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Rahul Vedak

Rahul Vedak

Product Management Professional
Pune

Summary

An experienced product management professional with over 20 years of expertise in enterprise software product management. Strong background in leading global teams and delivering results through strategic product roadmaps, market research, and go-to-market strategies.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Product Management

Qualys
04.2024 - Current
  • Strong alignment with sales to secure upside/renewals with proactive customer engagements (includes tailored pitch deck, Roadmap presentation, QBR, product adoption review)
  • Owner of GTM strategy for SMB/SME segment for market expansion and revenue growth and includes positioning, messaging and sales enablement activities
  • Make high-level decisions on product investments, resource allocation, and prioritization based on market research, competitive analysis and customer feedback


Principal Product Manager

BMC Software
08.2010 - 03.2024

Innovation and Product Transformations:

  • Evangelized new reporting offering to address challenges with existing solution that negatively impacted Customer retention and NPS
  • Launch of new reporting solution included identifying OEM partners, evaluation of OEM technology, negotiations around royalty terms and white labeling/integration of OEM product in BMC solutions. Also, withdrawal of existing solution, customer messaging, revenue forecasting.
  • Relaunch of simplified, easy to use/deploy single sign-on solution for the next gen authentication requirements (Helix SSO)
  • To effectively compete in the SaaS segment, strategized stronger SaaS platform by modernizing BMC's Remedy ITSM as containerized solution (BMC Helix); enabling scalable, always-on, run-anywhere application deployment
  • Addressed key customer issue around CMDB integration with launch of new Pentaho based integration platform (50%+ Customer adoption in 18 months of release)
  • Launched packaged integration adapters to accelerate CMDB implementation. Included drafting business plan, working with partners for building adapters (SCCM
    one of the most used CMDB adapter till
    date)


PM Ownership:

  • Responsibilities included roadmap and release planning, product requirements definition, buy vs. make decisions; Business strategy planning and investment prioritization, forecasting; Solution messaging, and analyst relation; Working with international, cross-functional product teams during the product life cycle.
  • User Research for simplifying report design experience (Validated Personas, Moderated Interviews, Design/UI Validation)


Go-to-Market:

  • Lead presenter at ‘Customer Experience Center’ in region for Customer briefings discussing BMC’s vision and solution roadmap, and thereby positively influencing new deals/renewals
  • Working with Tech/Solution Marketing to create sales plays, Demos and customer webinars for GTM
  • Active participation in annual user conference - Showcase product updates and innovations, Customer advisory board meetings, Booth presentations, Lead hands-on lab sessions


Product Manager

Digite Inc (now NimbleWork Inc)
12.2003 - 07.2010

Product Management

  • Working with the Senior leadership and Domain experts/Research Analyst in setting-up long-term product roadmap and formulating results-oriented product strategies
  • Execute product plans (releases) - Analyze requirements, Write detailed Use Case documents & Functional Specifications and be involved in design & development process (Modules Introduced – Process Governance, Portfolio Management, SLA Management, Resource Management, Risk Management)
  • Collecting detailed feature requirements and enhancement requests from customers


Presales – Product Marketing - Solution Consulting

  • Product Packaging/Licensing, Positioning and Roadmap definition; Working with Partner Organizations for representing their processes on tool
  • Support sales cycles - provide collateral, product fit, demo building, requirements vetting, RFI/RFP response Participation in customer forums such as Product Webinars and Blogs
  • Functional and technical guidance for existing customers and ongoing implementations

Business Manager

Powerweave
08.2002 - 12.2003
  • As a Business Manager, coordinate with Powerweave's international clientele for project & delivery management
  • Collaborate with customer throughout the project lifecycle & make visible the project milestones achieved. Also incorporate any new requirements or change requests & prepare revised plans to accommodate these change control items

Education

M.B.A. Systems -

Narsee Monjee Institute of Mgmt Studies (NMIMS)
Mumbai
07.2000 - 04.2002

Bachelor of Engineering -

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering
Mumbai
07.1996 - 05.1999

Skills

    Product Management

    Product Vision and Road-mapping

    User and Market Research

    SaaS Transformation

    Stakeholder Management

    Go-to-Market Strategies

Accomplishments

  • [BMC Software] 2023 Ideathon Runner up - use of AI/ML for reporting use cases
  • [BMC Software] Impact Award Winner for FY19 and FY20 - Recognition for understanding the importance of an Executive Briefing and go above and beyond to assist the program in delivering an unsurpassed customer experience at BMC's India 'Customer Experience Center'.
  • [Digite] Recognized as a ‘Significant Contributor’ Mapped and automated various CMMI processes on Digité Enterprise

Tools

Jira, Figma, Aha, Rally, Balsamiq, Gainsight, Aha, Asana, Qualtrics

Certification

  • Pragmatic Marketing (Pragmatic Product Manager)
  • Mandel Communication
  • ITIL v3
  • CISA – Information System Auditor

Timeline

Director of Product Management

Qualys
04.2024 - Current

Principal Product Manager

BMC Software
08.2010 - 03.2024

Product Manager

Digite Inc (now NimbleWork Inc)
12.2003 - 07.2010

Business Manager

Powerweave
08.2002 - 12.2003

M.B.A. Systems -

Narsee Monjee Institute of Mgmt Studies (NMIMS)
07.2000 - 04.2002

Bachelor of Engineering -

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering
07.1996 - 05.1999
Rahul VedakProduct Management Professional