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Sudarsan Sabesan

Sudarsan Sabesan

Lead Product Owner

Summary

  • 16+ years of techno-functional experience in Product and Leadership roles spanning across Retail, Marketing, Sales, Analytics, & Finance domains.
  • Aided revenue generation, cost takeout, and bid support for multi-million dollars
  • Mentored aspiring & experienced Product Managers, budding Entrepreneurs and Students on Product Management, Strategy and Career Planning

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Lead Product Owner

Target
Bengaluru
01.2020 - Current

Led the Circle Fraud & Abuse Mitigation Product and App modernization with a team of Engineers, Data Analysts and Ops Analysts

  • Added $6M to Target's bottom-line by protecting Circle $ from Fraudulent & Abusive transactions
  • Improved contact time per Guest by 62%; reduced False Positives by 18% and increased the number of accounts flagged by 100%
  • Enabled data based planning and decision making for partners and Stakeholders through DOMO visualizations

Led the Guest Identity Resolution Products with a team of Engineers and Data Analysts

  • Enabled Tenant Onboarding by delivering customer ID assignment for 300M+ customer records that uniquely identifies each customer
  • Reduced the time for new customer data to flow to Partners & Tenants teams from 2 weeks to just 30 minutes
  • Built features to improve Resolution Rate to 67% and a 10% lift on attributable sales for tenant along with data visualizations on DOMO & Greenfield platforms

Product Owner

DXC Technology / Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bangalore
11.2015 - 11.2019
  • Led concept-to-launch of channel sales data management portfolio of products handling USD 1 Billion/Year, 5000+ Accounts and 10000+ Users across 100+ countries leading 4 cross-functional Scrum teams of 30+ members including product owners, Scrum Masters, architects, engineers, UX/UI designers, & QA
  • Automated & unified over 200+ products & processes, increased
    accuracy to ~95% and slashed ~60% costs
  • Achieved 99% of SLAs by fostering best Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), Lean & DevOps practices to prioritize and manage multiple projects within scope, time and budget

Product Owner | Tech Project Manager

Hewlett Packard
Bengaluru
06.2006 - 10.2015
  • Led Revenue Management product for financial forecasting involving 1000+ accounts leading a cross-functional teams of 20+ members including business analysts, architects, engineers, designers, & QA across India, US, Mexico, & Malaysia
  • Designed, implemented & managed a B2B eCommerce product handling revenue of ~USD 4 Billion / year and an Enterprise Content Management marketing product managing 5000+ accounts
  • Increased team productivity, business value, reducing costs & time to market by facilitating waterfall to agile transformations

Education

MBA - Strategy, Marketing, Analytics

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bengaluru, India
04.2017 - 03.2019

MBA - International Business & Entrepreneurship

Renmin Business School
Beijing, China
09.2018 - 12.2019

Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics & Instrumentation

Anna University
Chennai, India
06.2002 - 05.2006

Skills

Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Certification

Product Leader Certificate by Product School

Volunteering

Target Corporation:

  • Product Fellowship Program Mentor: Mentored a product aspirant on various aspects of Product Management, Discovery & Delivery and business, Identified and supported him to deliver a piece of work independently within Circle Fraud & Abuse mitigation product and supported evaluation of the candidate and other milestones needed for successful graduation from the program
  • External Engagement Initiative Core team: Planned & executed the launched the learning platform which brings Industry & Thought leaders.
  • Product RNA Core Team: Involved in planning the overall 2-day event for Product Community at Target in India and co-led one of the 4 events.
  • PO Tribe Core Team: Planned and Organized Product Brown Bag Sessions
  • Interviewed, hired, facilitated onboarding and mentoring of Product Owners and Scrum Masters

DXC Technology/Hewlett Packard Enterprise/Hewlett-Packard:

  • Employee Engagement Core Team: Planned and organized various tech, business and fun events for employees
  • Make It Matter To A Million Global Lending Leader: Site leader for creating awareness for fundraising program for Entrepreneurs in partnership with Kiva
  • Interviewed, hired, facilitated onboarding and mentoring of Engineers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners

MBA @ Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Renmin Business School (Beijing, China):

  • Organized speaker sessions, workshops, and conferences as part of Industry Relations Students Affairs Council (SAC) & Product Management Clubs Core Team
  • Marketing Campaign & Registration manager for “Drishti”, a leadership summit & “Software Product Management” Summit, hosting 25+ industry experts & 500+ participants
  • Mentored budding Entrepreneurs and Students on Product Management & Strategy
  • Organized launch, roadmap and events for startup enthusiasts and aspiring entrepreneurs as part of Startup Grind Renmin University chapter founding team
  • Top 15 start-up ideas to be prototyped and pitched to the entrepreneurs & investors at Startup Weekend

Timeline

Product Leader Certificate by Product School

02-2022

Product Manager Certificate by Product School

12-2021

ICAgile Agile Product Owner

10-2021

Lead Product Owner

Target
01.2020 - Current

MBA - International Business & Entrepreneurship

Renmin Business School
09.2018 - 12.2019

MBA - Strategy, Marketing, Analytics

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
04.2017 - 03.2019

SAFe Product Manager / Product Owner

03-2017

Product Owner

DXC Technology / Hewlett Packard Enterprise
11.2015 - 11.2019

Certified Scrum Product Owner

11-2015

Product Owner | Tech Project Manager

Hewlett Packard
06.2006 - 10.2015

Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics & Instrumentation

Anna University
06.2002 - 05.2006
Sudarsan SabesanLead Product Owner