Vaishali Sangtani

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Decade of experience in technology product management.
Expert in web performance and cloud security solutions.
Proven track record in driving product growth and market strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in SaaS and Utilities industries.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Product MarketingWeb PerformanceProduct ManagementAdvanced Metering InfrastructureSmart Grid

Other Skills

AMIAPI protectionAnalyst RelationsBehavior analyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyBusiness metrics monitoringClient EngagementCloud SecurityCompetitive AnalysisCompetitive IntelligenceCompetitive Marketing StrategiesCustomer AcquisitionDevOpsDigital Marketing

About

I’ve been managing technology products for about a decade across – India (Australia & Middle east), United States and Asia Pacific Japan regions. 5 yrs in USA as Product Manager in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Wireless RF networks & Industrial IoT for Utilities domains; Identifying strategic product opportunities, leading product roadmaps, driving the go-to-market, launch and owning P&L for products from cradle to grave. Currently accelerating Akamai's Web performance & cloud security business in Asia as Product Marketing Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan. Particularly for Akamai's Web Performance management solutions across various industry verticals – commerce, financial services and enterprises. Firm believer in staying hungry for progressive professional & personal growth. Consciously and passionately seeking opportunities to learn something new every day and bringing myself to 'do things I think I CANNOT do. Other than work, I enjoy my time with my 4 yr old, scuba dive around the world and strive to keep my countries visited number higher than my age (catching up on this last one)!

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

2 roles

Principal Product Marketing Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Senior Manager, Product Marketing

Aug 2019 – Aug 2022 · 3 yrs

Akamai technologies

Product Marketing Manager - Asia Pacific Japan

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Augmenting Akamai’s $0.25 billion Web APJ business & ~20% yoy growth engine by leading the global product charter in APJ & augmenting the APJ Sales & Marketing funnel.
✔ Driving Akamai competitive share of voice, market awareness & thought leadership with AR/PR/Media influence by writing blogs, bylines, media inquires & speaking engagements at industry events.
✔Appointed regional SME & speaker to support APJ field & digital marketing engine for lead generation & new customer acquisition. Enabling the global product charter in the region via APJ customer advisory & advocacy efforts.
✔Leading solution & competitive enablement for Sales (trainings, tools, demos) in line with the GTM priorities by country – Greater China, Japan & Korea, India, South Asia and ANZ.
Focus Areas : web performance optimization with origin offload, caching, tcp optimization, preconnect, http2, brotli & zopfli resource compression, 3rd party script management to reduce TTFB, TTFP & TTI timers; User experience, behavior analytics & business metrics monitoring with RUM viz. session length, conversions; Web application, DNS & DDoS protection, API protection & governance & DevOps.

Web performance optimizationUser experienceBehavior analyticsBusiness metrics monitoringAPI protectionDevOps+2

Aclara

Product Manager

Mar 2012 – Jun 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Owned P&L for Aclara's Gas AMI solutions product line, exceeding $63M pa which aggregated to 23% of Aclara’s $270M AMI business. This involved -
✔Owning the product line roadmap, pricing, revenue forecasts, profitability for a distinguished competitive position in the market.
✔Driving the business case, requirement definition and prioritization for new product. Positioning, competitive benchmarking, market launch, SKU rationalization, obsolescence or EOL, sales strategy via direct and partner channels.
✔Client beta engagement, sales enablement and solutions delivery for beta customers.
Key contributor to the core strategy teams leading market rebranding, international expansion & inorganic growth through acquisitions.
Focus areas – Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), gas meters, wireless RF network technologies - Mesh | STAR | CELLULAR, SaaS based meter data analytics (MDM). Gas & water utilities.
Industrial IoT sensors for leak detection, pressure monitoring, methane leak monitoring, pipeline integrity, volume correction devices, sanitary sewage overflow (SSO) sensors.

P&L ManagementProduct RoadmapMarket LaunchSales StrategyClient EngagementProduct Management+1

Secure meters limited

2 roles

Product Manager, Smart Meters

Jan 2008 – May 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

Owned an existing residential smart meters product line for India and Israel. Got to build new products for Malaysia and Australia markets from concept through beta.
Focus ares : Smart grid, smart electric meters, International metering standards, metering protocols.

Smart GridSmart Electric MetersInternational Metering StandardsProduct Management