CLAUDIA CHANDRA
Belmont,USA
Summary
Dynamic Chief Product Officer with a proven track record driving product growth. Expert in B2B SaaS and AI/ML integration, I excel in innovation leadership and building high-performing teams, consistently delivering strategic product visions that enhance customer adoption and market penetration.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Product Officer
Honeywell
Houston, TX
04.2024 - Current
- Lead the HCI Business Enterprise, a ~$400M enterprise software and SaaS business comprising of Process Automation, Workforce Competency, Operations Excellence, and Reliability Asset Performance Management portfolio.
- Define and drive the vision for unification, cloud, AI/ML, workflow automation, agent orchestration, and vertical expansion strategy to increase the three-year revenue CAGR from 5% to 15%.
- Accelerate AI/ML and embedded persona-based Agentic AI for advanced analytics, process control, reliability and operations management applications with an industrial data & analytics platform.
- Inspire and drive customer co-innovation.
- Lead the transformation from a perpetual to a recurring revenue (ARR) business, and enable 380% growth in value-added After Market Services.
- Optimize investments in high growth markets and define path to EOL or 3rd party licensing for lower growth products.
- Drive market research, product management, and UX discipline for new product introductions.
- Build and mentor team.
Chief Product Officer
Rockwell Automation
San Jose, CA
05.2022 - 09.2023
- Led the Business Unit with P&L responsibility for Industrial Data, AI, Edge Platform, and AI applications portfolio.
- Grew the 4 pillars of the product leadership team.
- Spearheaded the vision and delivery of the data and edge platform for internal SaaS and industry applications, as well as for external customers and partners.
- Established key KPIs and product telemetry to improve the customer's journey.
- Achieved 20% Y-Y portfolio revenue growth.
- Defined the growth strategy and vision for closed-loop edge-to-cloud AI applications to deliver autonomous operations & controls in predictive maintenance, production, quality, and energy optimization.
- Aligned across 3 divisions: software, lifecycle services, and intelligent devices to deliver AI-enabled intelligent devices and increase software revenue growth.
- Delivered common cloud services (tenant provisioning & management, identity and entitlement management, and product-led growth) for Rockwell’s FactoryTalk Hub and Marketplace – the central hub for all cloud offerings.
- Enabled 20 cloud services.
- Identified M&A and acceleration opportunities to complement organic growth.
- Sponsored key strategic partnerships.
Chief Product Officer
Rockwell Automation
San Jose, CA
11.2021 - 06.2022
- Served as part of the executive leadership team.
- Led the 30+ product team including product management and marketing, product-led growth, and Ux for the Fiix Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Asset Performance Management (APM) SaaS portfolio.
- Introduced the first set of innovative applied AI offerings to market, including Work Order Insights, Parts Forecaster, and Asset Risk Predictor.
- Defined the product strategy and vision for going up market and expanding to the APM space.
- Developed prioritization framework for addressing applied AI use cases across plant asset management, work order efficiency, parts inventory optimization, field service management, technician management, capital and warranty management.
- Improved team bench strength and development process discipline to achieve delivery predictability and visibility across teams.
- Drove and fostered product led growth (PLG) and freemium initiative.
- Achieved 50+% Y-Y revenue growth rate.
- Fiix by Rockwell Automation - the leading AI-driven maintenance management platform that helps over 3300+ mid-market to enterprise customers connect factory floor IoT solutions, parts suppliers, and corporate IT systems.
Senior Director, Product Management
Oracle
Redwood City, CA
04.2020 - 11.2021
- Led the product management team responsible for the cloud-native data management services (data integration, data prep, data catalog, pipeline orchestration) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Drove focused product strategy and delivery of Oracle Cloud Data Services – product definition, positioning, monetization, pricing, and prioritization framework.
- Launched the new Data Integration and Data Catalog services.
- Acquired and retained first hundred enterprise customers and achieved 90+% first year revenue growth.
- Defined common data management platform to enable Oracle Cloud Data & AI Services, Integration & Streaming Services, as well as Oracle SaaS - including Fusion and NetSuite analytics and AI apps.
