Suhas Simha V
Product manager
Bengaluru,Karnataka
Summary
Strategic Product Manager & Entrepreneur with over 8+ years of experience in driving product vision, strategy and roadmaps in IoT, AI, and Retail Media domains. Demonstrated success in leading cross functional teams and spearheading new product development, resulting in reducing manual process by 60% using automation, digital transformation, global operations, and stakeholder communication.
+Lead cross-functional teams of up to 34 people
+Increased product performance by 40%
+Worked on multiple IOT, AutoML and RBAC projects
+Executed multiple development projects across geographies
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
4
4
Languages
Work History
Product Manager
Dunnhumby
Gurgaon, Delhi
2021.10 - Current
- Defined Product vision and strategy for product launch
- Market research, benchmarking to identify gap in product market fit and competitive analysis
- Working on documentations - Feature list, acceptance criteria , wireframe and development
- Identified use cases and managing platform service application
- Creating product roadmap to align with business objective
- Managing backlogs and sprint planning for team of 7 members
- Providing demo to 3 clients and guidance to data scientists to successfully complete pilot with use cases related to lifestyle segmentation, recommendations, customer churn
Product Manager
Trinity Mobility PVT LTD
Bengaluru, Karnataka
2020.10 - 2021.10
- Defined product vision, strategy for new initiatives with highly adept leadership team
- Market research, benchmarking, conceptualized to optimized asset onboarding process by 72%
- Owned product documentation such as FRS, SRS, feature list and acceptance criteria of 11 products and more than 800 features
- Completed requirement gathering for global projects with clients and 3rd party vendor integrations such as billing system, CRM application
- Created workflows for 50 plus use cases and successfully handover to engineering team through Miro board for development
- Worked on AI use cases and work flow specific to modules like Asset management, Energy management
Business Analyst
MTAP Technology PVT LTD
Bengaluru, Karnataka
2019.07 - 2020.10
- Created product document based on customer requirements from both 32 Indian and 5
- International clients and worked towards product enhancement
- Managed team of 5 associate Business Analysts and updated all involved parties to enhance optimal business flow
- Initiated call support to address end user issues and reduced client issues by 73%
- Automated core processes in new SAAS product (Safe Bus)
Founder & Product Manager
Bridge AutoTech PVT LTD
Bengaluru, Karnataka
2015.03 - 2019.07
- Defined problem statement after conducting market research, competitive analysis, and 100 plus customers
- Facilitated over $1M in investment for 3+ years for product development
- Presented product demos pitch to more than 40 plus investors and vendors
- Built team of 7 members influenced by product vision
- Developed network of 100 plus automobile service provides with contract management
- Launched 1 Bluetooth based hardware device and 2mobileapplications for automobile riders and service providers
Management Trainee, Intern
General Motors India
Pune, Maharashtra
2014.02 - 2014.05
- Goal: Re-layout to merge inventory, shop floor and engine dispatch sections into 6000Sq.Mtrs area
- Achieved: Recommended 6 different layout designs to achieve pallet capacity of 6400 with space of 7000Sq.Mtrs for future expansion within allotted budget
Intern Engineer
Kern Liebers India
Tumkur, Karnataka
2011.06 - 2011.07
- Goal: Reducing rejections in valve plate and optimization in stamping process with cost effective methods
- Achieved: Using 7 QC tools to understand process
- Dent mark defects are reduced from 8%to 3%, thus helping total defects to reduce from 15% to 9%.
Education
MBA - Marketing
IBS Business School
Bangalore 2013.05 - 2015.02
Bachelor of Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management
Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology
Tumkur 2008.08 - 2012.05
Skills
Market research, Stakeholder Management, Portfolio management, New product development, User Interface (UI), Design thinking process, Agile Methodology, Technical documentation, Business Process Mapping
Tools: Jira, Trello, Miro, Visio, Drawio, Swagger
Certification
AI Product manager - Nano degree
Accomplishments
- Achieved best SIP award by completing summer internship project at General motors India with accuracy and efficiency.
- Finalist for Karnataka govt Elevate 100 competition
Timeline
Product Manager
Dunnhumby
2021.10 - Current
AI Product manager - Nano degree
2021-06
AI & Data product management
2021-06
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
2021-03
Product Manager
Trinity Mobility PVT LTD
2020.10 - 2021.10
Business Analyst
MTAP Technology PVT LTD
2019.07 - 2020.10
Founder & Product Manager
Bridge AutoTech PVT LTD
2015.03 - 2019.07
Management Trainee, Intern
General Motors India
2014.02 - 2014.05
MBA - Marketing
IBS Business School
2013.05 - 2015.02
Intern Engineer
Kern Liebers India
2011.06 - 2011.07
Bachelor of Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management
Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology
2008.08 - 2012.05