Rahul Rathore
Product Manager
Bangalore
Summary
1. Product manager/ leader with background in software quality assurance engineering.
2. 11+ years of total experience, of which 4+ years in product management
3. Core skills –
- Solution oriented/ problem solver – Understand product challenges and negotiate feasible solution with business and tech teams
- Passion to understand new products and its users
- Good business perspective – Understand and help product further a business model for product success
- Analytical, data driven and a good influencer and communicator
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certification
Work History
Product Manager II
Rakuten India
Bengaluru
07.2021 - Current
- Built a digital platform for sports learning aimed at training young players.
- Conducted workshop with business and sales team to ideate on product vision, strategy and created plan for MVP and future product roadmap
- Worked with S&M team to understand strategy for marketing and new user acquisition. Understood and finalized tech requirements for engineering team to work on
- Finalized key project KPIs to understand product performance post release
- Maintain steady backlog and product quality with efficient and timely reviews and UAT
- Ensure synergy and collaboration between product and engineering teams
- Working on strategy and plan for product launch in new markets (global launch) and prepare a plan to manage release
Product Manager (E-commerce Department)
Rakuten India
Bengaluru
10.2019 - 07.2021
- Managed multiple products related to improvements/ enhancements in order management section in Rakuten’s e-commerce website.
- Built a new supply chain management system which resulted in cost saving of >200 million JPY per year (1.4 million USD) by reducing redeliveries
- Revamped ad display on order management section to increase total ad revenue by 10 billion JPY per year (> 70 million USD)
- Led engagements with UX, dev and test teams to review product quality and conduct feasibility analysis for new opportunities
- Participated in innovation camps to ideate on new ideas and opportunities to increase revenue on e-comm platform.
- Helped integrate other Rakuten services with e-comm platform to promote reselling and targeted advertising
- Provided support for major marketing and sales events
- Managed product backlog and prepared dashboard reporting key KPIs after each launch
Product Manager
Boeing India
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 10.2019
- Led cross functional global teams working on critical products for The Boeing Company.
- Integrated and managed suppliers into Boeing’s program plan seamlessly.
- Managed multiple vendor teams working in a scaled agile setup to deliver project goals
- Collaborated with developers and product teams to access project outcomes and prioritise future app features
- Managed re-development of new client management system aimed at managing client visits to Boeing facilities
- Created dashboards to monitor progress on bugs and enhancement tickets.
- Setup framework to provide support to help desk teams and helped built escalation metrics
Systems and Data Analyst
Boeing India
Bengaluru
07.2016 - 01.2018
- On-boarded and led team working on disaster management plans for critical Boeing applications
- Oversee development, planning and design of metric report for team
- Act as liaison between architects, analysts, and developers during data transformation projects
- Identify and resolve data processing issues and take steps to improve quality of data in system
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Tavant Technologies
Bengaluru
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Helped transition of software development efforts to test driven development
- Monitored application performance during critical releases and prepared performance benchmark documents
- Created and implemented QA test strategy for business unit and performed quality assessment
- Conducted UAT for client and business teams and led requirement development efforts in sync with business teams
Quality Assurance Engineer
The Walt Disney
Bengaluru
03.2013 - 04.2014
Analyst
Hewlett Packard
Bengaluru
03.2011 - 12.2012
Education
Exec. MBA - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
Lucknow 08.2019 - 12.2021
B.E - Computer Science Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Indore 09.2006 - 07.2010
Skills
Product Planning
undefinedCertification
1. Certified SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager (Credential ID 62998779-1322)
Timeline
Product Manager II
Rakuten India
07.2021 - Current
Product Manager (E-commerce Department)
Rakuten India
10.2019 - 07.2021
Exec. MBA - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
08.2019 - 12.2021
Product Manager
Boeing India
01.2018 - 10.2019
Systems and Data Analyst
Boeing India
07.2016 - 01.2018
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Tavant Technologies
06.2014 - 06.2016
Quality Assurance Engineer
The Walt Disney
03.2013 - 04.2014
Analyst
Hewlett Packard
03.2011 - 12.2012
B.E - Computer Science Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
09.2006 - 07.2010
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