Muthuraj Thangavel

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led transformative Enterprise SaaS product launches.
  • Awarded multiple patents and international fellowships.
  • Mentoring future product leaders in India's startup ecosystem.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with expertise in Cloud Security and Product Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCloud SecurityProduct Led GrowthProduct Launch

Other Skills

A/B TestingABAPAgile MethodologiesBig DataBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCloud ComputingCompetitive AnalysisCreativity SkillsCustomer ExperienceCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Design ThinkingDigital Marketing

About

Seasoned product leader, driving Enterprise SaaS innovation by building and scaling transformative products that solve complex challenges. ○ Leading the future of real-time access risk prevention based on user behavior and sensitive action protection at Google Cloud. ○ Drove mid-market growth and retention at Intuit (QuickBooks Enterprise). ○ Built and launched multiple Enterprise SaaS products for over a decade at SAP Labs. ○ Awarded for exemplary coaching, product thought leadership, and innovation (2 USPTO patents, 2 international fellowships). ○ Recognized speaker at international conferences, NASSCOM, IIM, ISB, and other leading forums. ○ Empowering the next generation of product leaders through mentorship and actively contributing to India's startup ecosystem.  ○ Expertise in 0-1 product launches, PLG strategies, AI/ML integration, and building high-performing PM teams.

Experience

16 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Google

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • ○ Leading products for real-time access risk protection and sensitive action protection with Google cloud.
  • ○ Previously led adoption for identity services, GTM strategy for foundational security product bundles and drove security practices through blueprints.
  • ○ Supporting as a Product Strategy Mentor for startups through Google Startup Accelerator and a Career Mentor for Google PMs through the gMentors initiative.
Cloud SecurityProduct Led GrowthProduct StrategyCompetitive AnalysisProduct Road MappingProduct Management+1

Intuit

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr

  • ○ Led the mid-market growth strategy for QuickBooks Enterprise towards the addition of $40M ARR.
  • ○ Was an innovation catalyst, Intuit Digital ambassador, PM hiring panelist and a mentor for early PMs.
  • ○ Key skills included PM team management, growth strategy, GTM and roadmapping.
Product Led GrowthMachine LearningTeam ManagementUser ExperienceDesign ThinkingProduct Management

Product Manager 2, Quickbooks

Jun 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • ○ Led customer success, purchase experience, help experience, and self-service initiatives for QuickBooks to empower and delight the 4 million customer base.
  • ○ Helped to reduce support cost by more than $3million and through initiatives for increasing customer retention and NPS, added more than $10million in annual recurring revenue.
  • ○ The self-service cloud portal is accessed more than 2 million times by our customers every year and it is rapidly growing. While the in-product help experience accessed 10 million times per year.
  • ○ Product simplification customer delights are delivered every month; self-service experience improvements & features are delivered every week.
  • ○ Each experience enhancement was done based on deep customer studies, launched with experiments and throttled based on success metrics.
Product Management

Sap labs india

5 roles

Product Manager, Industry Cloud

Sep 2016Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • ○ Led a machine learning based cloud analytics product built with micro-services architecture, which provides intelligence to B2B sales applications.
  • ○ Drove effective customer engagement and guided the product team towards successful delivery.
  • ○ Collaborated with multiple stakeholders and customers across geographies to define and deliver the product.
  • ○ Researched user needs & analyze market trends to identify product enhancement opportunities and to conceptualize new product ideas.
  • ○ Represented the product in the internal product forums & external customer conferences.
  • ○ Core team member of Product Managers Forum and as a lead coach for design thinking, supported multiple product teams @ SAP Labs.
  • ▬Highlights▬
  • ★ Led successful first release to the market with a small development team, and drove early customer traction.
  • ★ Made a successful investment case to senior management, resulting in 5x team growth.
Product LaunchMachine LearningProduct Management

