Product Manager
Resume:
Kishore Ramaswamy
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Pinewater Partners Remote
Director of Product & Technology Jan 2023 - Mar 2025 Product Strategy & Platform Development
• Led product strategy and full lifecycle development of a fintech platform helping real estate developers maximize energy-related tax incentives (179D, 45L, Cost Seg, ITC), delivering a 40% improvement in process efficiency through digital workflows and internal tooling.
• Designed and scaled a tax efficiency eligibility engine, incl. compliance requirements, integrating automated IRS rule logic for data collection, reducing the overall processing time by 25%.
• Architected platform-wide information architecture and modular UI components to support consistent workflows across onboarding, eligibility checks, and report generation.
• Built and launched internal underwriting and deal-tracking tools, combining FastAPI, Make.com, and Monday.com to automate developer intake, portfolio readiness scoring, and cross-team approvals across 100s of real estate deals each week.
• Led cross-functional collaboration across engineering, energy modeling, and design teams to define Agile stories, run ceremonies, and ship iterative MVPs.
Growth Strategy & Stakeholder Alignment
• Transformed qualitative user research into product features, driving a 35% increase in adoption by simplifying partner collaboration (e.g., energy modelers, CPAs) and improving UX for tax professionals.
• Integrated third-party APIs and data sources (e.g., Google Maps, contact enrichment providers) to automate address validation, census tracts, and firmographics, cutting manual effort by 40%.
• Established product OKRs and built operational dashboards to measure adoption, throughput, and user satisfaction, informing roadmap prioritization.
• Presented product vision and roadmaps for 3 major projects to senior stakeholders, aligning internal execs and external consultants on feature priorities, impact, and delivery timelines.
• Supported product rollout, leading customer enablement across onboarding, documentation, and feedback- driven product iteration.
Freelance Product Manager, Product Strategy & Growth Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
• Led full product lifecycle across B2B and B2C SaaS tools, including an analytics dashboard, onboarding platform, and mobile feedback app, directing roadmap definition, MVP launches, and iteration cycles.
• Conducted stakeholder interviews and user research to inform product strategy, shaping navigation and information architecture that improved usability and supported scalable workflows.
• Translated insights into prioritized backlogs, using tools like JIRA and Confluence to guide sprint planning and cross-functional execution, reducing the average sprint planning session time by 10%.
• Defined and tracked OKRs and success metrics, using dashboards to measure engagement, identify improvement areas, and align product goals with strategic outcomes.
• Led UAT and QA cycles, resolving blockers through stakeholder feedback and proactively managing production issues to support adoption and user satisfaction. OTHER EXPERIENCE
Deutsche Bank New York, NY
Agile Product Owner
● Spearheaded the development and optimization of trade-processing tools, resulting in a 40% reduction in transaction processing time across a user base of over 5,000 clients.
● Developed and prioritized product backlog in JIRA, improving iteration speed and reducing feature deployment time for trade-capture products by 30%. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
University of Michigan – Ross School of Business Ann Arbor, MI Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor's in Electrical and Computer Engineering
SUMMARY OF SKILLS
• Product & Project Management: Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, Notion, Monday.com, Lucidchart
• Tech & Automation: Python, SQL, FastAPI, Make (automation), Azure, AI/LLMs
• Design & UX: Figma, User Research, A/B Testing
• Data & Analytics: Product Analytics, Excel, Financial Modeling
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