Sowmya Murthy
Senior Product Manager | Product Leader
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Product Leader with a proven track record of building delightful products used by millions of customers in US, UK, Canada and India. 13+ years of multi-domain experience (B2B & B2C) in Product Management, strategy, new product development and technology. I have led diverse multicultural, cross-functional and geographically distributed teams to build impactful products for customers. Extremely customer-centric with a proven ability to use data to build scalable product vision and strategy. Experienced in managing and leading product managers and designers. I coach teams and startups on design thinking to drive innovation and solving the most impactful problems. I mentor PMs to constantly raise the bar on product management craft. A renowned speaker on product management, design thinking, pricing and GTM via platforms like NASSCOM, Product Leadership Forum, Government of Karnataka Entrepreneurship cell and Intuit Circles.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Languages
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Intuit
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2017 - Current
- Lead QuickBooks Payroll product vision and strategy (short-term and long-term) for US and Canada geographies focusing on new growth opportunities while retaining the customer base with delightful experiences
- Collaborate with BU leader and cross-functional leadership team to build an overall product vision
- Strong negotiator adept at driving cross-functional team alignment for complex initiatives
- Manage the QuickBooks Desktop Payroll PM team in Bangalore who deliver end-to-end product solutions for millions of employers and employees in US and CA
- Responsible for acquisition, first-time-use, money movement, compliance, beyond payroll / HCM solutions and employee focused solutions
- Define and own product OKRs and use data insights to drive product strategy
- Ruthless prioritisation to solve for the most impactful problems
- Drive continuous innovation on a mature product by continuous discovery process with customers, leading to investments in newer horizons for QuickBooks Payroll product
- Use product data, market and design research insights to fuel growth of the payroll product
- Spearheaded the project to standardise methods of customer research and reporting in the QuickBooks Desktop ecosystem resulting in an open platform of customer research insights
- Design thinking coach who coaches teams and start-ups on design thinking and helps them solve the most impactful problems
- PM-XD community champion at Intuit responsible for building PM and design craft as well as internal and external branding of the community
- Delivered “beyond Payroll” capabilities like 401(K) and Workers Compensation to ~1M employers and 14M employees in the US
- Delivered income & background verification check for ~5M SMB employees via The Work Number from Equifax resulting in additional revenue of ~$10M
VP Product Management
PLANezy
05.2016 - 09.2017
- Re-conceptualize and re-design the website www.planezy.com and associated mobile apps. PLANezy is a social media platform / aggregator for event planning and booking.
Product Owner [Senior Software Engineer
Citrix R&D India Private Limited
06.2014 - 05.2016
- Product owner for XenServer (Storage and GPU providers) across the globe
- Spearheaded the process of customer-centric product management in Bangalore by working closely with hardware partners to understand their needs better
- Built a new "Diagnostic Tool" for XenServer to improve the ability to solve unreported bugs proactively and solve customer reported bugs with minimal client intervention to provide best-in-class service
System Software Engineer
IBM India Private Limited, labs
08.2008 - 05.2013
- Spearheaded the implementation of an automation framework to reduce efforts of manual processes for IBM Systems Director, System Z and System P
- Initiated and implemented agile methodologies to the project like SCRUM, TDD
- Qualification
Education
MBA - Strategy & Marketing
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Chennai 04.2012 - 03.2013
B.E - Computer Science & Engineering
Viswesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore 10.2004 - 07.2008
Skills
Product lifecycle management
Competitive market analysis
Market requirement research
Negotiation
Strategic planning
Demographic Analysis
Trend Analysis
Product Roadmaps
Product positioning
Campaign management
Market Analysis
Corporate Communications
Financial Management
Product Team Leadership
Product Strategy
Product Enhancement
Product Launch
Go-to-Market Strategies
Competitive Analyses
Quality assurance
Teamwork and Collaboration
Figma
External Product Management Events
· NASSCOM and Govt of Karnataka sponsored webinar on “Pricing and GTM startegies for B2B startups” to over 100 startups (February 2021)
· Design thinking workshop at Huddle Kerala (September 2019), a startup event funded by the Government of Kerala with over 100 attendees
· Design thinking workshop at Intuit for 10 startups identified by “intuit Circles” the flagship startup accelerator program (October 2019)
· Design thinking workshop at Product Leaders Forum to over 100 attendees each in Bangalore and Pune (December 2018, June 2019 and August 2019)
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Intuit
10.2017 - Current
VP Product Management
PLANezy
05.2016 - 09.2017
Product Owner [Senior Software Engineer
Citrix R&D India Private Limited
06.2014 - 05.2016
MBA - Strategy & Marketing
Great Lakes Institute of Management
04.2012 - 03.2013
System Software Engineer
IBM India Private Limited, labs
08.2008 - 05.2013
B.E - Computer Science & Engineering
Viswesvaraya Technological University
10.2004 - 07.2008