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title: "Lokesh Reddy - Product Manager II, Identity Governance and Access, Administrative Tools in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Lokesh Reddy on Tal

## Headline

Product Manager @ Elsevier \| Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity \| CSPO® \| Agentic AI \| Angel Investor

## About

As a Product Manager at Elsevier, I contribute to a successful product strategy and execute based on qualitative and quantitative customer understanding\. I interact with customers, users, and internal stakeholders to understand their needs, requirements and market trends, and deliver product enhancements and user experience improvements\. I have a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology, and I am skilled in Agile methodologies, Data Analytics and Visualization, Delivery and Execution\. I have also earned multiple certifications in Product Management and Project Management from LinkedIn\. I have a demonstrated history of working in the Ed\-Tech, Information Analytics, Identity and Access Management, Search Discovery, Engagement and Retention Techniques, Online and Digital Gamification Products, Research Platform Products Space\. In my previous roles, I have planned, developed and led projects based around key products and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery, within budget and meeting project goals and vision\. I have also built and mentored a team of associates, brainstormed and researched new product ideas, and conceptualized project scope and timelines\. I have received the Rockstar Award for my contributions to scaling up the user retention by 2x for an AI/ML based feature in BYJU'S App\. I am passionate about creating innovative and impactful products that solve real\-world problems and enhance customer satisfaction\. I value cross\-functional team collaboration, data\-driven decision making, and continuous learning and improvement\. I am always eager to take on new challenges and opportunities to grow and deliver value\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

codex

ChatGPT

Figma Make

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Product Manager II, Identity Governance and Access, Administrative Tools at Elsevier, Oct 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, /Identity Product Strategy & Advanced Authentication and Authorization methods /Building administrative capabilities to support self\-serve access capabilities, user management for Global Customers in Universities, R&D Divisions, Healthcare Providers and Clinics\. /Identity Enterprise Security, Data Privacy and Compliance needs\. /Product Success, Adoption and Trust

Angel Investor at Inflection Point Ventures, Jun 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, • Early, Pre\-Seed, Seed and Series\-A Investments • Sectors including \- B2B/SaaS, E\-commerce, Ed\-Tech, Fintech, Health\-Tech, D2C • Founder and Investor Calls • Startup Advisory and Consulting • Investments via FirstPort Capital

Product Manager \- Identity and Access Management, Information Analytics, Research Platform Products at Elsevier, Apr 2023 \- Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, · Contributing to a successful product strategy and execute based on qualitative and quantitative customer understanding\. · Interacting with customers, users, and internal stakeholders to understand their needs, requirements and understanding market trends to deliver product enhancements and user experience improvements\. · Collaborating with customers across Elsevier's 3 market segments to gather requirements for processes and use\-cases and to gain a solid understanding of future needs\. · Driving solutions for complicated design challenges by managing key features from planning to release\. · Utilizing Data\-Driven Decision\-Making and Analysis to gain product insights and drive solutions\. · Supporting the go\-to\-market strategy by communicating customer requirements to stakeholders and helping launches by training, planning, and providing product knowledge\. · Ownership for a product within the Identity space\. Collaborating with cross\-functional technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions\. Focusing on outcomes and use metrics and analysis to shape results and deliver flawless product developments and enhancements\.

Product Owner \- Project and Delivery Lead, Platform Processes and Learning Products at BYJU'S, Jul 2021 \- Apr 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Plan, develop and lead projects based around key products and initiatives ensuing timely delivery, within budget and meeting project goals and vision\. • Analyse and solve moderately complex problems, create new solutions, leveraging and adapting existing methods and procedures\. • Effectively manage multiple projects, monitoring progress and ensuring completion within planned timelines\. • Collaborate and work with multiple stakeholders in the business at all levels to meet their needs and ensure success in the implementation and project delivery\. • Mobilize and coordinate efforts between various business teams and project stakeholders to work together effectively and accurately\. • Actively assess and manage risks in the project to ensure success\. • Drive and support the PMO\( Project Management Office\) and other senior project stakeholders in driving their projects and workstreams, reporting to PMO\. • Driving change management and communication management initiatives for assigned projects\. • Drive daily project management activities including meetings, discussions, regular project status updates and project team meetings\. • Make business presentations and necessary reports\(Adherence, Variance, Project scope, delivery etc\) and maintain transparent engagement with internal stakeholders\. • Prepare data\-driven KPIs to monitor projects and evaluate impact and effectiveness\. • Prepare analytical reports and support the PMO function and Business Units \(BU\) with recommendable action\. • Plan to mitigate organisational risks and blockers\.

Product Manager \- Product Ops, Business Intelligence: Crisis and Production Management at BYJU'S, Jun 2020 \- Jun 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Building and mentoring a team of associates, which involves following up and giving feedback to ensure tasks are of expected quality and on time\. • Brainstorming and researching to generate new product ideas, driving collaboration with designers and engineers to get products ready to ship\. • Conceptualizing project scope and timelines, creating and assessing processes for the same and identifying and flagging blockers\. • Researching and identifying learning strategies for students of all backgrounds and cognitive abilities\. • Deciding and development of criteria to judge and enhance user's engagement and performance\. • Designing and conducting regular training sessions and process expertise for the team\. • Working closely with the end\-users, chalking out the requirements, finding a product market fit, and illustrating the consumer demands into technical specifications\. • Improved productivity of client stakeholder management upto 2x by implementing Salesforce CRM to aid user adoption\. • Reduced Turn\-Around\-Time \(TAT\) for SLA to 15 mins from 24 hours prioritising customer inquiries and resolving product and service issues\. • Increased acquisition and retention of customers upto 60% by continually analysing business metrics and industry insights and measuring post implementation success of technical upgrades with user acceptance testing \(UAT\) driving change management\.

Program Manager \- Project Coordination & Product Management at BYJU'S, Jun 2019 \- May 2020 · 1 yr, Bangalore, • Maintaining and Managing the work tracking system for the entire team\. • Optimising the team efficiency with respect to the output of each individual and analysing the optimal use of that resource\. • Team co\-ordination and follow\-ups\.Interacting with the entire team to deliver the project\. • Innovate with existing work structure to optimise output via data analytics\. • Designed product roadmaps while leading product strategy and delivered organization\-wide presentations to senior management by displaying strong communication, interpersonal and cross\-group collaboration skills in a fast\-paced time\-critical environment\. • Worked independently on client/market research for 8 educational products \- Vidyartha, DSSL, Snapbook\-feature, D4, BTLA, BYJUs Lab, IVL\(Integrated/Interactive Video Layer\),Goggles to develop product strategy\. • Spearheaded merger transition for three acquisitions \- Toppr, WhiteHatJr, Digital Aristotle by actively engaging with internal and external business stakeholders and end\-users\. • Increased process output by 60% by working cross\-functionally on face\-to\-face customer interactions, customer surveys, email bursts, A/B testing across project management phases for conducting market surveys and competitor analysis\.

Embedded Intern at Electronics Corporation of India Limited \(ECIL\), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India\., May 2018 \- Jul 2018 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Embedded microprocessor projects\. • Code burns in Intel 8085, Intel 8086 Microcontrollers\.

## Education

Professional Certificate Program for Product Management, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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