Product Owner Management

Praveena Karumanchi

Phone: 650-***-**** US Citizen Email: *************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/pkarumanchi Summary

Senior Technical Product Owner with 10+ years of experience leading enterprise applications and B2B SaaS product delivery across FinTech, Financial Services, and Healthcare. Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner (CSPPO) with SAFe Agile expertise and AI product management, steering global cross-functional teams through product vision, strategy, and roadmap execution. Specialized in SAP ERP Finance/Controlling, Business Intelligence, Sourcing & Procurement, and Travel & Expense management. Recognized as a trusted partner to executives and technology teams, with a strong focus on leveraging cloud and AI technologies to enhance business operations and deliver meaningful customer value. Professional Experience

Senior Technical Product Manager-Corporate Finance Systems Visa Inc, TX Apr 2022 – Jan 2025 Led the full product lifecycle for a portfolio of 5 enterprise Corporate Finance applications, including B2B SaaS products SAP Ariba, Concur, Aravo, Power BI and on-prem ERP. Delivered scalable, cross-functional solutions in an Agile SAFe environment, optimizing operations and supporting 65K+ secure transactions per second across 80M merchants and 15K financial institutions through strategic roadmap planning, automation, and process standardization.

● Spearheaded SAFe Agile transformation initiative across the Corporate Finance portfolio, introducing quarterly PI planning and bi-weekly sprints across 4+ teams; achieving 95% user adoption in under 9 months.

● Built a unified Jira Align request tool to consolidate multiple production pipeline intake systems; mentored 3 junior analysts and coached 25+ team members on Agile best practices to ensure sustainable adoption across 5 business units- Finance, Controllership, Sourcing, Procurement, and Technology teams.

● Owned and managed strategic product vision and roadmap planning for the Corporate Finance expense portfolio, leveraging research, best practices, and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders to address systemic challenges, improving visibility into resource availability and feature delivery timelines by 10-15% QoQ.

● Managed the product backlog in partnership with 4 Scrum teams and 10+ business leaders, prioritizing features, facilitating trade-off decisions, and delivering 30–40 enhancements each quarter. Built over 50+ edge cases with testable acceptance criteria driving adoption across 50+ end-users and QA engineers for a successful UAT.

● Orchestrated global rollouts of Corporate Finance expense systems across 5 regions and 2 M&A integrations

(Fraedom, Currency Cloud), accelerating delivery by 15% QoQ through standardized configuration templates.

● Partnered with Engineering teams and business users to deliver an integrated solution connecting SAP Ariba and Concur with ERP and HR systems via REST/SOAP APIs enhancing operational efficiency for global teams.

● Automated supplier onboarding process via the implementation of SAP Ariba SLP(Supplier Lifecycle Performance) from concept to discovery to launch; utilized existing license entitlements in the organization contract, saving $300k in renewal costs and reducing SLA from 30 to 7 days.

Lead Technical Product Owner-ATM Data Analytics Platform Wells Fargo, CA Oct 2020 – Apr 2022 Directed Nexus Data Mart platform modernization within Consumer & Small Business Banking technology group, serving global banking customers through all digital channels, retail branches, ATMs, and customer service centers.

● Formulated product vision, drove product strategy and developed product roadmap across 3 big ATM digital units.

● Owned and prioritized the product backlog for 2 SAFe Scrum teams, aligning stakeholder priorities with OKRs/KPIs while navigating trade-off discussions based on cost-benefit analysis, regulatory requirements, and business value.

● Led sprint planning, backlog grooming, and quarterly PI planning to deliver scalable platform releases, achieving a 25% QoQ reduction in technical debt. Translated 100+ complex requirements into small incremental stories and steered 10-15 product releases with the Scrum teams each quarter after a successful UAT validation and demos.

● Co-led ETL platform migration from legacy IBM DataStage to Ab Initio, addressing technical limitations of handling large ATM data volumes and improving complex data processing efficiency. Simplified data pipeline workflows through mapping business processes, intuitive UI, cutting delivery team effort by 30–50%.

