Venkat N.

Venkat N.

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Product Management Leadership | Coach | Thinker | Mentor

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Studied at Haas School of Business (Berkeley)

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Works at Go Daddy

Available Saturday at 5:00 PM UTC

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Product Management - Break into it and succeed

Product Management - Break into it and succeed

Wed, Dec 4 from 8:00 PM UTC – 8:45 PM UTC

Venkat’s Product Management Qualifications

Experience level: Director of Product

Venkat has helped clients get into these companies:

The Why precedes the How. This is how i have always operated and this is what lured me into Product Management 13 years ago. I have anchored around Platform Product management focussing on building robust Customer Data platforms, Insights Platforms and lately, Dynamic Pricing platforms. Understanding a customers journey, looking for behavioral patterns, generating key insights backed with data and creating experiences by partnering with BU's across the organization is something i thrive in. My philosophy of coaching is to understand what the candidate wants to get out our session, where are they in their career currently and how can i help them reach the next level. I also thrive in enabling my candidates think out of the box and ask the right questions in any conversation.

Venkat can help with:

Skill Building

Execution

Strategy & Vision

Influence & Collaboration

Product Case Interview Prep

Behavioral Interview Prep

Venkat also coaches for MBA and Leadership Development. View all.

About Venkat

I have been in product management for over 13 years and have successfully made the transition from core engineering to product manager. My motivation for making this switch my passion to always understand the Why behind the What. I have dual Masters degree ( MS in Electrical Engineering and MBA from Haas School of Business). My MBA with Haas has had a huge impact in the way i approach problems. During my career, i have had the luck to work for Top Companies and solve exciting problems in the space of Customer data, Platforms, Pricing and Personalization. I bring a strong blend of technical and business acumen to every problem and have successfully shipped impactful products along the way.

Why do I coach?

I love coaching. I was a visiting lecturer when i was in my engineering college and a Teaching Assistant during my master. At work, i run a Product Management learning series for those who want to grow their career as a Product Manager. Given, I have successfully transitioned from a pure technical role to a Product role and got into a top ranked Business School, i would love to share my knowledge on how i went about doing it with others. I look forward to connecting with potential clients and help them along their journey.

Work Experience

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Principal Product Manager

Go Daddy

February 2022 - Present

Part of the Data and Analytics org that servers as a horizontal across BU’s. I focus on product strategy, management and execution by building platform capabilities with the focus on increasing conversion and or revenue by enabling personalized experiences across channels Some of the key KPI's and product features I have launched/achieved as part of this effort - 1) Built a dynamic pricing capability that enables us to show an optimal price to our customers to match their willingness to pay increase our conversion by 5% and reducing churn by 7% 2) Built an instrumentation platform (on top of AWS) that capture upto 4000 events per second 3) Centralized all customer data in the Insights Platform 4) Increased the Marketing attribution by 31% by using internal signals over Google Analytics and reducing data loss 5) Hit the renewal yield target of 3% by partnering with cross functional channel partners 6) Increased the experimentation velocity by 50% by enabling faster time to insights by capturing key customer signals along their purchase funnel 7) Built a reusable platform that is standardized, governed and schematized to capture key customer data 8) Partnered with key product teams to make a list of features including we can enable using centralized data 9) Partnered with AI/ML team to create personalization experiences along the purchase funnel and in product features 9) Provide Product Management thought leadership across the organization 10) Created the capability to capture key customer touch points along the product usage funnel and identify when our customers have achieved value Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Planning and +1 skill

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Senior Vice President

U.S. Bank

2021 - 2021

I led the Data, Communications and CRM platform for the bank and my goal is to create reusable products that can be used and leveraged across lines of businesses. Some notable achievements by me and my team of highly qualified Product Managers - - Created a central customer record that centrally captures all out customer Profile data - Created a central communications preferences center that captures all the preferred channel and mode of communication - Working on centralizing customer interactions center by tapping into all customer interactions across digital touch points and exposing them into respective channels for better banker and customer efficiency and productivity - Successfully launched the Profile and Preferences center enabling customers and view and edit their Profile and Preferences data - Rolled out virtual appointments and appointment scheduling capability across all Business lines that enables our customers to make appointments with our bankers - Rolled out a co-browsing capability that enables our bankers to co-browse and share a screen with our customers to fulfill key banking needs - Established an enterprise CRM strategy to identify key product features that can be built and exposed centrally through a hub and spoke model - Successfully rolled out referrals capability where customer referrals can be shared and viewed across lines of businesses through a central hub

