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Saachi Das

Saachi Das

Product Owner
Hyderabad

Summary

Results-oriented Product Owner with 7+ years translating business needs into well-defined features, user stories, and acceptance criteria across data-centric and automation platforms in healthcare and telecom. Experienced in feature-level backlog refinement, cross-functional coordination across engineering, data, and QA teams, and driving release readiness in Agile environments. Skilled in data-driven prioritization, stakeholder communication, and delivering measurable business outcomes in complex, regulated domains.

Overview

2
2
Certifications
8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner

Verizon
08.2024 - Current
  • Translated data insights into well-defined features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, owning backlog refinement and release readiness as the bridge between customer pain points and engineering delivery.
  • Coordinated across engineering, data, and QA teams to resolve dependencies and delivery blockers, surfacing tradeoffs and risks to support feature-level prioritisation.
  • Used funnel and interaction data to prioritize which experience gaps to fix first — balancing customer impact, call-volume reduction, and cost-to-serve
  • Used funnel and interaction data to prioritise which experience gaps to fix first — balancing customer impact, call-volume reduction, and cost-to-serve
  • Analyzed end-to-end customer journeys across support channels (IVR, care calls, digital) to identify drop-off points, intent-completion failures, and root causes of abandoned journeys
  • Validated post-production changes by re-measuring journey completion rates and confirming fixes achieved intended improvements.
  • Delivered measurable business impact: improved journey completion rates and saved Verizon significant dollars by reducing failed interactions, repeat calls, and support costs

Product Owner

Optum Global Solution
08.2018 - 08.2024

Strategic Product Planning & Execution

  • Owned and prioritized the product backlog end-to-end, driving deployments from concept to delivery across complex, deadline-driven projects
  • Facilitated scrum ceremonies and sprint planning to align development teams on priorities and business objectives
  • Acted as primary liaison between business stakeholders and engineering, translating requirements into shippable solutions
  • Facilitated scrum ceremonies and sprint planning to align development teams on priorities and business objectives, enhancing collaboration and focus on deliverables
  • Liaised between business stakeholders and engineering, translating requirements into shippable solutions that meet user needs and business goals
  • Integrated RPA BOTs to automate manual claims and back-office document/report workflows in a regulated healthcare (HIPAA/compliance-sensitive) environment, generating $3M in annual savings and measurable efficiency gains.
  • Designed and launched web-based tools for the service industry, delivering 35% productivity and 40% quality improvements
  • Tracked project health using data-driven approaches, identifying risks early and implementing course corrections to ensure quality and adherence to timelines

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Christ University Faculty Of Engineering
Bangalore
04-2018

Skills

Backlog prioritization

Product backlog management

Feature prioritization

User story writing

Requirements gathering

Journey analytics

Funnel analysis

Production validation

Root cause analysis

Performance measurement

Stakeholder alignment

Cross-functional communication

Sprint planning

Release planning

Release management

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Product Owner

Verizon
08.2024 - Current

Product Owner

Optum Global Solution
08.2018 - 08.2024

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Christ University Faculty Of Engineering
Saachi DasProduct Owner