Dec 2021 – Sep 2022 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• 💪 Driving Product Excellence & Digital Transformation in Global Finance
• Led Firm Functions Product Managers while maintaining a hands-on role in Finance.
• Held a global leadership role, managing key aspects of Finance Functions and Product Management.
• Oversaw Finance applications, including Engagement Lifecycle Management, ensuring seamless operations and innovation.
• Engaged globally across the Firm’s Technology & Development function, driving digital transformation.
• Chose to embark on my entrepreneurial journey, concluding an intense phase of learning and growth.

Feb 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• 💪 Building AI Capability & Driving Innovation at McKinsey
• Led a cross-functional team of AI experts, including Product Managers, UX Designers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and ML Engineers.
• Spearheaded McKinsey’s AI upskilling initiative, making technology teams and consultants AI-capable.
• Trained and upskilled hundreds of leaders, technologists and consultants, with the work featured in a McKinsey.com article for broader impact: https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/ai-upskilling-for-over-500-firm-technologists.
• Designed and executed AI-driven solutions across NLP, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Graph Databases, and AI-enabled tools/processes.
• Defined and implemented the Data Strategy for key areas in collaboration with ThoughtWorks.
• Partnered with MIT to solve a video editing on-the-fly challenge, winning the Innovation Olympics.
• Built an HR bot leveraging NLP, enhancing internal tools and processes.
• Applied product innovation techniques, including controlled experiments and fail-fast approaches, to accelerate AI adoption.
• Delivered multiple high-impact AI solutions, some of which remain confidential.
• 💡 Mission: Scaled AI capabilities and innovation at McKinsey, bridging technology, strategy, and execution.

Aug 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Strategize and Product Manage multiple complex products within People Systems.
• Business Process Transformation for People Systems processes.
• Thorough Current State analysis of People Systems processes, that engaged ~25 roles, 100s of people and ~125 software applications.
• Built a People Systems Map that was widely applauded in global forums and replicated for future engagements.
• Identified and articulated the pain points, opportunities, business and technology gaps.
• Led to a complete People Systems Digital Transformation initiative.
• Active part of the core team to define the future business processes and application landscape for People Systems.
• Co-led the analysis, selection and execution of Oracle, Workday and SAP for People Systems.
• Define the product roadmap; manage prioritization and trade-offs and Delivered SAP Onboarding module with a competitve global team and a delivery partner.
• Defined and Established Jira Backlog Management Structure, Dashboards and Automation for seemless execution of Digital Transformation at the group level with 100s of team members.
• Picked up the AI wave, learnt and executed relavant AI use cases and was offered the next big role.

Jul 2013 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs

• Joined the McKinsey Digital Labs and Application Development team as a Product Manager. Started in Alumni application that was waiting to be launched for years. Took it as a challenge with a competitive global team and launched it in 6 months by giving day and night.
• Automated the usage statistics creation and brought in the culture of continuous analysis leveraging tools like Omniture, Heap, Tableau and even Excel through queries.
• Expert in Agile Development, up-skilled multiple teams at McKinsey.
• Invited to multiple conferences as a Product and Agile expert.
• Started my McKinsey Digital Labs client projects after that. Soon the firm decided to split the two functions. McKinsey Digital Labs and Application Development.
• Impressed with the sincerity, knowledge and performance, I was offered a India Hub lead role for Application Development where I became a part of the Application Development Global Leadership team.
• Worked as an Application Development India Hub lead to expand the team, expanded the team from 15 full time to ~70 full time hires in my role. I was also responsible for the contractors from various different vendors so overall responsibility was to recruit, coach and mentor the teams, team size ~300 firm members and contractors across 4 locations
• SME and go-to leader for Product Management and User Experience.
• Immense learning in the role, once the things were stable it was to move to another challenge.
• Leaders put-in immense faith in me to solve challenges with expertise, data centricity, grit, team management and creating a win-win situation for all the parties engaged

Sep 2007 – Jul 2013 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Started as a Business Analyst for a software development team of an Insurance Product.
• Collaborated with business SMEs and teams in Ireland and United States of America for Product Development and Delivery. Multiple long trips to Boston.
• Was gifted early promotions and climbed the ladder to a lead role where I handled complex Insurance projects with stakeholders spanning across the globe.
• 6 years focused on Products in Annuities and Group Insurance world.
• Multiple awards for the performance, as well as an enthusiastic participant in organising floor activities.
• Started and executed one of the most well received knowledge sharing sessions.
• Engaged, Learnt and Executed Information Architecture and User Research to learn the craft and empathise with User Experience teams.
• Actively played for a short duration the Quality Tester role along side the QA team to learn the craft and empathise with the team.
• FLMI Certified, wrote and cleared the last paper a day before delivering my child.
• Seeing my performance, my leaders gifted me work from home and other flexibilities to seamlessly continue merely weeks after my child was born. I didn't have parental support so needed that.
• This role came via a reference, learnt a lot, grew immensely and then came the McKinsey Opportunity. The role, the learning, the team and the growth was promising so decided to move on.

Jan 2004 – Sep 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Hired as a developer via Campus Recruitment.
• Hands-on coding in Java, C/C++ and Visual Basic
• Won award for building a tool to automate a manual screen building process. More than 150 screens were to be built. The tool reduced the time to build each screen from 3 days to half a day on an average.
• Travelled to multiple cities in United States of America with the Pre-Sales team. I was a part of NCS, a Corporate Actions product, where I accompanied the team for Pre-Sales as well as executed the needs by hands-on coding. Was offered onsite opportunities as well as Pre-Sales role during the tenure.
• Enjoyed Business Analysis alongside coding so took a plunge to try a new role.
• NCFM Certified, credible certifaction for Corporate Actions.