● Integrated 3 enterprise tools (Splunk, ITSM, SAP) with ATM analytical systems to ensure 100% compliance, scalability and secure data pipeline. Delivered 3 key Tableau/Cognos dashboards-ATM asset inventory, Ad-campaign performance, Consumer Contract Awareness, reducing manual workload by ~1200 hours annually. SAP Product Lead - Corporate Real Estate Finance and Analytics Wells Fargo, CA Mar 2018 – Sep 2020 Managed and led a pipeline of cross-functional strategic technology initiatives for Wells Fargo's Corporate Properties Group

(CPG). Focused on process simplification and business improvements supporting a 64MM SqFt corporate real estate portfolio with over 5,100 locations and $3.1B in annual spend.

● Delivered a unified self-service analytics platform for 7 business units (Finance, Procurement, Analytics, Marketing, Facilities, Security, Legal&Compliance) by integrating SAP ERP, BI, HR, IBM Tririga, Intranet, and IoT systems, resulting in a 50% increase in tool adoption within two quarters.

● Implemented Agile transformation for the CPG data analytics team, boosting team velocity, sprint planning, backlog management and prioritization, accelerating scrum team’s delivery cadence from quarterly to monthly releases.

● Developed 8 near real-time Tableau dashboards to support executive decision-making and Return-to-Office planning during COVID-19, optimizing backend data pipeline workflow processing time by 10-20% month-over-month.

● Coached and mentored junior staff on SDLC release process and coordinated AMS onshore/offshore resources to enhance CPG helpdesk support efficiency, improving incident resolution time from 120 hours to 72 hours.

● Led the BI workstream for a $3M enterprise SAP Re-Align initiative, delivering 25+ dashboards and reducing reporting latency by 50%, improving decision-making speed for key stakeholders. Defined business process flows and product requirements, translated them into user stories and mockups, system configuration, facilitated UAT, and conducted training sessions for 75+ global users prior to platform rollout. Other Relevant Experience:

Senior SAP Business Systems Consultant-CPG Finance Technology Wells Fargo, CA Mar 2012 - Feb 2018 SAP Systems Analyst - Enterprise Applications Varian Medical Systems, CA Feb 2002 - Aug 2008 Education

● Master of Science (MS) in Management Information Systems – San Jose, CA

● Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering – India

Certifications

● Engineering Product Leadership and Management Cornell University

● Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO) Scrum Alliance

● Certified Scrum Master(CSM) Scrum Alliance

● AI-Driven Product Leadership Maven

● Microsoft Power BI Training Certification CloudThat

● Artificial Intelligence for Product Certification Product School

● SAP Ariba Spend Management Solution Certification Best Online Career

● IBM AI Product Manager Professional Certificate Coursera (In progress) Core Competencies

● Product Lifecycle Management OKRs & KPI Alignment

● Waterfall & Agile (SAFe, Scrum) Project Management

● Cross-Functional Collaboration Global Stakeholder Engagement

● Customer-Centric Solution Design Backlog Management & Prioritization

● Data-Driven Decision Making Business Metrics Analysis

● Vendor Management Product Release & System Go-live

● Product Requirements & User Stories BRD & Functional Specifications

● Release Planning & Change Management User Training & UAT

● Business Process Integration APIs

● Platform Modernization & Automation MVP & Prototyping Technical Skills

● Agile Tools: Jira Align, Jira, Confluence, Miro, MS Project, Visio

● Data Visualizations: Power BI, Tableau

● SAP Enterprise Platforms: ERP, Ariba, Concur, Business Warehouse, Business Objects

● ETL & Databases: Ab Initio, IBM DataStage, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Oracle, IBM DB2, MongoDB

● GenAI Tools: ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, Notion

● Others: ServiceNow, HP ALM, IBM Tririga, SQL, JAVA, HTML/XML, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Slack

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