BHARATH K N
Bengaluru
Summary
Strategic Program & Product Manager with 12 years of experience in end-to-end program delivery and product development. Expertise in digital transformation, AI-driven automation, and scaling SaaS platforms. Employs a data-driven approach to governance, risk management, and stakeholder alignment, achieving notable improvements in compliance cycles and productivity.
Overview
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14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager
Calix
Bangalore
04.2026 - Current
- Established program and release governance frameworks, including quarterly executive reviews, release readiness checkpoints, bug scrubs, risk reviews, and action tracking, strengthening visibility, accountability, and timely decision-making across 10+ stakeholders.
- Directed end-to-end program execution for AXOS platform, driving roadmap planning, release readiness, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment across Product, Engineering, System Test, and cross-functional teams, achieving 95% on-time release delivery.
- Accelerated process optimisation and automation across requirements-to-test traceability, release operations, and governance workflows, improving execution efficiency by 50% and achieving 99% process compliance for enhanced release predictability.
- Strengthened product quality and defect governance through 60% TBV reduction, P1/P2 tracking, defect reviews, and due-date management, halving critical defect resolution time and ensuring release-quality compliance.
- Navigated complex technical dependencies across software, hardware, optics, and testing, driving mitigation strategies and resolving cross-team blockers with 98% first-time resolution rate.
- Developed data-driven dashboards and executive reporting using Jira, Power BI, and Confluence, delivering 10+ dashboards that improved leadership visibility into roadmap execution, release health, commitments, risks, and quality metrics.
- Optimised cloud costs through Cloud Cost Optimisation initiatives, partnering with cross-functional teams to reduce cloud infrastructure spending by half a million annually.
Product Manager
Accorion
Bangalore
11.2022 - 07.2025
- Driving the end-to-end implementation of GoRICO, a GRC platform with core modules, including Monitor. Audit, and Third-Party Risk Assessment, achieving 90% client adoption, 40% faster compliance cycles, and 10x efficiency gains through AI automation.
- Expanding the platform to 500+ paid clients by automating 70% of evidence collection through third-party app integrations and cross-mapping 50+ frameworks, reducing audit prep time by 300+ hours annually.
- Transformed Third Party Risk Assessment, allowing 90% of clients to assess vendor security in under two months through automated assessments and tailored vendor profiles.
- Streamlining audit processes with a unified Audit Console, eliminating 250+ manual hours per audit and ensuring 100% on-time audit initiation.
- Enhanced security team productivity by 100+ hours monthly and reduced remediation time by 50% through real-time compliance gap tracking.
- Achieving 90% retention rates with the development of intuitive dashboards, collaborative tools, and accelerating stakeholder onboarding by 50%.
- Introduced new service lines, including Vendor Risk Assessment and Policy & Procedure Development, resulting in 30% increase in client retention.
Product Owner
Sigma Info Solutions
Bangalore
11.2020 - 11.2022
- Orchestrated the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation to deployment, defining requirements, roadmaps, and backlog for 4+ products (Decision Studio, Dataview, etc.), resulting in a 25% reduction in time-to-market via Agile-driven iterations.
- Fostered innovation through research and prototyping, introducing 15+ differentiated features aligned with product vision, utilising competitive analysis and global stakeholder feedback.
- Directed a cross-functional team of 12, acting as a subject matter expert to streamline development/testing processes, improving deployment efficiency by 30%.
- Produced critical artifacts (traceability matrix, gap analysis, functional docs) for all releases, ensuring compliance and reducing post-launch defects by 35%.
- Implemented client-centric enhancements, translating global client needs into mockups and user guides, increasing adoption rates by 30% year-over-year.
- Reduced customer onboarding time by 25% through the streamlining of implementation processes and the creation of modular deployment guides for global clients.
- Developed BI reporting solutions using Power BI, designing 20+ interactive dashboards that enhanced data visibility and reduced decision-making time by 40%.
Program Manager / Product Owner
Accenture
Bangalore
04.2019 - 09.2020
Business Analyst
SIPGrab Wealth Management
Bangalore
03.2018 - 03.2019
Business Analyst
Digital Harbor
Bangalore
06.2016 - 01.2018
Analyst
Micron Engineers
Bangalore
05.2013 - 06.2014
Young Graduate
Societe Generale Global Solution Center
Bangalore
08.2012 - 04.2013
Education
M.S. - Management Information Systems (MIS)
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX01-2015
B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Belgaum, KA01-2012
Skills
- Program & Product Management
- Product Roadmap Execution
- Program delivery
- Program Management
- Release Management
- Product Lifecycle Management
- B2B & B2C SaaS Scaling
- AI automation
- Process Automation
- Workflow Optimization
- API integration
- Agile/Scrum
- Waterfall
- Kanban
- Jira
- Confluence
- Dependency Management
- Analytics reporting
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Data Management
- Data-driven Insights
- Executive Dashboards
- KPI Tracking
- Requirements analysis
- Backlog management
- Risk management
- Risk compliance
- Governance frameworks
- Compliance & Audit
- Third-party risk
- Process improvement
- Strategic Thinking
- IT project
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem Solving
- Problem Solving
- Program Management
- Release Management
- Analytics reporting
- Data Management
- IT Budgeting
Accomplishments
- Experienced Program Manager, Project Manager, People Manager, and Product Leader with proven expertise in driving end-to-end program delivery, governance, and execution for large-scale B2B & B2C SaaS platforms, including managing high-impact digital transformation and automation initiatives.
- Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional programs, aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-phase solutions on timeand within budget.
- Expert in AI-Driven Automation and Workflow Optimization, leveraging technology and process automation to improve delivery efficiency, governance, and client satisfaction.
- Skilled in Stakeholder and Executive Communication, managing dependencies, and change across global teams while ensuring program alignment with business objectives and OKRs.
- Data-Driven Program Manager, using analytics, KPIs, and performance dashboards to monitor execution, mitigate risks, and drive continuous improvement across delivery portfolios.
- Extensive experience in Program Governance and Risk Management, including developing third-party risk frameworks, audit processes, and compliance programs that enhance operational resilience and reduce cycle times.
- Proven ability to deliver measurable business outcomes, achieving 40% faster compliance cycles, 10x productivity gains, and higher client retention through structured execution and automation strategies.
- Led Agile and Scaled Agile projects, coordinating workstreams and aligning sprints to meet strategic delivery milestones.
INDUSTRIES
Risk & Compliance | Cybersecurity | Healthcare | Wealth Management | Loan Management Systems | E-commerce
Languages
Languages: English, Hindi, Kannada
Timeline
Technical Program Manager
Calix
04.2026 - Current
Product Manager
Accorion
11.2022 - 07.2025
Product Owner
Sigma Info Solutions
11.2020 - 11.2022
Program Manager / Product Owner
Accenture
04.2019 - 09.2020
Business Analyst
SIPGrab Wealth Management
03.2018 - 03.2019
Business Analyst
Digital Harbor
06.2016 - 01.2018
Analyst
Micron Engineers
05.2013 - 06.2014
Young Graduate
Societe Generale Global Solution Center
08.2012 - 04.2013
M.S. - Management Information Systems (MIS)
Texas Tech University
B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)