Product Management, Product Manager, Senior Product Manager

AAKASH SHARMA

SAMSUNG RESEARCH

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Dedicated Product Professional with Work Experience of 7+ Years of Creating Products for Users while achieving Organizational goals, along with ability in utilizing consistent and best practices. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue, Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration, product launch and Customer Empathy.

SKILLS

Product Strategy and Vision, Product Roadmap, Agile Methodologies and Software Development Lifecycle(SDLC), Product Life Cycle Management, Cross Functional Team Leadership and Communication, Customer Centric Approach, UI/UX Design and User Advocacy, Product Discovery, Data-Driven Decision, Backlog management, User Stories, Wireframing, Product Development, GTM, Product Management, Product Requirement Document, Product Launch, OKR’s, Competitor Analysis, Project Management, Accessibility, Customer Interview, Data Analysis, Product Metrics, Sprint, Ideation, Jira, Confluence, Stakeholder Management. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

May'22 – Current Samsung Research, Noida Product Lead (Product Management)

Working and Delivering Solutions related to Samsung B2B (Enterprise) and B2C VD Products on the Samsung Tizen OS platform.

Defining Product Strategy, Goals during the phase of product planning.

Conceptualized business scenarios and strategic shift from on-premise to cloud based for VX CMS, a Cloud based solution for device content management and device management with current market penetration being 28%.

Conceptualized, designed wireframes, user stories, Product Roadmap & business scenarios for B2B and B2C TVs.

Conducted extensive market research, aligning product features with customer requirements and global market trends.

Successfully led the product lifecycle from planning to release, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.

Institutionalized performance benchmark for App certifications like Netflix, Office 365 for Business TVs

Executed commercialization cycle of B2BTVs and B2CTVs for 2022,2023 and 2024 (on-going) models on Tizen platform.

Led Developed and release of Play-Lock App, a security solution developed with a purpose to disable and block all external factors/influence/sources so that the current app/source content being played cannot be changed or mishandled, a core solution developed understanding and analysing user pain point.

Define and track Product Metrics, Backlog management and user stories prioritization.

Prepared strategy and developed low cost/entry segment Samsung VD Product by reducing firmware size to less than 1GB, changed Home UI, Improved UX and effective ads positioning for US market, resulted in increased market share from 6% to 17%.

Led development and launch of Voice Support (Alexa and Bixby) through Samsung SmartThings App, also implemented virtual remote feature inside SmartThings app.

Demonstrated expertise in managing Product Lifecycles and Delivering Products and features along with Stakeholders Management and Cross functional communication. Dec'21 – April'22 BoAt, Mumbai Product Manager

Managed complete Product lifecycle right from product idealization to Product Launch.

Developing Progressive Product Roadmaps, Market Research, Analysing Customer needs and pain points, Competitor Analysis and driving out product strategies and its launches.

Managing the Product timelines, maintaining documents, taking regular sprint meetings.

Collaborate with all the stakeholders of the Product Lifecycle and help them on time to time whenever there are any blockages.

Verify and validate features to ensure quality in Product delivery.

Act as a goalkeeper for quality of products, features, and overall deliverables.

Handle market support queries/issues and drive critical market issues along with tech support teams.

Launched 4 Audio Products in short timelines, 2 being Wireless Audio Air dopes and 2 being Wireless Audio Neckband as Amazon Exclusive and sold an average 40K in less than 30 min of launch.

Tracked Product Metrics, Maintained Customer Retention Rate to 68%, Customer Reviews on all online channels 4.4.

Collaborated with Flipkart and HRX and Prepared a roadmap for collaborated product with theme being “All About Sports” featuring boAt X HRX.

Worked on ideation for developing boAt Diagnostics app for audio devices.

Received SPOT Awards for Delivering Successful Products despite short tenure of joining organisation. Jan '17 - Nov'21 OPPO India, Noida Deputy Product Manager

Worked on establishing OPPO Smartphone segment to Indian market during their entry to Indian Market.

Pioneered and developed 40+ Products SKU of Low, Mid and Upper segment.

Prepared Strategies related to positioning Camera (Selfie and back camera) as Product USP.

Pioneered, Developed, and launched OPPO’s first Front POPUP camera Phone F11Pro, establishing OPPO as innovation brand.

OPPO Gained NO 1 Position in Smartphone Market Share between 2019-2022 Capturing 28% Overall Market Share, played my part by analysing customer needs, demand and building products keeping customer centricity.

Prepared Product Roadmaps, established Process workflows, smoothened communication gaps between Indian and Chinese counterparts and Stakeholders.

Given Product Demo for all new product to Sales, Marketing and Customer Teams before product launch.

Worked with Sales, marketing teams for reading and analysing consumers behaviour in detail and prepared GTM Strategies, launching Campaigns.

Worked and coordinated effectively with all stakeholders like dev, QA, Design, sales, marketing, operations, Customer support.

Education

B.Tech Electrical And Electronics Engineering – Amity University, Noida ( 2013-2017)

Professional Certificate in Advance Product Management – Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad – Pursuing.

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