Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Acievements
Accomplishments
Timeline
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RAJESH RAVIRAJ

Chennai

Summary

Accomplished leader with 19 years of experience in driving multi-million-dollar product portfolios and manage P&L responsibilities, supporting revenue and margin growth.

Extensive experience in leveraging data analytics to develop comprehensive solutions that contribute to business outcomes.

Solid experience with SaaS products and their lifecycle, and a good understanding of Contact Center solutions.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director - BI PM

Verizon
Chennai
05.2020 - Current

• Leading and mentoring a high-performing team of product managers and business analysts to develop, launch, and optimize data-driven contact center product solutions – including agent desktop features, IVR optimization, and customer interaction analytics – fostering innovation and excellence across multiple business lines.
• Define and execute comprehensive product strategies aligned with organizational objectives, resulting in a 35% growth in user acquisition and a 25% increase in customer retention year-over-year, maximizing revenue and margin growth for assigned product sets.
• Spearheading the development of a unified analytics framework specifically for contact center interactions, ensuring cross-functional teams had access to real-time, actionable insights for strategic product decisions – from agent performance to customer journey optimization – and overall business performance.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to develop long-term product roadmaps, set clear KPIs, and ensured alignment across teams to meet both short-term and long-term business goals.
• Manage a $4M product development budget, owning resource allocation to ensure maximum ROI while delivering on strategic priorities and P&L objectives specifically for our contact center solution portfolio.
• Utilize advanced data models and predictive analytics to forecast contact center market trends, agent behavior, and customer service revenue, providing data-driven insights that led to a 20% increase in contact center product profitability and guided company direction on future product development within the contact center space.

Product Operations Manager

Palo Alto Networks
Bangalore
04.2017 - 09.2019

• Drove the development and operationalization of a contact center-integrated predictive analytics product - 'Maestro', leveraging multi-channel data to intelligently engage with customers at every stage of their buying journey and maximizing engagement through optimized contact center interactions and proactive outreach.
• Worked closely with data science and contact center operations teams to deliver a 'Next-Best-Action' product feature, utilizing predictive models to guide agent interactions and automated customer journeys within our contact center solution.
• Led the analytics team to optimize user experience and customer journeys across all channels, leveraging platforms like Adobe Analytics to drive data-driven product decision.
• Spearheaded the integration of Adobe Audience Manager, activating audience segmentation across multiple channels to drive customer acquisition, conversion, and revenue growth for key SaaS products.

Manager, Product Strategy & Analysis

Sapient Nitro
Bangalore
04.2016 - 04.2017

• Led a team of digital analytics consultants, providing end-to-end analytics solutions for clients across multiple industries, helping them optimize their online presence and customer engagement.
• Supported sales teams in new project bids, helping clients define their analytics needs, build roadmaps, and implement solutions to meet their business objectives.

Digital Analytics Manager

Citibank
Bangalore
04.2014 - 04.2016

• Led the analytics strategy and defined product scorecards for executives and senior stakeholders, ensuring that contact center product features were optimized for maximum performance, agent efficiency, and overall business impact on customer satisfaction and resolution.
• Ushered analytics initiatives for key product lines, utilizing SQL, R, and Python to generate insights that shaped product strategy, marketing efforts, and user engagement.

Technical Consultant, SiteCatalyst

Adobe Systems
Bangalore
04.2013 - 04.2014

• Defined and drove the product vision and roadmap for analytics-focused products and features, ensuring alignment with business goals, user needs, and technical capabilities.
• Led Adobe SiteCatalyst implementations for clients across various verticals, optimizing web analytics strategies to meet complex business goals and maximize client ROI.

Senior Analyst, TAS Analytic Services

A Time Warner Company
Bangalore
09.2009 - 04.2013

• Managed the roadmaps for a suite of digital products and analytics tools, helping brand VPs make data-driven business decisions and improve operational efficiency.
• Conducted comprehensive market research and customer interviews to identify pain points, which informed the development of new features and product enhancements.

Management Trainee

HCL Technologies
Bangalore
06.2008 - 08.2009
  • Part of the Business Process Re-engineering team, preparing various process models with the help of Adonis and prepared the process flow charts using Microsoft Visio.
  • Identify and validate text-based requirements from internal and external stakeholders, document, communicate requirements and organize information into coherent ideas.

Call Center Executive

Sutherland Global Services
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2005 - 05.2006
  • Monitored call quality and provided individual constructive feedback to enhance performance and address areas in need of improvement.
  • Oversaw employee performance to foster accurate prioritization and achievement of sales and productivity goals.

Education

Master of Business Administration Operations and Finance -

Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering -

Anna University

Skills

  • Product Management
  • CCAS Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management
  • Product Innovation & Optimization
  • GenAI/LLM Applications in Product Development
  • Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Leadership
  • P&L Management & Revenue Growth

Acievements

  • Cross-Platform Product Suite Launch: Successfully led the launch of a cross-platform product suite that generated $25M in annual revenue within its first year, improving customer retention by 18%.
  • Product Portfolio Profitability Growth: Led the transformation of the company's product portfolio strategy, utilizing analytics to prioritize high-impact features, resulting in a 50% increase in profitability across key product lines.
  • Churn Reduction & Predictive Analytics: Spearheaded the integration of a predictive churn model into contact center solutions, providing agents with real-time insights to deliver personalized interventions and triggering automated retention workflows that collectively reduced customer churn by 22% over 12 months.
  • Data Democratization & Efficiency: Spearheaded the adoption of ThoughtSpot for data democratization, resulting in a 75% gain in productive time for business intelligence teams and stakeholders.

Accomplishments

  • Spotlight Awards
  • Simple Thanks

Timeline

Associate Director - BI PM

Verizon
05.2020 - Current

Product Operations Manager

Palo Alto Networks
04.2017 - 09.2019

Manager, Product Strategy & Analysis

Sapient Nitro
04.2016 - 04.2017

Digital Analytics Manager

Citibank
04.2014 - 04.2016

Technical Consultant, SiteCatalyst

Adobe Systems
04.2013 - 04.2014

Senior Analyst, TAS Analytic Services

A Time Warner Company
09.2009 - 04.2013

Management Trainee

HCL Technologies
06.2008 - 08.2009

Call Center Executive

Sutherland Global Services
04.2005 - 05.2006

Master of Business Administration Operations and Finance -

Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering -

Anna University
RAJESH RAVIRAJ