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Gaurav Joshi

Product Manager

Summary

  • 14+ years experience working in Travel Industry by leading product management, gathering customer feedback and developing products that solve customer issue by aligning with the teams goal, defining implementation strategy, leading digitization journey, identifying opportunities for feature optimization, Mentoring team by definig Agile best practices, and successfully handling multiple cross functional API and UX/UI teams
  • Expert in defining objectives for the team that aligns with the company objectives, setting key results for measuring success, identifying and prioritizing initiatives that help to achieve the key results
  • Led FlyDelta app Check-in experience that was responsible for handling and completing Check-in journey for 80 percent customers
  • Developed Delta Cargo application responsible for generating 1 billion USD from scratch by doing deep market research, competitive analysis that helped to create a more competitive new pricing engine, identifying 3rd party integration opportunities for enhancing customer experience and defining best practices to maximize the team’s output
  • Experience in building agile teams by educating teams on Agile best practices, inventing new processes for optimizing teams outcome and gathering and communicating constant feedback from team members to constantly improve.
  • Experience in communicating with stakeholders by keeping them in loop at all stages of feature development and negotiating on features by providing info on all aspects needed for making a decision

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Product Manager

ADP Technology Services
Atlanta, GA
06.2022 - Current
  • Working on the strategy team for identifying the feature sets needed for developing a specialized HCM solution called WFN simplified for travel industry that’s expected to fetch ~12 percent of the revenue
  • Analyzing existing HCM system and comparing with the new requirements to identify the gap and leverage the existing solutions/feature sets as much as possible
  • Creating product roadmap and defining milestones for the prioritized features
  • Working with cross functional teams to communicate the requirements, expected program timeline and help them to develop project plan to deliver the expected features

Lead Product Manager-Delta Cargo

Delta Airlines
Atlanta, GA
01.2019 - 06.2022
  • Worked on developing a new pricing engine responsible for increasing revenue from half million to a billion dollar that made Delta more competitive and dynamic in the market. Lead initiative for its entire lifecycle from it’s inception to rolling it out to customers
  • Led development of new Truck Planning application aimed at making cargo operation smooth and seamless
  • Introduced industry's first API solution that resulted in revenue to shoot up by 10 percent by allowing third party/vendors to integrate with Cargo's backend system via APIs
  • Led UX/UI team to make user experience consistent across Delta from look and feel perspective

Senior Product Manager- Fly Delta App

Delta Air Lines
Atlanta, GA
09.2014 - 01.2019
  • Led Check-in team for introducing new features aimed at improving customer experience and improving airport operations by reducing the activities to be completed at the airport
  • Collaborated with UX/UI team for improving the application experience by improving existing flows and introducing new feature sets that made app intuitive and removed the dependency on customer experience team
  • Introduced industry's first auto-check in process that improved the onboarding process and help to achieve a Net Promoter Score and CSAT in 90's
  • Led team for introducing new revenue stream like baggage, seats in the pre and post purchase flows

Product Manager- Google Travels

Google Inc.
Mountain View, CA
08.2013 - 08.2014
  • Worked with google flights team and was responsible for defining and refining requirements, developing process flows, collaborating with UX/UI and API teams to develop the product

Product Manager - Revenue Management

Delta Air Lines
Atlanta, GA
09.2011 - 08.2013
  • Led product team responsible for introducing Baggage ancillary fees and fulfilling department of transportation mandate for baggage charges transparency
  • Led collaboration with multiple Business Units for implementing the change by communicating business requirements and developing roadmap for product delivery

Education

Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
07.2011

Skills

  • Design thinking
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Cross Functional Leadership
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Defining Objective and setting Key Results
  • Prioritization techniques
  • Microservices and API
  • CRM Salesforce Application
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Customer Feedback
  • Pendo
  • Tableau

Certifications

CSPO

PMPO

Timeline

Lead Product Manager

ADP Technology Services
06.2022 - Current

Lead Product Manager-Delta Cargo

Delta Airlines
01.2019 - 06.2022

Senior Product Manager- Fly Delta App

Delta Air Lines
09.2014 - 01.2019

Product Manager- Google Travels

Google Inc.
08.2013 - 08.2014

Product Manager - Revenue Management

Delta Air Lines
09.2011 - 08.2013

Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering

University of Southern California
Gaurav Joshi