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Product Manager AI/ML

Co-Created

2019 - 2021

Me and my team are responsible for building a central Customer Data Hub and empowering a personalized customer shopping experience using Data,AI and ML across all channels globally. I also manage Marketplaces integration for LS&Co. My key responsibilities include • Responsible for setting direction and driving major strategic and product initiatives. • Own the global P&L and roadmap for global personalization and Marketplaces • Created an omni-channel consumer profile across Direct to Consumer channels • Integrated with eBay and Amazon as part of Marketplaces expansion • Work with Data Science and Data Engineering to build and ML/AI based personalization engine

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Product Lead

Salesforce

2018 - 2019

Responsible for the instrumentation framework that helps clients measure what is relevant and important to them and help them make key product decisions and boost Lightning Adoption • Launched an ability for Salesforce product owners to track the usage and performance of top-level default and non-default components • Enhanced the Lightning Usage App to display historic performance data and enhanced usage data for Lightning Pages and Users in the org. Increased the adoption of the Usage App by 75%. • Launched the Page Level Namespace tracking feature that helps ISV’s and Partners determine managed package usage • Released customer blogs to drive Lightning Adoption (EPT Blog and Custom Reports) Lightning Adoption • Launched the Lightning Configuration Converter that enables customers to evaluate their Visualforce pages and make key changes to run in Salesforce Lightning • Potential Increase in Lightning Adoption by 5-10%

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Principal Consultant

EY

2016 - 2018

As a Digital Strategy Manager in the Advisory Services Practice of EY my focus was on Digital Transformation and Product Management. I assisted client launch products with the primary focus on customer acquisition, increasing life time value and revenue. Product Strategy for SME Cash Management and Deposit Products - A Major Retail Bank - Conducted a comprehensive assessment of the banks deposit, cash management and other key SME products to determine if they are optimally positioned and priced for its target customer base. - Improve the banks overall market position and it's ability to cross-sell with the focus on increasing the market share and revenue. - Come up with a detailed prioritization road map of key opportunities related to mid-term and long term actions required to support that changes in strategy, process enhancements and/or operational changes. Open Banking with API's - A Major Global Retail Bank based out of Mexico - Assisted a major Global retail bank in coming up with an API strategy that will help reduce their inter domain dependencies and create an Open API environment. - Helped the client come up with a Digital Delivery Model as part of their core transformation program. - Collaborated with the client to come up with an API governance model and define an Agile Methodology for developing the API’s. Modernization and Digital Transformation - A Major Retail Bank - Assisted with a Modernization and Digital Transformation initiative that consisted ever-greening ATM’s, deploying Security Controls and Products for its Self-Service Equipment (SSE) real estate across the globe. - Assisted the Global Security Leads to lay out an overall Digital and Security Strategy for the Self Service Equipment’s real estate.

Education

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Haas School of Business (Berkeley)

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Product Management , Marketing and Strategy

2013 - 2016

Activities and societies: Member of Haas Technology Club and Haas Marketing Club Major in Product Management, Strategy and Marketing. Courses and projects as part of the course work- 1) Financial Accounting 2) Strategy 3) Micro Economics - Did a pricing project for Russian River Brewery 4) Operations 5) Corporate Finance 6) Marketing 7) Marketing Research - Identified a new vertical market for SmartZip - a predictive analytics company in the real estate space 8) Entrepreneurship 9) Power and Politics 10) Data Science - Worked with Accenture to develop a data-driven approach to help Illinois Hospitals adapt the new value-based reimbursement system

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Wright State University

Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

2003 - 2005

Activities and societies: Head of Indian Students Association I got a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering majoring in VLSI. Apart from this, I was a Teaching Assistant conducting laboratory sessions on Physics 101 for Junior Students.

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University of Mumbai

Bachelor's Degree, Electronics

1997 - 2001

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