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Monika Minj

Monika Minj

Summary

Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 10 years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Manager

Neetable Technologies
01.2024 - Current
  • Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
  • Improved product functionality with innovative design solutions, resulting in increased sales conversions.
  • Launched successful products by conducting thorough market research and identifying customer needs.
  • Maintained Jira user stories, bugs and incidents
  • Developed comprehensive go-to-market strategies, ensuring successful product launches and brand positioning.
  • Presented compelling product demonstrations at industry conferences, garnering significant interest from potential customers and stakeholders alike.
  • Reduced production costs through strategic supplier negotiations and process improvements.
  • Optimized product performance with data-driven analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Reviewed sales, customer concerns, and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions.
  • Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
  • Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
  • Continuously monitored customer feedback channels after launch to gather insightful data for future iterations or updates.

Sr. Product Delivery Manager

Yellow.ai
02.2021 - 12.2023

Achievements-

  • Drove organisational improvements in customer satisfaction scores (CSAT) with 90% greater than 9/10 CSAT score
  • Created SOP repository for development team
  • Rewarded 'Mary Kom' Leader at work for grit shown
  • Top Performer in performance cycle for voice (FY 2022-23)

Clients/Projects

  • Sole Product Delivery Manager/ Product Owner for all NBFC + BFSI voice product clients
  • Managed various phases of design and development for Voice bots both SaaS and on-premise

Responsibilities

  • Conducted market research to identify emerging trends and customer preferences in Voice Chatbot domains
  • Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritised product requirements and use cases.
  • Wrote and communicated functional and business level requirements to development team.
  • Compared company products to competitors' products to assess market competition.
  • Ran A/B testing and pilot programmes with early stage products and samples to test outcomes and determine next steps for development.
  • Built product roadmap and prioritise items with stakeholder buy-in for assigned product line to guide team on areas to focus on.
  • Defined and executed launch plans to build market anticipation and excitement for voice products.
  • Help client identify and achieve the product success metrics with user funnel
  • Deliver statistics reports of MAU of product and monitor dips, if any

Sr. Project Manager

Karza Technologies
08.2020 - 02.2021

Clients/Projects

  • Total KYC (250+ Clients like ICICI, Paytm, Razorpay, HDFC Life, etc) - help for kyc checks for customer
  • Central KYC (Client - Growthsource) - Provide central repository of kyc documents for customer across all Financial institutions

Responsibilities

  • Created SOPs for Project management to be followed which includes - different tools, and techniques and sample reports
  • Own cost benefit analysis for new requirements coming and maintain/prioritize product backlog by liaising with directors, BD heads, CXO's

Senior Product Analyst - Delivery

Intermiles
12.2019 - 06.2020

Clients/Projects

  • Manage Loyalty Points (Intermiles) Platform for Redemption and Accrual for flight booking
  • Manage Customer issues raised by Customer support in Zendesk ticketing tool

Responsibilities

  • Prioritize and maintain Product backlog post liaison with business stakeholders
  • Interact and manage with vendor teams on daily basis and hold scrum sessions for updates, demos and requirement gathering sessions
  • Led customer issue resolution, reduction by 35% issues over 2 quarters
  • Increase ticket sales by working with marketing/sales team to support to suit upcoming campaigns, offers etc.

Project Manager

Exponentia Datalabs
01.2019 - 11.2019

Achievements

  • Youngest Project Manager to win ‘Best Team Management Leader' (July 2019)

Clients/Projects

  • Chatbots for HDFC Limited (On-site); SBI General Insurance, ; Pre-Sales PoC including website/app bots, Voice Bot , WhatsApp Bot

Responsibilities

  • Reduce 66% call volume at customer care centre with chatbot as L1 support
  • Reduce TAT time to less than 1 min for General FAQs for users
  • Provide guidelines to product owner to maintain product backlog based on customer feedback with ongoing projects
  • Manage and deliver Chatbot projects by leading a team of 20+ data scientists, developers, technical leads, testers and Business Analysts
  • Proactively interact with key client stakeholders and technical teams for requirements gathering and integration

Business Analyst

Accionlabs
09.2018 - 12.2018

Responsibilities

  • BA of an internal tool used for effort estimation on agile user stories.
  • Requirement gathering of customisations and POC support

