Rohit Khanna
Product Lead @ i2o
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Experienced Product Owner with over a decade of expertise in Product Development, E-commerce, and Data Science. Skilled in strategic planning, user research, data-driven decision-making, and innovative product development. Hands-on experience in Advertising Optimization, Pricing Intelligence, Competitor Research, and Product Development. Proficient in data analysis to gather insights that drive impact for customers, collaborate across teams, manage relationships with stakeholders, and deliver top-tier products that meet customer and business needs.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner (Data Science)
i2o Retail
07.2020 - Current
- Company Overview: i2o specialises in e-commerce channel optimisation helping consumer brands win e-commerce
- As a product owner my role is critical in solving business problems and shaping customer experience for 80+ ecommerce brands that use the i2o platform.
- Defining vision and strategies for product portfolio, using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, identifying market opportunities, and building business cases.
- Developing and enhancing products, I manage product roadmaps, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data and manage risks.
- Leading a team of Product Managers, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to manage overall product portfolio effectively and strike a balance between features and tech debt.
- Led the development and launch of Category360, a data product providing Marketplace Intelligence to clients. Drove 5x surge in i2o website traffic.
- Revamped the Sales Insights module, providing actionable insights to clients through GenAI. Improved client engagement from 4.5 mins to 12 mins (171% increase).
- Engineered i2o's Brand Forecaster, for predicting ecommerce sales and promotions using ML models. Averted $9.5M in potential lost sales from stockouts for i2o clients in 2023.
- I2o specialises in e-commerce channel optimisation helping consumer brands win e-commerce
Functional Architect
BlueYonder (JDA)
09.2018 - 07.2020
- Led Scrum team by translating business problems into functional designs, framing data science solutions and liaising between clients and stakeholders.
- Improved forecast accuracy by 9% for Luminate Demand Edge, an ML-powered JDA Forecasting software through intelligent feature engineering in python.
- Resolved critical product defects by re-engineering Seasonality Extraction logic in Time Series, demoed the POC in Python and Excel.
- Delivered initial models results, EDA, Hypothesis Tests, and Product Requirement Docs for existing and new clients.
Project Specialist
Hewlett-Packard Inc
06.2015 - 06.2018
- Led end-to-end Order Fulfillment activities for HP while serving as the main point of contact for Customer, HP Distribution Centers and PMO.
- Independently managed GE Healthcare account - Led the team that won the #1 Supplier award from GE for FY15/16.
- Remodeled safety stock levels and re-order points on PowerBI; Drove 28% reduction in excess inventory, decreased stock-outs by 15%.
- Developed VBA Programs and automated monthly billing and reporting - Decreased processing time by 90%.
Education
PGP - Data Science And AI
INSOFE (Upgrad)
Hyderabad, IN 01.2019 - 01.2021
M. S. - Industrial Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Fayetteville, USA 01.2012 - 01.2014
B. Tech - Mechatronics
MGIT (JNTU)
Hyderabad, IN 01.2008 - 01.2012
Skills
Data Analysis
Competitor Research
AGILE
Figma
Python
Excel-VBA
SQL
PowerBI
Roadmap development
Stakeholder engagement
Customer insights
Team leadership
Problem solving
Strategic planning
Product planning
Certification
APICS - CPIM, 2019, Certified in Production and Inventory Management.
Teaching And Leadership
- MentorMind, Data Science Industry Mentor, 03/01/22, Present, Conduct weekly Seminars on AI/ML, Statistics and Career Progression for students in professional fields.
- University Of Arkansas, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 01/01/12, 12/31/14, Taught classes to engineering students on Regression, ANOVA, Probability, Hypothesis Testing., Served as Chief Judge for Honors Research Symposium for two years.
Skills
JIRA, Wireframing, RCA, Market Research, AGILE, Figma, Python, Pyspark, Excel-VBA, SQL, PowerBI, Airflow, G-BigQuery, Git
Timeline
Product Owner (Data Science)
i2o Retail
07.2020 - Current
PGP - Data Science And AI
INSOFE (Upgrad)
01.2019 - 01.2021
Functional Architect
BlueYonder (JDA)
09.2018 - 07.2020
Project Specialist
Hewlett-Packard Inc
06.2015 - 06.2018
M. S. - Industrial Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
01.2012 - 01.2014
B. Tech - Mechatronics
MGIT (JNTU)
01.2008 - 01.2012