Mano Balasubramaniam

http://linkedin.com/in/hellomano 650-***-**** U.S. Citizen Bay Area, CA adllto@r.postjobfree.com SUMMARY

Experience product professional with 8+ years of proven track record in building Machine Learning based products and services with 10 years of software engineering, data science, machine learning experience. Major experience lies in building and leading cross-functional teams to bring about fundamental change and improvement in strategy, process, operations, and profitability.

Professional leadership experience in software design and product management across many industries.

Highly organized and comfortable with making tough prioritization decisions. Able to effectively keep track of moving parts across projects and adapt to new information and goals. Prior success in managing complex projects

Competency in setting goals, prioritizing product backlogs, roadmap planning, user acceptance testing, A/B testing, defining and tracking success metrics, go-to-market planning, and launching large-scale technology solutions.

Ability to motivate and inspire a team to achieve beyond what they imagined possible

Proficiency in driving continuous product improvements using agile / scrum methodologies.

Ability to interface with all levels of management (including C-level) in strategy and execution of new products.

Aptitude in leading go-to-market strategies and partnering / collaborating with customers, technology, business development, sales, marketing, operations, and other globally dispersed cross-functional teams.

Industries and Verticals

Robotics (SoftBank Robotics), IIOT (GE Digital), Web Technologies(Mozilla), Retail

(GAP), Startup & Video/Media (Vuclip acquired by PCCW) & Mobile (Nokia). Professional Experience

GAP Inc, San Francisco, CA Jan 2020 to Current

Director of Product Management

Leading a team of product Managers, 2 Product Portfolio and 15 products.

Products

Real Estate Data Analytics Platform: Building Data Analytics platform for GAP.

Theft Prevention: Building Predictive Analytics Products to prevent Fraud in Stores. GE Digital, San Ramon, CA May 2017 to Jun 2019

Director of Product Management

Built IIOT based IOT data analytics product for industrial companies. Met Revenue Goals of 50M

Displayed Cross functional leadership skills by working with engineering, project management, UX, Data Scientists, Marketing, Sales and Architecture teams. Soft bank Robotics, San Francisco, CA Aug 2016 to April 2017 Head of Product Strategy and Partnership

SoftBank Robotics built a 4 feet tall Humanoid Robot called "Pepper", that is used as a concierge service in Shopping Centers, Airport, Retail Stores and Banking sector.

Delivered Pepper for Westfield Shopping Center (Valley Fair and San Francisco) with the KPI's of foot traffic increase by 70%.

Played the role of Product Owner in the scrum team and championed "Voice of the Customer" where I monitored the analytics report, tweaked the implementation, ran AB tests as per the KPIs which resulted in increasing the customer engagement by 40%. Mozilla, Mountain View, CA May 2014 to May 2016

Head of Product Technology Partnerships

Increased the Mozilla app download numbers to 10% (in Millions).

Launched Service worker for Firefox by working very closely with Google. Scaled from zero to 25 partner adoption within the period of 8 weeks.

Head of App Ecosystem-India - Instrumental in the release of the world's first 35$ smartphone, uncovering and overcoming roadblocks, collaborating with OEM, ODM, Channel Partners, Media agencies and internal C-level execs.

Nokia, Mountain View, CA Sep 2008 to Sep 2012

Principal Product Manager

Delivered 70 top-tier content partners within six months, including Yahoo, Google, Bing, Facebook, YouTube, ESPN, and Amazon.

Achieved Tier 1 Browser ranking for Nokia Browser, thus increasing ad revenue 1X. Directed cross-functional teams and work closely with partners to leverage emerging technologies. ORACLE, Santa Clara, CA Feb 2002 to Jun 2008

Head of Engineering and Products

Created a product from the internally developed test suite, achieving an average of $75K per license which created a new revenue stream for Sun Microsystems in the range of 5M-20M.

Managed team of Engineering, QA, Product, and UX.Awarded "Best Innovative Employee" in organization.

Skills

Technical Product R&D & Data Science

Prioritization & Product Lifecycle Management

Agile / Scrum / Kanban

Go-to-Market Launch Plans

Product Roadmaps & VC Pitch Decks

Strategy & Leadership

Requirement Gathering & Analysis

Customer and Competitive analysis

Troubleshooting & Debugging

UI / UX Design & A/B testing

Software and SaaS Solutions

Java, C, C+, JavaScript, Python, SQL

Education & Certifications

Stanford University

● Certification in Decision Analysis

● The Art of Agile Product Management

● AI: An Introduction to Neural Networks & Deep Learning Deep Learning

● AI For Everyone - Andrew Ng

University of Madras, India

● Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science,Computer Science Published Articles

● https://www.hiitsmano.com/published-articles

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