Business Analyst

Selfdrvn Enterprise Sdn Bhd
02.2018 - 09.2018

Achievements

  • Presented Selfdrvn app for a 2-day Gamification Workshop along with international speaker Pete Baikins to help digitize and gamify offline events (Apr'18)

Client/Projects

  • Digi (Malaysia based Telecom) - Business Analyst for R&R employee app
  • Selfdrvn App - Internal Project Manager

Responsibilities

  • Create user stories, user journeys and Product prototyping for new features on Selfdrvn app
  • Act as a bridge between business/sales/marketing and technology team
  • Engage with sales prospects to identify business processes and position SelfDrvn's unique ability to solve engagement challenges
  • Technical feasibility studies, user requirement analysis and solutions
  • Preparation of Functional and Technical Specifications, process flows and use-case diagrams

Business Analyst

Optymyze
04.2016 - 08.2017

Achievements

  • Subject Matter Expert for Commission Statements Deployment of Sales Rep in Johnson and Johnson (Aug '16-Aug '17)
  • Decrease the run-time of payment jobs by 50% by improving the VBA Macro code of excel-based commission statements (Jun '17)
  • Standardized commission process and code for commission statements to help uniformity across sub operating companies for Johnson and Johnson (Jul '17)

Client/Projects

  • Johnson & Johnson - Commissions for Spine and Knee Products

Responsibilities

  • Create flows on internal tool and VBA Macro Codes to help calculate monthly commission accrual, bonus and incentives for monthly payments
  • Translate stakeholder requirements to tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, user stories, workflow diagrams, test cases
  • Reconcile discrepancies to locate missing payments

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2012 - 07.2015

Achievements

  • Best Performer,TCS Initial Learning Program(ILP),Coimbatore(Sep'12-Dec'12)

Client/Projects

  • DTCC & Home Depot - Linux Server Management ; Deutsche Bank - Windows Deployments

Responsibilities

  • Work on performance related issue on Linux Servers and Package/space management (installation/deletion/upgrade)
  • Monitor alerts and coordinating with EMC, Cisco and VMware in case of issues

Education

Post Graduation - Product Management

Accredian + IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, AS
2024

Extensive programme with IIT-G on Product management concepts and case studies

Post Graduate Program in Business Analytics(PGPBA) - Business Analytics

Symbiosis Centre for Management & HR Development, Pune
2016

GPA: 7.30

Bachelor of Engineering - InformationTechnology

Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering , Pune
2012

First Class with Distinction

HSC - PCM (Science)

Vidya Bhavan Junior College, Pune
2007

79.80%

SSC -

Vidya Bhavan High School, Pune
2005

75.73%

Skills

  • Product roadmap, Product requirement document,Market and competitor analysis
  • User story & Acceptance Criteria writing, Prototyping,User Journeys, Product Backlog Grooming
  • Cross Team Coordination and Team Building
  • Product development, Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Tracking & Scheduling (Jira), A/B Testing and Go-To Market

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner®
  • Iron Lady - Leadership Essentials Programme (Mar '23)
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (Jan ’13)

Additional Information

  • Date of Birth - 26 Sep, 1989

Timeline

Product Manager - Neetable Technologies
01.2024 - Current
Sr. Product Delivery Manager - Yellow.ai
02.2021 - 12.2023
Sr. Project Manager - Karza Technologies
08.2020 - 02.2021
Senior Product Analyst - Delivery - Intermiles
12.2019 - 06.2020
Project Manager - Exponentia Datalabs
01.2019 - 11.2019
Business Analyst - Accionlabs
09.2018 - 12.2018
Business Analyst - Selfdrvn Enterprise Sdn Bhd
02.2018 - 09.2018
Business Analyst - Optymyze
04.2016 - 08.2017
Systems Engineer - Tata Consultancy Services
09.2012 - 07.2015
Accredian + IIT Guwahati - Post Graduation, Product Management
Symbiosis Centre for Management & HR Development - Post Graduate Program in Business Analytics(PGPBA), Business Analytics
Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering , InformationTechnology
Vidya Bhavan Junior College - HSC, PCM (Science)
Vidya Bhavan High School - SSC,
Monika Minj