AKSHAT SHARMA
Associate Product Manager
Gurugram,Haryana
Summary
3 years of experience building SAAS, telecommunication and finance related solutions primarily for B2B organizations from idea stage until launch leading the creation of new products by skillful gathering of requirements, suggesting product enhancements, UI/UX development and performing quality assurance controls with agile scrum team.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Associate Product Manager
Naehas India Pvt. Ltd.
Gurugram, Haryana
09.2021 - Current
- Launched 5 new features ahead of time by effectively driving the product roadmap, backlog prioritization and user story creation with clear mockups thus increasing customer retention by 30 %
- Conducted customer and product focused analysis by understanding business need and current market landscape and gaps within the existing feature
- Successfully conducted requirement gathering and elicitation session , understanding business needs with clients like Charles Schwab, Bank of America, FNBO, State Farm and Wells fargo.
- Worked cross functionally with Engineering, QA, customer success and marketing teams and successfully aligned internal stakeholders with product idea using prototype, product roadmap etc.
- Successfully onboarded 2 of the existing banks to use newly integrated email testing feature within our SAAS platform by partnering with Litmus vendor and successfully integrating it's features and API's to come up with the solution.
- Conducted Product Demo sessions with internal and external stakeholders and effectively implemented the feedback by prioritizing the collected requirements.
- Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
Business Analyst
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru, Karnataka
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Conducted projects interviews with clients to understand Functional and Non-functional requirements and mapped it effectively using BRD, SRS and FRS documents.
- Facilitated a cloud migration, telecom and finance based projects by effectively conducting GAP analysis and effectively captured the user stories in JIRA
- Interacted with clients to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Successfully delivered feature on time by undertaking backlog prioritization based on feature criticality and ROI increasing sprint velocity by 30% with agile
- Working cross functionally with sales, pre-sales, customer success, engineering and higher management to deliver feature effectively on time.
- Coordinated with Testing teams to ensure the test cases are mapped perfectly with the requirements which resulted in 20% less bugs during UAT.
- Conducted Product Demo sessions with internal and external stakeholders and effectively implemented the feedback by prioritizing the collected requirements.
Education
MBA - Marketing
Christ University
Banglore 03.2017 - 04.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Gurukul College of Engineering And Technology
Kota 07.2012 - 08.2016
Skills
Interactive prototyping and user testing Hands on experience in using non- code prototyping tools such as protoio, invision, figma Designing low to medium fidelity wireframes and mockups using Blasamiq
API and technology for PMs
Experience in creating product management documents such as PRD, GAP analysis, Release notes and scope and Roadmap documents
Cross functional working promoting team management and growth with Engineering Team, Quality assurance, sales support, customer success and marketing
Agile/scrum methodologies such as Sprint ceremonies, accurate story pointing and sprint velocity
Skilled in making BRD, SRS and FRS documentation
Familiar with tools such as JIRA for capturing Epics, Features, user stories, bugs and improvements to the existing solution
Certification
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
Timeline
Associate Product Manager
Naehas India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2021 - Current
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
04-2021
Certified Dashboarding and Data Visualization using Tableau, CoLLearn
11-2020
Project Management essential certified, MSI
07-2020
Scrum Foundational professional certificate, CertiProf
07-2020
Business Analyst
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2019 - 08.2021
MBA - Marketing
Christ University
03.2017 - 04.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Gurukul College of Engineering And Technology
07.2012 - 08.2016