Apr 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the development and management of all Assessment Integrity initiatives at HackerRank
• > Leading HackerRank's ‘Assessment Integrity' product line, which is essential for ensuring the trust of almost 3,000 customers in the accuracy of over 5 million assessments conducted annually on the platform
• > Have spearheaded 4 products so far- Assessment Integrity, Candidate experience, Code execution service and Soft-Skills assessment
• > Pioneered & led the development of the “New AI plagiarism detection” model V2- the sole AI code plagiarism feature in the industry, being used by almost 800 customers, having more than 400% better precision rate than the market benchmark
• > Partnered with AI/ML and engineering teams on key AI initiatives, aligning senior leadership on AI strategy; liaised with the legal team to design & launch solutions compliant across regions & led external bias audits to get the solutions certified on “Responsible AI usage"
• > Ideated & rolled out three new webcam proctoring implementations, empowering 40+ large enterprise customers to identify 10% more candidates indulging in suspicious activity using their camera
• > Spearheaded the research & design of a 0-to-1 product for evaluating candidates' behavioral skills, managing a cross-functional team of 15 across 10 focus areas. Launched the MVP and later
• made the strategic decision to roll back the product due to shifting market dynamics & internal financial prioritisation
• > Supervised the code execution service & events team at HackerRank to bring 98% of attempts on the platform to the latest version of runtimes, overseeing 500,000 candidate attempts across 6 months with 2X concurrency capability

Apr 2019 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India/ Stuttgart, Germany

• Inducted in the distinguished flagship JMP program of Bosch- a global Management program aimed to accelerate a career path in leadership.
• Responsible for New product development, Product strategy, Identifying whitespaces in product market, Market sensing, Product road-mapping & design, Implementation of agile product lifecycle, Customer success & Incubation of products in new-age software driven technologies.
• > MARKET DEFINITION- Defining Product vision, Market gap analysis, Competitor analysis, Customer identification & segmentation, Market entry assessment.
• > CUSTOMER ONBOARDING- Customer interviews, Creating user cohorts, User journey mapping, Pain point identification, Customer Archetyping.
• > PRODUCT DESIGN- Feature design, UX design principles, Information architecture, Site mapping, Feature prioritization, PRD, Themes wireframing.
• > IMPLEMENTATION- Roadmap planning, Agile execution, A/B testing, Usability tests & experiments, MVP delivery, User story & acceptance criteria
• > ANALYTICS- Defining Product & Business metrics, North-star formulation, Cohort analysis, Dashboard tracking.
• > GROWTH- Product market fit assessment, Focus on user retention, Customer success management,
• > PRODUCT STRATEGY- Business model canvassing, Hypothesis validation, Investment proposals, Stakeholder management, Product asset strategy
• > GTM & INCUBATION- Go/ No-go entry decision, Collaboration strategy (Domain player/ start up), Pricing strategy, Customer value delivery

Apr 2018 – May 2018 · 1 mo · Bangalore

• As the only Product Management intern in the firm, got an opportunity to be at the fore-front of Ideation and Strategy-orientation of the Flagship product of the firm- worth 450 Million $. In this short stint of two months, not only did I have my phase-wise intended goals, but I also took upon the task of identifying both Short-term-curable and long-term-product betterment opportunities, based on an Overwhelming amount of Customer feedback information.
• Spontaneous data crunching based on most granular information I could delve in, I presented fair amount of Problem-cause vs potential strategies summaries to the senior leadership- both Indian and International. Most importantly, I gave what was the most significant attribute I was hired for- A fresh perspective on the Products and eliminating Customer-Pain Points.
• This experience made me learn the art of coordination between different teams and sub-teams and how small observations can translate into future Product feature implementations/ amendments.

Jul 2013 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• The long journey- first of my corporate life was, in a nutshell- a blend of technical skills and Consulting know-how. From starting as an Application developer in advanced Microsoft technologies, I moved to being an owner of one or more bigger modules with a separate client-set and cross-functional teams.
• From Applications to analytics and Business Intelligence, the transition was seamlessly smooth, made by the trust enlisted in me by the Senior Management and the wonderful bunch of seniors I had surrounding me. In a firm of such stature, handling International clients, working across time zones and in more than 3 teams simultaneously are skills which become intrinsic if one has the right work-ethic.
• Being handpicked to represent the team into a new domain to leading projects, being single point of contact made me mature and I ingrained the responsibility part of Work. Translating the business requirements to technical requirements and being in dual roles at time, seeing the bigger picture were the highlights I picked up at the end of this exciting journey.