Product Manager Management

Hareesh Kulkarni

******************@*****.*** 510-***-**** San Francisco, CA

Professional Summary

Integration and Product Management professional with over 20 years of experience in technology implementations and integration solutions. Expertise in defining product vision, developing strategic roadmaps, and managing cross-functional teams to launch successful products. Skilled in fostering stakeholder collaboration and exceeding customer expectations in complex technical environments. Proven track record in FedRAMP compliance and agile methodologies.

Core Competencies & Skills

Domain: Health Insurance, ERP, PLM, Workday integrations, FedRAMP,(Third Party Risk Management)

Product: Product Vision, Roadmap Development, Backlog Management, Requirements Gathering, MVP, OKRs, Agile Software Development, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Integration Strategy, API development,Data migration

Technical Skills: B2B, B2C, Web Services, Middleware (Cast Iron & Boomi), REST, ETL, SQL, Responsible AI, Tableau, QlikView, Adobe Analytics

Business Acumen: Customer/Partner Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Stakeholder Collaboration

Professional Experience

Workday Role: Sr. Product Manager Aug 2021 –Apr 2025

Guided and executed Workday acquired teams on data migration into workday platform for strategic sourcing (suppliers, contracts, Projects) and peakon (Survey data) using techniques like requirements gathering, business value (KPI), data profiling, data cleansing, transformation with XSLT, validation process, etc. Performed POC to demonstrate the migration using Workday EIB tool.

Administered Workday security requirements for Integration user for HR system, Business process for testing the e-Verify, organization data loads using EIB. Conducted Workday Automated test cases for end to end business flow for pre-hire and hire process.

Developed integration best practices and proof-of-concept projects for new packaged integrations using API, workday studio (ServiceNow, Salesforce, CData), and platform, accelerating the development lifecycle by 25% for 5 teams for new integrations.

Worked with Internal customers and leaders on technical and business requirements, agile delivery method for POC, status communication to leadership team. Authored epics, technical solutions, and user stories. Managed development using Agile (Scrum) methodology using Jira, OKRs

Architected monitoring dashboards with four golden signals to improve API /Packaged integrations visibility, resiliency, SLI/SLOs for all application pillars and early warning features for incident reporting. Used Kafka, Prometheus, Graphana dashboard with SparkSQL for event driven data.

Centric Software Role: Sr. Product Manager Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

Owned end-to-end new supplier integration connector launch from discovery to Delivery (0-1 features) to reduce lead time by 75% in supplier collaboration, increasing visibility, and effectiveness.

Managed the full product lifecycle for supplier connector, from requirements gathering, roadmap, and solution design through development and customer demos

Authored epics, technical solutions, and user stories. Managed development using Agile (Scrum) methodology and Jira

Collaborated with cross-functional teams (software architects, framework architects, and UX designers) on feature development including resolving customer escalations and hotfix releases

eHealth Insurance Role: Sr. Product Manager May 2012 – Mar 2018

Led the complete execution (Discovery to Delivery) of all integrations and e-commerce web platform offerings (B2B and B2C) for internal and external customers/partners across all product lines (IFP/MA/SMB and Ancillary) using such as API and Soap technology. Successfully increased partner traffic revenue from 5% to 30% through integration and e-commerce web platform solutions, including co-branded user experiences. Defined and executed outbound integrations strategy for 80+ carriers

Managed diverse partner reporting requirements (lead data, enrollment data, customer behavior data, etc.). Analyzed over 40,000 partner data points using BI tools (Tableau, QlikView and Adobe Analytics), providing partner competitive rankings and identifying areas for future analysis

As product owner, owned, prioritized, and maintained product backlogs. Successfully managed development using Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and Jira (projects and epics)

As a subject matter expert, guided partners on integration approaches, gap analysis, and API usage with Apigee platform. Managed end-to-end partner engagement

Served as the voice of the partner to internal teams, providing use cases for improving the internal UI experience across all product lines

Aravo Solutions Role: Technical Manager, Product Owner Dec 2008 – Mar 2012

Served as the voice of the customer to internal teams, effectively managing customer expectations

As product owner, architected middleware for all customer integration solutions (B2B) at a platform level, utilizing web services, and middleware platforms (Cast Iron, Boomi). Successfully implemented solutions for Schwab, Boston University, J&J, Deutsche Bank, Intel, and Novartis

Owned requirements and gap analyses of integration needs for the SaaS model across various customers.

Implemented Agile (Scrum) methodology for integration development. Managed two Scrum teams, one in the US and one offshore

Delivered data migrations and integration solutions between SaaS and third-party ERP systems using various technologies (flat files, web services, and REST) and Boomi platform.

Delivered Supplier, contract, and demographic data migrations from ERP into Aravo platform.

Ariba, Inc.(SAP) Role: Technical Manager/Product Owner Mar 2005 – Nov 2008

Led technical delivery of Hosted (SaaS) solutions for Accenture, Lucent, Amgen, and Disney accounts

Owned spend analysis data from Disney (200k per week) using sql, and oracle materialized views and generating different analytical reports using Ariba Analysis module (BI Tool)

Completed Implementation (Design/Development, and UAT) of customizations, validation rules, configuration of Buyer ACP 8.2 for Accenture US implementation

Architected Interim Reporting solution project for ACP and Non ACP Buyer 8.2

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