Ankita Kumari

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led product strategy at Uber, driving significant cost savings.
  • Developed multi-quarter product roadmaps with cross-functional teams.
  • Award-winning engineer recognized for impactful technical solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with strong engineering and stakeholder management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStakeholder ManagementAnalytical SkillsSoftware DevelopmentEngineering

Other Skills

A/B TestingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Backlog ManagementCC++CommunicationCompetitive AnalysisConversation IntelligenceCross-functional CollaborationData AnalysisData EngineeringDevOpsEngineering DesignFeature PrioritizationGenerative AI

About

I build tech solutions that help move business metrics. I wear multiple hats in most of my roles. I have over 7 years of experience of building software under fast paced tech environments. Spent the last 2 years leading Product @ Uber. In my current role, I have developed the product vision and strategy, built a multi quarter product roadmap and recommended strategic initiatives for the upcoming year. I have experience in identifying and prioritizing business opportunities, translating them into technical requirements; and working very closely with engineering to build the solutions. I also have extensive experience of stakeholder management, working with business teams across multiple countries in most of my roles.

Experience

Clari

Senior Product Manager

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Conversation IntelligenceWorkflow AutomationSalesforce.comGenerative AIRevenue ForecastingProduct Management+1

Uber

2 roles

Product Manager 2

Nov 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Analytical SkillsBacklog ManagementMarket ResearchProduct LaunchProblem SolvingProduct Adoption+1

Product, Engineering @ Uber

Aug 2019Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Product Management (Temporary Assignment); Jan 2021-June 2021
  • Product Manager for Phone Channel; Worked with 8 engineers across 3 teams and multiple Community Operations teams globally, to launch features which enable Users to contact Uber through phone channel, while keeping it cost efficient for Uber; Expertise in cross functional stakeholder management and writing Product Requirements Docs.
  • Built a three quarter product roadmap with several features to address KPIs for Phone Channel for the complete year.
  • Setting strategy for expansion of Phone, and intersection with other channels of communication.
  • Worked with stakeholders across all 4 mega-regions to launch phone enablement features leading to projected cost savings of $10M USD.
  • Launched several features to improve customer experience for Uber Earners.
  • Software Engineering; Aug 2019-Dec 2020; July 2021-Present
  • Backend Engineer for the Customer Obsession org; Designed, developed and implemented technical solutions for omni-channel experience of customer support @ Uber; Worked with Product and Business stakeholders to launch features; Expertise in writing engineering design documents
  • Led the development of features for reducing Phone Contact Rate thus driving cost savings of $8M USD. Won Technology Award (awarded to one team per quarter for delivering most significant technical impact) for delivering the feature.
  • Won the Velocity Award (awarded to one team per quarter for exemplifying a bias for action) for building features to support customers as part of the COVID readiness program.
  • Established the scrum processes in the team and was the scrum master for the first 6 months since inception
  • Chairperson, Women-in-Tech Blr Chapter; Jan 2021-Present
  • Organized multiple events and workshops to engage with Women in Tech @ Uber
  • Ran initiative for WiT members to seek guidance on navigating the promotion process
Analytical SkillsBacklog ManagementMarket ResearchProduct LaunchProblem SolvingProduct Adoption+2

Joveo

Engineering @ Joveo | Helped scale from seed to Pre-series B

Feb 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Joined as the 9th engineer in an early age startup; Wore multiple hats (Devops, Front-End, Backend and Product) as we took the company from Seed Funding to Pre-series B
  • Built micro-services to scale the data streaming platform to handle 21M+ events a month
  • Built a Container Management System to handle creation, injection and traffic management for the various pixels into different Applicant Tracking Systems.
  • Integrated various Job Publishing Platforms into the systems and owned end to end, bringing in ARR of $2M USD
  • Built a data ingestion pipeline through which Job Publishers reported metrics into our platform and owned the KPI to improve accuracy of reporting upto 95%+.
  • Set up and maintained the continuous deployment pipeline thus bringing down the deployment effort and time significantly
  • Built a platform to improve developer efficiency by enabling automated sandbox creation for testing major features, thus bringing down the number of bugs in production.
  • Built monitoring and alerting systems to improve system resilience
Analytical SkillsBacklog ManagementMarket ResearchProduct LaunchProblem SolvingProduct Adoption+2

Amazon

Engineering @ Amazon

Mar 2016Dec 2016 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • SDE-I for cross functional SWAT team which owned development of features for the Indian marketplace
  • Worked on Notifications Systems to enable customers to track various states of their order when the order gets delayed thus reducing the contact rate
  • As part of the parent team Connex, maintained the Contact-us platform for Amazon Retail Website.
  • Improved operational efficiency by integrating tracing into the contact-us platform

Xenovus, inc.

Software Developer

Jul 2015Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Early engineer @ Xenovus, a stealth-mode, incubated startup, working to build a collaborative communications platform for sales and business teams
  • Helped develop ios app Backflipt for the company in its stealth mode.
  • Improved analytics by building an internal dashboard for user data which monitored live sign ups and user details
  • Improved developer productivity by introducing task tracking in the startup. Setup and managed private instance of Phabricator software for orchestrating task workflows within the team.

Wikimedia foundation

Google Summer of Code

Jun 2015Aug 2015 · 2 mos · India

  • Worked on a project for integration of language proofing inside the Wikipedia editor.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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