Aug 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Enabled the team to adopt and define the key business metrics. Resulting in a 24% increase in product adoption within 11 months of launch.
• Large scale strategy creation for the tribe and the product line for the finance product portfolio
• Create Product vision and product strategies for the existing products in the portfolio, which helped in the adoption of the internal products by 30% to the internal finance users
• Introduced Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as the firm initiative to become better at goal setting
• Increased Squad health by 80%, resulting in improved psychological safety
• Identified the problem and helped the team to reduce the overall cycle time from 34 days to 5 days, which helped in delivering the business value quickly and effectively
• Partnering with the EM to reduce the code deployment time from 36 hours to 1 hour by making the team realize the importance of solid engineering practices
• Managed a cross-functional team and stakeholders communication, and oversaw the product development along with other POs and EMs from inception to implementation
• Identify the area of the product funnel that was underperforming and recommended improvements to increase product adoption and revenue.
• Helped Squad collaborate with the Business, and Operation team more efficiently, which reduced dependency and delivered business outcomes
• Ensured accountability and ownership in the team by bringing more clarity to each individual's roles and responsibilities to work as one team
• Conducted Training, Workshops & Learning Labs on team Values & Principles, Product development Overview, Agile Mindset, Story Points etc
• Implemented transparent metrics such as Tableau Dashboards, Google Analytics reports, to further enabled the team to make data-driven product decisions
• Provided artifacts to the Agile product management community such as OKRs implementation plans on large scale. Product visioning exercises. Product strategy and roadmap frameworks etc.

Apr 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Coach and mentor scrum teams to create their vision, mission and quarterly OKR's and key results.
• Empowered teams by guiding and educating them on how to sort through cross-team dependencies, inter-squad coordination, and tribe-level roadmap discussions with business and internal IT stakeholders
• Coached, and mentored Product owners, Teams, and product support on How to remain focused on Goals and effectively deliver high-value impact by meeting the commitments,
• Increase communication speed by leveraging real time data communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Improve growth mindset with prioritization of outcomes over the output to drive the business impact and rollout of new features to users on a large scale.
• Actively involved in the discovery of new product features and identifying gaps, accessing maturity, and crafting next steps for squad transformation.

Dec 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• As a senior product manager, I leveraged my experience to tackle complex product adoption challenges to drive the successful roll-out of useful features on a large scale.
• Leveraged stakeholder management skills on a large scale, having worked closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver solutions that meet their requirements.
• In addition to my stakeholder management, I mentored junior product owners and built the product mindset within the organization. I strongly believe in a data-driven approach to product management and have consistently used actual user problems and user interviews to inform my decisions.
• I successfully leveraged the data insights to make informed product decisions, which resulted in improved user experiences and increased product adoption.
• Clear communication of the product vision that I shared with all stakeholders and team members. I always believed that a clear and compelling product vision was essential for achieving product success.
• I was able to build consensus around the product vision, which resulted in increased stakeholder buy-in and improved team morale.
• My experience in stakeholder management, mentoring, data-driven decision-making, and clear communication of the product vision has helped me achieve my goals and drive successful product adoption at scale in the At-Drive.

Oct 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Tech Data is ranked 107 in the list of Fortune 500 companies. It is one of the largest American multinational distribution companies specializing in IT products and services.
• In this project, I was responsible for end-to-end product discovery and delivery for the product "TD Activate-here". I have ideated, designed, and managed the entire product life cycle; reporting directly to the CPO.
• Implemented A/B testing to determine the user behavior to identify and improve the underperforming services.
• Conduct user research with the UX team to increase the product value to all the existing users and identify new opportunities to increase business
• Work with the new Product Owners and groom them and prioritize the product backlog at the multi-vendor model setup.
• Conduct workshops like visioning, roadmaps, and strategies as part of new product initiation to assist the product teams in evolving and populating a product backlog.
• Studied the market trends and user needs/feedback and extrapolated data to understand the user needs to present key insights to clients for data-driven decisions
• Conducted and lead an in-depth market analysis to validate the new need to pivot from the current plan to minimize future risks. Thus resulting in monthly savings of approximately ~12K

Sep 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Worked as a change agent in helping squads in their transformation journey.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility; ensured the consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Evangelized the benefits of agile to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories.

Mar 2009 – Sep 2013 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Perform complex analysis to identify business requirements, priorities, and recommendations.
• Compile and provide business analysis results for strategic planning and decision making.
• Develop project business plans to identify, track, report and resolve the critical dependency issues.
• Conduct competitive marketing research and customer need analysis to identify new business opportunities and expansions.
• Manage pilot project operation, project delivery and project transition within defined scope, cost, and timeline.