Smita Panda
Hyderabad
Summary
More than 14 years of experience as Product Manager/Functional Consultant/Business Analyst across multiple domains Be the voice of customer through research and interactions with customers, partners and sales team. Defines, Owns and Execute the Product Roadmap, Product Backlog grooming and Product Planning and prioritization .Partner with stakeholders across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, backlog, and roadmap .Experienced in gathering requirements, requirements management and working with cross functional teams, scrum team. Experienced in writing product specification documents,vision board, epics, and user stories .Experienced in analyzing complex business requirements and translating them into functional requirements. Experienced in stakeholder management (internal and external) Good Analytical, Problem Solving, Interpersonal, Communication and Presentation skills Experienced in Agile methodology Good understanding of the defects management and resolution process using project management tool like JIRA, Jira Align, VersionOne & VSTS,Launch Darkly .Cross functional role which involved collaborating with various cross functional teams. Working knowledge of analytics tool like Pendo, Google analytics. Analyzing data and taking data driven decisions for features.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
Entain Inc
06.2022 - Current
- Owns the product for the Gaming team and responsible for delivering outcomes
- Drives the Process from ideation to execution and post execution performance
- Delivering features and analyze data of the live product features
- Stakeholder management working with various cross functional teams
- Backlog grooming with the development team
- Own the release planning, sprint planning and backlog review
- Presenting the product roadmap to the stakeholders
- Doing product demos to stakeholders
- Collaborating with various cross functional teams to deliver value to customers
- Mentoring Business Analysts
- Pragmatic approach
Senior Product Manager
ADP Inc
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Owns the product roadmap for the onboarding product 'Launchpad' data conversion
- Drives the adoption of product features among the newly onboarded customers
- Stakeholder management working with various cross functional teams
- Scrum ceremonies with scrum team
- Presenting ideas to higher management to align with the company's Goal on the features
- Doing product demo to the stakeholders
- Working on the themes, epics, stories, and acceptance criteria for the features
- Hands-on experience on Confluence, JIRA, Jira Align
- Hands-on on Balsamiq wireframing tool & draw.io process flow tool
- Research and analyze the competitive landscape
- Closely collaborate with cross functional teams to build a best-in-class product.
Product Manager
SS&C (Eze Software)
02.2020 - 01.2021
- Owns the product roadmap for the Electronic Trading
- Stakeholder management working with various cross functional teams
- Backlog grooming with the development team
- Own the release planning, sprint planning and backlog review
- Presenting the product roadmap to the stakeholders
- Doing product demo to the stakeholders
- Working on the themes, epics, stories, and acceptance criteria for the features
- Hands-on experience on Confluence, JIRA, LACE & Hakkiri
- Hands-on on Balsamiq wireframing tool & draw.io process flow tool
- Sales enablement post the product release.
Product Owner
GVC Holdings (Ivy Comptech)
08.2018 - 01.2020
- Worked with the product leads to identify business opportunities, find appropriate solutions, assist in product roadmap and gathering the requirements
- Collaborate with GVC marketing team to understand the business needs & ship products that helped in increased customer acquisition by delivering an improved customer journey for GVC
- Story grooming with the development team
- Collaborates with Marketing teams to understand their business requirements
- Provided demos to Product Leads /Marketing teams prior to feature release/change
- Worked with cross functional teams like Operations, Compliance, CRM & Platform teams
- Worked with key stakeholders to understand the business requirements and business justification
- Presented proposed solutions to meet the business requirements
- Worked with the technical leads to ensure the defined requirements meet the business goals, whilst ensuring a good customer experience and speed to market
- Responsible for getting signoff on feature from product leads and stakeholders
- Conducted post release analysis to measure the benefit of key product changes and identify opportunities for further optimization
- Hands on experience in writing Acceptance criteria/FSD (functional specification document
- Hands on knowledge on Confluence (requirements gathering) and Version One (project management).
Senior Business Analyst/Functional Consultant
Deloitte US
Hyderabad
06.2017 - 12.2017
- Worked closely with stakeholders, understanding requirements, and documenting the requirements in the form of user stories and functional specification document
- Owned backlog and worked on the execution of stories
- Worked with product leads to define scope of large projects
- Participated in the sprint planning, sprint review and sprint demo
- Worked closely with the engineers to clarify the requirements.
Business Analyst/Functional Consultant
Itelligence
Hyderabad
08.2015 - 05.2016
- Working closely with stakeholders, understanding requirements, and documenting the requirements in the form of functional specification document
- Participating in the sprint planning, sprint review and sprint demo
- Functional testing of the feature to be released
- Working closely with the engineers to clarify the requirements.
Technical Analyst & Functional Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
10.2008 - 08.2015
- Understanding the requirement, writing user stories, documenting it in form of FSD/BRD and doing functional testing post development
- Analyzing and Triaging Bugs
- Working with stakeholders and customers for User Training
- Driving projects and collaborating with various teams
- Monitoring of the daily processes
- Working with engineers to clarify their queries.
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT)
04.2008
Skills
- Product Roadmap
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Agile Methodology
- JIRA, Confluence, VersionOne
- Analytics(Google Analytics, Mixpanel)
- A/B Testing(LaunchDarkly,Adobe)
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 06/18/1986
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Product Manager
Entain Inc
06.2022 - Current
Senior Product Manager
ADP Inc
01.2021 - 06.2022
Product Manager
SS&C (Eze Software)
02.2020 - 01.2021
Product Owner
GVC Holdings (Ivy Comptech)
08.2018 - 01.2020
Senior Business Analyst/Functional Consultant
Deloitte US
06.2017 - 12.2017
Business Analyst/Functional Consultant
Itelligence
08.2015 - 05.2016
Technical Analyst & Functional Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2008 - 08.2015
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT)