Saurabh Kaushal

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India19 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led multi-cloud protection strategy driving 30% QoQ adoption.
Managed $100M product portfolio, scaling R&D team significantly.
Drove successful Marketplace product for MSPs, generating $55M.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with extensive experience in user experience and strategic roadmaps.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyUser Experience (ux)

Other Skills

A/B TestingAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementCompetitive AnalysisCustomer JourneysDatabasesDesign PatternsEnd User ResearchEnterprise SoftwareGenAIGo-to-Market StrategyIteration/SprintJIRA AgileKanbanLarge Language Models (LLM)

About

A seasoned leader with industry experience spanning across enterprise software development, Product Management, and Delivery Management. Specialties: Functional ------------ - Leading a team of Product Owners and UX designers. - Drive product strategy and roadmap prioritization using the market, competitive, and customer insights - Define and deliver product features/UX, validate with the market, and drive delivery end-to-end. - Aligning solutions as per customers' growth path - Proven expertise in all SDLC phases, Delivery & Product Management - Ability to bridge gaps between Executive Management, Business Communities, and Technologists. - Customer Interviews - Partner and Pre-Sales engagement - Strategic and Design Thinking - Lean Product Development - Setting up R&D center, building teams from scratch, and setting up processes. Technical and Domain ------------------------- - B2B SaaS - CRM, CPQ, Marketplace, Billing - Cybersecurity (Security Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management, FIM, Industrial Security) - Storage (Backup and Archiving) - Cloud (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, SaaS) - Identity management, LDAP, Directory Server - Telecom

Experience

Druva

Principal Product Manager

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Defined multi-cloud protection strategy (S3, RDS, Azure VM, Azure SQL and Blob), aligning GTM and engineering to drive 30% QoQ workload adoption.
Leading the workload protection vertical for NAS, FS, Databases (SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA), Virtualization (VMWare, AHV, Hyper-V).

User Experience (UX)Product StrategyCustomer JourneysProduct MarketingPositioning (Marketing)Strategic Roadmaps+1

Connectwise

Sr. Product Manager

Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 · 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Responsible for $55m Marketplace product for MSPs.
Drove growth for MSPs integration to Marketplace and alleviated MSPs
concern of billing by Reconcile product introduction.

User Experience (UX)Product StrategyUser Interface DesignCustomer JourneysProduct MarketingPositioning (Marketing)+2

Incedo inc.

Director, Product Management and UX

Dec 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

As a Director of Product Management and UX, handling a team of Product Owners and UX engineers and defining product strategy for $100M product portfolio.
Lead the SaaS Business Initiative for the Tripwire Enterprise Product.
Established center processes that scaled Tripwire’s Pune R&D to 150 engineers and reduced delivery cycle by 20%.

User Experience (UX)Product StrategyCustomer JourneysStrategic Roadmaps

Veritas technologies llc

3 roles

Sr. Product Manager

Sep 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Focus on strategy for, Hyper-Converged Software-Defined Storage, AWS, Azure, and OpenStack cloud storage, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR), and SAP HANA
Lead the net new initiative of cloud workloads backups that contributed $10M revenue.

Product StrategyUser Interface DesignCustomer JourneysProduct MarketingPositioning (Marketing)Strategic Roadmaps+1