Mar 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

May 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• RegTech innovator focused on AI & Machine Learning solutions for Financial Services, Legal & Compliance.
• Red Marker has been acquired by IntelligenceBank, the leading AI-powered SaaS solution that automates brand, legal and regulatory compliance reviews across marketing materials and websites.

Jun 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

• TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) is a philanthropic project at Microsoft that aims to bring Computer Science education to every high school in America.
• Responsible for preparing and running ‘SNAP product’ classes and workshops across Public city schools in America. SNAP is a visual programming language with capabilities designed to help teach Computer Science
• Helped ~90 participants program their own interactive stories, games, and animations and share their creations with others online
• Organized Product Meetups to share ideas and strategies with other product specialists for supporting computational creativity through all its forms
• https://www.tealsk12.org/

Apr 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Products Managed:
• E-finance:
• Built a platform to automate the Procure to Pay processes for non-category purchases across all entities in Flipkart, thereby enforcing compliance & ensuring transparency in all Financial transactions
• Savings realized on the basis of Manual Effort and Leakage Cost Reduction are in tune of ~INR 9 cr
• External Liquidation Platform:
• Owned and managed the product development lifecycle for the Returns portfolio
• Aim of the product was to improve the Liquidation TAT by 50% and reduce the number of returns, thereby saving costs by 3X times in tune of INR 50 crores
• Key Skillset:
• Defined the ‘To-Be’ business process by analyzing the current systems & identifying improvisations
• Conducted Competitor, gap analysis to identify hidden business opportunities
• Understood consumer behavior and needs to prepare use cases followed by UI/UX design to delight customers
• Developed key project-related documents such as requirement specifications (PRDs and BRDs)
• Defined User Stories/Epics/Themes ready to picked up by the team in JIRA and Confluence
• Responsible for Scoping & Feature prioritization and identifying the MVP based on business, customer impact & technical feasibility
• Worked with business, engineering & cross-functional teams to identify and manage dependencies and plan changes across releases to enable faster delivery of quality products
• Performed User Acceptance testing which led to a significant reduction in the defects identified
• Driven product launches in collaboration with the Process Excellence / Strategy Deployment and other Functional teams
• Provided product demos & presentations for customers and partners
• Responsible for the creation of capability roadmaps and identifying the metrics to measure success for the products managed
• Took the Build vs Buy decision based on ROI and TCO analysis, crucial towards saving costs
• Exposure in working across both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies

Jan 2014 – Mar 2014 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Managed Org-Wide products development for Internal Customers:
• Built org-wide products to help Sr. leadership understand the health of their organization and set OKR’s – Objectives & Key Results is a goal system used to create alignment and engagement around measurable goals aimed to encourage accountability and enable teams to make decisions based on data
• Created a workflow management tool for the ‘Product team’ to regulate product launches at Flipkart by helping product teams in dogfooding, validating key product matrices, intimating and seeking approval from all the relevant stakeholders before a product launch
• Both the above products had 100% acceptance rate within the organization

Apr 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• SME for both Content and Catalog management space of Target.com.
• Primarily focused on improving shopper experience in Target.com and identifying functional\ workflow improvements on web content to increase the number of transactions per user and higher average order value
• Collaborating actively with Technology, User interface design, Merchandising, Marketing and Creative design teams on various product led initiatives which influences the product display & assortment in Target.com
• Certified “Scrum Product Owner” (CSPO) from Scrum Alliance, Inc.

Apr 2011 – May 2011 · 1 mo · Bangalore

• Defining the shopper consideration set in choosing a Modern Trade format in a highly MT Focused catchment
• Developed shopper centric solutions for clients to maximize their ROI by 25%
• Conducted a dipstick research and market surveys in selected markets at Bangalore

Jul 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Indore Area, India

Jan 2007 – Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Performed the role of an offshore coordinator for handling domain related queries in addition to product development activities
• Successfully delivered projects spanning various geographic locations and worth over USD 18mn
• Involved in Effort Estimation, Budgeting, Transition Planning and other Project Mgmt activities
• Performed the role of a team lead, handling a team of 7 engineers, forecasting resource and allocating work to the team with 95% team utilization
• Coordinated with onsite team and trained team members to reduce the turnaround time for the resolution of issues by more than 50%