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Harshini Nimmagadda

Product Owner
Hyderabad

Summary

Strategic Product Owner with 8 years of experience delivering AI-driven SaaS solutions. Proven success in launching 5 products, reducing time-to-market by 35%, and aligning user experience with business goals. Expert in Agile, product strategy, and cross-functional leadership

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Product Owner

DataLink
10.2023 - Current
  • Conducted comprehensive market research to inform strategic product development decisions, ensuring alignment with current industry trends and customer needs.
  • Partnered with engineering and design teams to refine product specifications, enhancing user experience and functionality.
  • Acted as the liaison between product, IT, and sales team to understand customer demand for new features and prioritize the product roadmap.
  • Spearheaded product discovery and customer/market research, resulting in a 25% increase in new leads.
  • Collaborated with the UX/UI team on wireframes and prototypes in Figma, speeding up design approval by 50%.
  • Conducted 50% Conducted user A/B testing, analysis of results, and took ownership of 10+ product releases.
  • Implemented quantitative analysis techniques to improve the user experience for clients, contributing to a 50% rise in customer satisfaction.

Lead Business Analyst

VMware
11.2020 - 10.2023
  • Designed comprehensive metrics and reporting systems to measure 30+ key performance indicators (KPIs) for various business initiatives and process improvement areas.
  • A track record of successfully leading the architecture, design, and implementation of AI/ML-based technical solutions, including collaborating with business leadership to create a project/program development roadmap for the Enterprise Data & Analytics vertical.
  • Partnered with senior management to develop and implement a digital SaaS transformation, identifying and implementing new tactics to improve subscriptions by 50%, resulting in a 250% increase in revenue for cloud products.
  • Expertise in writing business cases, running workshops with project groups for requirement gathering, compiling clear requirements, Tractability matrix, End User testing and Go-live support.
  • Carried out in-depth analysis for business-optimization projects, reporting tools, back-office programs, and marketing strategies to bring about 49% in efficiency gains, 97% account-retention rates and 300-man hours savings.
  • Own stakeholder management with team members and cross-functional units. Ensure that the vision and priorities are communicated and positioned correctly among team members.
  • Conducted and illustrated product and sprint backlogs along with all the Scrum ceremonies for SaaS transformation team of 6 members.

Business Analyst

TCS
06.2017 - 11.2020
  • Design and built an online digitalized KPI Coverage Dashboard for 16 different clients, including Unilever, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola, to set expectations around Nielsen's representation of a total business in each country and the size of uncovered channels.
  • Consolidate and maintain product roadmap and program lifecycle governance in accordance with enterprise guidelines, policies, and procedures.
  • Collaborate closely with 12+ teams to migrate a legacy system to an agile platform, resulting in a 50% increase in efficiency and productivity.
  • Facilitate regular meetings with senior executive bodies to inform and alert them to any risks and issues that may arise from the performance of the portfolio's individual projects or products.
  • Ensure all customer communications and documentation is recorded in appropriate repositories (JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce.) to maintain product documentation.
  • Mentored and resolved complex technological issues for a variety of assigned projects, achieving a customer satisfaction rate of 98%.
  • Manage change requests from stakeholders by conducting extensive Impact Assessment to capture the expected consequences of such changes.

Education

Executive Degree Program in Project Management -

S. P. Jain Institute of Management And Research
Mumbai
04.2001 -

Post Graduate Program in Data Science And Business -

Great Lakes And The University of Texas, McCombs School of B
04.2001 -

Masters in Software Engineering -

Vellore Institute of Technology
Chennai
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Market Research and Competitive Analysis

  • Customer Journey Mapping

  • User Story Creation & Backlog Management

  • Product Roadmap Development

  • Product Analytics & KPI Optimization

  • AI-Powered Product Insights

  • A/B Testing & Experimentation

  • Stakeholder Requirements Gathering

  • Business Strategy

  • Stakeholder Management

Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Honor Awards

Achieve Our Best

11/22 -VMware

Built and deployed a scalable model to drive the registrations for VMware Explore - Company's flagship event.


Terrific Troupe

09/2022 - VMware

EDA Fantasy Sports Dashboard - A true gamechanger in the way we play the game and earn some bragging rights.


Service and Excellence Commitment

05/2020 - TCS

Designed and developed an online digitalized KPI Dashboard which is a key for the Nielsen Data Science team.


On the Spot Award

05/2019 - TCS

Creation of a user friendly bot leveraging Azure and QnA Marker to answer the FAQ's 24/7




Timeline

Product Owner

DataLink
10.2023 - Current

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

07-2023

VMware SaaS Essentials

06-2022

Lead Business Analyst

VMware
11.2020 - 10.2023

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

07-2020

Business Analyst

TCS
06.2017 - 11.2020

Executive Degree Program in Project Management -

S. P. Jain Institute of Management And Research
04.2001 -

Post Graduate Program in Data Science And Business -

Great Lakes And The University of Texas, McCombs School of B
04.2001 -

Masters in Software Engineering -

Vellore Institute of Technology
04.2001 -

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