Ajoy S Saha
VP Lead Product Manager | IISc Bangalore | Data Science| Gen-AI MLOPS Enablement Leader | Integrated Product Delivery Leadership| Product Strategy | KMP | ICP-ACC | PgMP® | PMP® | CSP®-SM | SAFe®Agilist | ISTQB®| ITIL®
Bengaluru
11+ years of work experience
Jan 202610 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Operating at the intersection of Product Management and Delivery Leadership, I lead end-to-end product delivery by orchestrating planning, execution, and release readiness across multiple product areas. I combine Delivery Coordinator and Product Delivery Lead responsibilities to ensure seamless translation of product strategy into high-quality, customer-focused outcomes. I drive alignment across cross-functional teams—product, engineering, and stakeholders—by connecting the right people, enabling critical conversations, and managing dependencies, risks, and release timelines. This ensures predictable delivery of complex initiatives in fast-paced, enterprise environments. My role focuses on establishing structured intake, prioritization, and planning processes, improving backlog readiness, and coordinating delivery calendars and release activities. I ensure integrated release readiness through disciplined planning, testing alignment, and governance adherence, enabling smooth and compliant product launches. I partner closely with product managers and product owners to assess change impacts, drive change readiness, and embed enterprise governance and compliance into delivery workflows. At the same time, I foster a culture of continuous improvement, helping teams evolve toward high-performing, self-sustaining product organizations. With a strong foundation in Agile practices and tools, I lead large-scale planning efforts, enable transparency in execution, and drive timely decision-making to balance competing priorities and accelerate value delivery.
Key Impact Areas:
End-to-end product delivery orchestration across multiple teams and product areas
Cross-functional alignment and enterprise-level dependency management
Structured intake, prioritization, and backlog governance
Integrated release readiness and execution assurance
Change management, compliance alignment, and risk mitigation
Product maturity, team enablement, and operating model evolution
Oct 20232 yrs 3 mosDec 2025
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Responsible as a Team of Teams Product Delivery enablement leader handling large Digital transformation for Wealth and Investment Management portfolio of products including brokerage development for Mobile and Universal Desktop. Accountable as an Program Manager, RTE and Stakeholder Engagement leadership for cross domain technology application teams and help business execute successful product planning, development and delivery to reap benefits of digitization across cross platform architecture.
Design and deploy AI/GenAI solutions, including LLM-powered dashboards, autonomous agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. Experienced to Build Python-based applications for data analysis, reconciliation, and workflow automation. Apply statistical modeling and predictive analytics to optimize financial operations, risk mitigation, and customer experience.
Collaborate with senior leadership, data science, and IT teams to translate complex AI capabilities into actionable business solutions.
Champion governance frameworks, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives across global teams. Recognized for strategic foresight, execution excellence, and stakeholder influence at all levels. Led high-priority regulatory and strategic programs aligned with OCC, SEC, SHRP, and ACP mandates. Oversaw confidential initiatives with budgets ranging from $8MM to $20MM, fostering high-performance delivery cultures grounded in Agile, DevOps, and continuous improvement principles.
Apr 20194 yrs 6 mosSep 2023
Bangalore
•Responsible for identifying and understanding the business requirements from the project and recommending optimal business solution by doing the gap analysis of the current process • Liaison with the business functions in mapping the operational activities, pain areas and gathering the user requirements. Further, engage with the secondary / tertiary levels to draw out the micro level detailing of the requirements • Identified & evaluated inefficiencies and recommended optimal business practices & system functionalities •Responsible to consult with business partners to clarify, define and document complex project requirements, budgets and business cases, including statements of work; creates and delivers presentations to senior management on program or project goals and plans, including progress reports •Manage project stakeholders and act as the single point of contact for communication between the business and the technical teams • Directly or matrix manage 20-80 project staff team members including Developers, QA, BA, Scrum Masters, Test Coordinators and Project Coordinators and lead their functional trainings and providing feedback for performance evaluation •Liaison with partner and stakeholder within the organization to understand business challenges and gathering user requirements and engaging with IT teams to identify micro level detailing to ensure business continuity •Responsible for end-to-end program or project management, demonstrating business analysis and ownership of the entire system development lifecycle process; develops and implements program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics; lead large project teams and manages activities associated with projects and programs that are across a line of business; managing one or more projects at one time; typically, focused on leading Tier 1&2 projects; significant impact to medium Impact projects both internally and externally across multiple areas within the Line of Business.
Dec 20141 yrNov 2015
Bangalore, India
As the Project Manager (PM) at PMO department oversees the planning, implementation and tracking of specific projects and tasks which have a beginning, an end and specified deliverable. The PM is responsible for direct interactions and coordination of efforts to define and document specific and detailed project requirements and incorporate into detailed project plans and timelines for execution, tracking, follow-up and delivery. Projects will vary in size, complexity and duration and be sponsored by departments across the organizations spectrum including IT, Operations, Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing, Account Management and other functions.
Jul 20146 mosDec 2014
Bangalore
Manage requirements and scheduling for upcoming projects as core PM functionality. Consults with a variety of Concur and client resources to identify solutions for each implementation. Gather client business requirements and design a solution that meets the needs of the client and falls within the boundaries of core Concur functionality. Responsible for the configuration of a customer’s specific environment as well as all client functional knowledge transfer. Completes project milestones, client documentation, and transitions the client to their Production environment.
Jul 20131 yrJun 2014
Bangalore
Key Responsibilities: Develop a structured and global approach to technology training program design, development, implementation and evaluation. Responsible for the comprehensive design, program management and facilitation of Technology-wide development initiatives including groups covering Business Analysts, Quality Assurance/Engineering, and Project Managers. Develops, evaluates and revises course and program material, reviews course feedback and implements changes as needed. Develops evaluation and validation instruments to collect and interpret data assessing the organization needs and training program effectiveness. Help builds strong, collaborative relationships across the organization to align training and development needs to organizational objectives.Conduct functional training for our PMs, BAs, QAs primarily and all Technology employees on foundation/overview technical training for tools/languages these groups need (i.e.,GDS BootCamp Training, Induction Training, Sabre Product Training, JIRA, VersionOne, Java, QTP,etc.)
Jun 20112 yrs 1 moJun 2013
Bangalore
Project Management; Product Management; Support Management, Key Account Management and SDLC were key portfolio functions of the role. Managed several projects at program level in achieving customer delight(internal and external) and drive strategic goals.
Ajoy’s AI Stack
Education
Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Computational Data Science, Data Science, AI/ML, Gen AI, Big Data, Python, AI Agents, Google ADK, Agent Quality, A2A protocol
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
20241 yr2025
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Honors, Accounting and Business/Management
University of Calcutta
19973 yrs2000
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