Vice President, Product Management
Informatica
Redwood City, CA
06.2017 - 02.2020
- Developed vision and roadmap as well as systems and processes to execute cloud product releases, as multiple Informatica products transitioned to the cloud with micro-services architecture.
- Led across Business Unit Product leadership in a matrixed environment.
- Orchestrated cross-functional teams to deliver AI-enabled runtime and design time diagnostics, recommendations, and analytics for customers.
- Drove streamlined UX for cross services workflows.
- Aligned internal business functions to deliver product analytics to improve the customer journey.
- Positioned across functions (IT, Customer Success, Support, Sales, Field Training, Product Marketing) to drive product led growth and improve go-to-market processes, lead quality, and trial conversions, increasing subscription revenue growth and retention.
Vice President, Product Management and Marketing
Informatica
Redwood City, CA
04.2009 - 06.2017
- Built and led product management & marketing for the Data Security and Information Lifecycle Management Business Unit with a product portfolio in 4 different markets.
- Drove innovation, M&A targets, go-to-market strategy, and secured partnerships.
- Led product vision, strategy, and roadmap across the Data Security Intelligence, Data Protection, Test Data Management, and Data Archive product lines, expanding the addressable market with database coverage, new cloud, and big data-focused offerings (80% revenue growth in the first year of acquisition), as well as vertically focused solutions for healthcare, achieving an 18% CAGR in the last 5 years.
- Grew from $20 million to approximately $100 million in revenue and hundreds of new enterprise customers.
- Strategically led a global, high-performing team of product managers, working with R&D, UX, product marketing, and sales on strategic new product introductions.
- Built and drove a strong Customer Advisory Board to provide product feedback.
- Supervised the development of Informatica Secure@Source, an innovative, data-focused security intelligence software that delivers enterprise visibility and control on sensitive data risk, enabling customers to better prioritize security investments. Secure@Source discovers and classifies sensitive data, tracks its movement, incorporates the combination of rules and AI/ML to detect anomalous activities and orchestrate data protection actions.
- Defined and validated customer needs, and brought to market the new Data Security Intelligence product (11 category and Grand Winner in 2017, 9 category and Grand Winner in 2016, and Gold Medal Winner for new security product in 2015 from the Infosec Product Guide), marking Informatica's entry into the Data Security market.
- Grew the customer base from early adopters to a hundred.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence)
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CAMaster of Science (MS) & Bachelor of Science (BS) - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence)
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CAMaster of Science (MS) - Construction Engineering & Management
Stanford University
Stanford, CASkills
- B2B SaaS
- Cloud services
- AI/ML integration
- Data analytics
- Digital platform
- Data Security
- P&L management
- Customer insights and adoption
- Innovation leadership
- Prioritization and product roadmap
- User experience & research
- Market penetration
- Go-to-market strategy
- Pricing and packaging
- Sales enablement
- Building and leading teams
- Deep business and technical acumen
- Cross-team influencer
- Systems and processes
- Articulating product strategy and vision
- Analytical
- Design and creative thinking
- M&A strategy
Websites
Certification
Certified Information Systems & Security Professional (CISSP), ISC2
Additional Professional Experience
- Advisory Board Member, Modal Learning – EdTech Platform for Employees, 2024-Current
- Advisory Board Member, OptimEyes.AI – AI for NextGen GRC, 2022-Current
- Director, Product Management, Arkivio, Inc. – Information Lifecycle Management
- Senior Product Manager | Engineering Manager, Informix Software, Inc. – Data Warehousing & OLAP
Timeline
Chief Product Officer
Honeywell
04.2024 - Current
Chief Product Officer
Rockwell Automation
05.2022 - 09.2023
Chief Product Officer
Rockwell Automation
11.2021 - 06.2022
Senior Director, Product Management
Oracle
04.2020 - 11.2021
Vice President, Product Management
Informatica
06.2017 - 02.2020
Vice President, Product Management and Marketing
Informatica
04.2009 - 06.2017
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence)
University of California Berkeley
Master of Science (MS) & Bachelor of Science (BS) - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence)
University of California Berkeley
Master of Science (MS) - Construction Engineering & Management
Stanford University