Subash sharp, curious, and intentional about his growth.
Staying hands on, systems oriented, and always pushing to solve meaningful problems keeps challenging his thinking and fueling his growth.
3 Career Insights / Learnings
Seek Out Opportunities, Make the Ask – “Ask for the intro, ask for the role, ask the question. The worst anyone can say is ‘no’ and it’s a risk worth taking”
Show Up – “Be reliable, punctual, and driven. People notice the basics and, done well, will separate you from others”
Scale Your Experience – “Look for roles that give you five years of experience instead of one year of experience, five times. Find roles that compound where you continue to learn new things, not roles that just repeat”
Subash continues to optimize for high leverage problems with real world impact. Whether it’s founding a product management club or being an early startup employee, he’s focused on building tools that change how people learn and live. Subash stays open to what’s next, striving to make a dent in the universe. He’ll continue to acquire the right skills and surround himself with people and missions that energize him.
To learn more about Subash you can find him staying in shape outside around Boston, shaping the future of product management for local university students, or on LinkedIn. Thanks for sharing your hard fought insights from experiences across the globe. We look forward to seeing all you accomplish in the years ahead here in Boston!