Akanksha Acharya
Mumbai
Summary
Results-oriented and collaborative professional with a strong grasp of customer needs and product lifecycle management. Technical expertise in data analysis and agile methodologies. Skilled at recognizing market demands and transforming them into effective product strategies for successful launches. Committed to providing cutting-edge solutions that enhance customer satisfaction and propel business expansion. Adept at explaining AI adoption to customers and documenting processes at every step.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Manager: Tech AI
Prime Focus Technologies
07.2024 - Current
- Converted a high-stakes proof-of-concept into the company’s #1 revenue-generating sports-tech launch, acting as the sole client point-of-contact; negotiated and closed the deal end-to-end in under three months, unlocking a multi-crore annual contract.
- Launched AI-powered sports module, reducing manual tagging and editing effort by 93% and enabling faster highlight delivery on client platforms, resulting in 2X user engagement compared to the previous year for the client
- Facilitated real-time coordination among client executives, sales, pre-sales, marketing, infrastructure, support, tech leads, and C-suite during live tournaments, ensuring seamless integration, zero downtime, and continuous feature rollouts.
- Led weekly prioritization rituals across 100 + backlog items streamlining end-to-end product lifecycle, balancing strategic value, technical feasibility, and broadcast deadlines to maximize impact under tight windows using Agile Methodologies (Tool: Jira)
- Crafted PRDs, and user guides(recommended New tool), product demo and trainings, comprehensive user stories, simplifying internal and client communication while supporting onboarding and feature adoption.
- Monitored customer feedback post-launch and implemented enhancements that significantly increased customer satisfaction and product usability.
- Conducted comprehensive scans of market demand and competitor offerings to stay at par with evolving trends and competition
Technical Product Manager
CIO Infotech
01.2024 - 02.2024
- Spearheaded approx. 15 feature testing and validation for an in-development Machine Learnings Operations lifecycle management tool, advocating user-driven enhancements to optimize product-market fit
Project Manager and Business Analyst
Vedanta Resources
04.2023 - 06.2023
- Designed and executed engaging content and website layout for Vedanta Spark 3.0 program
- Projected amplification in startup engagement from website collaborating with program management firms
- Implemented real-time tracking and monitoring of projects using Smartsheet integrated with PowerBI
- Achieved an impressive 94% increase in productivity after implementing the above data migration from excel
Full-stack Software Developer
Reflexis Systems
07.2019 - 06.2021
- Built workforce management application in Java for the retail industry, boosting scheduling performance by 50%
- Designed and built UI Solutions, boosting visibility by 40% and streamlining payroll integration
- Solved complex technical challenges by leveraging extensive knowledge of programming languages, tools, and frameworks.
Research Intern
IISC Bangalore
05.2018 - 07.2018
- Awarded INAE (Indian National Association of Engineers) Fellowship for High Entropy Alloys research, analyzing 30 samples to optimize mechanical properties through temporal and thermal analysis by 25%
- Completed research, compiled data, and assisted in timely reporting.
Education
MBA - Business Analytics
SBM, Mumbai
Mumbai03-2024
B.TECH - Metallurgy
College of Engineering, Pune
Pune01.2019
XII -
Atomic Energy Central School - 4
Mumbai01.2015
X -
Atomic Energy Central School - 4
Mumbai01.2013
Skills
- Strategic Thinking
- Data Analytics
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Stakeholder communications
- Creativity
- Product Management
- Leadership
- Product lifecycle management
- Documentation management
- Feature prioritization
- Product strategy
- Agile software development
- Design thinking
- Project planning
- Product vision and strategy
Accomplishments
Awarded the company’s coveted, company-wide “Customer Champ” honor—named the sole recipient across all departments within my first year, in recognition of exceptional customer advocacy and impact.
Certification
- Certified PMSchool Product Management Certification, 2024
- PhoenixGlobal Product Management Certification, 2024
- Intermediate SQL Queries - Datacamp, 2022
- Introduction to Python - Datacamp, 2022
Personal Information
Hobbies and Interests
- Dance
- Fitness
- Basketball
Extracurricular Achievements
- Won the Samarthya'23 Basketball Tournament, 2023
- Placed first in the COE-Business Analytics Freshers' Dance Competition, 2022
- Secured an All-India Rank - 62 in the National Science Olympiad
- Second runners up in Inter-AECS Nationals Jr. Basketball, 2011
Position Of Responsibility
- PoC of Consulting Edge, NMIMS Mumbai, 07/01/22, 03/31/23, Organized and oversaw Consultrix Case Study Competition, attracting 500+ teams, Coordinated quizzes, guest speaker sessions, and online case study competitions to explore consulting
- Dance Head, Cultural Club, COEP, 06/01/18, 04/30/19, Oversaw a 50-membered team, enabling dance competitions, workshops at inter-collegiate and national level, Led the dance module in the cultural fest impressions as the logistics and planning head
- Joint Secretary, IIM Pune Chapter, COEP, 10/01/17, 02/28/18, Arranged co-curricular activities for 300+ school students to encourage participation in the subject, Coordinated 10+ seminars, demos and various competitions in the Indian Institute of Metals Pune chapter
MBA Projects
- Performed house price prediction on California Dataset using supervised machine learning techniques with 90% accuracy with XGBoost and delivered valuable business insights using Python
- Conducted comprehensive Web analytics (Google Analytics) for UrbanPro analyzing the user journey, recommendations of UI, suggesting A|B testing and metrics to be tracked for improving website
- Conducted analysis on Indian Unicorn, Pharmeasy, involving BCG matrix analysis, comprehensive environmentalscanning (internal and external), in-depth assessment of last 5 years business-levelstrategies
Tech skills
- Java
- Html-CSS
- Python
- MySQL
- Jira
- PowerBI
Timeline
Product Manager: Tech AI
Prime Focus Technologies
07.2024 - Current
Technical Product Manager
CIO Infotech
01.2024 - 02.2024
Project Manager and Business Analyst
Vedanta Resources
04.2023 - 06.2023
Full-stack Software Developer
Reflexis Systems
07.2019 - 06.2021
Research Intern
IISC Bangalore
05.2018 - 07.2018
MBA - Business Analytics
SBM, Mumbai
B.TECH - Metallurgy
College of Engineering, Pune
XII -
Atomic Energy Central School - 4
X -
Atomic Energy Central School - 4
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