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Prakash Kumar Prasad

Bengaluru
Prakash Kumar Prasad

Summary

Proactive and achievement-oriented Senior Product Manager bringing 8 years of Product Management and leadership experience with special emphasis helping SaaS and FinTech companies.

Overview

9
years of professional experience

Timeline

Senior Digital Product Manager
Wells Fargo
06.2023 - Current
Product Manager
Ethan AI
07.2022 - 03.2023
Product Manager
Kaleyra
09.2019 - 07.2022
Analyst
BankBazaar
04.2017 - 08.2019
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
11.2015 - 03.2017
Sathyabama University
B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Church School, Beldih
ISC, ICSE Computer Science

Work History

Wells Fargo

Senior Digital Product Manager
06.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Responsible for the product refinement, prioritization, and delivery of features in the Customer Research and Apply journey.
  • Collaborated closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and functionality.
  • Streamlined product development processes, resulting in faster time-to-market and improved efficiency and conducted regular stakeholder updates to provide transparency into project progress and manage expectations effectively.
  • Implemented robust analytics frameworks to measure product success and drive data-driven decision making. One of such instances were SEO optimization where organic traffic to the landing pages of product increased by ~30%.
  • Managed relationships with external vendors and partners, ensuring alignment on project goals and expectations.
  • Enhanced user experience by implementing data-driven design improvements for digital products.

Ethan AI

Product Manager
07.2022 - 03.2023

Job overview

  • Created a Product Strategy, Product Roadmap planned and developed an MVP, and established the PMF for the product
  • Designed a product conversion funnel to onboard, activate, and convert users
  • Successfully converted 4 customers with an MRR of SGD 40K using the product funnel
  • Formed a Product Team, with one Business Analyst, one UI Design head, and a UI design intern, all reporting to me
  • Designed and implemented the operational flow and hired the team members to execute the flow
  • Implemented Agile Methodologies for product development
  • Headed the vendor's onboarding and integrations.

Kaleyra

Product Manager
09.2019 - 07.2022

Job overview

  • Responsible for handling the Voice product portfolio of Rs.15 Crores in MRR and an average of 18 million daily transactions, as well as products in development phases.
  • Additionally, worked with Global Telecom operators like Airtel, Tata Communications, Bandwidth, Voxnet, IDT, and Voxbon.
  • Building product strategies and roadmaps for portfolio expansion in new markets.
  • Translating company/management level objectives to product level OKRs.
  • Responsible for user/market research, POCs, MVPs, and creating PRDs, defining KPIs, prioritization, owning the complete funnel of the product life cycle.
  • Product launch planning with a go-to-market strategy with documentation, marketing materials, and operation readiness.
  • Post-launch tracking KPIs, and working closely with the operations and analytics team for continuous feedback and improvements.
  • Handling a product team consisting of 3 Product analysts.
  • Working with an Engineering team of 15+ members for product development.
  • Involved in the evaluation of potential companies for acquisition and product merging for already acquired companies.

BankBazaar

Analyst
04.2017 - 08.2019

Job overview

  • Responsible for integrating banking, NBFC, and insurance partners into the Bankbazaar platform
  • Successfully integrated partners like CITI, Kotak Mahindra, TATA Capital, IndusInd, HDFC, ICICI, etc
  • Converting business requirements to product requirements
  • Doing complete feasibility of the requirements, highlighting the shortcomings, and devising ways to overcome the shortcomings
  • Planning sprints and assigning modules to various teams like development/Data/UI for development
  • Overseeing the Functional and Regression testing once development is done
  • Coordinating with the release and DevOps team for launching these projects
  • Documentation and retrospection of the project to implement the new approaches/learnings in future projects.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and increased efficiency.

Cognizant

Programmer Analyst
11.2015 - 03.2017

Job overview

  • Worked on Common Reporting Standards for Royal London Group Insurance, my main responsibility involved understanding the requirements for change requests and implementing them on their website
  • Developed and enhanced features of this New Zealand-based financial organization whose platform is an online hosted direct-to-customer platform written in AngularJS, used by various investment firms
  • Analyzed, debugged, and modified codes in OPUS, a Windows-based web application used by an American Insurance company
  • Designed and developed the Front-end from scratch using Bootstrap, CSS, and AngularJS.

Education

Sathyabama University
Chennai, India

B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
03.2015

University Overview

Church School, Beldih

ISC, ICSE Computer Science
03.2011

University Overview

Skills

  • Product Strategy & Roadmap
  • Team Management
  • MVPs
  • Agile Product Development
  • User Stories & PRD
  • Go to Market Strategy
  • KPI & Metric Tracking
  • Market & Competitive Analysis
  • Documentation
  • Product Solutioning
  • Wireframing and UX
  • Product and Data Architecture
  • Data Visualization and Data-driven decision-making
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Design thinking
  • Business Analysis
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Cross Functional Leadership
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Pricing Strategies
Prakash Kumar Prasad