Ashwini Kulkarni

Product Strategy, Innovation and Delivery

• Orchestrated $24M RFP demo development efforts through cross-functional collaboration
• Managed strategic $14M contract roadmap, resolving team conflicts through facilitative leadership
• Spearheaded internal "Training Thursdays" to foster sales-product transparency and elevate pitches
• Introduced and championed Scrum ceremonies, embedding agile best practices across teams
• Pioneered product documentation overhaul creating user guides, ERDs, and process flows as sources of truth
• Enhanced development by conducting market research, competitive analysis, and customer feedback incorporation
• Streamlined product lifecycle management for efficient launches leveraging A/B testing and usage metrics

Product Vision and Requirements Management

• Fostered customer-centric culture through transparent product demos to Client Success teams
• Conducted gap analysis to identify improvement opportunities aligned with product strategy
• Coordinated UX,dev, PM and leadership to flawlessly execute roadmap priorities and requirements
• Championed collaborative problem-solving and data-driven decision making

Quality Assurance

• Served as QA tester ensuring exceptional user experience on new releases
• Designed and executed comprehensive test plans for features and product updates

Product Strategy and Lifecycle Leadership

• Spearheaded end-to-end product lifecycle for project - ideation, strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and successful launch empowering clients with seamless data connectivity
• Crafted comprehensive initiative briefs articulating product vision, goals, scope and deliverables to drive strategic execution
• Developed customer-centric support documentation enabling users to self-troubleshoot, reducing reliance on support channels

Innovation through Collaborative Processes

• Orchestrated dynamic story mapping and ideation sessions with product managers and stakeholders, fostering diverse perspectives and comprehensive requirements gathering
• Implemented Jira refinement board streamlining workflow and cross-functional collaboration
• Led structured refinement sessions facilitating backlog prioritization and clarification

Data-Driven Product Management

• Leveraged data analysis and customer feedback tools for quantitative/qualitative insights to guide strategic feature prioritization
• Managed knowledge acquisition initiatives sourcing educational materials to drive professional growth and continuous learning

Product Delivery and Agile Processes

• Proactively spearheaded and optimized weekly Scrum stand-ups to expedite team productivity by addressing resource constraints and fostering seamless coordination

Technical Product Management

• Led and executed successful adoption of low-code platform solutions (utilizing Angular) to drive operational efficiency
• Collaborated with senior developers to strategically implement and optimize documentation best practices, driving enhanced product clarity and seamless development workflows