Amateur Drummer
Karthik Yermunja
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
Bengaluru, India
Summary
Innovative product management professional enthusiastically pursuing a Senior Product Manager opportunity to leverage in-depth knowledge of product lifecycle management. Highly skilled in trend forecasting and competitive market analysis illustrated over 5 years of superior industry performance as product manager, with overall 15 years of impactful software development work experience. Specializing in E-commerce, electric vehicle market products with willingness to learn and adapt to any field.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Melorra
Bengaluru
09.2022 - Current
- Oversaw internal product team employees, and solely responsible for product strategy and roadmap,
- Aligning cross-functional teams on business goals, timelines & objectives, and effectively communicating the plans, key metric performance & analysis across all levels
- Shipped a Digital Wallet and Referral Program that resulted in a 22% drop in Customer Acquisition Cost and 16% increase in sales conversation rate.
- Built Franchisee Management System to interface with company's franchisees, helping boost offline store retail sales by a whopping 57%
- Optimized post-order fulfillment TAT from avg 13 days down to 4 days by building Order Allocation Algorithm to auto allocate orders to manufacturing vendors, and a vendor facing Vendor Dashboard
Product Manager
Ather Energy
Bengaluru
06.2018 - 08.2022
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads, to drive multiple zero-to-one products impacting company's bottomline in after-sales operations.
- Reviewed sales, customer concerns, and new opportunities to drive business strategy at bi-weekly planning sessions/scrums.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics during cross-functional OKR planning.
- Built, and scaled up, Service Center Management System (mobile app, desktop dashboard) to service avg of 46 vehicles daily per service center across 60+ service centers in country.
- Built ability to push targeted software updates over-the-air (OTA), reducing service interventions by 45%.
- Built, and scaled up, Field Service Management System (mobile app, desktop dashboard) to track on-field technicians attend to an avg of 34 incidents (vehicles & charging infra) daily per city across 55+ cities in the country, to a total customer base of 55,000+.
Technology Architect
Self-employed/Stealth Start-up
Bengaluru
09.2015 - 05.2018
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Provided current best practices and third-party solution alternatives when necessary for functional design documentation.
- Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
- Improved business productivity for clients by 27% by re-engineering and designing infrastructures.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd
Pune
07.2008 - 03.2015
- Supported technology design, testing and execution by providing research-based product and process knowledge.
- Provided technical and functional recommendations based on project requirements.
- Oversaw technology services delivery, consulting with relevant personnel to assist with migration and troubleshooting.
- Developed call-to-action plans to improve IT service effectiveness.
- Deployed to client locations (Fujitsu, Tokyo, Japan and Toyota Motors EU, Brussels, Belgium) to oversee client partner requirement gathering, deliverables validations and trainings.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Mumbai
Navi Mumbai, India 09.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Agile Methodologies
Product Life Cycle
Product Strategy
Market Research
Product Positioning
Team Communication
Additional Information
- Founding editorial board member and writer in an erstwhile leading music journalism portal - http://whatsthescene.com
- 3rd place winner of a Govt of Karnataka, India organised blockchain hackathon, with an Ethereum project
Interests
Voracious reader
Blogger
Stray animal rescue & foster
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Melorra
09.2022 - Current
Product Manager
Ather Energy
06.2018 - 08.2022
Technology Architect
Self-employed/Stealth Start-up
09.2015 - 05.2018
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd
07.2008 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
University of Mumbai
09.2004 - 05.2008
Personal Website
https://karthik.fyi