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Avinash Girigoudar
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Avinash Girigoudar

Bangalore

Work Preference

Job Search Status

Open to work
Desired start date: Flexible

Desired Job Title

Group Product ManagerProduct ManagerProduct OwnerLead Business AnalystLead Business Analyst

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

HybridRemote
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Open to relocation: Yes

Salary Range

₹800000/yr - ₹1000000/yr

Important To Me

Career advancement

Summary

Dynamic Group Product Manager at RingCentral India with a proven track record in product strategy and user experience design. Expert in Agile methodologies, I successfully led cross-functional teams to enhance product roadmaps and drive impactful solutions. Passionate about stakeholder management and data-driven decision-making, I thrive on delivering exceptional results.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Group Product Manager

RingCentral India
Bangalore
11.2024 - Current
  • Defined and communicated product vision and strategy for lead processing, quoting (CPQ), and contract management applications, aligning teams towards a common goal on Salesforce.com.
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders and technical teams to collect requirements, propose solutions, and prioritize delivery of features that enhance user experience.
  • Created a product roadmap detailing 3-month forward-looking view of solutions addressing key customer and business challenges.
  • Led and mentored a team of Product Owners, providing guidance and support.
  • Worked closely with technical teams to define functional requirements and implementation specifications.
  • Took proactive measures to address discrepancies in requirements.

Product Manager

Salesforce
Bangalore
03.2021 - 11.2024
  • Led the functional design and development of products widely utilized by the sales organization for sales planning and execution on Salesforce.com
  • Managed product development for Account & Territory Management BT and Lead to Opportunity Management, ensuring alignment with business goals and overseeing Collections.
  • Maintained product backlog and prioritized the work for the scrum team to ensure focus on highest business value items.
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders to collect requirements and translate them into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Collaborated with scrum teams to deliver enhancements that supported Global Sales & Strategy and Employee Success.
  • Conducted feature demos to the business owners and provided support during the UAT.
  • Identified test case scenarios and reviewed test scripts to support QA in validating system changes.

Product Owner

PhaseZero Ventures
Bangalore
05.2019 - 10.2020
  • Worked as a Product Owner for a SaaS based eCommerce solution for B2B businesses.
  • Identified use cases, drafted user stories, and secured stakeholder buy-in to align product vision.
  • Conducted market research and competitive analysis to inform product strategy and feature prioritization.
  • Designed product features, authored business, and technical requirement documents.
  • Successfully onboarded 6 new customers as new tenants on the eCommerce SaaS solution.
  • Authored integration requirement documents to ensure seamless interfacing with catalog and ERP systems.
  • Performed data mapping from customer catalogs to the product canonical structure.
  • Acted as a professional services organization lead and a scrum master on professional services engagements.

Lead Business Analyst

Ernst & Young LLP
Bangalore
11.2018 - 05.2019
  • Authored Current State Assessment, Software Requirement Specifications, Data Migration and Reporting plan and received acceptance from client.
  • Authored Functional Design documents containing Business processing mapping, screen flows, Data migration and integration and received acceptance from client.
  • Conducted current state assessment, software requirement specifications, data migration, and design sessions with business and technical members to align project objectives at client site.
  • Performed fit-gap analysis to identify discrepancies between gathered requirements and existing software solution, facilitating informed decision-making.
  • Created detailed screen mockups for the front-end application to visualize user interface design.
  • Co-Authored high level technical architecture plan and received acceptance from client.
  • Analyzed Mainframe IMS, Oracle and GIS ArcInfo databases and mapped data to new the database.
  • Developed test plans and executed unit, regression, and user acceptance testing to ensure software quality and client satisfaction.
  • Tools/Technologies: SQL, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, Snagit.

Lead Business Analyst

CGI Technologies Inc.
Fairfax
09.2013 - 08.2018
  • Acted as a trusted client advisor and critical business analyst on the NJ Disaster Recovery Project, providing a central information repository to manage, monitor, and deliver transparency for $1.8B of HUD allocated funds.
  • Led requirement gathering sessions with clients and authored Business Functional Requirement Documents, User Guides, and Training Documents.
  • Implemented Salesforce.com solution to manage client requests, capturing project, milestone, and task-related information for enhanced tracking.
  • Conducted user testing and training sessions for large audiences, ensuring effective adoption of system functionalities.
  • Served as the bridge between the internal CGI technical, reporting, and quality assurance teams to help ensure that business knowledge is communicated across the SIROMS team.
  • Identified new change requests for the system and worked with client and internal teams to create and maintain a release schedule in an agile development methodology.
  • Directed development team in implementing changes and bug fixes, facilitating timely resolutions to improve system reliability.
  • Developed test plans and performed unit, regression and user acceptance testing.
  • Tools/Technologies: Agile, Scrum, SQL, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, Snagit.

Program Analyst

Qualcomm
San Diego
09.2012 - 09.2013
  • Collaborated with software target program management team to commercialize two critical QMC (Qualcomm mobile computing) software products, enhancing product availability.
  • Interfaced closely with technology teams to gather information to track to the delivery schedule.
  • Defined CR (change request) tracking process and developed a Salesforce.com application to automate the process.
  • Conducted weekly core meetings and daily CR scrum meetings to discuss issues, analyze the bugs and get the ETA for fixes.
  • Worked with product managers to prepare product requirement document by capturing features requested by customers.
  • Collected test status from various technology teams and created slide decks for executive review, facilitating informed decision-making.
  • Coordinated HW allocation process to ensure timely delivery of test hardware for tech teams, supporting achievement of test coverage and pass goals.
  • Utilized various tools including SQL, VBA, and JIRA bug tracker to enhance project efficiency.

