Ranjani Mani

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Leader in Generative AI with global impact.
  • Mentor for Deep-Tech and AI startups.
  • Recognized as a top AI leader in India.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Data Analytics within the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiTechnical LeadershipAnalyticsData ScienceMachine LearningData AnalyticsCustomer AnalyticsProduct ManagementPricing StrategyPredictive ModelingMarketing AnalyticsProduct DevelopmentCampaign ManagementErp ImplementationSql

Other Skills

AI Business OutcomesAI ProductsAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAnalytical SkillsBrand ManagementBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBusiness StrategyCRMCareer ManagementCoachingCompetitive AnalysisConsulting

About

In her current role as Director - AI at Microsoft, she leads the AI POD as a Global Black Belt team, envisioning to realising value with Generative AI through differentiated technical leadership and guidance to top strategic end customers across ASEAN, India and South Asia. Ranjani comes with close to 2 decades of expertise in building AI led Digital Product Platform capabilities, Applied Data Sciences, and Data Products in Enterprise Product companies like VMWare, Dell and Atlassian. In her last role, she headed Enterprise Analytics for CSS at Atlassian leading a global AI team collaborating with Heads of Product and Engineering to drive cost optimisation and proactive customer experience with AI. She has built and scaled global teams, leading a team of 100+ folks including Senior Managers, Data scientists and Product Leads across EMEA, US and India as a Site leader at VMWare for CX SaaS Transformation. Her team built out end customer facing AI Digital Experience capabilities including routing and omni-channel personalization working with a cross functional team. She also collaborated with the India Site MD to co-lead VMWare’s Startup Engagement at the site level. Extremely passionate about promoting women in analytics, she co-led the Women in Analytics and AI Pod for VMWare globally. She mentors Deep-Tech and Gen AI startups as part of Kerala Start-up Mission, Telangana AI and is a NASSCOM Deep-Tech Club Mentor. She is a TEDx and Keynote speaker and regularly speaks about AI at Industry panels. Ranjani is part of the AI makers 100, recognizing the Top 100 AI and Analytics leaders in India and is the recipient of several industry awards such as Rising Women in AI Leadership , IndiaAI 21 Women in AI, and Women in BigData. She writes about technology, books and being better on LinkedIn and is the LinkedIn Top Voice for Tech in 2023. She also hosted Season 1 of the podcast – Generative AI and I, where she interviews industry leaders and experts on how to stay ahead in this new machine generated new world. Graduated top of the class - Bachelor in Engineering, Electronics and Communication Silver Medalist - Masters in Business Administration [MBA] What do I do - • Championed data science projects with demonstrable business impact from ideation to production • Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining and scaling geographically dispersed, high-performing global virtual teams. • Demonstrated experience influencing product strategy and drive change across organisational boundaries. Opinions expressed on social media are personal

Experience

Microsoft

Director and Country Head, Generative AI, India and South Asia

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • I lead a team of AI specialists in the AI Global Black Belt working on driving end to end AI driven business outcomes through differentiated technical leadership and guidance to our strategic end customers - specifically with Generative AI.
Generative AITechnical LeadershipAI Business Outcomes

Telangana ai mission (t-aim)

Startup Mentor & Advisor

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Under the "2020:Year of AI" initiative, Telangana Artificial Intelligence Mission (T-AIM) was set up by the Government of Telangana, powered by nasscom, with a vision to position Telangana as a global hub for AI. The mission is to enable and accelerate a collaborative AI ecosystem and leverage its benefits for industry and society.
  • https://ai.telangana.gov.in

Nasscom

Mentor - NASSCOM Deep Tech Club

Apr 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Help propel deep tech startups to success to create #WorldClassfromIndia

Atlassian

Global Datasciences and Analytics Leader

Jun 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • As Global Data science and Analytics Leader, I drive Atlassian's CSS Analytics team for Enterprise and On Prem working with global Head of Product and Engineering to help reduce friction in our products and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
  • I lead a team of Analytics managers, Leads and Datascientists to engage with Leadership teams across PM, Engineering, IT, Technical and C suite to solve business problems for CSS at Atlassian.
  • My focus areas involve scaling the teams, providing thought leadership to leverage Analytics to drive business value and building design to deployment scalable ML solutions.
AnalyticsData ScienceCustomer Experience

