Anand R.

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India23 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 23 years of experience in tech industry.
  • Led product management for Microsoft OneNote.
  • Successfully shipped M365 apps to emerging markets.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with extensive experience in user engagement and emerging markets.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser ExperienceEmerging Markets StrategyCustomer EngagementSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementRequirements AnalysisUi Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAndroidBuilding TrustCC++ClearCaseCross-Functional CollaborationDebuggingDistributed SystemsEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsFeature DevelopmentLinuxMobile DevicesOpen Innovation

About

I have 23+ years of experience working for Microsoft and Motorola, starting as a developer and transitioning into Product Management My expertise likes in creating requirements for feature design including considerations of target profiles, the user experiences, prioritization based on user and market conditions, and technical details. I engage with customers and update the product through usability studies, feedback during pre-release programs for the product & telemetry data analysis. Strong execution skills and ability to work with distributed teams are my forte. Currently I am working to empower every person to capture what’s important to them, build understanding, and remember with confidence.​ We are creating experiences powered by OneNote, that help people overcome their fear of forgetting things. Prior to this, I worked in Go-To-Market teams, driving partnerships for adoption of products, enabling customers to achieve more using the product; and in turn contributing to higher usage of the product. It also involved bring the power of M365 apps to emerging markets widening the user base for M365 and directly contributing to the revenues of Microsoft as well. As a developer, I have written code that has shipped in trend setting phones like Motorola Razr and others, as well as be the Program Manager to ship multiple productivity products like Lync Phone, Lync Web App and now Office on Android for Microsoft.. In my career so far, the products I have worked on have been used by millions of people - which is very gratifying.

Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Principal Group Product Manager

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs

  • I am accountable for Microsoft OneNote product management across multiple end points in IDC, and currently I am working to empower every person to capture what’s important to them, build understanding, and remember with confidence.​ We are creating experiences powered by OneNote, that help people overcome their fear of forgetting things.
Product ManagementUser ExperienceRequirements Analysis

Principal PM Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • I am accountable for Microsoft OneNote product management across multiple end points in IDC.
Product ManagementUser Experience

Principal PM Manager

Mar 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Me and my team are at the forefront of taking M365 apps people and organizations in emerging markets. We work with teams across boundaries (Org, Team, Geo) to identify opportunities for everyone to achieve more, and deliver on this. We shipped the M365 apps on the Amazon Fire devices which brings multiple productivity apps on that platform and similar other platforms. As a parting contribution to this team, I dug into my entrepreneurship skills in birthing release for Alumni Relay and getting it off the ground a few weeks, while working with multiple stake holders.
Product ManagementEmerging Markets StrategyCross-Functional Collaboration

Senior Program Manager

Promoted

Mar 2015Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • I work on enabling M365 apps for the Emerging Markets. Prior to this I was with Go-To Market team of Kaizala: and am accountable for the early adoption and rollout of Kaizala with various enterprises. My responsibilities include (and not limited to) being the SPOC of the product team with the customer, doing whatever it takes in enabling the customer achieve more using Kaizala; and as a result enable Kaizala reach a wider user base - and of course providing the product team a feature backlog based on the experiences from the customers.
  • I have been directly accountable for successful customization and usage of Kaizala for (1) Reliance(2) Walmart India (3) Indian Railways (4) SERP (AP Gov) (5) MahaOnline (5) Narayana Health (6) Telangana Police (7) Mastercard in LATAM.
  • Kaizala has >5M downloads with all these initiatives directly contributing into it
  • Prior to the GTM team, I was driving initiatives in improving experiences with the WXP apps on Android and iOS and proposed a framework for consumption experiences enhancement across the apps, along with implementing features based on this framework for Word app. These resulted in extremely favorable user verbatim in the app feedback, and positive movement of key telemetry indices for app usage. (Usage, Edits, Undo's)
  • I was accountable for bringing PPT onto Android and iOS platforms in 2015. Once the usage consolidated, I also introduced premium features like Presenter View, Morph Transitions and Designer Feature onto the mobile platforms. Additional responsibilities include driving periodic updates based on market conditions, scope the releases and work on feature requirements etc. I also work to ensure good ratings for the app on Google Play and drive usage for the app. The includes having a customer connect to understand the user sentiment and pulse, and having the team respond to user feedback on the product.
Product ManagementCustomer EngagementFeature Development

Program Manager

May 2008Feb 2015 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • I have worked on multiple products, releases driving end to end delivery of the feature with partners across geographies.
  • Owned multiple feature areas in the first release of PowerPoint on Android including the landing experience in opening a document and the content that needs to be rendered
  • SPOC for app performance during the first release on Android for all of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Owner of the Word app that was part of the Office Mobile on Android releases
  • Worked on the release of Lync Web App with ownership of areas including App/Screen Sharing, PowerPoint sharing, Content Bin.
  • Owned customer engagements activities including TAP driving the adoption of Lync family
  • Worked on multiple releases of Lync phone.
Software DevelopmentProject ManagementCustomer Engagement

Motorola

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2004May 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • As a lead, I have lead teams to deliver on major features like Nested Menu's, Secondary displays etc on the P2K platform with UI development teams of various sizes from 5-20 during different phases. Responsible for requirements analysis, estimations and reviews, high level design and algorithm creation, low level design reviews, software development life cycle planning, code and unit test reviews. Mentored the new people in the team and provided techincal guidance during execution.
  • Acted as technical Liaison for UI team with other teams including display drivers, applications etc.
Software DevelopmentRequirements AnalysisUI Development

Software Engineer

Feb 2002Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • As an individual contributor, I have owned and contributed to multiple areas of the P2K platform particularly in the UI layer. I owned the areas of WindowManager, SafeFrameManager, List, Notices each of which is critical component in the UI of the phone. I have taken requirements and worked with marketing for clarifications and delivered them.
  • I was part of the swat teams for analyzing any crashes that occur on the phone and have been very effective with ability to analyse and fix bugs beyond my area of ownership
Software DevelopmentUI Development

Education

University of Hyderabad

M. Tech — CS

Jan 2000Jan 2001

Osmania University

B.E — CS

Jan 1996Jan 2000

Dr. C V Raman Junior College

MPC

Jan 1994Jan 1996

St. John's Church High School

High School

Jan 1987Jan 1994

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