Product Owner, Market Introduction APJ GC

Promoted

Jul 2014Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • ○ Administered end user global service to establish a framework for SAP development units to engage with their product’s end users and drove adoption for framework with SAP internal product units.
  • ○ Developed a pipeline of customers to organize various forums and events designed to engage development teams with customers.
  • ○ Collaborated with SAP Product Units & Indian SAP user group, to help customers influence product roadmap and adopt product innovations.
  • ○ Developed a Project and Resource Management tool and visualized quick insights through Lumira using SAP web IDE and custom JS scripts.
  • ○ Led Events including Digital innovation summit for CxOs, End User Testing at Product Innovation Summit, End user innovation day (managed at 50% lesser cost than comparable events), Roll-in workshops at TechEd 2015 & 2016, Sessions at DKOM 2015 & 2016 and customer track for DevXchange global event at India & China.
  • ▬Highlights▬
  • ★ Design and launch of Product Live Influence service that helped more than 40 product teams to receive direct feedback and insights from customers.
  • ★ Won SAP Global unit level product strategy competition.
  • ★ Conferred with 1st prize in SAP KickApp cup designed to come up with product idea and prototype to support sport as a medium for social change.
Product Management

Fellowship: Software Architect, Business Intelligence

Feb 2013Jul 2013 · 5 mos

  • ○ Position awarded as part of SAP’s High Potential Employee program.
  • ○ Contributed to the development of a better SAP BI CVOM charts library with enhanced scalability and flexible architecture.
  • ○ Supported scaling of design thinking based product development approach in Labs China and coached product teams.
  • ▬Highlights▬
  • ★ Filed 4 patent applications across Big Data handling, offline mobile analytics, node link-based library architecture and new visualization concepts for Big Data.
  • ★ Winner of Global Service Jam 2013, Shanghai - competition for Product/Service innovation with Design Thinking
  • ★ SAP Lumira visualization contest winner.

Senior Developer & Lead, Application Strategic Innovation (ASI)

Promoted

Nov 2011Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • ○ Initial setup of the new department: including the selection of developer candidates, mentoring for new hires and served as development point of contact for EERM research team.
  • ○ Developed PoCs for a new application framework concept and enhanced features of SAP Working Capital Management, a HANA XS based application.
  • ○ Enhanced the Maven plugin for static code check of Fiori applications to include more stringent checks which were used for extremely important reporting on quality of SAP Fiori apps.
  • ○ Developed several Selenium test cases and scripts for the apps worked on.
  • ○ In addition, as a design thinking coach, supported two project teams: Enhanced Developer productivity in ABAP for Eclipse project and Strategic freight solution project, including the development of a new business case.
  • Environment: Java, XSJS, HANA studio, JS, Selenium
  • ▬Highlights▬
  • ★ Awarded a fellowship position of 1 month from MD’s office, to work for Product Management and Customer Services team in Germany, where I represented customer engagement problems from India, understand various customer engagement processes and lead the customer engagement curriculum.
  • ★ Winner of Global Sustainability Jam 2013 - competition for social product innovation with design thinking.
  • ★ 'Best Mobile Application Award’ in Facebook World Hack 2012.

Developer, SAP BusinessByDesign (ByD)

Nov 2009Nov 2011 · 2 yrs

  • ○ Played a pivotal role in e-commerce adapters for SAP ByD - design, development, test script creation & execution and customer implementation: full-lifecycle process within the project
  • ○ Involved in taking over SAP ByD E-Commerce integration topic from SAP Labs Israel
  • ○ Served as a direct contact for Customers and Implementation Partners
  • ○ As part of ByD – Innovation On-Demand, worked on several innovation projects such as UI Designer redesigned, mass-data maintenance and innovation process for program management. Responsibilities included concept definition and POC development.
  • Environment: .Net C#, Java
  • ★ High Potential Employee 2012

Education

Swiss School of Business and Management

Doctor's Degree

Mar 2022Present

Institute of Product Leadership

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Product Management

Jan 2017Jan 2018

Anna University Chennai

Engineer’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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