Product leader with 16+ years of Proven expertise in Product Management, Strategy and Digital transformation across industries such as Fin-tech, Health-tech, Retail, e-commerce , HR-Tech, Logistics, Pharma and Media
Customer-oriented hands-on Product management skills for entire product life-cycle: Market research, Competitive analysis, Conceptualization, Product strategy, Prioritization, Roadmap, Product Development, A/B Testing , Marketing Strategy, Launch, User-experience, Adoption, Engagement, Data Analysis, Business Analysis, Channel enablement and international expansion
Experience of building B2B and B2C, e-commerce and SaaS Products (web and Mobile both) using Agile methodologies
Problem-solving and Data-driven Decision Making skills with established management experience
Experience of building,leading and mentoring geographically distributed global, across-functional teams - Product, Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Success- cultivate the culture of innovation and Product mindset
Thought leadership with proven ability to thrive in a high-growth and ambiguous environment and foster strong collaborative relationships with CXOs across startups and fortune 50 global organizations
NEW technology use cases: Data science, AI- Machine learning, Generative AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain
Led 4 Product Managers and 15+ engineering team to build fintech solution for MSME market - Financial, Payment, Business, Credit services and data-driven insights
Improved the customer onboarding experience by implementing automation for KYC process- improved the automatic KYC from 20 % to 70%
Improved the customer and support Agent experience by implementing CRM solution and implemented AI/ML based ticket routing automation and chatbot automation - increased the ticket deflection upto 50%
Launched product in India and onboarded 50k customers within 3 month
Launched new product open access for UK market and got ~1000 customers within 1 month using A/B testing
Created strategic roadmap for one app and one platform for scalability and international expansion (API-first, flutter), reducing the product development effort by 50%.
Head of Product (ekincare-Healthtech, India)
02.2021 - 09.2021
Led 5 Product Managers and 30+ engineering and design team to build AI-based health and wellness platform for B2B2C (Android, iOS, Web) - providing Health-check services, doctor tele consultation, pharmacy, health coach program,mental wellness, gym & fitness and predictive analytics dashboard
Built the Product team ground up and set up the Agile process for Product and cross-functional team to support the increased client base by 300% and end user by 250%
Strategized and launched Covid-vaccination feature to support 400+ clients and 2M lives across 200+ cities in India -grew revenue by 400%
Tracked and Improved the product adoption (90%) and engagement (from 13% to 40%) by introducing loyalty and Rewards system within 1 month
Improved the app rating from 3.3 to 4.4 within 2 months and improved rating across services lines to 4+
Scaled the doctor consultation service to support increased surge of 6X, reduced the response time
Launched the industry-first white label app for Insurance company providing health benefit services- jumped 300% engagement on the app.
Built next generation cloud-first API-first retail Point of Sale(POS) Product to bring innovation, unique user experience and operational excellence across grocery, fuel, pharmacy and quick serve restaurant(QSR) segment
Created sales funnel of $209m (and $10m for 2020) recurring revenue under SaaS model across direct and channel customers and created strategy to enable Channel partnership
Own end-to-end customer experience and Innovation strategy to provide omni-channel experience across touchpoints (B2B and B2C both) e-Commerce ,POS, mobile, self-service and for Payments, Inventory, merchandising and Loyalty & Promotion
Envisioned best-in-class AI-ML enabled 'NCR Analytics' product (Looker/GCP) to transition Retailers from Descriptive to Prescriptive Analytics
Created international growth strategy for EMEA and Canada by doing Market Research and Analysis
Create competitive attack plan against competitors to win-back old customers and win new customers.
Assistant Director-Product & Strategy (Ministry of Shipping, India)
04.2018 - 08.2019
Managed 50+ cross-functional team to build a cloud-based new product Port Community System(PCS) as single window digital platform for end-to-end Logistic supply chain (web and Mobile application: android &iOS, API integration, Payment gateway integration with 20 banks for B2B and B2C transaction ) (Complete product life-cycle from conceptualization to release including product road-map)
Led Marketing (digital & offline) activity by onboarding 27 different stakeholders on New product platform and increased the registration by 80% within 3 months
Worked with 20 banks (Razorpay, ICICI, HDFC, Axis Bank, SBI etc) to integrate Payment aggregator solution for B2B and B2C payment transactions and achieved 100% paperless transaction
Launched new product feature e-Delivery order, e-Invoice and e-Payment for Order-to-cash module and enhanced user experience, simultaneously reduced the overall process time by 70%
Set up customer support service center of 15 members; reduced the overall Response time and resolution time by 80%
Streamlined revenue generation through data monetization in port sector using the AI-ML based predictive analysis and providing real time tracking of containers.
Group Product Manager (NBCUniversal Media LLC, USA)
01.2016 - 03.2023
Built Rewards and Recognition System (web & mobile) for global workforce, improved employee engagement from 60% to 90%, employee satisfaction score from 7 to 9, HR-Tech product
Built Mobile app to manager Universal studio entry pass and monitor the foot traffic at studio theme park.
Lead Product Manager (Whirlpool Corporation, USA )
05.2013 - 01.2023
Designed Successful web and Mobile myHR Portal for 100k+ whirlpool Employees and integrated with other solution to make it one stop platform, HR-Tech product
Built Whirlpool mobile app to connect with smart appliance to control and monitor the appliances.
Product Manager (IBM , USA & India)
11.2005 - 05.2023
Conceptualized the idea, Conducted User interviews and Designed and developed a product with release plan, market validated the product- Dynamic interface and payroll comparison tool, patented and used by IBM for various project wins; Tool reduces development time by 70%
Managed Digital Transformation for fortune 50 companies (Kraft Foods, Mondelez, Bristol Myer's Squibb, Merck, P&G, Bradford, Nestle) and managed portfolio of $10m
Worked on Global HR Payroll solution -SaaS products- SAP/Successfactor/Workday/ADP.
Education
Masters of Business Administration - Strategy & Marketing
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Business Analytics, Financial Accounting, Economics- Harvard Business School, USA: High Honors
Certified Product Manager - Pragmatic Leaders, USA, Data Driven Product Management- Go-practice
PMP- Project Management Professional, USA | CSM- Certified ScrumMaster | ITIL- IT Service Management, USA
Strategic Management in Logistics -Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Tools & Technology:Amazon Web Service(AWS), Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Azure, MS SQL, NO SQL, R, Python, REST API , JIRA, TFS, Asana, Mo-engage, Apxor, Netcore, Google analytics, Click-up, Mural, MIRO, Figma, Balsamiq, Looker, Tableau, Qlikview, Power BI, Service-now, Kustomer, Zensdesk, Freshdesk, Snowflake, retool, HPQC, SAP, SuccessFactor, Workday, ABAP, JAVA, Oracle, Kronos,, Taleo, Dell Boomi,Trello,.net,Flutter, Typeform
Accomplishments
Whirlpool People Excellence Award by CEO for living whirlpool values and inspiring performance in others
Eight Whirlpool Bravo, One IBM Bravo and Three Thank You awards for leading critical projects and process improvements winning client confidence (highest CSR 10/10)
Article published and interviewed by Global magazine for 'Ease of doing business' and 'Port Community System'
Mentor @ Pragmatic Leaders and ADPLIST US - Mentor mid-senior level professional to transition and grow into Product Management
Product Talks at leading Business Schools- IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Visakhapatnam and Product School