Priyanka Azad

VP of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India20 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of experience in program management.
Led multiple high-impact projects at Adobe.
Expert in Agile methodologies and software project management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Program Manager with extensive experience in software project management and Agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementAgile Project ManagementSoftware Project Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesB2B MarketingB2C MarketingBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCoachingCommunicationContent MarketingDecision-MakingDigital MarketingEnterprise MarketingExecutive LeadershipFlexHTMLJavaScript

About

Experienced Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Strong program and project management professional skilled in Business Planning, Requirements Analysis, C++, and Agile Methodologies. Seasoned Program manager / SCRUM Master with over 16 years of experience in the software industry. Have managed Adobe projects with year long cycles and multiple betas, to projects with monthly releases to managing the Security approvals for multitudes of clients simultaneously. Managed a wide expanse of projects ranging from Desktop and web based products, mobile and web applications.

Experience

Gupshup

2 roles

Vice President, Program Management and Engineering Operations

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Senior Director, Program Management and Engineering Operations

Oct 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Dhani

Head Of Program Management

Feb 2022 – Sep 2022 · 7 mos · Noida, India

Heading Program Management for the services at Dhani - across an organization of ~150 members
Leading a team of Technical Program Managers and Technical content writing for multiple functions across different verticals
Direct line reporting to CXOs and working with multiple stakeholders to represent the organization as the front face of leadership team
Working with the leadership to define organization roadmaps, KPIs, converting into measurable deliverables and tracking them to closure
Executive communication channels and unified Agile processes across the organization, to ensure organizational goals are communicated at all ladders and met within the expected timelines

Nullcon

Attendee

Feb 2019 – Feb 2019 · 0 mo · Goa

Adobe

4 roles

Senior Technical Program Manager

Dec 2018 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Program Manager : Adobe Extensibility

Jun 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

Program Manager with varied experience of managing year long projects to multiple smaller projects with monthly released cycles. The experience ranges from Desktop products, to web plugins to multi device applications.
Led Program Management for Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe XD integration with various
third parties
o Adobe Creative Cloud For Microsoft Teams (announced at the MS Build conference 2017)
o Adobe Creative Cloud for Slack
o Adobe XD for Atlassian JIRA
o Adobe Stock for Microsoft PowerPoint
o Adobe Stock for Google Slides
These were short (2 to 3 month releases) and involved substantial to and fro with various
stakeholders, dependent teams internal and external to Adobe, and super-quick turn-around
times to ensure rapid and constant progress on the projects.

Program Manager – Adobe Premiere Elements

Promoted

Mar 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

(March 2015 - June 2017)
Led Program Management for Adobe Premiere Elements - a video editing software that is a
scaled-down version of Adobe Premiere and is tailored to novice editors and consumers. This
belongs to the Elements family and is included as a part of the Adobe Photoshop and
Premiere Elements bundle.
The Premiere Elements cycle comprises of yearly releases and involves planning, scheduling,
maintaining and executing the project plan and schedule for a heavy weight desktop product
and team with a larger release cycle, consisting of multiple beta releases.