Akash K S
Chennai
Summary
Value-driven product manager with experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch and manage world-class Fintech SaaS innovations. Worked with multiple partners and stakeholders to envision and define a holistic product roadmap. Highly skilled in identifying growth opportunities to maximize ROI and revenue.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Product Manager
Doodleblue Innovations
Chennai
2018.03 - Current
- Managed product and project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout product planning and development.
- Partnered with business customers to clearly develop and communicate strategic vision and product roadmap.
- Translated epics into stories to enable development teams to understand scope and prepared user stories to support iterative delivery of product.
- Collaborated with development engineering and marketing to translate features into consumable user stories.
- Innovated and integrated new processes and technologies to add value and evaluated costs of product redesign.
- Developed deep understanding of technology stack and impact on final product.
- Conducted customer and stakeholder interviews to identify needs and requirements.
- Monitored milestones and deliverables to stay ahead of schedules and proactively spot potential roadblocks.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Management Information Systems
Madras Christian College
Chennai06.2017
Skills
- Defining user stories and Roadmaps
- Requirements gathering/Scoping
- Risk analysis
- Data management and Analytics
- Stakeholder Management
- Competitive Analysis & Market Research
Projects
Technical Product Owner - Validus Singapore (2020 - 2023)
Validus is Singapore's #1 trusted SME growth fintech, helping businesses scale with easier, all-in-one business finance solutions.
- Launched the neobanking platform Web and App for 400+ SMEs across Singapore in 15 months
- Led a cross functional team across design, engineering and data using Agile Scrum
- Improved the user experience and user journeys leveraging the existing base to increase MoM user acquisition by 20%
- Converted business requirements to user stories for integration of Cards and business Account.
- Initiated and implemented customer behavior tracking and analytics using Firebase and Mixpanel to enable business teams to gain insights
- Collaborated with Engineering team for solutions to build cross platforms to reduce engineering cost up to 40%
Technical Product Owner - U Mobile Malaysia (2018-2020)
U Mobile is a data-centric and multiple award-winning Telecommunications mobile data services company in Malaysia.
- Led a cross functional engineering and data team to revamp the existing customer facing mobile application
- Implemented MVP based approach for phase wise roadmap to ensure seamless customer experience is maintained for 2 billion + customers
- Identified opportunities
- Presented DAU, MAU and CTR metrics to the steering committee
- Supported the marketing team to run campaigns for rewards which increased a MoM average customer acquisition by 15%
- Implemented and released a custom made central CMS for all the departments (Operations, Loyalty and Customer Support) which reduced overall costing by 30%
Languages
English
First Language
Tamil
Proficient
C2
Telugu
Upper Intermediate
B2
Hindi
Intermediate
B1
Affiliations
- Shelter Head in Make a Difference (An NGO teaching children at shelter homes)
- Member Chennai Volunteers
Websites
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - 2022
- Certified in Product Marketing (Great Learning) - 2022
- Certified in Product Management LaunchPad (Airtribe) - 2023
Timeline
Technical Product Manager
Doodleblue Innovations
2018.03 - Current
Master of Computer Applications - Management Information Systems
Madras Christian College
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - 2022
- Certified in Product Marketing (Great Learning) - 2022
- Certified in Product Management LaunchPad (Airtribe) - 2023
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