Hi, I’m
Arunabha Bhattacharjee
Bothell,WA
Summary
I am an accomplished product leader indexing heavily on customer-centric approach balanced with speed to market and openness to critical feedback and failing fast. I use past learnings to incorporate into building enhanced products and design simple-to-use self-understanding customer interfaces. I believe in the philosophy of "Less is More" which helps me build clean experiences that appeals to customers across different age groups driving high adoption right from inception. I focus my teams actions towards non-evident underlying clues/anecdotes to drive product innovations. Lastly, I am an empathetic leader who believes in providing creative freedom to people to reach their full potential by providing a nurturing and competitive environment which contributes positively to the company's and their personal goals.
Overview
18
years of professional experience
Work History
AWSSeattle, WA
Principal Product Manager
02.2016 - Current
Job overview
- New product development: As a product owner of Point of Sale, launched an in-house ground-up Self-check-out product backed by vision based product identification leading a team of 3 product managers and 45 engineers.
- Defect Reduction: As Amazon Maps product owner, improved the Geocode, Address and Amazon Maps quality by enriching data sourced from 3rd party sources and accurately predicting delivery locations; Built UI features for Amazon Delivery Associates to navigate and accurately locate delivery locations within 10metres of the desired delivery point resulting into a 500 BPS improvement in “Unable to Locate” delivery defects. Led a cross functional team comprising of 6 different operations, business and tech teams to drive alignment.
- Concept definition: Piloted, launched and got incremental funding for building a new product vision for launching an Amazon storage solution leading to incremental network capacity at a much lower cost for Amazon Sellers. Pilot resulted in realizing an annual savings of $44MM through 2021 with an entitlement of $800MM over a period of 3 years;
FedExMumbai, Maharashtra
Sr. Analyst - Product and Pricing
01.2006 - 01.2016
Job overview
- New Product Roll Out: Completed the market research for the segment, detailed analysis of the P&L of the segment to arrive at competitive price points, building the assumptions for the business segment using macro and micro factors in comparison to existing capabilities, operational feasibility assessments and driving alignment with Planning and engineering leading to the roll out of the products which resulted in a new business development of $3MM in the first year and beat the projections for year 1 for a full roll out at desired yields.
- Business Planning: Present the rolling forecast for MEISA Ground business on a month on month basis; Led a taskforce comprising of Directors from Sales, Marketing, Operations and Planning & Engineering to drive decisions in order to make the India Ground Business profitable which was losing in excess of $500K every week. Was responsible for building territory level targets for sales teams to drive revenue growth along with launching incentive programs for sales teams along with driving Salesforce usage compliance.
BluJay SolutionsHyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Lead Product Specialist
02.2010 - 07.2011
Job overview
- Consulting & Business Development: Gap analysis of existing systems and identifying feature requirements of client’s system for new product development namely for warehouse management systems and track & trace applications. Worked with top shipping companies like Schenker’s and DHL to identify new requirements and generated incremental business for the project.
- Creating change requests and user centric designs: Write User Stories and product specifications for development teams to develop new features based on client requirements. Worked with UX designers to finalize new User Interfaces along with conducting User Acceptance Tests for new features before release to customers. Prepared release notes for customers before release of any new feature or bug fixes.
Vodafone IdeaMumbai, Maharashtra
Global Account Manager
03.2008 - 08.2009
Job overview
- New Business Development: Build pilots for new industry verticals/customers to test new solutions – e.g. Successfully ran a pilot in deploying a solution based on the GPRS platform in order to determine the wastage & pilferage of the GTX carried by the vehicles of Castrol during the course of distribution.
- Marketing support and RFP/RFQ responses: Prepare collaterals and provide enterprise support by designing bespoke features for specific industry verticals on different applications that could be mounted on blackberry phones. Generated incremental revenues of $1.5M by way of new orders from Top 5 Enterprise customers in the first year. Preparing RFP/RFQ responses by doing cost-benefit analysis and ensuring revenues are generated as per company targets at the desired profitability.
Education
Institute of Management Development & ResearchPune, India
MBA from International Business
07.2003
Fergusson CollegePune, India
Bachelor of Science from Physics And Electronics
07.2001
Skills
- Leadership and stakeholder alignments
- Leading people through example, empathy
- Problem solving through strategic thinking
- Decision making based on ideation, validation and proto-typing
- Data analysis and anecdote based prioritization
- CX definition and user-centric design
Timeline
Principal Product Manager
AWS
02.2016 - Current
Lead Product Specialist
BluJay Solutions
02.2010 - 07.2011
Global Account Manager
Vodafone Idea
03.2008 - 08.2009
Sr. Analyst - Product and Pricing
FedEx
01.2006 - 01.2016
Institute of Management Development & Research
MBA from International Business
Fergusson College
Bachelor of Science from Physics And Electronics