Vmware

4 roles

Director - Advanced Analytics, Data sciences and Data Products

Promoted

Jun 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr

  • Lead a Global team of Data scientists to solve for business problems with data working across global executive stakeholders with design to deployment Analytics capabilities
  • We work on building 1) ML capabilities and Products 2) Analytics to help drive product roadmap and decision making 3) Curated and certified Data Products
  • My team works on design to delivery analytics projects to bring in cost efficiencies, improving self service, building ML powered proactive support products and AI powered customer experience products
  • We work on ML use-cases that get integrated into support products as well as ML that helps executives with decision making.
  • We are currently focused on enabling SaaS Transformation with data through Customer Success and AI driven digital experiences.
  • Experience driving projects using Agile methodologies and a Design thinking. Drive Thought Leadership across Cross Geo & Cross functional Stakeholder teams to drive ML and strategy and roadmap
  • Work closely with data engineering and IT to enable data capabilities for analytics to scale as part of Chief Digital Transformation Office (CDTO)
  • We work on identifying opportunities to arrest revenue leakage, bring in cost saving efficiencies and support our goal of providing unparalleled Customer Experience. We also work on building AI driven products that proactively identify and deflect issues before they happen.
  • Use a variety of modeling techniques across supervised, unsupervised and deep learning in NLP, LDA/Topic Modeling, BERT, propensity models, customer segmentation, customer value, complexity clusters and propensity models. Leverage IBM Watson and data engineering for building ML as a Service solutions across NLP, Early Warning and Routing Solutions
Machine LearningData AnalyticsAI Products

Senior Manager - Advanced Analytics and Data sciences

Promoted

Apr 2019May 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Key areas of focus in using ML for Decision making - Proactive Solutioning, Intelligent Search, Proactive Support and Intelligent diagnostics, Prediction models, Customer Experience analytics, Consumption Monitoring, Support scheduling optimization, Customer Success - ARR/MRR and SaaS metrics/KPIs for SaaS transformation, Customer Health Scores
  • Project Focus areas :
  • Customer Analytics || Customer Success || SaaS Transformation || Multi-cloud || App Modernization
  • Core Skills: R, Python, Greenplum, SQL, Alpine Data Labs, Tableau, IBM Watson, Domino Data Labs
Machine LearningCustomer AnalyticsSaaS Transformation

Lead Data Scientist/Manager - Data Sciences

Jun 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Senior/Lead Data Scientist - Advanced Analytics and Data Sciences

Dec 2014Jun 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

Tech mahindra

Product Manager - Strategic Solutions Group, Infrastructure Platform Solutions

Jan 2014Dec 2014 · 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Strategic Solutions Group
  • Cloud based End User Transformation, Integrated Mobility Solutions, Workspace-as-a-Service
  • Mobility, Collaboration, Virtualization, Video.
  • Product Road-map || Pricing and Positioning || Collaboration across Engineering, Sales, MarCom || Go-to-Market Product Marketing || Trade/Analyst relations
Product ManagementPricing Strategy

Dell

Product and Pricing Analytics, US Consumer Laptops and Tablets

Oct 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Product Pricing: Work with partners from US product marketing team for Online/Marketing Analytics- Consumer Laptops/Tablets through competitive/trend and product portfolio analysis.
  • Across product lifecycle from NPD, improving promotion efficacy, inventory management, user personalization and competitive pricing analysis through predictive modeling
  • Dell SMAC Certified Professional (Dell Social Media and Community University)
  • Dell External branding- Working on Social media branding of Dell Global Analytics in the field of technology and analytics through content creation, engagement and measurement with Professionals through social media.
Predictive ModelingMarketing Analytics

Tata docomo

Product Manager, Usage and Retention, Karnataka Circle

Jun 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Part of Product Management team responsible for product development for existing prepaid customers in Karnataka- Tata Docomo’s largest circle in India
  • Handled Retention of customers for Karnataka circle, with monthly customer win-back and decay arrest targets of around 4 lac subscribers
  • Campaign management/Analysis: Design, manage, track promotions and run segmented product campaigns to increase adoption and up-sell
  • Star of the Month’, Oct’10, for role in successfully launching and tracking Full talk time products, Tata Docomo
  • ‘Spotlight Award’, Apr’11, certificate of appreciation, Tata Docomo
Product DevelopmentCampaign Management

Oracle

Associate Consultant- Apps Core Services

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · Bangalore, India

  • Worked as a part of Apps Core Services Team on Oracle Applications 11i and Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus, SQL* Developer, PL/SQL, Reports 6i, Workflows, Oracle 9i database, XML Publisher etc.
  • Analysis, design, ERP implementation for projects of modules in Oracle E-Business suite for clients in EMEA and APAC regions
ERP ImplementationSQL

Education

MICA | The School of Ideas

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Electronics and Communication

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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