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Snigdha Ganesh

Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Corporate Innovator with 10+ years of global corporate experience spanning California, the Middle East and India. Specialized in customer-centric and operational innovations, driving new idea initiatives for early- stage startups, and established corporate.

Speaker Series:
• Speaker, Global Innovation, March 2024
• Mentor, International Innovator program, Costa Rica, Current- March 2024
• Panel discussion: Exploring responsible Innovation, Fantasy, August 2023
• Non-Traditional Thinking, speaker series, UC, Irvine Antrepreneur Center, May 2023

• Disruptive Innovation Webinar, Easwari Engineering College, 2021
• Panel Discussion on Learning Leadership, Motivaluate Consulting, 2021

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Innovation Manager

City National Bank
Los Angeles, CA
01.2023 - Current
  • Innovation & New Product development
  • Architected an Innovation framework for our digital team, defining deliverables and success criteria through collaborative efforts with various lines of business on innovation initiatives.
  • Identified opportunities to enhance digital adoption, resulting in a 70% reduction in drop-off during the onboarding process.
  • Prioritized ideas for the innovation funnel, achieving a 50% conversion rate from idea generation to implementation. Collaborated cross-functionally with product, design, and technical teams to integrate ideas into the Product Pipeline within agile environments.
  • Conducted comprehensive market research, including client intent analysis, competitive assessments, trend identification, and opportunity analysis within the industry. Presented findings to prioritize features for the product roadmap and strategies.
  • Facilitated brainstorming sessions to foster creative thinking and conducted workshops for the division across online channels.
  • Leveraged Tableau dashboards to visualize product feature gaps, resulting in a 95.83% reduction in silos.
  • Contributed to business development efforts by identifying areas of innovation, strategizing deal loss mitigation, and creating materials for business development and sales teams while managing vendor collaborations.
  • Supported senior management in developing Proof of Concepts for new products and services.
  • Provided ongoing support and guidance throughout the product development cycle.

Innovation Project Manager

American Lending Center
Irvine, CA
09.2022 - 01.2023
  • Design Innovation, Engagement enhancement
  • Collaborated with marketing team to revamp website targeting small business owners, driving awareness and conversions. Implemented revenue-focused changes, to double the conversion potential.
  • Led usability testing, enhancing navigation and onboarding, resulting in reduced call volume.
  • Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.

Business Process Manager

Wirecard Processing FZ LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirate
09.2016 - 12.2020

Operational-Centric Innovation for Efficiency improvements

  • Transformed and designed Target Operating Model (TOM) to harmonize global tools, identifying 37% tool redundancy and saving 5 34 hours quarterly.
  • Supported in evaluating Proof of Concept for setting up a process mining department, including feasibility check, vendor selection, and analyzing use cases for strategic fitment and process maturity.
  • Mobile test lead, for digital banking, end to end software test plan until execution.
    Process Improvement initiatives, BPMN Process modeling, KPI dashboard creation & Management for C-Suite
  • Organized cross-functional teams to evaluate existing business processes and identify areas of improvement.
  • Identified inefficiencies within current business processes and implemented strategies to improve performance.
  • Implemented technology solutions such as workflow automation tools to reduce manual effort involved in completing tasks.

Quality Engineer

Maveric Systems
India
06.2013 - 01.2016
  • Total Quality Management, Lead
  • Test scenario planning, Business need translations & Global Client engagement
  • Defect and Change Management
  • Quality Project Timelines

Education

Masters in Innovation & Entrepreneurship - Business

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
06-2022

Bachelor of Engineering -

Anna University
India
06-2013

Skills

  • Innovation Management
  • Corporate Strategy Development
  • Product Enhancement
  • Product Strategy
  • Design Thinking
  • Company Process Evaluation
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Vendor Relations
  • Idea Funnel and pipeline creation
  • Innovation Culture Building
  • Total Quality Management
  • Operational Innovation
  • Market Need Finding
  • Idea generation & prioritization

Timeline

Innovation Manager

City National Bank
01.2023 - Current

Innovation Project Manager

American Lending Center
09.2022 - 01.2023

Business Process Manager

Wirecard Processing FZ LLC
09.2016 - 12.2020

Quality Engineer

Maveric Systems
06.2013 - 01.2016

Masters in Innovation & Entrepreneurship - Business

University of California, Irvine

Bachelor of Engineering -

Anna University
Snigdha Ganesh