CONTACT

📞 +91-9677219013

📩 [email protected]

🗺️ Bangalore, India

SKILLS

• Product management
• Website development
• Mobile app development
• User experience (UX) design
• API integrations
• Payment gateways
• Commerce platforms
• Test automation (Selenium, Playwright)
• Salesforce Commerce Cloud (E-commerce platform)
• Agile methodology
• Roadmap planning
• Software implementation
• Data analysis and reporting (SQL, Amplitude, PowerBI, Tableau, Adobe Analytics)
• Project management tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Prototyping tools (Figma, Zeplin)

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$$ \Huge \textbf {Rohit Padmanabhan} \\ \small \text{Product Manager} $$

Hello there! I am a Product Manager with a demonstrated history of managing Digital products across diverse domains, technologies, and geographies.

I am skilled in building products with keen interests in Product Management, Analytics, and Mechatronic Design. I have over 10 years of experience, with my recent stints being in the BFSI, E-Commerce and Automotive industries. With a proactive mindset to find the best solutions, and an increased focus on the value delivered to the end users, I enjoy deep diving into the technologies behind products I work on.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022 - Present

Product Manager | Cognizant

Product Manager for content management team for a leading BFSI client in North America built with customized headless Content Management System (CMS) and micro front ends utilizing reusable React molecules

• Refreshed the internal platform products portal, improving discoverability of products, improving engagement (22% increase in MAU), streamlining onboarding (~30% reduction in onboarding time) ultimately driving adoption (measured by reuse ratio of platform products)
• Increased CMS driven content to 100% (from 20%) with customized CMS components for authoring
• Created flexible pages driven by content blocks allowing authors to build rich media pages without developer support in under an hour
• Responsible for overseeing the career development of five product managers, providing mentorship and guidance for their professional growth
• Established a product strategy grounded in extensive discovery and continuous innovation by building a continuous discovery pipeline to uncover and evaluate opportunities across the content supply chain—including assets and content fragments—for both logged-in and public user experiences
• Technology stack: React, Strapi CMS, Rancher (On-Premise), PostgreSQL, Azure (AKS), Python, Playwright (test automation)
• Tools : Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets, Postman, Figma, Adobe Analytics, Tableau

2021- 2022

Product Manager | EY

Product Manager for the E-Commerce website and mobile app for Asia region for a leading international apparel retailer

• Expanded and launched the global mobile application in India as a pilot in Asia with country specific elements and integrations with different product information APIs, inventory micro-services, payment gateways, and commerce platforms of India, leading to additional revenue of 10%
• Led the refresh of web store, leading to an increase in conversion of 30%
• Designed and established key roadmap themes, defined features with product discovery for inclusive sizing, product listing, and checkout experiences, leading to an increase in revenue by 15%
• Collaborated with software architects, engineering leads and enterprise vendors to ensure functional cohesiveness of software implementation and reducing load times to less than 3s
• Devised expansion strategy for MENA region, leading vendor selections, creating PRDs and business plans
• Monitored competitor activity and market trends to inform product decisions, ensuring the products remained competitive and aligned with customer expectations
• Technology stack: React Native (Android, iOS), MuleSoft, Selenium(Test Automation), Salesforce Commerce Cloud (E-Commerce Platform), Segment (CDP), Braze, ContentStack CMS
• Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Airtable, Postman, Figma, Zeplin, Amplitude, PowerBI, Tableau

2018- 2021

Product Owner | Mercedes-Benz India

Regional Product Owner for vehicle data enrichment middleware and micro-services for D2C model (Retail of Future) selling cars to consumers directly.

• Expanded and launched the vehicle data enrichment middleware product to India, which supplied product information of cars (specifications, pricing, inventory) to omni-channel retail applications (website, dealer applications)
• Led the integration of the local ERP, CMS, and Product data micro-services to downstream systems such eCommerce websites, dealer sales applications, vehicle maintenance and inventory management
• Defined middleware integrations for GST compliance and inventory management, leading to faster dispatch times, enabling retail of cars in multi-state scenarios (NCR region), and scheduled maintenance
• Led discovery workshops with future users and liaised with technical teams to ensure the successful rollout by leveraging prior product data and SAP expertise
• Led the rollout of robotic process automation solutions, involving developing and implementing business use cases in UiPath leading to cost savings of ~$100,000
• Technology stack: Vue.js, AEM, Custom Micro services, SalesForce CRM, AEM, Google Analytics, SAP HANA
• Tools used: Invision, Postman, PowerBI, Python, UiPath

Product Manager | Mercedes-Benz India

• Managed a portfolio of ~$150M revenue consisting of GLC and V-Class models including the introduction of the first locally manufactured AMG
• Planned and coordinated market launches of new models, facelifts and future configurations across product lifecycle
• Analyzed retail sales and market trends for strategic volume planning for determining future model mix and defining overall product strategy

Management Trainee-Business Development and Strategic Projects | Mercedes-Benz India

• Operated business innovation project team, cultivating new revenue channels.
• Managed succinct communication for MD&CEO’s office , for external and internal forums to communicate overall strategy and influence public policy
• Generated actionable market intelligence for driving strategic activities

EDUCATION

MS | Carnegie Mellon

Masters in mechanical engineering

B.Tech. | NIT Jamshedpur

B.Tech. in mechanical engineering

PGPBA | Indo-German Training Centre

General management program under the aegis of Indo-German Chamber of commerce

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