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Education
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Certification
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Nainika Kumar

Nainika Kumar

Bangalore

Summary

Program Manager with 5+ years of experience driving high-impact initiatives for executive offices, including CXOs. Adept at delivering 150+ successful project releases through Agile and SAFe 6.0 frameworks, achieving over 30% gains in team efficiency and measurable revenue growth. Skilled in stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and leveraging project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Trello, Asana, and MS Office Suite to streamline execution. Committed to enabling leadership success through strategic delivery and data-driven outcomes.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification

Work History

Program Manager - I

Junglee Games Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
06.2024 - Current
  • Managed end-to-end delivery for the Data org (Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science), ensuring smooth execution of cross-POD initiatives across Product, Engineering, and Data.
  • Increased the release success rate from 65% to 83% by directly driving release planning, risk/change management, and cross-team dependency tracking.
  • Delivered 100+ data and cross-game projects, while also building internal tools to automate workflows and improve team productivity.
  • Implemented Jira automations and scalable workflows to reduce manual processes, improve sprint velocity by 34%, and enable transparent reporting across stakeholders.

Program Manager - CEO & CTPO's Office

Sugar.fit
Bangalore
12.2022 - 04.2024
  • Spearheaded end-to-end development of Sugar.fit's 'Active Foods' product, overseeing the successful launch of seven diabetes-friendly SKUs into the Indian market, leveraging strategic market analysis and consumer insights, while being the direct liaison between the Business and Technical Department.
  • Drove a 20% month-on-month increase in revenue of the products, culminating in an estimated category revenue of 22 lakhs per month, and a total revenue of 1.32 crore in Q3 and Q4 of 2023 by refining the product app and website, focusing on UX/UI changes based on customer trends and product gaps identified.
  • Organized and facilitated daily scrum stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure effective communication and continuous improvement. This included interventions into the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burn-down charts.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure alignment on product goals and delivery timelines.
  • Established key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor project progress and team performance which was then presented to stakeholders and leadership on a bi-weekly basis.

Program Manager - CTPO's Office

Unacademy
Bangalore
12.2021 - 11.2022
  • Coordinated new App feature requirements between the Business and Technical Department.
  • Developed and maintained product roadmaps, prioritising features and initiatives based on customer needs and business value.
  • Facilitated end to end execution of more than 3+ premier projects launches which led to an 18% uptick in overall customer traction, 12.8% jump in MoM subscription numbers and an increase of Rs 3.8 Cr approx. in overall revenue for Q2 & Q3 of the financial year.
  • Led and assisted project managers to drive cross product tasks and activities seamlessly. This included handing cross department escalations, formulating ideas, inter-disputes and ensuring positive customer feedbacks on feature releases.
  • Analysed and identified key problems in internal processes within product and formulate plans for their solution. Recent key projects that I delivered were exclusively to reduce costs in the company which resulted in an estimated savings of Rs 2.8 Cr monthly.
  • Identified potential risks and issues early in the project lifecycle and developed mitigation strategies to address them.
  • Hosted monthly project demos with respective project pod leaders to internal stakeholders.

Deputy Manager II - Relationship Manager

ICICI Bank
06.2021 - 12.2021
  • Identify key trade businesses in the country and onboard them to cultivate profitable long-term relationships.
  • Nurture the existing relationships with clients/customers, involving end to end servicing while being their first point of contact for any banking requirements.
  • Achieving business sales targets and proactively expanding my client base month on month.
  • Managed to grow the portfolio by 19% in 6 months.
  • To be well versed with the current financial laws in order to serve clients better by being their advisor on daily remittances and financial lending that they will be involved in.

Associate Project Analyst

Deloitte
Bangalore
07.2017 - 09.2018
  • Company Overview: (Offices of US)
  • Managing the end-to-end financials of projects in Deloitte USI Offices, Public Sector division.
  • Handled a portfolio of 200+ USI projects.
  • Ensuring client and project requirements are being met with the highest quality and accuracy through standard set verification methods and data analysis of its financial health.
  • Communicating project updates and improvement strategies to our offshore counterparts and team, bi-weekly and monthly presentations to the clients as form of analytical reporting.
  • (Offices of US)

Education

MBA -

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Pune
05.2021

B.Com (Hons) -

Jain University
Bangalore
04.2017

Skills

  • Project and program management
  • Agile frameworks and methodology
  • Stakeholder engagement and management
  • Microsoft Office proficiency
  • Critical analysis and reporting
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Budget and resource allocation
  • Strategic planning and execution
  • Vendor relationship management
  • Problem-solving skills
  • People management and development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Market analysis expertise

Accomplishments

  • Top Rookie Award at Junglee Games for seamlessly managing three data PODs and increasing overall project release success by 27% within the team
  • 2 Cr brand campaign planning and execution at Sugar.fit, which led to an 21.3% increase in the core product's total orders and the average order value (01/2022 - 03/2022)
  • Unacademy 'Compete' launch, product plugin, which led to an 18% increase in customer subscriptions from 05/2022 to 11/2022
  • Recorded content product launch at Unacademy that had a positive impact of 3.8 crore on monthly revenue from June 2022 to August 2022
  • Spot Awards from Deloitte Consulting USI for delivering exceptional client services (01/2018)

Certification

  • Certified in SAFe 6.0: Latest, complete Scaled Agile Framework
  • Certified in change management for organizations: drive strategic results
  • Certificate for project management with ChatGPT: AI for project managers
  • Certification of completion in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop by the Ed-Team, SIMS (09/2019)
  • Certificate in Google Analytics for Beginners by Google (10/2020 - 10/2022)
  • Certified course in advanced Excel from Dallas Technologies
  • Certified course in Tally ERP 9 from Dallas Technologies certified

Languages

  • English, Full Professional Proficiency
  • Hindi, Full Professional Proficiency

Timeline

Program Manager - I

Junglee Games Pvt Ltd
06.2024 - Current

Program Manager - CEO & CTPO's Office

Sugar.fit
12.2022 - 04.2024

Program Manager - CTPO's Office

Unacademy
12.2021 - 11.2022

Deputy Manager II - Relationship Manager

ICICI Bank
06.2021 - 12.2021

Associate Project Analyst

Deloitte
07.2017 - 09.2018

MBA -

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

B.Com (Hons) -

Jain University

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