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title: "Madhukiran Murali - Associate Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Madhukiran Murali on Tal

## Headline

Associate Product Manager at Xactly Corp \| Enterprise SaaS \| AI\- First Product strategy \| Platform Modernization \| MBA \- IIM Kozhikode

## About

Customer\-first Product professional with 8\+ years of experience across Global Support, Customer Analytics, and Product Management in enterprise SaaS\. Currently an Associate Product Manager at Xactly, working closely with PMs, Engineering, UX, Support, and Professional Services to drive roadmap execution, sprint delivery, and platform modernization\. Strong at translating customer pain points into prioritized backlogs and scalable solutions\. Hands\-on experience with reporting and analytics products \(Xactly Incent, Oracle OBIEE 12c, OAS\), SAFe Agile delivery, and platform initiatives including OBIEE → OAS migration, ETL cost optimization, API functionalization, Snowflake/Databricks integrations, and AI agent experimentation\. Known for strong customer empathy, execution ownership, and the ability to bridge business needs with engineering delivery across US, EMEA, and APAC enterprise customers\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

cursor

notion

openai

perplexity

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Associate Product Manager at Xactly Corp, Oct 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, \-Owned backlog grooming and prioritization balancing immediate customer needs with long term roadmap goals\. \-Owned Incentive statements and transactional reporting dashboards across OBIEE, OAS, Xactly Reporting improving end user visibility and product adoption \-Partnered with global enterprise customers to prioritize enhancement, escalations, and enable adoption across complex compensation and reporting environments\. \-Partner with PMs to execute roadmap initiatives for reporting and platform products \-Act as customer advocate by handling high\-impact escalations and influencing prioritization \-Drive reporting solutions using Incent, OBIEE 12c, and OAS \-Contribute to platform initiatives including APIs, Snowflake, ETL, and AI agents

Product Analyst at Xactly Corp, Jun 2024 \- Oct 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, \-Converted stakeholder and customers objectives into clear epics, features into testable user stories, improving sprint predictability and cross team deliver alignment\. \-Platform scalability: Drove API functionalization to enhance modularity, strengthen access governance and improve integration readiness\.\. \-Led release readiness, UAT strategy, post release monitoring with stakeholders and Infosec team\. \-Drove cross functional execution with R&D, Product, Operations within a SAFe agile/ Agile environment to deliver committed outcomes on schedule\. \-Led backlog grooming and prioritization balancing immediate customer needs with long term roadmap goals\.

Analyst \( Product and Platform \) at Xactly Corp, Nov 2020 \- Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, \-Assisted enterprise customers across US, EMEA, and APAC\. \-Acted as SME for Product, escalations and cross\-team issue resolution\. \-Requirement gathering from customer\- Customer needs, wants and issues\. \-Data migration for enterprise customers\. \-Product training and enablement \-Privileged access management coordinator \-Designed onboarding bootcamps and mentored new hires\. \-Certified Level 3 in Xactly Incent \( Incent compensation tool \) and Level 2 in Oracle OBIEE 12c\. \- Tools: Jenkins, Salesforce, SQL, Deliena

Technical Support Specialist at HP, Jan 2018 \- Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos, India, Supported premium enterprise customers for HP Commercial products Improved CSAT/NPS through process improvements and training Trained and mentored new hires across technical and soft skills

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Instrumentation Technology/Technician, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE

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