Oct 2024 – Jul 2025 · 9 mos · Bengaluru

• CloudSEK's AI-powered Digital Risk Monitoring platform provides real-time visibility of cyber threats and actionable Intel.
• ✅︎Led the end-to-end product lifecycle for BeVigil, collaborating with 8+ cross-functional teams (engineering, UX/UI, sales, and marketing) to prioritize and deliver features that meet enterprise security needs, while ensuring scalability and security compliance, resulting in a 25% increase in adoption within two quarters.
• ✅︎Drive go-to-market strategies, overseeing product positioning, pricing, and competitive analysis, while working closely with stakeholders to ensure 9+ successful product launches, maximizing market penetration and customer acquisition by 30%.
• ✅︎Utilize market research, user insights, and data analytics to refine the product roadmap, making data-driven decisions to improve product performance, user experience, and enhance customer satisfaction by 15%.
• ✅︎Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs), such as customer retention, adoption rates, and feature utilization, to assess product success and drive continuous product iteration and innovation, while mentoring a team of 3 product managers and improving roadmap execution velocity by 35% within 6 months.

Jan 2024 – Oct 2024 · 9 mos

• PrivaSapien is a Privacy First company doing Privacy-by-Design and Responsible AI helping you fulfil you end-to-end Privacy goal.
• ✅︎Spearheaded the successful launch of 3 groundbreaking deep tech products.
• ✅︎Implemented Agile methodologies, reducing time-to-market by 30% and enhancing team productivity by 15%, while effectively mentoring a team of 20 professionals.
• ✅︎Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to deliver 15 key features within challenging timelines, consistently achieving or surpassing quarterly targets, and directly contributing to the success of sales and marketing initiatives.
• ✅︎Crafted compelling PRDs, RFP responses, and other strategic documents, facilitating seamless communication and alignment across teams, ultimately driving customer acquisition and retention rates up by 25%.

Feb 2023 – Dec 2023 · 10 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area · Remote

• IBC is a student-run consulting organization at the University of Illinois, provides high-quality consulting services to businesses and nonprofits. With a team of undergraduate and graduate students from diverse academic disciplines, IBC offers market research, strategic planning, and financial analysis to clients across industries. Through their work, students gain valuable experience in consulting and business management, while making a positive impact on the community.
• ✅︎Conducted in-depth research and analysis for client’s business processes and operations, resulting in the identification of 20+ areas of improvement and recommendation of strategies that increased efficiency by an average of 25%.
• ✅︎Developed and implemented custom-tailored solutions for clients, resulting in an average increase of 30% in performance and achieving a 95% client satisfaction rate by presenting clear and concise reports and recommendations with the successful implementation of solutions and an average 10% increase in revenue.
• ✅︎Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, finance, and operations, to implement solutions for clients, resulting in streamlined processes and an average cost reduction of 15% by staying current on industry trends and advancements, bringing innovative ideas, resulting in the implementation of new technologies and processes.
• ✅︎Built and maintained strong relationships with clients, providing ongoing support and guidance that resulted in long-term success and a 90% client retention rate.

Nov 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

• Zscaler, the creator of the Zero Trust Exchange platform, uses the largest security cloud on the planet to make doing business and navigating change a simpler, faster, and more productive experience.
• ✅ Drove product strategy for cloud security platform by synthesizing feedback from enterprise customers, resulting in 50% higher feature adoption rates and a 40% improvement in customer satisfaction scores.
• ✅ Developed technical specifications and oversaw implementation of custom security solutions, prioritizing features based on customer pain points, which improved enterprise retention by 30%.
• ✅ Collaborated with product marketing on technical content development and thought leadership, elevating product visibility by 15% in analyst reports while contributing to 10% growth in qualified leads.
• ✅ Established comprehensive product success metrics incorporating security efficacy, deployment time, risk reduction, and compliance coverage, creating a holistic value measurement framework that better aligned product capabilities with enterprise security objectives.

Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 · 6 mos · Hybrid

• Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets, the instruction sets found in most personal computers.
• ✅ Led cross-functional platform strategy resulting in 25% faster time-to-market by implementing advanced validation methodologies and streamlining the development pipeline from concept to production.
• ✅ Defined and prioritized platform requirements across multiple system components, delivering a 30% improvement in platform reliability metrics through strategic collaboration with architecture, design and validation teams.
• ✅ Orchestrated platform roadmap and automation initiatives that increased engineering productivity by 20%, enabling more efficient resource allocation and accelerated feature development.
• ✅ Spearheaded product vision for critical platform components including software services, processing capabilities, storage solutions, I/O interfaces, and networking technologies that power enterprise and cloud infrastructure.

