Himani Arora

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI strategy for Microsoft 365 products.
Achieved significant savings through workforce redesign.
Expert in product management and strategic planning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStrategic PlanningProgram ManagementAi ToolsManagement ConsultingBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Team ManagementComputer ScienceInternational RelationsProduct DevelopmentMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointMatlabPersonal Finance

About

I am an MBA graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and computer science engineer from IIT BHU, currently working with Bain & Company in strategy consulting role. I have worked as Program Manager in Microsoft Office division for two years before coming to IIM-B to pursue my management studies.In Microsoft, I designed & implemented key features and handled critical in-market issues for Microsoft Visio, a diagramming application of Microsoft Office family. A vivid reader, I believe in keeping both my mind and body healthy. I often involve myself in the session for yoga, gym, and volleyball to keep myself fit.

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

1. Shaping the Copilot strategy for M365 by synthesizing the outside-in perspective on AI with internal product strategy
2. Contributed to the M365 Content Mobile Strategy through deep market analysis, competitive research, and alignment with the internal product landscape.
3. Incubated and advanced multiple Room 3 product ideas, securing internal funding for several teams by driving early-stage validation before PMF.
4. Spearheading an internal AI upskilling initiative to empower PMs to adopt AI tools in their day-to-day work, driving increased efficiency and innovation.

Product ManagementStrategic Planning

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Sep 2023 · 3 yrs

Worked on building App Governance from scratch - a security offering within Microsoft Defender for Apps (MDA), providing visibility, remediation, and control over app data usage. As part of this stint:
1. Defined product strategy for insights and governance pillars, shaping the core functionality of the solution.
2. Designed pre-defined policies to enable a ‘shift left’ approach, focusing on proactive prevention of security risks.
3. Partnered with engineering to reduce malicious app detection time from 48 hours to 4 hours and scoped real-time high-impact detections.

Product ManagementProgram Management

Product Manager 2

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

I am part of MyAnalytics product team, geared to improve personal productivity. This AI-powered tool gives personalized suggestions in Outlook, enabling users to set aside focus time before their week fills up with meetings, stay on top of tasks and emails, and follow up with important people. A user can also explore his work patterns with MyAnalytics and learn ways to work smarter—improving your focus, wellbeing, network, and collaboration.

Product ManagementAI Tools

Bain & company

3 roles

Senior Associate Consultant

Promoted

Dec 2017 – Oct 2018 · 10 mos

• Redesigned workforce people supply chain across North America & Europe for a global tech player, enhanced current processes to enable transformation leading to 1BN+ annualized savings

Management ConsultingBusiness Strategy

Associate Consultant

Jun 2017 – Dec 2017 · 6 mos

Conducted zero-based budgeting to optimize selling, general and admin. cost of a global IT player
Developed point of view for next generation technologies & macro trends in data analytics business

Management ConsultingBusiness Strategy

Summer Associate

Apr 2016 – Jun 2016 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Conducted a revenue diagnostic for a Global IT services player and provided recommendations to improve revenue and achieve significant upside in revenue/account using GTM excellence framework.

Microsoft

Program Manager

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

International Exposure
Speaker, SharePoint Conference 2014, delivered session "Developing Facilities Management Solutions using SharePoint Online and Visio Pro for Office 365", attended by CXOs, Las Vegas, USA
Speaker, MVP Global Summit 2014, delivered sessions on MS office release, Redmond, USA
Program Manager, Microsoft Visio
Worked with multiple domain experts for designing and implementing a new feature in Visio
Spearheaded the world readiness and localization efforts with large number of strings and complex bidirectional support in 28 languages
Responsible for Visio In-Market, monthly shipping of high value patches and hotfixes for customers
Led multiple cross-team collaborations with Redmond, Ireland, and China teams across products

École de technologie supérieure

Summer Internship

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

Visualization and Generation of 3D model of Coronary Artery
Generated interactive 3D model of coronary arteries using NURBS.
Implemented user interface for 3D visualization of coronary artery tree.
Simulated the stent placement at desired location in coronary artery tree.

Qualcomm

Summer Internship

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Enhancing the Audio Integration Layer Test Framework
Implemented all Audio Encoders (AAC, AMR, PCM, EVRC, and QCELP13) from scratch using ILTF.
Implemented clock use-case to query timestamp from audio playback to update UI’s progress bar.
Automated Negative test suite by using XL parsing mechanism

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Summer Research Fellow

May 2010 – Jun 2010 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Porting of metadata guided instructional media on mobile devices
Developed application for windows mobile which can deploy lecture video on mobile while maintain the legibility and decreasing the size of video.
Implemented mechanism for programmed playback of the set of images from lecture video and associated audio file in synchronism on mobile devices.