Venkatesh Dash — Product Manager

Professional summary: An energetic and passionate professional with 4+ year of experience in consumer products in Travel domain & B2B SaaS.I am a results-driven professional with a proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive successful project launches and deliver exceptional results. With a strong background in product management and engineering, I have consistently delivered innovative solutions to complex challenges, resulting in improved performance, cost savings, and increased customer satisfaction. My ability to understand and develop enhanced features for enterprise users, troubleshoot functional and performance issues, and lead teams as a Scrum Master has earned me recognition as a top performer and valuable contributor to the organizations I have worked with.With a strong focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, I am passionate about driving success through effective project management, process optimization, and leadership. I am constantly seeking new challenges and opportunities to contribute my skills and expertise to achieve outstanding results for organizations and teams I work with.Acquiring skills of balancing decision based upon data. Creating insights by extracting, analyzing and visualizing data that will help to identify opportunities, recommend the necessary changes and define success metrics for business.SKILLS:Data Analysis : Excel (Hypothesis Testing, Regression Models{Log-Log Model, Semi-log Model},using interaction model for explaining variables), Excel macros to automate various work, PowerPivot ,DAX for bigdataData Extraction : SQL Data Visualization: Excel , PowerBIProduct Tech Skills: Google Analytics , Rally , JiraProduct Skills: Writing User stories , Critical and Analytical thinking , Defining KPIs,Complete End to End Knowledge of SDLC.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Fintech and Travel industries.

Location: Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Experience: 6 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Product Management
Project Management

Career Highlights

Proven track record in product management and engineering.
Successfully launched global projects enhancing customer engagement.
Expert in data analysis and process optimization.

Work Experience

Blackhawk Network

Product Manager (Platform) (3 yrs 2 mos)

Associate Product Manager (Platform) (1 yr 5 mos)

MakeMyTrip

Senior Executive Product (1 yr 8 mos)

OYO

Product Management Intern (2 mos)

Career Launcher

Mathematics Tutor (8 mos)

Education

Master in business analytics at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Government College of Engineering, Keonjhar

12 at Ravenshaw

at DAV public school, odisha

Master of Business Administration - MBA at KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Venkatesh Dash

Product Manager

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India6 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in product management and engineering.
Successfully launched global projects enhancing customer engagement.
Expert in data analysis and process optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Fintech and Travel industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProject Management

Other Skills

A/B TestingAgile MethodologiesCold CallingCollaborationCustomer Focused DesignData AnalysisEnd User TrainingLeadershipManagementMarket AnalysisMarket DevelopmentMarket ResearchMarketing StrategyMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Outlook

About

Experience

6 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Blackhawk network

2 roles

Product Manager (Platform)

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Currently spearheading model changes for store onboarding, enabling geofencing of products sent to stores and implementing shared inventory logic to facilitate risk management to take crucial decision for allowing/denying transaction.
Global Project Launch: Collaborated with the Payments team to launch a global project, the Store Locator API, which allowed customers to convert cash to digital money. This initiative resulted in increased customer engagement and revenue, and was recognized for its successful implementation.
Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Guided the dev /app support team in tracing user & production issues. This approach resulted in reduced TAT by 24 hours and improved product stability and performance.

Product ManagementProject ManagementData AnalysisSQL

Associate Product Manager (Platform)

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Contributed to the integration of Master data platform with an external UK-based processor, focusing on cost-effective solutions by replacing redundant systems, resulting in significant cost savings.
Leading the ideation , development and launch of new features that drives the adoption of platforms, reduce the tickets, reduce operational cost and man-hours.
Defining and analysing metrics that would help users to get various report based on their need.
Incorporating understanding of dev team , data and market analysis to inform & build product roadmaps.

Product ManagementData AnalysisSQL

Makemytrip

Senior Executive Product

Jan 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Led Planning , Development & growth of features impacting 35k+ domestic hotel & 25k+ Alternative Accommodation network for India's Largest OTA.
Creating PRDs, managing teams on agile tools : JIRA
Product Owner for ingommt app ; led roadmap , prioritisation & sprint planning of 5+ Product releases.
Owned Product research, User stories for "Channel Manager Fraud" which helped the business to have an intangible relationship with MakeMyTrip.
Generate Auto- Email templates for Business users , connected with SAS for report generation reducing the TAT by 75% and decreasing man hours.
Launched Freshdesk portal with 200+ FAQs , articles & videos hosted by internal content team and boosted the productivity 300+ BDMs.
Freshdesk helped in Quick Ticketing process deprecated the old email process flow and manage efficiently the progress of tickets , 2x improvement in efficiency.

Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesUser Stories

Oyo

Product Management Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Coordinated with micro-market and learnt the pain points of partner, collaborated 150+ hotel partners
Learnt wireframing and helped in wireframed the OYO partner portal for onboarding, Reducing TAT by 10%.
Worked with Marketing team for launching email opt-in, whatsapp opt-in based on region , result in increase of engagement of partner portal by 30%

WireframingCollaboration