Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Certification
Thought Leadership
AI Projects and Innovation
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Gowtham Sabanayagam

Gowtham Sabanayagam

Hyderabad

Summary

Results-oriented Product Leader with 13 years in SaaS, Data Platforms, AI/ML, and CRM. Expertise in building AI-driven products and experiences in insurance, HCM, and banking. Skilled in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, data management, and analytics-driven product strategy. Focused on driving product-led growth and large-scale data integrations to achieve significant business impact.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President, Product Manager

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Hyderabad
12.2024 - Current
  • Lead product strategy and roadmap for Salesforce Marketing Cloud-based platform, enhancing personalization, automation, and engagement.
  • Drove AI-powered marketing capabilities with Agentforce and predictive analytics to enhance customer targeting.
  • Defined platform enhancements across APIs, integrations, and customer data workflows to optimize user experience.
  • Collaborated with engineering, analytics, and business teams to scale data-driven customer experiences, improving engagement.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Prevented account closures due to unfunding by launching push reminder capability, delivering $16.1M projected 5-year NPV.
  • Initiated and designed feedback loop mechanisms in marketing emails, improving personalization and customer experience.
  • Enhanced campaign performance using AI-driven insights and automation.

Senior Product Owner

Xebia
Hyderabad
04.2022 - 12.2024
  • Executed roadmap for 25+ enterprise clients, ensuring product capabilities met regulatory and market demands.
  • Utilized analytics and user feedback to implement continuous product enhancements, increasing user satisfaction.
  • Developed product strategy for communication and data workflows, enhancing user experience on complex SaaS insurance platform.
  • Defined KPIs such as customer lifetime value, engagement metrics, and platform adoption.

Product Manager

ADP (Lifion)
Hyderabad
06.2019 - 03.2022
  • Delivered no-code/low-code platform capabilities, enhancing scalability of HR solutions.
  • Built extensible product features aligned with metadata-driven architecture, facilitating future growth.
  • Collaborated with leadership to define strategic roadmap for Time & Payroll solutions, aligning with business objectives.
  • Applied prioritization frameworks (MoSCoW, 9-box) for high-impact delivery.

Highlighted major achievements

  • Increased product adoption by 15% via unified Time-Policy manager, a new initiative.

Senior Software Engineer

UnitedHealth Group
Hyderabad
06.2015 - 06.2019
  • Implemented an Automatic File Uploader, reducing report upload time from 10 days to 1 hour, saving $150,000 annually and earning a "Bright Idea" Award.
  • Designed scalable backend systems and automated workflows, enhancing operational efficiency by 95%.

Delivered optimized solutions for policy renewals and data processing, improving overall performance.

  • Transformed renewal process into automatic database sync, decreasing issues by 80%.
  • Key Accomplishments

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
Hyderabad
11.2011 - 05.2015
  • Developed REST APIs and WCF services to enable seamless integration with SQL-based data systems.
  • Built scalable MDM backend systems to support performance and reliability of enterprise-grade applications.

Education

MBA - Product Management

Institute of Product Leadership
Bangalore
01-2024

B.E. - Computer Science

KCG College of Technology
Chennai
01-2011

Skills

  • Product-Led Growth (PLG)
  • Product Strategy & Roadmap (Platform / SaaS / Data Products)
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • Data platforms
  • AI/ML
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI Agents
  • Data Analytics
  • KPI Design
  • Growth Metrics & Experimentation
  • Cross-functional Leadership
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • UX Design
  • Customer Experience Optimization
  • Agile Methodologies
  • C#
  • NET
  • Python
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • MDM
  • Data Modeling
  • APIs
  • Kafka
  • NLP
  • LangChain
  • Jira
  • Figma
  • Postman
  • Oracle Analytics

Certification

  • Salesforce Agentforce Champion, 2025
  • PSPO, 2021
  • Value Proposition Design
  • Business Finance

Thought Leadership

  • Secured the 3rd position in the YouTube Project Challenge organized by PMSchool., https://pmschool.io/shared-profile/61aaf7eb44b64500b1c3c1bf
  • Led a masterclass on 'Product-Led Growth' for MBA graduating Product Management students at ISBR Business School in Bangalore., https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7136382156792090624/

AI Projects and Innovation

  • Student Performance Predictor, https://student-performance-predictor-ymlx.onrender.com/, Built ML model to predict student outcomes using data-driven insights.
  • AI Tax Assistant (RAG-based Chatbot), Developed chatbot using LLM + RAG architecture to resolve tax-related queries in real time.

Timeline

Vice President, Product Manager

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
12.2024 - Current

Senior Product Owner

Xebia
04.2022 - 12.2024

Product Manager

ADP (Lifion)
06.2019 - 03.2022

Senior Software Engineer

UnitedHealth Group
06.2015 - 06.2019

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
11.2011 - 05.2015

MBA - Product Management

Institute of Product Leadership

B.E. - Computer Science

KCG College of Technology
Gowtham Sabanayagam