Kanupriya Yakhmi

Program Manager August 2021 — January 2022

About the role ● Led end-to-end development of 2 products with 1000+ features related to autonomous cars, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) software focused on increasing safety of riders and drivers within the autonomous vehicle industry. ● Guided cross-functional teams by providing strategic insights using data analytics on potential car accidents due to human error to generate better algorithms and meet user, business and technical goals, reducing yearly operational costs by 50% ● Defined and analyzed metrics to maintain version control of the autonomous vehicles to identify opportunities and manage competing priorities and resources within cross-functional teams, which increased the launch speed of the vehicles by 15% per quarter. ● Drove internal activation of new features by building developer tools and iterating after gathering feedback regarding design and application through usability testing, which increased the developer productivity by 45% for each release cycle. ● Established alignment across the product strategy by inviting stakeholders to sprint reviews, which enabled deployment of initiatives during the sprints.

Product Manager February 2019 — July 2021

About the role ● Led end-to-end development, release, and post-release iterations of five SAAS (Software as a Service), PAAS (Platform as a Service) and IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) product lines and their dependencies focused on increasing user engagement and expediting variable costs within the electronic design automation and software security industry. ● Led global research by collecting customer requirements, creating roadmaps, and strategizing the project from inception while collaborating with vendors and business units, which reduced operational costs by $50,000 and go-to-market launch time from 6 months to 3 months. ● Implemented predictive analytics to map the user journey and identify the customers’ pain points, which increased external user retention by 60% yearly. ● Performed qualitative and quantitative analysis by analyzing KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and reshaped the product vision to increase the customer base by 55% per year. ● Developed business requirements and tested the products’ validity with external customers and stakeholders, which increased new user adoption by 20K+ users per release cycle.

Product Manager September 2017 — May 2018

About the role ● Led end-to-end development of the security products from an MVP (minimum viable product) and iterated on its full development focused on reducing onset of diseases including Cancer, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular diseases and neurosciences within the healthcare industry. ● Determined users’ needs by working across engineering and healthcare providers to plan, prioritize, and execute data-driven decisions, which increased product retention from national customers (~10K) to global customers (~50K). ● Resolved patients’ confidentiality issues by building security protocols in the APIs (Application Programming Interface) to reduce potential data breaches by 10% quarter over quarter. ● Streamlined the customer experience by gathering technical requirements of features and classifying them as opportunities or technical debt, which led to a prioritized backlog. ● Mitigated risks by building data models and writing PRD (Product Requirement Documents) to communicate business goals, increasing user activation by 65% quarter over quarter.