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Saravana Kumar
  • 17 years of experience
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Evaluated for Director of Product and Enterprise PM role archetypeⓘ
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Lead Product Manager

  • Give.do
  • Full-Time
  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Apr 2023 - Oct 2024

Indian companies annually spend ?30,000 Crores on CSR. Give’s mission is to enhance the impact of these initiatives. Lead Product Manager April 2023 – Present Spearheaded the end-to-end development and launch of a 0-to-1 SaaS product solving problems within the CSR ecosystem, securing 3 paying customers in the first quarter post launch.
• Discovery: Conducted user research and 30+ stakeholder interviews, identifying key critical CSR challenges solvable through technology
• Design: Made strategic build vs. buy decisions, and rolled out MVP integrating with the Microsoft Power platform, resulting in 50% reduction in development & maintenance costs
• Pricing: Developed a model factoring in all costs to determine optimal pricing for a sustainable business, enabling 20% increase in sales closures

Lead Product Manager

  • SHARPSELL.AI
  • Full-Time
  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Apr 2022 - Mar 2023

• Led a 15+ cross-functional team to scale the product support 25+ deployment modes across platforms & screen sizes, a 50% increase in the number of deals closed over 6 months.
• Aligned the 6-member leadership team on a framework for product roadmap / metrics and streamlined development processes to improve the stakeholder confidence score by 30%.
• Built user personas & drove new product development initiatives in Pharma and Banking industries, increasing pipeline by 20% in 1 year and closing 5 new logo deals.

Senior Product Manager

  • Full-Time
  • Apr 2019 - Mar 2022

• Led first-ever product integration with insurance underwriting & customer onboarding systems spanning 300+ man-days to increase quote-to-proposal conversion by 20%.
• Conducted user interviews, wrote specs & monitored success metrics for 5+ new industry-first features (Exam prep, recruitment tool etc) to improve active user base by 30%.
• Conceived & Launched 2 self-paced learning simulations (Finance for everyone, Customer centricity) rated 8.5/10 by 5000+ participants, collaborating with external vendors, internal stakeholders, and the L&D team.
• Conceptualized and executed features (Online case studies, Centralized feedback etc) to enable 300% increase in the number of training programs/month.
• Defined the long-term vision and approach for analytics and reporting by conducting workshops with the client and business stakeholders, reducing time to market by 3 months.
• Re-engineered configuration layer of the product by moving key customization components to configurations to reduce custom effort and time per deployment by 50% .
• Productized SAML & Oauth based SSO logins through integrations with HRMS systems – Reduced user data maintenance effort by 70%.
• Set-up and trained a team of 5 product managers and 4 QA engineers; made 5 CS folks independently handle customer queries within 3 months.
• Improved core feature adoption by 30% by personalizing the home screen based on sales channels, resulting in a 10% increase in revenue.

Product Manager

  • Full-Time
  • May 2018 - Mar 2019

• Spearheaded roll out of the multilingual version of the app to improve feature adoption in 3 states by 20%.
• Developed a calculator to compute optimal Sum Assured based on the Customer’s profile, decreased underwriting rejections by 30%.

Associate Vice President – Analyst

  • Tracxn Technologies
  • Full-Time
  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Nov 2017 - May 2018

• Managed a 30+ member team that delivered 180,000+ company profiles for VCs & PEs across 15+ sectors.
• Created a google app script-based review dashboard that improved coverage by 30% and accuracy by 20%.

Senior Consultant

  • Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Full-Time
  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • May 2015 - Oct 2017

Executed roadmap of Product Catalog management appfor a European B2B Telecomservice provider
• Influenced IT solution approach of a strategic product portfolio restructuring that brought down the go-to-market timelines by 2 months.
• Captured BRD & product specs from Network & operational stakeholders to launch “Dedicated Cloud Access” that enabled access of Amazon & Microsoft data centers through secure private networks.
• Facilitated high-level requirement gathering discussions and impact assessments across applications to submit 5 business cases to the CFO office.

Senior Software Engineer

  • Accenture
  • Full-Time
  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • May 2008 - May 2013

Offshore Engineering lead (5 Devs & 1 QA) -Infrastructure management app for a US Telecomservice provider
• Analyzed & steered revamp of workforce management processes in Service Fulfillment & Assurance; Cost Savings of $500k through redesigning the Contractor administration app.
• Implemented middleware architecture overhaul (in C++) of Infra management app; 15k users & worth $500k.
• Awarded Accenture Excellence (top 1% of 200,000 employees) for 2 consecutive years; Rated the highest “Significantly Above Peers” in all 4 performance appraisals

Degree Programs

  • Indian Institute of Management
  • Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering

  • College Of Technology
  • Bachelor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2008

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