Akhilesh Kumar

Product Owner with 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Implemented Agile methodologies effectively Delivery, Aviation Analytics, and Enterprise Data Platforms. Experienced in driving end-to-end product development for Aviation Week's next-generation AW Web platform, collaborating with business stakeholders, architects, UX teams, and engineering teams to deliver AI-powered analytics, REST APIs, enterprise dashboards, and cloud-based data solutions. Strong expertise in Agile, Conducted Scrum ceremonies routinely, Developed strategic product plans, Backlog Management, User Story Creation, API Products, AWS-based Data Platforms, and stakeholder management.

• Managed product backlog for Aviation Week's AW Web platform, prioritizing features to maximize business value and meet customer requirements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, UX designers, SMEs, and engineering teams to define product vision and roadmap.
• Translate business requirements into Epics, Features, User Stories, Established clear acceptance criteria, and Functional Requirements.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and stakeholder demonstrations.
• Influenced product decisions through analysis of customer feedback, feasibility discussions, and alignment with business priorities.
• Managed Agile delivery using Scrum methodology.
• Defined sprint goals, acceptance criteria, and release planning.
• Supported QA, UAT, and production readiness activities.
• Led product ownership for Aviation Week's next-generation AW Web analytics platform, replacing legacy GoodData solutions with a modern cloud-based analytics ecosystem.
• Defined and prioritized product backlog for Fleet, Forecast, Flight Movement, Equipment, and MRO dashboards, collaborating with cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, UX, and Data.
• Authored detailed Epics, Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria for enterprise aviation analytics products.
• Partnered with AWS data engineering teams to define scalable data models, ETL workflows, and API requirements using AWS Glue, OpenSearch, Apache Iceberg, and Airflow.
• Drove API product strategy for REST and GraphQL services, including subscription management, entitlement models, authentication, and lookup APIs.
• Contributed to the AI roadmap by defining requirements for natural language querying, AI-generated chart summaries, and conversational analytics capabilities.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, stakeholder demos, UAT support, and release planning.
• Worked closely with UX teams to design interactive dashboards featuring KPI cards, drill-downs, dynamic metrics, breakout attributes, advanced filtering, and export functionality.
• Translated complex aviation data into customer-centric analytics products, ensuring high performance and scalability through collaboration with SMEs and business stakeholders.
• Oversaw product development lifecycle
• Created detailed product roadmap
• Agile
• Scrum
• Authored comprehensive user stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• Coordinated sprint planning sessions
• Executed effective backlog prioritization
• Developed structured release plans
• Engaged with stakeholders regularly

• Responsible for creating and maintaining all requirements and project-related requirement documentation, including BRDs, FRDs.
• Created and maintained all requirements and project-related requirement documentation, including BRDs and FRDs.
• Experience in gathering client requirements, proposing a solution until the requirements are frozen.
• Conducting requirement-gathering sessions with stakeholders, understanding business needs, documenting them into clear formats like BRDs, FRDs, user stories, and flowcharts.
• Created and submitted tickets for domain-related issues to facilitate resolution. for domain-related issues, assigned them to various teams in order to resolve them.
• Collaborated with technical team to clarify requirements and facilitate understanding across stakeholders.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner.
• Maintain Backlog with priorities, using the JIRA platform.
• Interacting with the technical team to ensure that the requirements are clear.
• Gathered client requirements and proposed solutions until the requirements were finalized.
• Coordinate with the development team for testing and implementation of various releases.
• Analyzing business challenges, identifying process gaps, and proposing solutions through business process flow diagrams. Designed wireframes to define system functionality and user flow before handing them over to the designing team for final implementation.
• Acting as a bridge between business users and the tech team, addressing concerns, helping everyone stay aligned on goals and timelines and providing updates on project progress.
• Supporting the testing phase by preparing test cases, helping with UAT, and coordinating with the QA team to ensure smooth releases with minimal bugs.

• Gathered and documented business and system requirements to support project objectives.
• Assisted senior analysts in project tasks and coordination. in conducting stakeholder meetings and workshops.
• Create and maintain documentation such as process flows, user stories, and BRDs.
• Assist in gathering and documenting business and system requirements.
• Support senior analysts in conducting stakeholder meetings and workshops.
• Generated basic reports to assist in decision-making processes. and assist with training or user support as needed
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and document business requirements for in-house portals such as Timesheet Management, Payroll, HR, Onboarding, and Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Prioritized and maintained product backlogs and ensured timely sprint deliveries through JIRA.
• Actively participated in ongoing feature enhancements and updates to improve automation, user experience, and operational efficiency.
• Led requirement discussions for enhancements in the ATS, including candidate tracking, job posting, interview scheduling, and compliance tracking.
• Created wireframes and process flow diagrams using tools like Figma or draw.io to visualize proposed changes.
• Performed functional testing and supported user acceptance testing (UAT) for each release.
• Provide basic reporting and assist with training or user support as needed