Nishant Saksena
Product Owner / Project Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven professional with more than 11 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects and innovative digital products and solutions. Proficient in predictive, adaptive and hybrid methodologies and excels at translating stakeholder requirements into actionable user stories, prioritizing backlogs for maximum business value, and driving product development from concept to launch. Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiast with a strong customer-centric focus leveraging user feedback along with data analytics to continuously refine and enhance products, resulting in improved user satisfaction. Adept at fostering collaboration and bridging the gap between business stakeholders and development teams, ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact projects and products.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Product Owner - Assistant Vice President
J.P. Morgan India Private Ltd
04.2022 - Current
- Develop and communicate clear product vision and strategy that align with company's goals and market trends
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritize product roadmap based on customer feedback, market research, and business objectives
- Leading Agile development teams using Scrum or Kanban methodologies, fostering culture of continuous improvement and adaptability
- Foster relationship with Technology partners to develop robust roadmap for future functionality (APIs, OKR Reporting, Automated testing), backlog execution and application architecture simplification
- Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure efficient product development
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers and QA testers to ensure smooth product development and release
- Maintain open and transparent communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, roadmaps, and potential risks
- Negotiate and manage expectations to ensure alignment between business goals and development efforts
- Launch new products or features, coordinate marketing efforts, training, and customer support to ensure smooth rollout
- Document user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements
Project Manager - Associate / Senior Associate
Goldman Sachs
10.2017 - 03.2022
- Lead and deliver Cross‑Operations, high priority projects across all typical project phases
- Project initiation and scoping, including definition of plans along with setting and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholders
- Assist Operations in Business analysis and requirements definition
- On going project management, including progress monitoring, reporting and quality assurance throughout project lifecycle
- Build and maintain strong relationships with project stakeholders
- Understand firm's strategic plans, business, process and architecture in order to influence design and drive change related conversations
- Facilitate prioritization of Operations investment in Technology
- Work with business units to assess and streamline process in order to mitigate risk, cost or service issues and generate efficiencies
- Provide support and advise to Operations teams on change management tools and methods
- Coach and manage junior team members on planning and executing projects and act as quality assurance for those projects
Business Analyst
Deutsche Bank
09.2016 - 10.2017
- Act as catalyst between Change and Run the Bank teams for reference data service operations projects and facilitate in each stage of project delivery
- Being part of Initial project discussion and assisting BA with requirement gathering
- Attending requirements review sessions and providing inputs on changes if required
- Reviewing Functional Specification Documents and give inputs and provide sign off once changes are incorporated
- Reviewing documents like Business Scenarios, Functional and Regression test cases and providing sign offs on UAT testing
- Perform project testing on important and critical scenarios
- Getting defects fixed raised during testing and perform retest to see if defect was fixed
- Provide sign-off on functional and regression test cases shared by testing team upon UAT cycle completion
- Host demo sessions with RTB team to pass on project information to support them operationally after Go-Live
- Supply required information and documents to operations team to prepare Standard Operation Procedures and provide feedback
- Attending Go no Go calls scheduled by implementation team prior to production go live and providing inputs on testing status, test validation timings and testing contact details
- Performing production validation, attending check point calls, raise issue if any and also providing sign off once all validations are completed.
Analyst / Senior Analyst - Reference Data
HSBC
08.2012 - 09.2016
- Act as mentor and training newly on boarded staff and bring them up to speed
- Monitoring and reporting on standards & performance targets and reporting any breach in KPI standards
- Initiating and heading weekly team meetings, focusing on targets and achievements
- Recording team's performance and presenting it to Senior Management and suggest workarounds in case of breaches
- Providing prompt and accurate information on individual's performance to senior management
- Praise team members and create positive working environment
- To acquire and update knowledge on procedures related to processes and to ensure that work is completed in accordance to procedures and within timeframes
- To own and manage enterprise reference data maintenance for various asset classes in the department (Fixed Income, Equities, and Derivatives & FX Business)
- Handling new business enquiries and acting as face of business, dealing with and resolving problems and issues which arise
- Working with IT support and highlighting issues with applications used and suggesting enhancement and testing
- Streamlining process with business and regulatory requirements by removing procedural gaps
Education
P.G.D.M - Finance
I.F.I.M. Business School
Bengaluru, Karnataka 09.2010 - 07.2012
Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Science
S.J.M.I.T.
Chitradurga, Karnataka 08.2006 - 08.2010
Skills
Product Management
Adaptive Project Management
Predictive Project Management
Project Governance
Stakeholder Management
JIRA & Confluence
SharePoint
MS Office
MS Project
WalkMe
Alteryx
Tableau
Product Owner
Team Leader
Hybrid Project Management
Certification
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®)
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
Steve Jobs
Timeline
AI For Everyone
03-2024
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®)
02-2024
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®)
04-2023
Product Owner - Assistant Vice President
J.P. Morgan India Private Ltd
04.2022 - Current
Project Manager - Associate / Senior Associate
Goldman Sachs
10.2017 - 03.2022
Business Analyst
Deutsche Bank
09.2016 - 10.2017
Analyst / Senior Analyst - Reference Data
HSBC
08.2012 - 09.2016
P.G.D.M - Finance
I.F.I.M. Business School
09.2010 - 07.2012
Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Science
S.J.M.I.T.
08.2006 - 08.2010