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Ketaki Kalgaonkar Apte

Product Management | Customer Success

Pune

8+ years of work experience

Execo
Jun 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Varian
Oct 20231 yr 9 mosJun 2025

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Key Functions: Requirements management | Roadmap ownership | Scrum | Stakeholder Management | Release process Managing cloud offerings and integration projects for on-prem customers. Overseeing Unified User Management project integrating on-prem and cloud offerings. Steering functions including Requirement Analysis, PRD, Acceptance Criteria and Stakeholder Management for cloud platform. Gaining a deep understanding of customer experience, identifying & filling product gaps and generating new ideas that grow market share while improving customer experience and driving growth. Creating buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners Developing product pricing & positioning strategies and translating product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes. Steering scope and prioritizing activities based on business and customer impact; working closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources. Driving product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members. Evaluating promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed Acting as a product evangelist to build awareness; representing the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services.
Icertis
Feb 20221 yr 8 mosSep 2023

Icertis
Jul 20201 yr 8 mosFeb 2022

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Responsible for managing Premium accounts in Europe. Currently also mentoring new hires.
Self Employed
Feb 20206 mosJul 2020

Participated in Product Management for Healthcare related software projects
Avegen
Jul 20181 yr 7 mosJan 2020

Pune Area, India

Managed HealthMachine which is a platform to manage Health care professional's appointments, patient support programs, cardiac rehab. Managed product development based on customer requirement, business priorities, roadmap. Part of product definition team and described requirements in detail for the dev team. Sprint planning, sprint kick off, release notes.

Ketaki’s AI Stack

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Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management, Product Management

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

20221 yr2023
Colorado State University

Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science

Colorado State University

20004 yrs2004

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Headline

Product Management | Customer Success

About

Experienced Product Manager and Customer Success Manager. Skilled in IT Service Management, IT Strategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Pre-sales, and Leadership. Strong product management professional with a Masters in Computer Science focused in Computer Science from Colorado State University. Strong experience in Technical Support for 21+ years in all three regions (Americas, EMEA and APAC)

Location

Pune

AI stack

claude

openai

Work experience

Director, Engineering Services at Execo, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Sr Product Manager, Platform at Varian, Oct 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Key Functions: Requirements management | Roadmap ownership | Scrum | Stakeholder Management | Release process Managing cloud offerings and integration projects for on-prem customers. Overseeing Unified User Management project integrating on-prem and cloud offerings. Steering functions including Requirement Analysis, PRD, Acceptance Criteria and Stakeholder Management for cloud platform. Gaining a deep understanding of customer experience, identifying & filling product gaps and generating new ideas that grow market share while improving customer experience and driving growth. Creating buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners Developing product pricing & positioning strategies and translating product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes. Steering scope and prioritizing activities based on business and customer impact; working closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources. Driving product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members. Evaluating promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed Acting as a product evangelist to build awareness; representing the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services.

Manager, Top Gun Engineering at Icertis, Feb 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Client Success Manager at Icertis, Jul 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Responsible for managing Premium accounts in Europe. Currently also mentoring new hires.

Independent Consultant at Self Employed, Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 · 6 mos, Participated in Product Management for Healthcare related software projects

Product Manager at Avegen, Jul 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos, Pune Area, India, Managed HealthMachine which is a platform to manage Health care professional's appointments, patient support programs, cardiac rehab. Managed product development based on customer requirement, business priorities, roadmap. Part of product definition team and described requirements in detail for the dev team. Sprint planning, sprint kick off, release notes.

Education

Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management, Product Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science, Colorado State University