Overview
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Education
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GARGI TARANIA

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Manager

Purple Squirrel
05.2025 - Current
  • Orchestrated the product strategy and lifecycle for a business intelligence platform, liaising between data teams and business stakeholders to translate data needs into requirements, accelerated executive decision-making by 40%
  • Translated business requirements into scalable data solutions, eliminated data ambiguity, resolved technical debt like circular dependencies, reduced ad-hoc data requests by 60%, freeing up analyst capacity for higher-value work
  • Drove Agile product delivery by facilitating standups, defined roadmaps with tech leads, managed epics, user stories, acceptance criteria in Jira, prepared executive one-pagers on KPI progress, ensured alignment with budget and resource planning for data product initiatives

Associate Product Manager

Axtria
07.2023 - 04.2025
  • Launched SaaS commercial analytics product, led 5+ discovery sessions to gather business needs, identified friction points, translated findings into 100+ use cases guiding product strategy, evaluated product-market fit, partnered with engineering to deliver enhancements and conducted user acceptance test, achieved 5/5 CSAT and 10/10 NPS
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to define churn metrics, prepared features from user engagement datasets and supported a Random Forest model to identify high-risk users, informing a targeted retention campaign
  • Translated insights from global user workshops into a prioritized product backlog of automation features, developed the change management framework that ensured their successful adoption, increasing user engagement by 20%
  • Developed adoption KPI dashboards in Power BI, created complex SQL views leveraging window functions, enabled post-launch tracking of product usage, delivered actionable insights that guided continuous improvement efforts
  • Built ETL pipelines with AWS (S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena) and launched an event-driven Generative AI product leveraging Amazon Bedrock LLMs (Claude API), reduced manual reporting by 90%
  • Directed project integrity and secured stakeholder alignment by drafting SOWs, delivered executive-ready progress reports
  • Identified and tracked product KPI metrics for the Incentive Compensation Analytics tool to monitor adoption and underutilized features, created wireframes, proposed UI enhancements, validated improvements through A/B experiments, resulting in a 27% increase in adoption
  • Drove adoption of new data products by authoring monthly newsletters that highlighted key features and use cases

Product Manager

Appetit
Buffalo
02.2023 - 07.2023
  • Leveraged mixed-methods research (cohort analysis + N=500 user surveys) to identify key conversion barriers and pain points in the customer journey, built dashboards to visualize findings, designed funnel tracking to identify drop-off points in user journey, reduced Time to Value (TTV) by 25%

Consultant

Deloitte
06.2019 - 07.2022
  • Spearheaded the migration strategy of safety applications from on-premise to the cloud, managed the backlog, facilitated 12 Agile sprints to modernize large-scale databases and customize Oracle Argus with SQL, reduced infrastructure costs
  • Developed ELT pipelines in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) over Hadoop architecture to integrate multiple data sources and transform it into analytics-ready formats, reduced data processing time by 30%
  • Resolved a critical bug through root cause analysis in Oracle Argus 8.2, which was acknowledged as a product bug by Oracle
  • Translated business requirements into data specifications, integrated Oracle Argus and vendor systems, performing 20+ field-level data mapping
  • Scripted 15+ complex SQL views, 5+ stored procedures, leveraged window function, aggregation to transform raw tables into refined views for simplifying data modelling, reduced data pull load by 30%
  • Mentored team of 7+ analysts on SQL and data warehousing to empower them and ensure successful project delivery

Education

Master of Science - Management Information System

University at Buffalo, SUNY
06.2023

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering

Institute of Technical Education and Research
05.2018

Certification

· Tech Stack: Tableau, Power BI, Google Analytics, SQL, Python, Oracle Database, AWS, ODI, Python, Forecasting

· Product Management: Roadmap Execution, Product-Market Fit, Market Analysis, Feature Launches, Stakeholder Management, Product Vision, Product Strategy, Customer Discovery & Journey Mapping, GTM Strategy & Execution

· Certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Six-Sigma Green Belt Certificate Trained

Timeline

Product Manager

Purple Squirrel
05.2025 - Current

Associate Product Manager

Axtria
07.2023 - 04.2025

Product Manager

Appetit
02.2023 - 07.2023

Consultant

Deloitte
06.2019 - 07.2022

Master of Science - Management Information System

University at Buffalo, SUNY

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering

Institute of Technical Education and Research
GARGI TARANIA