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Niranjan Koorse

Niranjan Koorse

Product Owner/Manager
Bangalore
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin

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Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

Hybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceHealthcare benefitsPersonal development programsStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingCareer advancementFlexible work hoursCompany CultureWork from home optionPaid time offPaid sick leaveTeam Building / Company Retreats

Summary

Product Management Professional experienced in steering end-to-end development of software products. Achieved successful product delivery through comprehensive requirement analysis, strategic roadmap development, and effective stakeholder management. Focused on leveraging agile methodologies and design thinking principles to enhance product features and drive engineering efforts.

Overview

10
10
Certifications
11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner/Manager

Solera
02.2024 - Current
  • Own product strategy, roadmap planning, and Agile delivery for Solera's Vehicle Insurance Technology portfolio in the Netherlands, enabling insurers, OEMs, leasing companies, and repair networks to digitize claims assessment and repair management.
  • Conducted multiple customer visits across the Netherlands and Belgium, facilitating stakeholder workshops, product discovery sessions, requirement-gathering activities, and market analysis to identify customer pain points and drive roadmap prioritization.
  • Delivered the first Visual Intelligence (VI) rollout in the Netherlands, enabling AI-powered vehicle damage assessment capabilities through Qapter Claims UI and API integrations, while collaborating with engineering, configuration, and customer implementation teams.
  • Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Engineering, UX, Data Science, and Implementation teams to translate customer requirements into product enhancements, manage product backlogs, and drive Agile software delivery.
  • Engage directly with insurers, OEMs, leasing companies, and repair networks, including Stellantis, Schadegarant, Athlon, Univé, AG Insurance, AXA, and other strategic customers, to gather requirements, validate solutions, and prioritize roadmap initiatives.

Achievements

Delivered Solera’s first Visual Intelligence (VI) rollout in the Netherlands, onboarding 5 leading insurers, leasing companies, and enabling adoption across 80% of participating repair networks, achieving fully automated damage assessment workflows, and reducing manual claim review effort from 45 minutes to 5 minutes per claim.

Successfully implemented PEPPOL e-Invoicing across Belgium market solutions, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling standardized electronic invoicing workflows between insurers, repairers, and ecosystem partners.

• Led the first Visual Intelligence (VI) pilot implementation in Belgium with the country’s largest insurer, establishing the foundation for AI-driven damage assessment and digital claims automation within the Belgian market.

Product Owner

VMWare
06.2021 - 12.2023
  • Successfully implemented New Product Onboarding of SaaS products, supervising master data integration with pricing and packaging strategy, assessing system readiness, and catering to new product launches using SaaS and Subscription Commerce Platform (SSCP) for VMware's worldwide Digital Transformation initiative
  • Led the requirement gathering, design, development, and delivery of PM epics in collaboration with the cross-functional team to build SaaS capabilities using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) consisting of development and testing from Master data, Microservices, and SAP tracks
  • Collaborated with Distributors, Resellers and Partners for assessing the capabilities to enable third Party/Distributor Marketplace commerce platform

Achievements

  • Achieved 36% YoY increase in SaaS ARR as part of VMWare’s Worldwide Digital Transformation Initiative
  • Built SaaS capabilities which resulted in an increased deal velocity by 16%

Product Manager (MBA Internship)

Botbakery
05.2020 - 07.2020
  • Developed "Data Connector" in Python from scratch to pull Marketing Campaign data using Facebook Marketing APIs
  • Analyzed campaign advertisement engagements using Google Data Studio and Tableau
  • Collaborated with Social Media Manager to launch campaigns using visualized/analyzed dashboards

Product Owner

Epicor Software
10.2017 - 05.2019
  • Gathered requirements from Business Leads, Customers, groomed the product backlog and established roadmap for prioritized delivery of Quote to Cash process
  • Automated "Quote to Cash" process using the "Test Complete" tool, developing reusable core components for speeding up the creation of scripts
  • Actively tracked QA metrics during execution and verified bug fixes using the "JIRA" tool
  • Acted as an internal consultant to Epicor Enterprise Resource Planning (E10) tool for the "Quote to Cash" process and flow of data in the process, to the core team, internal stakeholders, Management and development team

Achievements

  • Achieved 40% reduction in processing time, ensuring faster business validation
  • Supervised and tracked the automation execution during releases, in 8 instances of Production

Business Analyst

Dell International Services India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2015 - 09.2017
  • Served as a Business Analyst and Automation Engineer for real estate domain projects with a Fortune 500 client.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners and Business Owners to gather and clarify user and business requirements.
  • Assisted program delivery from product inception to deployment with a multicultural, multidisciplinary engineering team, along with product backlog grooming in Team Foundation Server (TFS) using the Scrum Agile Framework.
  • Contributed to the development of a behavior-driven development (BDD) framework using Selenium for automation testing.
  • Oversaw defect tracking and resolution processes to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Achievements

Honored for the outstanding contribution to service delivery, 'Dell Services Superstar'.

Education

Executive Program in Product Management - Product Management

Kellogg School of Business, Remote
04.2001 -

(Jan 2023 - Jan 2024)

MBA - Information Technology Management

Symbiosis Centre For Information Technology, Pune, India
04.2001 -

(2019-2021)

Among top 3 academic Performer

Nominated for Gold Medal

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bengaluru, India
04.2001 -

(2011-2015)

Skills

Proficient in Miro, Jira, Confluence, Google Data Studio, Visual Studio Copilot, Postman, , Figma, Balsamiq, Python, and Microsoft Excel

Product strategy

Roadmap planning

Agile delivery

Agile methodologies

Strong technical skills in software development, data analysis, and project management

Accomplishments

  • Received a Spot Award for contribution in delivering SaaS business needs, and stabilizing the SaaS offer platform in 2023
  • Awarded for exceptional project submission as part of VMware Bootcamp program in 2021
  • Received the Client Appreciation Award 'Epicor Award for Innovation' in 2018
  • Honored for the outstanding contribution in service delivery 'Dell Services Superstar' in 2017

Certification

Project Management Professional Certification

Work Availability

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Software

Visual studio

Figma

Github Copilot

Confluence

Jira

Miro

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)

Interests

Gym

Badminton

Table Tennis

Dance

Timeline

Product Owner/Manager - Solera
02.2024 - Current

Harvard – Design Thinking

05-2023

Project Management Professional Certification

03-2023

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

11-2022

Certified SAFe 5 Product Manager

08-2022

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

01-2022
Product Owner - VMWare
06.2021 - 12.2023

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate

06-2020

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate

05-2020
Product Manager (MBA Internship) - Botbakery
05.2020 - 07.2020

PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner

04-2020
Product Owner - Epicor Software
10.2017 - 05.2019
Business Analyst - Dell International Services India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2015 - 09.2017
Kellogg School of Business - Executive Program in Product Management, Product Management
04.2001 -
Symbiosis Centre For Information Technology - MBA, Information Technology Management
04.2001 -
Visvesvaraya Technological University - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
04.2001 -
Niranjan KoorseProduct Owner/Manager