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SARA SIDDIQUI

Product Manager
California,PA

Summary

Strategic and results-driven Senior Product Manager with 10 years of experience leading product initiatives from concept to launch. Skilled in driving cross-functional alignment, defining roadmaps, and delivering user-centric solutions that enhance experience and impact. Strong advocate for Agile methodologies with a proven ability to balance customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Sr Product Manager - People and Labor Experience

Taco Bell Corporate
08.2023 - Current
  • Manage roadmaps of proprietary restaurant management platform to optimize workforce management across 7,000+ restaurants; partnered with legal teams to integrate labor law compliance into automated scheduling, enhancing team experience while reducing premium pay penalties and associated labor costs.
  • Streamlining integrations from ATS/ HRIS of over 65000 restaurant employees by replacing legacy file based integrations with APIs resulting in over a 90% improvement in their availability and provisioning
  • Manage and enhance the HR Middleware platform in collaboration with the development team; onboarded 10+ vendors within 3 months with zero errors, drive continuous improvements via feedback loops, and reduce incidents through proactive alert monitoring.
  • Streamlining Agile processes within teams, providing guidance on backlog management, sprint execution, mentoring on agile best practices, resulting in a 40% increase in team velocity.

Product Manager - HCM

Workday
05.2021 - 05.2023
  • Spearheaded ideation, development, and launch of 4 key features in Workday’s flagship HCM Core product, boosting user engagement and reducing administrative task time.
  • Improved user experience and data accuracy in the Change Job feature through rule-based configurations, cutting transaction times and enhancing reliability.
  • Delivered a high-impact COVID-19 feature enabling vaccination and test record tracking, adopted by 700+ customers.
  • Led efforts to tailor routing configurations for overlapping jobs to penetrate Canada’s Federal market.
  • Maintained proactive production support with global Customer Support Analysts, ensuring rapid issue resolution, minimizing downtime, and reducing technical debt backlog.

Product Owner/ UI Developer - Trading App

Barclays
01.2015 - 01.2021
  • Led the end-to-end development of a trading platform and a profit & loss reporting tool, modernising legacy systems with Angular, HTML, and WPF.
  • Boosted productivity by 70%, achieved 80% UI adoption in 3 months, and improved visual appeal for internal trading operations.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Pace University
New York, NY
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering

NED University of Engineering And Technology
Karachi, Pakistan
05.2001 -

Skills

Communication and Stakeholder Management Vendor Management Cross- functional Collaboration Offshore Collaboration Data Integrations HCM Agile Methodologies JIRA Confluence AWS Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) SQL Software Development with HTML, CSS, Angular, C#, WPF

Certification

AI Solution Product Manager Certification, AI Product Institute

Timeline

Sr Product Manager - People and Labor Experience

Taco Bell Corporate
08.2023 - Current

Product Manager - HCM

Workday
05.2021 - 05.2023

Product Owner/ UI Developer - Trading App

Barclays
01.2015 - 01.2021

Master of Science - Computer Science

Pace University
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering

NED University of Engineering And Technology
05.2001 -

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