Naved Ahmad

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 14 years of diverse product management experience.
  • Authored three patents in mobile communication.
  • Led significant product transformations at Adobe.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Robotics Product Management expert with extensive experience in mobile technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Other Skills

Product Road MappingProject ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct InnovationTeam ManagementMobile ApplicationsAndroidSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Mobile PlatformsJavaSymbianC++Embedded SystemsMobile CommunicationsSoftware Engineering

About

Naved has 14 years of experience in the field of Product Management. He has done MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur and B.Tech. from IIT Roorkee. He has experience in a wide range of Industries including Software, Retail, Robotics, Auto and Electronics focused on defining and delivering Product strategy, Roadmap, CX, growth and transformation through technology-based solutions. In his current role at Adobe, he is leading the Partner Relationship Management platform by collaborating with global functional and engineering teams in defining and delivering products for business value realization. He has a passion for innovation and has authored three patents in the field of mobile communication devices.

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Salesforce

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Confidential

Product Management

Jan 2024Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Adobe

Senior Product Manager

Aug 2021Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Spearheaded the conceptualization and delivery of Partner Relationship Management system – a CRM agnostic solution handling $3.6bn Adobe Partner business for over 40k partners.
  • Revamped Partner life cycle management from onboarding, partner enablement, sales management, self-service performance dashboard to payout processes realizing 30% increase in leads and 60% in partner satisfaction.
  • Led global strategic Product Roadmap and delivery for SMB & Enterprise businesses. Also contributed to M&A and Partner selling motion led capabilities development.
  • Transformed Engineering and Business operations from project-based to product-based mindset resulting in agility, on-going improvement, and long-term strategic alignment.
Product Road MappingProduct StrategyProduct Management

Rapyuta robotics

Senior Product Manager

Feb 2020Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Product owner of rapyuta.io world’s first cloud robotics platform.
  • Prepared and owned the Product Roadmap and strategy for rapyuta.io and io-amr products.
  • Responsible for creating the PRD, wire-frames and user stories for the products.
  • Revamped the user onboarding and user documentation resulting in 5x adoption over 2 months.
  • Cross functional collaboration with sales, marketing, customer support, design, development team, and QA teams.

Retech labs, inc.

2 roles

Director Of Products

Promoted

Feb 2019Feb 2020 · 1 yr · On-site

  • Orchestrated the strategy, R&D, prototyping, prioritization, and implementation of RACE – a cloud-based SaaS retail platform to efficiently manage, grow and scale private brands.
  • Built and grew an AI/ML based platform REBOTICS for retail store automation from 0 to 1.
  • Owned an IoT based B2B mobile product SOTRX – Fully digitized platform to equip retail store teams with task allocation, capture team’s efficiencies using sensors and help in decision making via data analytics.
  • Worked directly with the CPO and mentored & led a team of 4 product managers.

Product Manager

Jan 2018Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

  • Product Manager for RACE (Retail Acceleration Platform). RACE is an innovative retail technology platform that efficiently manages, grows and scales private brand for Retailers.

Audatex solutions pvt. ltd. india - a solera company

Product Manager

Nov 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

  • Owned product roadmap for AUTOonline - an online auction platform for sale and purchase of salvaged and used cars.
  • Worked on the product enhancement both in process and system for AUTOonline. Redesigned and streamlined the system to give better customer experience resulting in 15% decrease in support cases.
  • Developed real time Data Analytics for buyers and sellers of AUTOonline, formalized strategy to improve buyer network and started customer retention loyalty program resulting in 10% increase in sales.
  • Used agile methodology for development of product through JIRA, acted as Scrum master for the team. Conducted daily stand-up meetings to review the progress.

Samsung india software operations pvt. ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2009Mar 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Samsung india software operations

Lead Engineer

Jul 2007Sep 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Led a team of 12 members for end to end Android software development for Samsung's South East Asian market. Project involved requirement gathering, software development and bug fixing for Samsung Galaxy Ace, Y and Cooper mobile phones market launch.
  • Developed Samsung Keyboard software (used on all Galaxy series Mobiles and Tablets) based on xt9 word prediction engine.
  • Developed world’s First Hindi Android Keyboard software. Samsung launched and marketed Galaxy Spica as the first Hindi Android Mobile with this software solution. Managed entire Product life cycle for the product, from launch to post-launch product improvements.
  • Key member of team which helped Samsung mobile to become the first supporting multiple languages in Android.
  • Led the team for Radio Interface Layer (RIL) integration and development of Phonebook in Android. Google Nexus 3 (co-developed by Samsung and Google) used our RIL software solution. We did software integration and provided support for it.
  • Involved in Development of Hardware Abstraction Layer between Application and modem processor (Licensee TSY in Symbian OS) and defect fixing for Symbian S60 platform.
  • Team Coordinator of Ideation meetings. Purpose of Ideation meetings was to come up with new ideas; it facilitated us in filing for 6 patents.

Samsung india software opearations pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Jul 2007Mar 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Xavient information systems

Summer Intern year 2006

May 2006Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

PGDM(General Management) Student Class of 2016

Jan 2015Jan 2016

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

B.Tech — Electrical

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Shri Guru Nanak Khalsa Inter College, Jhansi(U.P.)

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