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Akshay Sawarkar

Akshay Sawarkar

Product Manager
Mumbai

Summary

  • Skilled professional with 6+ years of experience in Banking, end-to-end process of Business Analysis, mapping & finalizing requirements, determining business scenarios and mapping them into solutions.
  • Demonstrated skills in interviewing Business Units, Stakeholders and Technical Leaders to gather the business requirements.
  • Experience in assessing customer expectations, requirement gathering and generating a product that successfully meets those standards. Bringing forth the ability to determine product specifications, product timelines, and in-depth plans for product development. Experience in designing and building products covering various domains like AR-VR, EdTech, cloud technology, mobile application development, and SaaS.


Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Manager

Navneet Future tech Ltd
Mumbai
11.2022 - Current

• Defining product features, roadmaps, and product backlog with the product owner.

• Creating user stories, product specifications, and business requirements for various edtech products.

• Managing Sprint Planning and product delivery

• grooming the tech team about product features to ensure seamless product delivery.

• Brainstorming with stakeholders about new product features to ensure whether the product is feasible for development and delivery

• Performing A/B testing scenarios and providing demos to stakeholders before product release.

• Cost-benefit analysis of various products to determine market suitability.

• Engaging with vendors for various feature requirements for mobile application

Product Manager

Jio Tesseract
Mumbai
03.2022 - 10.2022

• Defined product features, roadmap and product backlog in collaboration with Product Owner, aligning with tech and non-tech partner teams on priorities, and resource commitments for product release.

• Analyze strong business cases that are backed up by user testing data, market data, competitor analysis and cost benefit analysis to justify product development and put in place processes to quantify and measure various KPI product metrics that measure adoption, usage, and engagement.

• Engage, communicate, and collaborate with various stakeholders including Software core services, DCX team, Hardware team and other teams and drive new device capabilities based on the long- term product vision, end consumer needs, and organizational priorities.

• Managed the product lifecycle from inception to execution, launch, and manage product delivery.

• Performing A/B testing scenarios with a variety of tech and non- tech stakeholders to gain insights into product behavior and evolve product roadmap regularly over time.

Product Management Associate

Europa
Pune
05.2021 - 03.2022
  • Develop cloud strategy, hybrid cloud, and cloud market place for consumer IT Products.
  • Develop detailed product roadmap advocating new features with qualitative as well as quantitative reasoning.
  • Obsess for the Empathy of customer as well as Precision in market research for better product decision.
  • Passionate to write Product requirement document, business plan and Product launching plan.
  • Influence to work cross-functionally within engineering teams.
  • Develop and implement solid work plan for continuous improvement of product.

Territory Manager

Hindware, HSIL
Mumbai
05.2019 - 05.2021
  • Successfully Integrate Payment platform for retail clients works on the ISO27001 and ISO20022 for the Compliance.
  • Established and monitored timelines in association with product launch.
  • Assessed user feedback and lead initiatives for product adjustments to grow user base and overall user satisfaction.
  • Lead teams of Sales, marketers, and stakeholders Management in reaching product goals.

Business Development Manager

Phoenix Sales Inc
Nagpur
03.2016 - 04.2017
  • Worked to improve existing products based on customer evaluations and needs.
  • Successfully prioritized customer requirements and set realistic expectations in regards to sales and marketing.
  • Looking after project sales, lead generation,team handling, market research, customer analysis and looking after key account.
  • Identified failures and success of a product, using the mas solution to cover more marketshare.

Business Development Intern

Kohler Power India
Pune
05.2018 - 08.2018
  • Creating Marketing Plans, Identifying Target User, Exploring various online marketing Channel.
  • Success fully improved the sales value by analyzing user behavior and market end.
  • Performing Market Research and Competitive analysis among various players, suggesting Service Model, providing SEO suggestions, managing social media handles.

Education

MBA - Marketing Management And Research

SBIIMS
Pune Maharashtra
08.2017 - 04.2019

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering

KITS
Nagpur
08.2010 - 07.2015

Product Management

Brightigo Edutech
New Delhi
12.2020 - 03.2023

Certification - Consumer Analytics

Consumer Analytics, University of of Pennsylvania
Virtual
10.2019 - 12.2019

Certification - Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing With Live Project, Udemy
Virtual
03.2020 - 03.2020

Certification - Google Analytics

Advance Google Analytics, Google Analytics
Virtual
05.2020 - 05.2020

Certificate - SQL Querries

Provisioning SQL Data Base, Free Codecamp
Virtual
05.2020 - 05.2020

Certification - Data Analysis Essentials,

Imperial College of Business`
Virtual
06.2020 - 06.2020

Skills

Agile Product Development(JIRA, Asana, Trello)

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Accomplishments

  • Won the Project Presentation atTechfest2K15at KITS Nagpur(2015), Nagpur January 2015 — January 2015.
  • Ranked 1st in Product and Market Research Presentation (In a class of600 students),Pune,March 2018 — March 2018.
  • Build online payment gateway for the HSIL product, Mumbai November 2019 — November 2019

Timeline

Product Manager

Navneet Future tech Ltd
11.2022 - Current

Product Manager

Jio Tesseract
03.2022 - 10.2022

Product Management Associate

Europa
05.2021 - 03.2022

Product Management

Brightigo Edutech
12.2020 - 03.2023

Certification - Data Analysis Essentials,

Imperial College of Business`
06.2020 - 06.2020

Certification - Google Analytics

Advance Google Analytics, Google Analytics
05.2020 - 05.2020

Certificate - SQL Querries

Provisioning SQL Data Base, Free Codecamp
05.2020 - 05.2020

Certification - Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing With Live Project, Udemy
03.2020 - 03.2020

Certification - Consumer Analytics

Consumer Analytics, University of of Pennsylvania
10.2019 - 12.2019

Territory Manager

Hindware, HSIL
05.2019 - 05.2021

Business Development Intern

Kohler Power India
05.2018 - 08.2018

MBA - Marketing Management And Research

SBIIMS
08.2017 - 04.2019

Business Development Manager

Phoenix Sales Inc
03.2016 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering

KITS
08.2010 - 07.2015
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