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Shobhit Saxena

Shobhit Saxena

Program Manager

Summary

Experienced Program Manager skilled in managing functional operations and projects with an advanced understanding of organizational strategies with talents for team building, stakeholder management and sound judgment to positively impact company success.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Manager

TimesPro (a part of The Times Group)
01.2023 - Current
  • Developed and implemented Standard Operating Procedures for the development, launch and management of programs
  • Built a team of Program Managers, SMEs and interns
  • Collaborated with 5+ cross-team stakeholders for program launches
  • Interacted with different vendors to see their offerings’ use in ours
  • Developed proposals and presentations for internal and external audiences
  • Maintained frequent interaction with senior management to measure goal achievement and determine areas of improvement
  • Developed detailed plans based on broad guidance and direction

Senior Product Manager

Interview Kickstart
11.2021 - 11.2022
  • Owned Software Engineering Pod which consists of Back-end
    Engineering, Front-end Engineering, Test Engineering, Full Stack
    Development, Android Engineering, and iOS Engineering
    products which help 500+ working professionals uplevel & nail
    interviews in top tech companies contributing to the company
    revenue of xx+ Crore quarterly
  • Led cross-team and stakeholder communication, and oversaw
    5+ products' development from inception to launch
  • Built & led a team of 10+ FTEs and 50+ contractors (Subject
    Matter Experts/FAANG+ Software Developers) by creating the
    interview process, taking interviews, mentoring & training new
    recruits, and reviewing their work
  • Researched on what new products to launch & identified 5 new
    products of which 2 were put under development
  • Talked to 100+ consumers to understand their feedback on the
    products to make product improvements
  • Assisted with the prioritization of 50+ product improvements to
    improve customer retention
  • Performed analysis that identified an opportunity to reduce the
    pricing of a product by 15% & boost its revenue by 19%
  • Collaborated with product managers and executed 50+
    trainings for Sales team members increasing sales by 8%
  • Reviewed marketing data with product managers on 4+ social
    media platforms to improve the content/keywords/etc.
  • Worked with instructors to build interactive curricula and
    content improving course completion from 65% to 80%
  • Worked with the project manager & product managers to do
    cost optimization which reduced the costs incurred by 23%
  • Managed vendors for the entire New Products team end-to-end

Senior Manager

upGrad (India's Number 1 Startup, 2020)
01.2018 - 08.2021
  • Led 10+ Technology Programs by collaborating with several teams assisting in xx+ Crores revenue quarterly
  • Provided strategic direction, leadership, & project governance for the programs serving xxxx+ consumers quarterly. The ratings for the programs 4.6+ on 5, NPS 60+, CSAT 75%+ & Outcomes 80%+
  • Built & led a team of 30+ FTEs & 100+ contractors. The team’s ESAT was 640% better than the organization’s. Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements
  • Performed 30+ Competitor Analyses, executed 100+ Sales Training and revamped marketing content which increased sales by 6.7%
  • Aligned 20+ new stakeholders (Partners, Vendors, etc.) with program vision & strategy
  • Managed the development & launch of 100+ program deliverables in collaboration with 5+ teams saving the company 10.7% in costs
  • Collaborated with 5+ B2B clients to design programs for them
  • Maintained regulatory & legal compliance within 10+ programs
  • Ordered new equipment and inventory and scheduled repairs for damaged equipment
  • Did Learning Analytics for prioritizing program enhancements
  • Served as an escalation point and solved 1000+ consumer queries
  • Recorded videos in the company’s studio and delivered 50+ live webinars & trainings for the consumers
  • Repeatedly recognized for top performance through fast-track promotions (IC->Manager->Senior Manager)

Software Engineer

Samsung Research
12.2015 - 01.2018
  • Developed container-based microservices, APIs, Web Portals and Batches for Samsung Smart TV Apps-Store Service serving 1.6 Billion API requests/Day. Laid the foundation of Microservices Architecture & Containerisation via ISB improving the service availability by 29% and reducing the infrastructure costs by 45%
  • Worked at the headquarters in South Korea for 3 months to discuss the business requirements and do R&D for the new architecture changes in the Samsung Smart TV's backend
  • Did code review of 5+ peers and mentored 4 new team recruits

Summer Intern

IIT Bombay
05.2014 - 07.2014

Developed Admin Functionality for an education portal, Utility for Wikipedia and 10+ Education-giving Flash Files launched open-source

Education

MicroMasters - Analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology
01.2019 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
08.2011 - 06.2015

ISC And ISCE - Science With Computers

G.P.M. College
04.1997 - 03.2011

Skills

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Software

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Accomplishments

  • Selected for ISB's (India's Best B-School) Emerging Leaders Programme
  • Star Achiever - upGrad
  • Cracked Software Engineer role at Gartner, 2017
  • Spot Awardee (twice) - Samsung Research
  • Qualified Samsung Intermediate and Advance Software Competency Tests
  • Selected for the internships at IIT Bombay through Software Contribution Quota and at DRDO, IIT KGP, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Delhi & IIITDM Kancheepuram through merit, 2014
  • Winner - Drishti, a technical event at Techspardha (tech-fest), NIT Kurukshetra, 2014
  • Regional Finalist, ACM-ICPC, 2013
  • Finalist, Manthan National Competition, 2013
  • Winner - Lab Racers, a technical event at Altius (tech-fest), NIT Kurukshetra, 2011
  • District topper of International Mathematics Olympiad and 3rd District topper of National Science Olympiad, 2009-2010
  • 2nd school topper in Secondary and 5th district topper in Senior Secondary, 2009-2011
  • Scholarship and awards recipient for academic excellence, 2009-2011

Work Availability

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Professional Development

  • Specialization in Foundations of Management Certification from IESE Business School, 2018-2020
  • Participant in AWS DevDay India, 2017
  • Participant in Wiki Conference India, 2016
  • Certified Participant in Firefox OS & MediaWiki Hackathons, 2014
  • J2EE Course Certification via High Technology Solutions, 2013
  • Android Application Development Expert v 1.0 Certification via Geekslab, 2012
  • Information Security Specialist Workshop Certification via CyberCure, 2011
  • Managed the development of the Alumni Association website, NIT Kurukshetra, 2013-2014
  • Member of Student Alumni Body of Alumni Association, NIT Kurukshetra, 2012-2014
  • Committee member in Literati and Confluence (technical and cultural fests), NIT Kurukshetra, 2012
  • Member of Technobyte (tech-club), NIT Kurukshetra, 2011-2013

Quote

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

TimesPro (a part of The Times Group)
01.2023 - Current

Senior Product Manager

Interview Kickstart
11.2021 - 11.2022

MicroMasters - Analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology
01.2019 - 05.2021

Senior Manager

upGrad (India's Number 1 Startup, 2020)
01.2018 - 08.2021

Software Engineer

Samsung Research
12.2015 - 01.2018

Summer Intern

IIT Bombay
05.2014 - 07.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
08.2011 - 06.2015

ISC And ISCE - Science With Computers

G.P.M. College
04.1997 - 03.2011
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