Systems Analyst

Brainware, a Lexmark company
Ashburn
05.2011 - 09.2012
  • Contributed to product development core team by gathering requirements for future product enhancements through market research, competitive analysis, and interactions with potential customers.
  • Outlined detailed feature specifications for each product release and helped in prioritizing development activities in an Agile Scrum development life cycle methodology.
  • Interacted with customers to gather requirements and configure products based on their feedback.
  • Prepared Software Requirement Specifications document for web application, facilitating development by third-party vendor.
  • Conducted unit, system and user acceptance testing for a SaaS application.
  • Provided production support for a SaaS system hosted on Azure data-center.
  • Performed integration analysis for embedding Brainware technology into other vendor devices.
  • Worked on product analysis projects to help scientists create algorithms for better extraction of data on documents using Brainware product.
  • Participated in potential customer demonstrations to answer business and technical questions.
  • Performed critical evaluation of product documentation and user guides.
  • Worked with sales team to create a business case and establish POC for product sale.
  • Tools/Technologies: C, SQL, VB, ASP .NET. MSSQL Server, Windows Azure, MS Dynamics, SAP, Informatica, Intellica, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

The George Washington University
Washington
12.2009 - 05.2011
  • Delivered Introduction to Programming lab course to 20 students over four semesters, fostering understanding of core programming concepts.
  • Designed the syllabus for the lab course, prepared assignments, conducted quizzes and graded all deliverables.
  • Guided students through project development phases, enabling successful project completion and enhancing their technical skills.
  • Consistently received positive feedback from students and faculty.
  • Supported professor in statistical analysis projects by gathering and organizing data, ensuring accurate and comprehensive results.
  • Programming language used is Visual Basic on Visual Studio 2010.
  • Tools/Technologies: SQL, VB .Net.

Data Management Intern

Rare Conservation
Arlington
02.2010 - 05.2010
  • Collected functional requirements for the application by conducting interviews with partner recruiting managers.
  • Designed and created a new funding detail record for partner funding on salesforce.com.
  • Collaborated with external salesforce.com consultant to implement project for partner recruiting process, creating and organizing reports for dashboard.
  • Designed the user interface screen on salesforce.com for the new partner recruiting application.
  • Configured the translation workbench on salesforce.com to make the website multilingual.
  • Trained partner recruiting managers from different countries on using a blackberry application for salesforce.com by conducting one-on-one training sessions.
  • Conducted weekly audits and generated reports to make sure all the Partner Recruiting Managers are up to date with their data entry to the system.
  • Tools/Technologies: SQL, Salesforce.com, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word.

Business Analyst

IBM India Private LTD
Bangalore
06.2008 - 06.2009
  • Collaborated with IBM Tivoli and Action Remedy Ticketing system implementation teams to customize products for new customer management process.
  • Collaborated with support teams worldwide to resolve technical issues.
  • Performed end user testing to validate software releases and performed user training.
  • Documented change requests and tracked CRs for delivery.
  • Created reports using Excel to analyze inflow and closure of tickets.
  • Led the shift of about 8 to 10 team members and trained new employees on the use of tools.
  • Lead the shift of about 8 to 10 team members and trained new employees on the use of tools.
  • Tools/Technologies: Action Remedy System, Tivoli Enterprise Console, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word.

Education

M.S. - Management Information Systems

The George Washington University, School of Business, Washington, D.C
05.2011
GPA: 3.73

Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Visveswaraiah Technological University, Karnataka, India
06.2007

Skills

  • Product strategy
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Roadmap development
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Product launch planning
  • Product analytics
  • Data-driven decisions
  • User experience design
  • Requirements gathering
  • Requirements documentation
  • User story creation
  • Product backlog grooming
  • Product prioritization
  • Agile methodology
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Cross functional leadership
  • Team leadership
  • Effective communication
  • Release management
  • Salesforcecom
  • Roadmap planning

Certifications And Additional Training

  • Product Management & Strategy from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
  • CIO University Certificate in Federal Executive Competencies., given by GSA and the Federal Chief Information Officer's Council.
  • Trained and certified salesforce.com CRM administrator.
  • Certified as a Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance Org

Timeline

Group Product Manager - RingCentral India
11.2024 - Current
Product Manager - Salesforce
03.2021 - 11.2024
Product Owner - PhaseZero Ventures
05.2019 - 10.2020
Lead Business Analyst - Ernst & Young LLP
11.2018 - 05.2019
Lead Business Analyst - CGI Technologies Inc.
09.2013 - 08.2018
Program Analyst - Qualcomm
09.2012 - 09.2013
Systems Analyst - Brainware, a Lexmark company
05.2011 - 09.2012
Data Management Intern - Rare Conservation
02.2010 - 05.2010
Graduate Teaching Assistant - The George Washington University
12.2009 - 05.2011
Business Analyst - IBM India Private LTD
06.2008 - 06.2009
The George Washington University, School of Business - M.S., Management Information Systems
Visveswaraiah Technological University - Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering

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