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Rajat Thathoo

Product Owner, YOE - 8 years
Bengaluru

Summary

Results-oriented and empathetic professional with a keen ability to identify and mitigate crises at an early stage. Committed to delivering outcomes and valuing stakeholder understanding above all. Known for simplifying complex concepts and approaches. Experienced in leading professional services initiatives and poised to grow in enterprise product management. A versatile and proactive professional with a passion for driving impactful solutions.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Product Owner

Adobe
02.2022 - Current
  • Collaborate with leadership to create future roadmaps aligned with the vision for platform experience transformation. Currently working on a $236M deal i.e. largest in ACS history with a high performing team.
  • Develop and execute strategic plans based on maturity assessments, KPI baseline ensuring effective delivery and timely completion of the roadmap.
  • Identify challenges and proactively create mitigation approaches, ensuring successful project outcomes.
  • Drive sprint ceremonies and ensure effectiveness
  • Drive digitization initiatives by leveraging appropriate products to streamline processes and reduce turnaround time by 70% for certain features.
  • Lead the migration of legacy implementations to modular and reusable fragments, resulting in a no-code platform and a remarkable 90% reduction in turnaround time for marketing pages.
  • Introduce and optimize an intake pipeline for platform-level development, enhancing efficiency and project management.
  • Provide expertise in suggesting best practices, brand standardization and design update recommendations to reduce avoidable technical complexities.
  • Generate a revenue pipeline based on delivery quality and consulting. Generated an additional pipeline of $1.5M for a 3 month extension. Created an injection point for sales to close on cross selling additional product offerings , generating $1.7M in services excluding license fees.

Product Owner

ICF Next
08.2018 - 02.2022
  • Begun as a certified AEM developer and worked on delivering engagements such as hfma.org and go.indigo.in
  • Worked as a single POC for delivering critical microsites as an AEM developer.
  • Transitioned from services to product by taking up the role of a Product Owner for a world leading Loyalty Platform - Tally® by ICF Next
  • Part of the initial core team formed for implementing a Global Delivery Modal.
  • Expanded to a 20+ member team while building trust and transitioning work to India.
  • Involved in future roadmap planning and estimation of solutioned addons.
  • POC between business stakeholders and the offshore team.
  • BAU involved:
  • - creation of the needed runway with stakeholders in product management
  • - platform convergence, 0-1 feature implementations and creation of self-service capabilities
  • - cross-functional collaboration with technical architects & leads across geographies - continue to transition the team and processes using SAFe®
  • I can speak tech solutions through simplified documents/conversations to effectively translate them for a targeted business audience.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Services
12.2016 - 08.2018
  • Certified Adobe Experience Manager developer
  • Using AEM as a CMS platform to help clients undergo a complete digital evolution.
  • cision.com, prnewswire.com are some critical migration and transformation projects that have been successfully delivered.
  • Always been part of green field projects from scratch to delivery ensuring great, fast paced learnings and delivery-oriented planning.

Education

B.E. - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Jain University
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Product Management

Accomplishments

“Innovation Champion” award for Adobe Consulting Services. (2023)

“Bravo Stars” ICF’s certificate of appreciation for the Product Owner Role. (2021)

Won the “You Matter” award at ICF Next for my contribution in Tally® towards building a positive collaboration between teams for the Global Delivery Model. (2020)

Won the “You Matter” award at ICF Next for my contributions towards the digital transformation of HFMA. (2019)

“CDB- Interactive DigiStellar” awardee for excellent performance at Cognizant. (2018)

Certification

SAFe® 6 PO/PM and SAFe® 6 certified practitioner

Interests

Experienced investor in equities with over a decade of exposure Handle a 8 figure personal portfolio that is diversified from an investor lens moving from a trading approach

Ensures a very light inclusion of physical activities on a weekly basis to keep the machine functioning

Avid automobile enthusiast Not a generic fan boy

Part of the organizing committee and lead MC for the Vismaya and Anveshana college fests

Former state level athlete and athletic captain of the school, imbibing qualities of discipline and focus from a very young age

Timeline

Product Owner

Adobe
02.2022 - Current

Product Owner

ICF Next
08.2018 - 02.2022

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Services
12.2016 - 08.2018

B.E. - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Jain University
04.2001 -

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