Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Additional Information
Accomplishments
Timeline
Intern
Dineshkumar Thiyagarajan

Dineshkumar Thiyagarajan

Group Product Manager
Bangalore

Summary

With over 16 years of experience, I am a product leader specializing in workforce management SaaS, focused on developing strategies, executing plans, and delivering measurable business results. Expert in leading cross-functional teams, launching innovative products, and scaling solutions for global clients. Known for customer obsession, analytical rigor, and a bias for action in fast-paced environments.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Group Product Manager

GE Healthcare/Symplr
04.2019 - Current

Group product manager for the workforce management portfolio leading a team of 20 product owners to enable SAAS innovation and drive new and migration customer success in symplr.

  • Engaged with early adaptor customers to identify product improvement opportunities and leveraged customer data metrics contributing to increased customer satisfaction through targeted product enhancements.
  • Collaborated with sales, customer success, and marketing to launch new features, contributing to $3.5M in additional ARR.
  • Led the rollout strategy for new features and the release management process to ensure customers get the desired value from each and every product release.
  • Led cross functional teams in building high impactful features to launch successful products on time by creating a culture of high collaboration, providing attention to details and mentorship.

Additional Contributions:

  • Spearheaded the implementation of Gen AI across the entire product team at symplr, resulting in enhanced efficiency for product operations.
  • Established a learning culture in symplr India office by initiating book club and lunch and learn.


Associate Product Manager

Zeomega Inc
04.2017 - 03.2019

Associate product manager for the data analytics division of a population health management product. Managed a small team of product analysts utilizing advanced analytics and business intelligence to drive outcomes.

  • Evaluation and working knowledge on various
    business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Power
    BI, Report Builder, Pyramid BI and Pentaho.
  • Technology evaluation - application of Natural
    Language Processing and Data Lakes in
    population health management Vendor
    evaluation – Analyzing the vendor solutions to find
    the right fit Business Case evaluation, pricing and
    ROI analysis.
  • Mentored junior team members in product management best practices while contributing to a positive corporate culture.

Key Achievements: Collaboratively worked with product marketing to define value based pricing for the analytics product which contributed to sign off business deals worth $2M+ revenue.


Product Owner

EMC Software and Services
07.2015 - 03.2017

Product owner leading the configuration, pricing and order management products in the converged infrastructure division of EMC.

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality products that met customer needs.
  • Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.

Senior Functional Consultant

Wipro Limited
01.2008 - 07.2015

Functional consultant working in customer premises collaborating with various stakeholders to define requirements for complex projects.

  • Conducted detailed requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, enabling accurate scoping of projects and faster delivery times.
  • Enhanced client satisfaction by identifying and addressing functional gaps in business processes.

Education

MBA - Marketing & Strategy

Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow, United Kingdom
09.2010 - 11.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication

Anna University
Chennai, India
08.2003 - 06.2007

Skills

Cross functional leadership

Additional Information

  • Copilot, Bedrock
  • Salesforce
  • AHA, ADO, Jira
  • Figma
  • Confluence
  • Miro
  • Tableau, Power BI
  • Pendo, Google Analytics


Accomplishments

  • Developed a learning culture in symplr India office by starting the concept of book clubs during covid which laid the foundation to various learning initiatives.
  • Product launch of pay policy configuration framework which enabled small customers easily migrate from the onpremise to the SAAS version of the workforce product.

Timeline

Group Product Manager

GE Healthcare/Symplr
04.2019 - Current

Associate Product Manager

Zeomega Inc
04.2017 - 03.2019

Product Owner

EMC Software and Services
07.2015 - 03.2017

MBA - Marketing & Strategy

Glasgow Caledonian University
09.2010 - 11.2011

Senior Functional Consultant

Wipro Limited
01.2008 - 07.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication

Anna University
08.2003 - 06.2007
Dineshkumar ThiyagarajanGroup Product Manager