Sagar S
Product Manager
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Proven track record of building enterprise class SaaS products. Extremely data oriented, with great collaboration & interpersonal skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of Product
Congruent Solutions Inc.
06.2019 - Current
- Built from ground up, multiple products for the US Retirement industry, used today by leading Retirement plan providers - https://www.congruentsolutions.com/core-solutions/
- Increased user adoption – 15X users in 3 years across products
- Built the Product Management practice (4 Product Managers & 15 Business Analysts) and coached them on skills needed to succeed like driving with high degree of ownership and advocating customer needs.
- Identified an un-served market need and launched the CORE Mapper product. Led to ~ USD1 Million increase in annual license revenue (~15% of product revenue)
- Identified product upgrade as a priority and convinced the leadership to invest in a UX refresh and move to micro services architecture from SOA
- Identified new monetization opportunities – multi-tenant version of existing products for the small plan market and launching UXaaS while leveraging existing end user capabilities
- Enhanced product capabilities & lowered time to market through adoption of tools and partnerships – Personal rate of return, Retirement readiness tools, DocuSign, GIACT, SendGrid and Payroll provider integrations
- Retired a product that had some inefficiencies, and replaced it with a combination of offerings from products within our current suite – leading to 2X efficiency gains for customers and reduced internal spends on maintenance and upkeep
Product Manager
Congruent Solutions Inc.
01.2016 - 12.2019
- Envisioned, built and shipped multiple product features based on customer feedback, user & market research and regulations, many of which were instrumental in initial client sign-ups.
- Worked through some tight timeframes during product launch and convinced the leadership to go with a light MVP and reduced go to market time by one quarter
- Got all stakeholders to agree on need for customized front ends and dashboards across users and worked with UX and engineering teams to develop this
- Championed test automation, resulting in partial automation (60%) of our test suites, saving us ~7 days effort with each regression run
Lead BA (2014-15)/ Senior BA/ BA (2011-13)
Congruent Solutions Inc.
05.2011 - 12.2015
- Worked on multiple agile teams formulating complex user journeys and functions in the Retirement and Financial domains.
Education
MBA -
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Chennai, TN 05.2010 - 05.2011
Masters in Computer Applications -
SSN College of Engineering
Chennai, TN 04.2004 - 05.2007
Skills
Product Management
Problem Solving
Leadership
Collaboration
Customer Orientation
Business Acumen
Interpersonal Skill
Analytical
Timeline
Head of Product
Congruent Solutions Inc.
06.2019 - Current
Product Manager
Congruent Solutions Inc.
01.2016 - 12.2019
Lead BA (2014-15)/ Senior BA/ BA (2011-13)
Congruent Solutions Inc.
05.2011 - 12.2015
MBA -
Great Lakes Institute of Management
05.2010 - 05.2011
Masters in Computer Applications -
SSN College of Engineering
04.2004 - 05.2007