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Sr. Product Manager @ Guidewire, Data Platforms

About

I’m a Technical Product Manager with a delivery-focused mindset who is highly motivated by creating value for the users in B2B and B2B2C spaces. Over the past 8 years I've managed a variety of projects of all shapes and sizes. I have worked with Analytics Platforms, Retail SaaS Platforms, Cloud Data Platforms, and E-Commerce products. I pride myself in my ability to build strong relationships, translate business needs into clear roadmaps and bridge the gap between the technical team and user expectations. Looking out, check for open roles @ Guidewire https://www.guidewire.com/about/careers/jobs?location=India+-+Bangalore

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Guidewire Software, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, I focus on enhancing both customer and internal user experiences through self-service solutions that simplify workflows and reduce complexity. My role centers on orchestrating tech and infra stacks to address near real-time data accessibility and management needs. Key aspects of my work include making strategic decisions on technical design, providing UI/UX recommendations, updating documentation, and fostering cross-team collaboration.

Product Manager - Supply Chain Technology at Tata CLiQ, Nov 2021 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Worked as an individual contributor while leading a team of 4 APMs - Revamped inventory management system to reduce excess orders by 65% - Revamped inventory to reduce out-of-stock scenarios from 16% to <8% across platforms - Launched IMS 2.0 to support perishable inventory architecture for Beauty platform - Tata CliQ Palette - Launched batch management in inventory tracking of over 10L SKUs integrated with WMS and TPA - worked under leadership of Ashutosh Dabral (Chief Product Officer) who enabled me to perform not just as an IC, but a lead to a team of 4 PMs Reduced order cancellations by 7.5% annually after enabling Product Replacement using web and mobile devices. Achieved 75% EDD Accuracy by enhancing ‘Estimated Delivery Time’ prediction models, across product listings Revamped Inventory Management System to launch ‘TATA CliQ’s Palette’, adding fresh 2.5 Cr GMV in first 6 months

Technical Product Manager - Data Connectors at Hevo Data, Jun 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, - Integrated and released 23 *new* Data connector integrations with Hevo Data (SaaS, ERP, & MarTech) - Owned Pipeline Success metrics (and working on reducing pipeline failures across user journeys) - Launched in-app documentation for 35 data sources reducing pipeline errors by 33% and improving PCS by 25% across DB and SaaS connectors - Responsible for reducing frictions to improve Trial Activations (%) - Integrations built : Adroll, Facebook Ads, Hubspot, Taboola, Apple Search Ads, Linkedin Ads, Outbrain, Criteo, Klaviyo, Intercom, Stripe, Xero, Amplitude, Appsflyer etc.

Product Manager - Supply Chain Technology (OpEx) at Fynd (Shopsense Retail Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), Jul 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Mumbai Area, India, - Launched self-serve Retail OMS called 'Pulse' - Integrated new logistics partners and revamped existing legacy integrations - Looked after payments success and partner integrations with Razorpay, Juspay and CC Avenue - Launched bulk-packing for Uniket to reduced avg. cost-per-shipment by 70% for B2B channel Uniket - Onboarded Hevo Data for ETL requirements to migrate data from MySQL and MongoDB to Google Cloud (GCS, GDS) - Worked with a teamof 10X engineers, operations, and bizops members - Got a chance to shadow our Co-founder Farooq Adam for ~2 years, learnt a lot, grew exponentially - Hired 25+ great employees across Product, analytics, and supply chain operations domain

Data Scientist at LimeTray, Feb 2016 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos, New Delhi Area, India, - Self taught R, SQL, Mongo, AWS to build Limetray's Data & Analytics platform - Engineered ETL pipelines for Clevertap, Intercom, Slack, Freshdesk, and vTiger ERP - Built revenue tracking similar to Quickbooks to keep log of sales, payments, invoice-generation, and renewal alerts integrated with vTiger sales ERP - Learnt everything I did under the guidance and mentoring of my manager Varshul Gupta (currently Founder @ Dubverse) and Piyush Jain (currently founder of Loop Subscriptions)

Product Delivery Manager at LimeTray, Jul 2015 - Jan 2016 · 7 mos, New Delhi Area, India, - Started career in Inside sales for F&B SaaS (Cold-calling / Setting up meetings for SDRs) - Responsible for delivery success for Limetray's clients (Online Ordering + Mobile apps + Aggregator) - Worked under leadership of Pulkit Handa, who gave me opportunity to transition into Analytics - Changed my life, migrated to Analytics and technology there-after

Education

The Mother's International School

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Delhi University

Profile highlights

I'm the person in every team who…: self taught himself into the tech industry. (No engineering degree) Studied B.Com(H) > Sales > Analytics > Data Science > PM > Tech PM > Sr. PM

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@kapil.bahadur

guidewire.com: https://www.guidewire.com/resources/blog/developers/empowering-teams-with-automated-cloud-infrastructure-provisioning