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Sandeep

Strategy Design Lead
Experienced Product Leader with a demonstrated history of over 10 yrs working in the tech industry across the US and the APAC region, specializing in digital technology and product strategy for the emerging markets and large scale enterprises. Spearheaded product teams and engineered digital solutions in B2C and B2B environments across industries. Capable to set up and execute end to end projects with creative development teams that have strong expertise for the strategic delivery of product solutions and services. Living in the spirit of Entrepreneurship - the pursuit of building impactful ideas and next-gen teams that foster seamless work collaboration and affective commitment. 5 yrs of Product Management experience for SaaS product companies.
ADP
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    10-15 years
  • Management
  • Skills
    Insightful
    Commitment
    Collaborative Research
    Methodology
    Analysis
    Research
    Strategic
    Leader
    Information Systems Design
    google drive
    decision making
    increase customer retention
    communicate effectively
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Strategy
  • Desired work locations
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • Freelance

Work Experience

Product Architect

Feb 2019 - Present
Launched ADP's next-gen HCM solution with a foundation focused on teams and dynamic ways to manage their global workforce through single user experience. Designed AI algorithms for Time module to predict the turnover probability for a group as a measure of factors such as compensation, commute, and tenure. The algorithm identifies at-risk associates/job titles to focus on engagement/retention.

Strategy Design Lead

Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
2 yrs 4 mos
Instituted a digital transformation program initiated towards the setup of a Digital Hub in India for a Japanese Automotive giant; consulted the investment of around $15M for India Hub setup. (Agility at Scale | Digital Projects Sourcing | Vendor Management | Program Management) Enabled a challenger bank in Australia, focussed on redefining broker-originated Home loans Customer Journeys. Consulted the savings of around $1.6M for loan business, curated 18 preferred reality epics to increase customer satisfaction and advocacy in the loan application, as well an optimized process with 40% FTE efficiency gain and 15% non-FTE cost savings. (Design Thinking & VSM Workshops | Business Process Re-engineering | Agile in Banking) Led digital services re-imagination work and delivered concepts for the consular services of the Saudi MoFA. Consolidated the refinement of 40+ discrete visa services into 15 Saudi Visas. (Digital Design | Vendor Management | Digital Transformation in Public Sector) Formalized new innovative features and revamped digital services in a volatile disruptive environment, characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, for a strategic initiative at India's largest film exhibition company aiming to build the Cinema of the Future. (Customer Journeys | Vendor Management | Build-Operate-Transfer) Consulted key digital programs with Indian BFSI and Insurance companies aimed towards digital transformation and enablement of financial services - FinTech, Agile and Open Banking. (Customer Journeys | Agility at Scale | Build-Operate-Transfer) Collaborated on digital re-imagination for large-scale private sector General Insurance company; built a central team that embraced design thinking ideology for internal projects while conceptualizing solutions with business stakeholders. Executed extensive ethnographic research for India's private Life Insurance company, drawing insights for new product development and digital service initiatives.

Entrepreneur Scholar

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
3 yrs 0 mos
Mumbai,Pune,Bangalore ProHealth - The bootstrapped venture : With a vision to make healthcare proactive and a mission to serve patients facing chronic diseases like Asthma and COPD that encompasses 8 million population in India and susceptible to around 20 million more Indians - pulmonary respiratory functions chronic diseases and lack of personal health care, which worsens the conditions leading to mismanagement. OxyTrac - The Product : A portable medical device Low-Cost Spirometer OxiMeter integrated with Mobile Application, that functions for an ECG of lungs, uses revolutionary techniques patent pending, to conduct full PFT at home without any assistance. Asthma/COPD Patients use oxytrac to measure log their readings and manage the essential vitals tracked and trended over their PHR account. Oxytrac is a connected device built on principles of the Internet of things and syncs the data with the platform on cloud storage. Mobile App that provides tracking the patient compliance data and generates powerful analytics-based insights for both the patient and doctor. - patients to manage their recovery by sending reminders to the patient for scheduling an appointment, following up with the lab visits and therapies. - helps to schedule an appointment for a consultation with a doctor. Consulted Projects in Healthcare Technology, Medical Devices design, and development, TeleMedicine solutions, Market research in healthcare and HMIS solutions. Project Accolades: - NASSCOM 10000 startups Fellow. - Winner of Impact-a-preneur Quest 2014. Business plan competition in association with Villgro Chennai and TiE - Program winners at startup events organized by Weekend Venture, Startup weekend, TiE Pune/Mumbai Startup Meet, Bangalore Startup Launchpad, TiE Mumbai IQ Bootcamp - Entrepreneur Scholar at Global Sankalp Summit - 2015

Solutions Consultant

Apr 2014 - Oct 2016
2 yrs 7 mos
An integral part of consulting & pre-sales team for experience design and product development with a core focus on lean approach towards product prioritization, roadmap planning and setting up digital services for Indian telecom' Reliance Jio & Vodafone Idea foray into consumer space. Led product design a wallet application - IDEA Money that fetched a 5x MAU growth in 4 months and grew 3x in digital transactions in a yearly pilot launch. Drafted RFP for the Design and Development of digital assets. Slashed vendor management costs 30% by negotiating pricing and fees while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services. Orchestrated product planning and solution design for omnichannel platforms in finance and consumer banking JioMoney as well for enterprise products in network connectivity, retail merchant services, and public healthcare. Designed a common services framework a core module utilized by all the consumer apps linked to IDAM, to manage consumer issues and to track logs of user interactions. Jio CSF Led digital delivery for OTA apps JioNet, JioWorld, and Jio HealthHub and built a centralized practice for design. Collaborated with business stakeholders, developers, marketers, and visual designers, to ensure that the outcome is a viable, feasible and pixel-perfect desirable solution. Practiced : Solutions Delivery, Product Strategy, UX Design, Software Development, Business Model Design, KPIs, Benchmarks & Trends, CoA, LTV, GTM Strategy

Product Management - Lead Engineer

Apr 2012 - Sep 2014
2 yrs 6 mos
Reported to CTO and responsible for Design and Product Experience for the SaaS platform. Engaged as a Product Management leader and UX practice head for a leading Survey Software consumer company. Conceptualized new product- tweet surveillance for K12 districts, to monitors heated conversations amongst students and succeeded a pilot phase to acquire 30 first paying customers. Designed intuitive interfaces and delivered front-end solutions for enterprise products and cross-platform web/mobile apps. Products : SoGoSurvey (Consumer and Small Business Application ) www.sogosurvey.com K12 Insight (Application for K12 School Managing district) www.k12insight.com Let's Talk (Case Management tool for K12 School) http://www.k12insight.com/lets-talk/ MouthShut (Customer Review Platform) www.mouthshut.com K12 Angel (Tweet Surveillance technology for Safer Schools) www.socialsentinel.com

Product Designer

May 2011 - Apr 2012
1 yr 0 mos
Staffed on digital projects in media and entertainment, following a meticulous delivery process in design lab setup 5D process: Discover-Define-Design- Deliver-Document Researched a new security solution to serialize the original products and avoid counterfeits. Recommended integration in the manufacturing assembly workflow as a USP.

Student Representative

Feb 2010 - May 2011
1 yr 4 mos
Responsible for Departmental internships and Institute placements for the year 2010-11.

Education

Other
Entrepreneurship
2014 - 2014
Bachelor’s Degree
Bachelor's degree User Experience Product Design
2007 - 2011