Kiran Kishore Gandikota
ALFORTVILLE
Summary
Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 8+ years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Product Manager
Pixida GmbH
Munich
01.2022 - 11.2023
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Own system rollout project plan - from concept development, updates,
and overall managing Remote Diagnosis of BMW in Automotive Industry. - Plan, execute and document product rollout milestones. Collaboration
with cross country internal and external teams in Europe and world wide
Markets in connected car segment. - Develop and maintain market space (overall communication, support
documentation, Requirements elicitation) - Responsibility for maintaining & improving rollout processes. Guide the
market responsible through the rollout processes. Understand and communicate markets requirements and use cases to the IT Teams. - Achieved Rollout time
- Collaborated closely with Engineering, Business Development, Marketing, UX,
Legal, and other teams to launch cloud-connected, highly scalable products
that received positive user feedback. - Successfully spearheaded 25% reduction in rollout time by strategically addressing bottlenecks.
Business Analyst Lead
Hogar Controls
Hyderabad
05.2021 - 12.2021
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Own IoT Platform product line, develop, maintain product vision, strategies to achieve goals. Research advanced Smart home/IoT market.
- Drive effort to transform business problems into validated and effective cloud based IoT solutions, integration with other platforms and solutions.
- Prioritize product backlog and product roadmap. Oversee entire product development from vision, creation to rollout and hardware delivery.
- Accountable for clear set of business and product metrics combining data driven market research, and industry best practices to understand problems, identify opportunities to create business value.
- Contributed to development and execution of product strategies, including design thinking and agile methodologies.
- Analyze consolidated input data from customer feedback for adding new features. Setup process for feedback mechanism, Smart home market benchmarking.
- Established and fostered more open communication between engineering team, stakeholders leading to improvement in speed of feature development lifecycle by 25%.
FREELANCE CONSULTANT
Sauber International
Hyderabad
11.2018 - 05.2021
- Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver home automation hardware and applications according to specifications for usability, functionality.
- Partnered with both web engineering partners and business users, refined and prioritized content product backlog of enhancements in line with long term vision.
- Established best practices usage to key businesses, marketing, technology and agency partners; managed focus groups with key partners to ensure continuous evolution of CMS capability.
- Captured user requirements and worked with development teams to turn them into clear, actionable user-stories in application development.
- Prioritized product backlog, created user stories arranged and prioritized sprints. Evaluated progress at each stage of development.
Consultant
Deloitte
Hamburg
03.2018 - 10.2018
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in use case analysis, business model analysis, design of technical solutions, technical consultation in emerging technologies ( IoT, Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, Machine learning (ML)).
- Created use cases in machine learning, spearheaded creation of proof of concept and development of prototypes in ML, IoT.
- Optimize emerging technologies Product inventory to optimize sales pitches and
contributed to close of over 10 % sales increase within 6 months.
Consultant
Serrala
Hamburg
09.2015 - 08.2017
- Led cross-functional teams from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, deployment, and performance measurement of B2B SaaS solution FS2 (Finance Suite 2) .
- Coordinated release and product planning, conducted daily scrum meetings. Provided updates to all stakeholders on key milestones.
- Spearheaded user stories documentation, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams.
- Owned projects, managed teams and set up User Acceptance Test (UAT) process and new releases for payment solutions.
- Accomplished 20 % increase in revenue of payment product portfolio.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Universität Paderborn
Paderborn 10.2010 - 05.2015
Skills
Usability Studies
Competitive Analysis
User and UX Research
Stakeholder Alignment
Project Planning
End to End Feature Delivery
Prioritization and Execution
Agile Software Development
Product Roadmaps
Product Vision and Strategy
User Feedback Collection
Market Analysis
Project Management
Product development
Certification
Certified SAFe Product Manager
Work Availability
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Quote
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Walt Disney
Timeline
Product Manager
Pixida GmbH
01.2022 - 11.2023
Business Analyst Lead
Hogar Controls
05.2021 - 12.2021
FREELANCE CONSULTANT
Sauber International
11.2018 - 05.2021
Consultant
Deloitte
03.2018 - 10.2018
Consultant
Serrala
09.2015 - 08.2017
Master of Science - Computer Science
Universität Paderborn
10.2010 - 05.2015