Nov 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Noida Area, India

• Responsible for managing the "Discovery Platform (Pre-order)" product in Paytm Mall.
• Head of Product for the core team that led to 150mn$ fund raise from eBay. (https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/ebay-logs-into-paytm-mall-with-5-5-stake-eyes-pie-of-online-retail-1563420493902.html)
• Garnered 15% market share in 2018 Diwali Sale.
• Strategic initiatives
• 1) Transition from B2C (Online) to O2O (Online to Offline) business model
• 2) Launching B2B marketplace to digitalize the retailer's supply chain
• 3) Crossborder initiatives to import products from US and China and export to SEA countries
• 4) Led User Growth product initiatives like Social commerce, Personalizations and Recommendations, Search, SEO, COD etc.
• Product Management
• 1) Catalog Management - Data model and CRUD operations, 3rd party integrations
• 2) Inventory Management - Data model and CRUD operations, 3rd party integrations
• 3) Paytm Search, Autosuggestion, curation and Product Listing and Racking, CTR increased from 1.7 to ~4%
• 4) Back end architecture for Front end UI - Storefronts, Grids, CLP and PDP - Banners and widgets, filters and attributes, Rich description and Product content
• 5) Personalization and recommendation
• 6) SEO and Managing product feeds to affiliates like Google, Facebook and others
• 7) Localization of content and strings
• 8) Policy and offer systems Management like EMI and exchange
• 9) Admin and seller/merchant panel for Catalog Management - Product, Category, Brand

Jul 2017 – Nov 2017 · 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Product head for ‘Cash Application’, a SaaS based payments product that automates cash receivables into ERP of B2B companies. Automates applying cash and closing invoices in the O2C cycle
• Product Management Responsibilities :
• Product Roadmap and Business Strategy
• Client Management
• Consulting enablement
• Sales Enablement and Product Marketing
• Operations Management
• Vendor Management
• People Management
• Program Management

Aug 2016 – Jun 2017 · 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Product head for ‘Cash Application’, a SaaS based payments product that automates cash receivables into ERP of B2B companies. Automates applying cash and closing invoices in the O2C cycle
• Program managed the biggest, most strategic and multi-million $ implementation project for one of the top 3 US bank
• Program managed cross-product initiatives like ‘Internationalization’ for Multi-language support to enable selling in Europe and Asia, ‘Reporting and Analytics’
• Program managed initiative for revamping the product UI for a refreshing look and feel and increasing productivity
• Program managed initiative to migrate clients from local data center to AWS to manage peak computing load, increasing file system access demand; Ensured product scalability and reduced production outages during US business hours
• Conceptualized ‘Remote Deposit Capture for remotely depositing checks to banks in ICL format’ product from scratch; Enabled selling to banks and large businesses and disrupted a 50 year old industry
• Conceptualized ‘eLockbox - solution for reconciliation of C2B payments’ product from scratch; Enabled selling to banks.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Responsible for managing ‘Cash Application’, a cloud based comprehensive product responsible for automating cash application process in B2B payment transactions in the order to cash cycle; Improves the working capital position of organization

Sep 2015 – Apr 2016 · 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Responsible for managing ‘Cash Application’, a cloud based comprehensive product responsible for automating cash application process in B2B payment transactions in the order to cash cycle; Improves the working capital position of organization
• Incorporated and productized features that resulted in increasing the key metric ‘hit-rate’ from 60% to 85% creating more automation value for the end clients :
• o ‘Payment Remittance Linking’ for auto matching the incoming payments to the accurate remittances; Increased automation from 60% to 75%;
• o ‘RadiusOne’, a network play solution for solving no remittance problem; automated correspondence and reduced DSO
• o ‘Prioritized check selection’ for prioritizing processing of data based on - volume, SLA needs and available capacity
• o ‘UI exception management’ process revamped; increased the productivity of end users by 50%
• o ‘Receivable Analytics’ – a reporting and analytics platform for data visualization in form of dashboards and Highcharts
• o Designed other features like ‘PII/ GDPR security compliance framework’, ‘Accessibility and Data access restrictions for adhering to Federal security compliance’, ‘Audit trail for storing history of user actions in the system’

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Responsible for managing ‘Cash Application’, a cloud based comprehensive product responsible for automating cash application process in B2B payment transactions in the order to cash cycle; Improves the working capital position of organization
• Revamped product to ‘atomic platform architecture’; ensured scalability and owned migration of existing clients
• o Re-architected the entire product from scratch to support multi-threaded auto processing; increased throughput by 4X
• o Created migration plans for smooth transition of existing accounts from batch platform to the new atomic platform

May 2014 – Apr 2015 · 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Responsible for managing ‘Cash Application’, a cloud based comprehensive product responsible for automating cash application process in B2B payment transactions in the order to cash cycle; Improves the working capital position of organization
• Pioneered 'Artifical Intelligence', ‘Machine Learning’ based ‘OCR (Optical Character Recognition)’ technique to capture data from scanned check
• o Proposed a proprietary ‘Artificial intelligence’ based parsing algorithm from the image processed raw output
• o Devised next-gen initiatives for enhancing data capture like ‘multi-engine OCR capture’ and ‘auto-classification engine’

Sep 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Spearheaded Product development of ‘label update’ product in the floorplanning tool in Custom IC division. Managed cross functional interactions and scripted successful engagement that generated an incremental revenue of $1Mn+ annually; Awarded the best project of the quarter by VP, Custom IC division
• Benchmarked ‘Block-Placer’ product performance against competitors’ and identified improvement opportunities; Rearchitected the product to enhance tool efficiency by 60% and enabled adoption by 3 key accounts. Won the customers back and recover lost revenue to the tune of $900k
• Conceptualized first-to-market solution for emerging 3D-IC technology; Enabled first mover advantage for Cadence by executing a successful POC and early adoption by TSMC, world’s largest foundry

Jul 2008 – Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Core Responsibility
• Core Member of the Connectivity -> WiFi team of Samsung. The developed WiFi application was deployed in all Samsung handsets on SHP platform globally - US, China, S.Korea.
• Managed a cross-geographical and cross-functional team (across 4 countries) in Samsung HQ, S.Korea. Oversaw deployment of China's wireless proprietary standard - WAPI and enabled first commercial launch of handset with WiFi connectivity in China
• Ideations
• Proposed an innovative traffic management idea, ‘Intelligent GPS’ ensuing better travel planning for end user. Shortlisted among the 10 best next-gen ideas in Samsung India to be pitched to VP - Regional Mobile Group
• Ideated mobile applications ‘Call Reject’ (for user's call management) and ‘Energy Saver’ (for battery longevity); Deployed in more than 500,000 mobile devices in India (~6% of all Samsung handsets)