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Hardik Jani

Product Owner | Product Manager | Business Analyst - 7 Yrs | FinTech | AI-Powered Agile Workflows

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

GeekyAnts
Oct 20223 y 11 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed diverse responsibilities in a startup, including Product Manager, Project Manager, and Scrum Master, while gaining experience in Fintech, Healthcare, Hospitality, and Real Estate domains. • Facilitated key ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. • Increased feature delivery efficiency by maintaining a dynamic product backlog based on ROI and technical feasibility; successfully resolved 100% of high-priority stakeholder requirements across consecutive sprint cycles. • Accelerated time-to-market by 9% by orchestrating roadmap and release planning to translate product strategy into actionable deliverables; proactively resolved cross-functional dependencies and resource constraints to ensure 100% on-time delivery. • Reduced delivery risk identification time by creating a real-time Project Metrics dashboard that automated the tracking of epic progress, defect trends, and QA vs Dev bugs for executive leadership. • Successfully delivered multiple projects ahead of schedule while meeting critical timelines and stakeholder expectations. • Partnered with Sales to identify client pain points, resulting in a 22% increase in lead-to-project conversion rates; also enhanced domain expertise through blogs and knowledge-sharing talks. •Scaled the product team by mentoring junior analysts and standardizing Agile training across the organisation.
Eastern Enterprise
May 20226 mosOct 2022

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Authored detailed user stories and FRDs by as-is/to-be analysis, maintaining a 98% sprint goal achievement rate by providing development teams with clear, unambiguous documentation. • Mitigated project scope creep by maintaining a centralized Change Request Tracking System; reduced approval turnaround time by proactively identifying and resolving functional dependencies. • Reduced post-launch rework by conducting iterative product demos during sprint reviews, ensuring 100% alignment between client feedback and technical execution. • Conducted API testing in Postman and UAT to ensure functionality and user satisfaction, achieving a 95% success rate.
Infosys
Nov 20192 y 6 moMay 2022

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements in Jira, crafting 220+ INVEST-compliant user stories linked to BRDs. • Elicited business needs through 20+ stakeholder interviews, translating into functional specs that aligned the delivery. Validated solution designs through iterative prototyping, reducing rework by 28% in sprint cycles. • Leveraged SQL to extract insights from POS data, enabling informed decision-making; created visual dashboards and reports using Power BI and Excel for stakeholder-friendly consumption. • Facilitated daily stand-ups and backlog grooming sessions, maintaining sprint velocity at 85%+ across various releases.

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Education

GLS University

Bachelor's In Computer Applications, Information Technology

GLS University

20163 yrs2019
Adani vidya mandir

Higher Secondary Education

Adani vidya mandir

20142 yrs2016

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Headline

Product Owner | Product Manager | Business Analyst - 7 Yrs | FinTech | AI-Powered Agile Workflows

About

Product Owner and Business Analyst with around 7 years driving end-to-end delivery of digital products across FinTech, Healthcare, Real Estate, and Hospitality. I turn business requirements into shippable Agile roadmaps — writing 220+ INVEST-compliant user stories, running Scrum ceremonies, and managing ROI-driven backlogs. Recent impact: accelerated time-to-market by 9%, lifted lead-to-project conversion by 22%, and built real-time metrics dashboards that cut delivery-risk detection time significantly. Early adopter of AI-assisted product workflows to speed up requirement analysis, stakeholder documentation, and cross-team communication without compromising accuracy. Strong foundation in requirements gathering, BRDs/FRDs, UAT, stakeholder management, and data storytelling with SQL and Power BI. B.C.A., GLS University. Based in Bengaluru.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Owner at GeekyAnts, Oct 2022 - Present · 3 y 11 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed diverse responsibilities in a startup, including Product Manager, Project Manager, and Scrum Master, while gaining experience in Fintech, Healthcare, Hospitality, and Real Estate domains. • Facilitated key ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. • Increased feature delivery efficiency by maintaining a dynamic product backlog based on ROI and technical feasibility; successfully resolved 100% of high-priority stakeholder requirements across consecutive sprint cycles. • Accelerated time-to-market by 9% by orchestrating roadmap and release planning to translate product strategy into actionable deliverables; proactively resolved cross-functional dependencies and resource constraints to ensure 100% on-time delivery. • Reduced delivery risk identification time by creating a real-time Project Metrics dashboard that automated the tracking of epic progress, defect trends, and QA vs Dev bugs for executive leadership. • Successfully delivered multiple projects ahead of schedule while meeting critical timelines and stakeholder expectations. • Partnered with Sales to identify client pain points, resulting in a 22% increase in lead-to-project conversion rates; also enhanced domain expertise through blogs and knowledge-sharing talks. •Scaled the product team by mentoring junior analysts and standardizing Agile training across the organisation.

Business Analyst at Eastern Enterprise, May 2022 - Oct 2022 · 6 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Authored detailed user stories and FRDs by as-is/to-be analysis, maintaining a 98% sprint goal achievement rate by providing development teams with clear, unambiguous documentation. • Mitigated project scope creep by maintaining a centralized Change Request Tracking System; reduced approval turnaround time by proactively identifying and resolving functional dependencies. • Reduced post-launch rework by conducting iterative product demos during sprint reviews, ensuring 100% alignment between client feedback and technical execution. • Conducted API testing in Postman and UAT to ensure functionality and user satisfaction, achieving a 95% success rate.

Senior Operations Executive at Infosys, Nov 2019 - May 2022 · 2 y 6 mo, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements in Jira, crafting 220+ INVEST-compliant user stories linked to BRDs. • Elicited business needs through 20+ stakeholder interviews, translating into functional specs that aligned the delivery. Validated solution designs through iterative prototyping, reducing rework by 28% in sprint cycles. • Leveraged SQL to extract insights from POS data, enabling informed decision-making; created visual dashboards and reports using Power BI and Excel for stakeholder-friendly consumption. • Facilitated daily stand-ups and backlog grooming sessions, maintaining sprint velocity at 85%+ across various releases.

Education

Bachelor's In Computer Applications, Information Technology, GLS University

Higher Secondary Education, Adani vidya mandir