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Archana Shukla

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of product management experience.
  • Authored 60+ technical blogs and SAP press book.
  • Recipient of prestigious national awards in product management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with extensive experience in customer engagement and technical support.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness StrategyCustomer EngagementTechnical SupportProgram ManagementQuality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesSoftware DevelopmentProduct Design

Other Skills

API DesignBloggerBusiness ProcessCloud ComputingCollaborationCommunicationCommunity OutreachContent StrategyCore JavaCustomer AdoptionDocumentationEngineeringFeature ImplementationFioriIntegration

About

• Over 20 years of experience in leading full-spectrum of product management initiatives from defining product roadmap, prioritising features to outbound go-to-market strategy, enablement and adoptions across diverse markets, which also includes strategic projects. Skilled in building trusted relationship with numerous large customers and GSS partners in APJ, EMEA and Americas. • Seasoned communicator and thought leader, delivering executive demos to board members, SAP leadership teams and customer CIOs, CXOs and CTOs. • Conducted multiple workshops, webinars and podcasts. Speaker at multiple international conferences and community events. Strong leadership in coaching and mentoring colleagues within and outside SAP. • Recognized in the industry circles as author of 60+ technical blogs, multiple magazine articles and SAP press book on SAP Build Process Automation. • Recipient of several prestigious national awards for product management and as Women In Technology member.

Experience

Sap

5 roles

Senior Director - Product Management

Promoted

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Play a key role in shaping overall product strategy and direction as senior director and business architect in product management. Work with customers, partners and stakeholders to understand the need of business and identify opportunities for improvements, work closely with product teams to guide them on the product readiness, drive co-innovations topics with other organisations, define business solutions and scenarios for product developments and assisting other product managers in enabling core capabilities and value streams.
  • Lead business strategy and ownership of SAP Build content in SAP Store which contains workflows, business rules, RPA Bots, build apps, build code and different other services, collaborate with strategic customers, partners and various LoBs, collect and derive use cases for content production, define content strategy to increase content adoption, marketing and awareness.
Product ManagementBusiness StrategyCollaborationContent Strategy

Director - Product Management

Promoted

Apr 2020Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Driving partner activities which involves enablement and engagements with GSS and non-GSS partners, working on strategies to strengthen the partner eco-system, collaborating with partner organizations to expand the awareness with bootcamps, hackathon etc. and managing programs involving content and solutions developed by partners
  • Leading customer engagements and strategising customer adoptions to increase reach across different regions, understanding the adoption & upsell challenges and working with the executives to strengthen the brand, work closely with sales/presales/CoE for deal support, give guidance, technical support and expert product advices to consultants and customers as they work their solutions.
Partner EngagementCustomer AdoptionSales SupportTechnical GuidanceProduct ManagementCustomer Engagement

Senior Manager, Product Management

Promoted

Jun 2014Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Contribute in building strong reputation of the products through numerous SAP blogs, presentations, lectures and hands-on workshops, together with successful customer interactions, workshops, PoCs and many such enablement activities.
  • Provide expert technical support and consultations to SAP PreSales, Sales, CoE, Solution Experience and other services organizations. I contribute regularly in internal and external product marketing spaces like JAM, SDN, YouTube videos, customer success stories etc. and also manage few of these spaces to keep our stakeholders updated with the latest and greatest of our products.
  • I am part of the goto-market team of business process management services and work towards developing promotional and marketing materials like showcase scenarios, Bill-of-Materials, videos, customer facingb presentations, demoes and other related content. Product showcases and support given to the field has been widely appreciated from sales/pre-sales teams.
  • Regular engagement with customers and partners, taking numerous product workshops across the globe, giving technical guidance, devising adoption strategies and lead various others goto market activities of APJ, ANZ and Greater China region.
  • Over the years. I have gained expert and proficient knowledge in Business Process Management services like Workflow, Business Rules, Process Visibility, Inbox, together with on-premise products like NW BPM, BRM, SAP Process Integration, SAP HANA, HANA Rules Framework, Operational Process Intelligence products and solutions.
Technical SupportProduct MarketingWorkshopsCustomer EngagementProduct Management

Program Management

Feb 2013May 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • As Program Quality Accountable, I demonstrated leadership and engineering skills taking complete responsibility of product quality where I successfully conducted Q-gates, Assessment Days, Exploratory Testing Days, Customer validations and other product standards testing which had huge impact on overall quality of product and release cycles. All this while, I exhibited successful collaboration and coordination with test centers and assembly teams for product patches, product translation, and customer validation, together with extensive reviews of Product Documentation and other scripts
  • Coordinated with 7 development teams across India and Germany to improve quality by introducing new processes and guidelines that yielded beneficial results and was later adapted for future releases - showcasing excellent ability to address and implement core processes and strategic plans for program success and benefits.
Quality AssuranceCollaborationProcess ImprovementProgram Management

Associate Manager

Oct 2007Feb 2013 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • In role of : Scrum Master, Product Expert, Product Standard Expert, SAP SQL and HANA Trainer, SAP Interviewer, Mentor and Technical Blogger. I managed multiple projects from conception through completion spanning from design to development of many important components and features in the SAP Business Rules Management products – which include NW BRM and Rules On HANA. Administered delivery of several release of products, with versatility in roles and have proven experience of collaborating with program management team to expand the scrum practices and processes.
  • Conducted 6 training sessions on SQL and SAP HANA Application Modeling. Speaker sessions at SAP TechEd, DKOM and several internal events. Mentored colleagues who newly join the team and others seeking for additional guidance with agile practices, scrum master roles and responsibilities etc. Engaged in over 100 interviews as technical and non-technical interviewer - at various levels in SAP campus drives, LoB and non-LoB interviews within SAP. Over 25 technical blogs and videos on the product – for which I was chosen, among the 4 ambassador, for Bloggers@SAP event in SAP across India
  • Certifications: Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAP Interviewer, In-Memory Data Management certification from OpenHPI, Agile Software Engineering
Scrum ManagementMentoringTechnical BloggingTrainingProduct ManagementAgile Methodologies

Yasu technologies

Senior Software Developer

Jul 2004Oct 2007 · 3 yrs 3 mos · India

  • Contributed in product design, API, SDD, SRS, feature implementation, testing and documentation of QuickRules 4.0 and QuickRules Analytics
  • Youngest team to have released a full brown product QuickRules 4.0 within a period of 6 months. Here, I was completely responsible for one component which involved architectural design and Ux design, code implementation, and quality testing
API DesignFeature ImplementationDocumentationSoftware DevelopmentProduct Design

Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Product Strategy

Dec 2022Present

Hasso Plattner Institute

Business Process and Decision Management

Jun 2016Present

Engineering Institute

BTech — Computer Science Engineering

Jan 2004Present

Sheiling House

ICSE

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