Nikita Wahie

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India5 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led AI-powered product initiatives at Microsoft.
Improved user experience for millions on Microsoft Edge.
Expert in data-driven product strategy and development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with a strong focus on AI and user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementUser Experience (ux)Cloud Computing

Other Skills

AIC (Programming Language)Competitive AnalysisCost-saving strategiesCustomer ExperienceCustomer InsightCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer RequirementsData AnalysisData analysisData-driven decision-makingDesign DirectionEnd User ResearchExperimentationIT infrastructure management

About

Consumer & Enterprise Tech | Building Scalable, AI-powered Experiences. With over 5 years of experience in consumer tech and enterprise tech, I’ve built and scaled products that operate at massive scale—whether it’s the native translate capability in Microsoft Edge, helping millions of Edge users consumer information and browse the web, spearheading the extensions marketplace for millions of users to discover, install and manage extensions on the browser or helping thousands of sellers and marketeers use Dynamics 365 for automated relationship management Currently, I’m a Product Manager at Microsoft, leading the AI-powered Reading and Translate experience in Microsoft Edge, designed to enhance content consumption for users globally. I specialize in leveraging AI, design thinking, and data-driven decision-making to craft intuitive, high-impact products. My expertise spans across Product Strategy, Product Development, Stakeholder Management, UX, User research, Experimentation, Market research and Go-to-Market execution

Experience

5 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs

Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Product Manager 2

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Current : Enabling Microsoft Edge users across the globe to have the best reading experience on the browser
Past : Growth PMing by simplifying and shipping optimized user journeys for Microsoft Edge Extension users to ensure no Edge extension user churns away due to unawareness, friction in discovery, lack of extensions or broken install journeys on Microsoft Edge. Worked across geographies, roles, product groups, including browser web platform, Microsoft Bing, Search technology platform and external partners like Google Chrome to successfully drive OKRs directly impacting $XXMn LTV in revenue

Product ManagementAIUser Experience (UX)Data-driven decision-makingProduct Strategy

Product Manager

Mar 2022 – Aug 2022 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked with the Edge browser experiences product group owning the Edge browser extensions marketplace : https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/Microsoft-Edge-Extensions-Home
+12pp jump in search conversions by improving platform search effectiveness. Experimented multiple experiments to revamp (UX and platform) of storefront search to improve relevance and provide user control over search views
Continuously iterated on storefront experiences based on user feedback to improve the NPS by +7pp

User Experience (UX)ExperimentationMarket researchProduct Management

Product Manager

May 2021 – Mar 2022 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked for the Partner and Seller Experiences team within C+AI on a data platform product targeted at MSFT’s sales and marketing audience
Designed, conducted user research to identify product gaps, analyse user behaviour to drive clarity and further develop product capability roadmap and pitch to internal and external stakeholders for a 3P product leveraged by 37k+ MAU
Shipped a data ingestion workflow feature with 37k+ MAU and successful feature usage hits of 47k+ within first 60 days of launch. The scenarios focused on reducing time, number of clicks while taking care of post ingestion risk mitigation of newly acquired data.
Worked on the end to end UX design for a net new product capability, conducted first cut user reviews and developed an implementation plan for MVPs

User researchData analysisProduct capability roadmapProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Program Manager Intern

Apr 2020 – May 2020 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked with the Commercial Sales and Marketing team within CSEO MSFT to deliver high-value product capabilities for sellers and marketeers to optimise sales workflows and identify-evaluate-convert opportunities effectively and efficiently.
Prototyped product features to improve user network strength and help them easily navigate through their day to day relationship management needs. Effectively helping them in shorter sales cycles and higher revenue conversion.
Offered a pre-placement offer basis project delivery and overall performance.
Presented ideas, and received appreciation across Business, Product and Engineering leadership.

PrototypingSales workflows optimization

Searce inc

Cloud Platform Engineer

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Being the Technical Account Manager for international and domestic clients across the Media & Entertainment and SNS domains, I was responsible for their IT infrastructure’s end to end project architecture, deployment, monitoring, security, and cost optimization on Google Cloud Platform
Assisted clients in Pre-Sales Engagement for adopting cloud as a reliable & optimal solution for their business strategy and use cases
Initiated and completed common repository creation for documentation, to regulate cross team knowledge sharing which thus led to effective workflows across various stakeholders for 10+ projects

Cloud computingIT infrastructure managementCloud Computing

Bharti airtel

Network Operations Engineer

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked for creation of optimum architectures: 2G & 3G networks in 7 zones of Airtel's Maharashtra and Goa circles
Scrutinized 3G networks for equipment redundancy, to effectively save cost for 3 major deployment zones
Designed a Preventive Measures Workflow after collaborating with on-site engineers to contribute in the robustness of network

Network architectureCost-saving strategies