Dec 2021 – Oct 2022 · 10 mos · Hybrid

• Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets, the instruction sets found in most personal computers.
• ✅ Architected strategic platform features based on hardware requirements, eliminating 25% of defects and enhancing reliability for enterprise supercomputing and accelerator solutions.
• ✅ Orchestrated product strategy for critical GPU platform capabilities, pinpointing architectural priorities and fostering cross-functional alignment to expedite feature delivery and elevate platform performance.
• ✅ Engineered a feature prioritization framework that compressed product validation cycles by 20% while amplifying quality metrics through data-driven decision making.
• ✅ Harnessed deep technical expertise to craft a comprehensive platform vision, bridging communication between engineering teams and stakeholders to maximize development efficiency as a product leadership "force multiplier".

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Hybrid

• Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets, the instruction sets found in most personal computers.
• ✅ Pioneered security product strategy across technology stack, optimizing feature validation methodology and resulting in 20% faster go-to-market timelines while maintaining enterprise-grade security standards.
• ✅ Formulated comprehensive product validation frameworks that streamlined testing processes by 15%, accelerating product iteration cycles while ensuring quality benchmarks were consistently met.
• ✅ Championed risk assessment protocols and requirement prioritization systems that enhanced product delivery velocity by 10%, balancing technical constraints with market demands across multiple product lines.
• ✅ Negotiated cross-functional alignment among architecture, design, and validation stakeholders, establishing feedback mechanisms that reduced debugging cycles by 25% and improved overall product quality.

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

• Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader, that helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, our cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.
• ✅ Drove product roadmap through insights from 30+ customer interviews and POCs, resulting in feature enhancements that increased product adoption by 70% and improved conversion rates by 40%.
• ✅ Gathered and prioritized requirements from 100+ users and engineering stakeholders, achieving 90% alignment between user needs and delivered functionality.
• ✅ Defined and communicated product vision across cross-functional teams, supporting 50+ customer use cases and delivering a 25% increase in product value metrics while maintaining 75% user satisfaction.
• ✅ Orchestrated product lifecycle management for 30+ features, resulting in 95% user retention and 10% growth in recurring product usage. This was through data-driven product iterations that achieved 60% feature adoption rate and delivered 10% improvement in user workflow efficiency.

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore is a premier public research university. Established in 1909, IISc has a legacy of over 100 years of excellence in scientific research and education. The institute has a long-standing reputation for academic excellence and innovation, and is committed to advancing knowledge and creating new technologies that can benefit society.
• ✅︎Spearheaded the development and successful launch of a wearable device that detected epileptic attacks proactively, resulting in a 30% reduction in seizure-related hospital admissions and an 18% increase in sales revenue by Conducting experiments and utilizing advanced statistical techniques and software tools, resulting in a 25% improvement in the device's accuracy and effectiveness.
• ✅︎Ensured compliance with regulatory and quality standards, leading to a 95% satisfaction rate among customers and a 20% reduction in product defects.
• ✅︎Stayed current with the latest industry trends and best practices, attending conferences and networking events, resulting in a 15% increase in product innovation and a 10% reduction in time-to-market.
• ✅︎Defined and tracked key performance indicators (KPIs), including a 25% increase in product adoption and a 20% improvement in customer satisfaction, and presented findings and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders by collaborating with engineering and marketing teams, developing and executing impactful marketing campaigns and promotions, resulting in a 30% increase in brand awareness and a 25% increase in customer engagement.

Nov 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• ProBano is committed to providing the best career guidance to the youth of India through its innovative and technology-backed process which would enable them to make informed career choices, build the skills needed to succeed, and succeed in their careers.
• ✅︎Collected and analyzed feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements, features, and end products, resulting in a 20% increase in customer satisfaction.
• ✅︎Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders, across businesses, to understand the organization's fulfillment needs, and created product plans and roadmaps for the products, resulting in a 15% increase in overall productivity.
• ✅︎Turned high-level requirements into executables, resulting in a 30% reduction in time-to-market for new products. Created, maintained, and owned backlogs to deliver with the tech team, resulting in a 25% increase in efficiency.
• ✅︎Proactively identified ongoing opportunities to increase efficiency, improve the usability of existing products, and evaluate new functionality/capabilities to fill identified gaps, resulting in a 10% increase in revenue by reviewing product requirements documents (PRD), resulting in a 20% improvement in product quality.