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Sai Kiran

Sai Kiran

Product Manager
Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Passionate about product management in Fintech, disruptive innovation, personal and organizational growth. Customer oriented Product Manager with over 12 years of work experience in Conversational banking, Bot Building, capital markets/ wealth management. Aspiring to groom products into immense value creating engines for customers through effective product management.
Masters the art of orchestration between engineering, design, sales & marketing, business and leadership teams.
Enthusiastic in taking plunge in creating products from scratch
Unique Value Proposition
1. Articulates complex ideas in a simple way by putting efforts to identify key elements of the idea
2. Eagerness in solving unmet, overlooked and impact customer pains that are often hidden and undiscovered
3. Drawing alignment and consensus between all stakeholders with respect to the understanding of product aspects
4. Expert in assessing customer desires and requirements

Key Achievements
1. Built a conversational banking bot from scratch, entered into strategic partnerships with core banking platform providers, acquired new clients and ensured bot generated steady stream of revenue for the firm
2. Played a critical role in helping Bank of Julius Baer, Singapore go- live with Temenos' TAP product
3. In Denmark, rolled out the all important MiFID II project across Danske bank (all Nordic countries) to ensure compliance, that saved several million dollars for the bank from paying penalties to regulator for non compliance
4. Initiated, ideated, designed and rolled out 'sales- ready' Robo advisory prototype for CGI that brought lot of traction to the offering which later turned into sales revenue for the 5rm
4. In Canada, helped out leading banks like TD, BMO and RBC in running banks on their legacy wealth applications by participating in UAT, providing user training and coordinating with offshore team

Overview

7
7
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager

Kore.Ai
Remote
10.2020 - Current
  • Built conversational core banking bot that solves 150+ regular banking use cases for banks from scratch
  • Played critical role in securing white labeling partnership with several core banking platform providers like Finastra, J&H, Temenos, FIS etc
  • Aided marketing and sales team and ensured new clients were acquired
  • Played vital role in securing steady revenue stream from the product to the firm
  • Manages product road map, owns up product backlog, guides marketing team in preparing collaterals, arriving at positioning statements, video promo preparation, conduct demos to sales team
  • Orchestrates between business, leadership, engineering, design, sales and marketing teams
  • Guides engineering team in developing requirements
  • Ensured localization of bot into several languages by identifying language vendors, cost negotiations, listing out activities to be performed etc

Product Manager/ Principal Solution Analyst

Temenos
Bangalore
05.2019 - 10.2020

1. By being Subject matter expert, developed product capabilities of Temenos wealth suite product- 'TAP' to meet unsolved product needs of leading North American and Asian banks like Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Julius Baer- Singapore etc
2. Worked to improve existing products based on customer evaluations and needs
3. Led collaboration meetings to develop key processes for creation of product enhancements
4. Successfully prioriti6ed product requirements and set realistic expectations in regards to development and timeline.

Senior Business Analyst

Danske IT
Bangalore
01.2017 - 04.2019

1. Successfully rolled out HMN D77 MiFID II project across all Nordic countries where bank has its presence
2. Product owner for a team of Q9, prepared product back log and prioritized requirements.
3. Feature owner for Investment Reporting System.
4. Carved out a holistic domain training plan to ensure technical team has meaningful business engagement

5. Recruited new members for business analysis team to support division growth and create strong and productive department, replacing underperforming staff.

Senior Business Analyst

CGI
Bangalore
06.2012 - 01.2017

1. Designed wealth management products, recommended product
enhancements, contributed to market research on products, gathered
requirements and designed functional speci5cation documents for various requirements with respect to wealth management domain for leading North American banks like RBC, CI Financials, BMO & TD.
2. Helped in development of Investment Policy statement application from scratch
3. Critical role in preparing PoC for Robo Advisor to enhance digital advice experience of bank

4. Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.

Business Analyst

Acsys Software
Chennai
04.2011 - 06.2012
  • Helped CAMS manage their E-ISC application better by enhancing front end processing of mutual funds

Junior Research Analyst

CRISIL
Chennai
11.2010 - 03.2011
  • Tracked European capital markets and inscribed market commentary for global use by several HNI investors across the world.

Research Analyst

pelican Wealth Managers
Chennai
12.2008 - 10.2010
  • Mutual fund research, mutual fund analysis, model portfolio recommendation.

Education

International Certification in Product Management -

Institute of Product Leadership
01.2020 - 01.2021

PGDBE -

Wigan & Leigh India
06.2008 - 06.2010

B.E. -

Anna University
06.2003 - 06.2007

Skills

    Fintech Product Management

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South Indian Classical music

Trained carnatic music vocalist

Timeline

Product Manager

Kore.Ai
10.2020 - Current

International Certification in Product Management -

Institute of Product Leadership
01.2020 - 01.2021

Product Manager/ Principal Solution Analyst

Temenos
05.2019 - 10.2020

Senior Business Analyst

Danske IT
01.2017 - 04.2019

Senior Business Analyst

CGI
06.2012 - 01.2017

Business Analyst

Acsys Software
04.2011 - 06.2012

Junior Research Analyst

CRISIL
11.2010 - 03.2011

Research Analyst

pelican Wealth Managers
12.2008 - 10.2010

PGDBE -

Wigan & Leigh India
06.2008 - 06.2010

B.E. -

Anna University
06.2003 - 06.2007
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