Product Manager with a proven track record in driving innovation, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering impactful solutions. Skilled in product strategy, lifecycle management, and optimizing user experiences to achieve business goals. Recognized for proactive leadership and consistently exceeding targets.
Product Manager - Correspondent Banking, Home Lending.
• Led fraud detection initiatives for correspondent banking, focusing on AML/KYC compliance and enhancing user experience.
• Spearheaded the development of fraud detection features, optimizing AML checks to reduce client onboarding time by 6 days, improving customer satisfaction with instant loan eligibility feedback, and saving costs by reducing penalties.
• Led full product lifecycle management: gathered business requirements, crafted detailed EPICs, and collaborated with cross-functional teams for development, rigorous testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Optimized Data Verify integration to enhance fraud detection accuracy, reducing manual intervention, and increasing property asset verification efficiency.
• Facilitated the development of a Welcome Letter for the end borrower, to be compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Managed seamless integration of point-of-sale (POS) services and vendor platforms, enhancing operational efficiency and client experience.
• Developed functionality for uploading trailing documents at the POS, ensuring client compliance, and streamlining processes.
Customer Product Owner - Point of Sale Solutions
• Prioritized and managed development team tasks, maximizing value delivery for the company.
• Led multiple customer projects through all phases of the SDLC, ensuring alignment between business needs and technology by collaborating with leadership, architects, and stakeholders.
• Developed product roadmaps aligned with company objectives, communicated plans to stakeholders, and managed sprint backlog grooming and prioritization.
• Conducted product demos, discovery workshops, and fit/gap analysis for both internal and external customers.
• Created use cases, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to translate functional requirements, improving dev team clarity.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Development, QA, Customer, Product) to validate product hypotheses using data-driven insights.
• Performed A/B testing to evaluate the impact of proposed solutions on product functionality.
• Defined user stories and epics, documented detailed process flows, enabling customers to optimize their business processes.
• Led quality assurance and user acceptance testing (UAT), crafting acceptance criteria and user stories, resulting in the successful, on-time, on-budget go-live of POS solutions for four major retailers.
• Established product performance metrics and tracked KPIs across major retailers in the U.S.
Systems Engineer
• Developed and managed a compliance dashboard tracking ticket data for 12 teams, ensuring regulatory compliance by identifying and addressing missing items; coordinated with 110 team members to achieve compliance.
• Streamlined communication and follow-ups with cross-functional teams, driving completion of compliance-related tasks.
Co-Session Chair, Product BootCamp Cohort 1, JPMC
Co-led the Ignite Product BootCamp, a 4-month program with 8 in-person sessions and office hours, attended by Leaders, VPs, and tech professionals transitioning to Product Management.
• Member, Centre of Excellence (COE), NCR Corporation
Organized and anchored PS Hyderabad All Hands meetings with 400+ attendees, driving engagement and participation.
• NCR Brand Ambassador
Conceptualized, planned, and executed events to promote culture, inclusivity, and belonging, representing NCR at various forums.
• Coordinator, Cultural Cluster, IIM Visakhapatnam
Organized 15 events, including ‘Panache-The Fashion Show’; spearheaded ticket sales, event marketing, and social media campaigns for the 5th cultural fest. Secured merchandise sponsorship worth ₹2 lakhs from brands like Jack & Jones, Vero Moda, and Only & Sons.
• Writing & Sports
Achieved 1M+ views on Quora by sharing insights on CAT/MBA preparation.
Represented IIM Visakhapatnam at inter-IIM fest ‘Sangram 2019’ in Basketball, Table Tennis, and Chess.
J.P. Morgan Chase
• Outstanding Community Leadership, Honorable Mention, Global Ignite Awards 2024.
• Recognized for exceptional work ethic and determination within the first 8 months of joining.
• Praised for writing detailed epics, which were used as examples for training other Product Managers.
NCR Corporation
• Acknowledged for excellent anchoring by Executive Director-COE during PS HYD All Hands Meeting.
• Recognized for proactive approach, initiative, and consistently meeting deadlines within the first 5 months.
• Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) – Scrum.org, 2024
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