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Nirmal Sabaree R

Nirmal Sabaree R

Hyderabad

Summary

  • Visionary product leader with 17+ years of experience in the Product Tech Industry, with deep expertise in driving digital transformation across industrial automation, SaaS platforms, and edge/cloud ecosystems.
  • Adept at navigating ambiguity and leading high-impact teams to transform ideas into scalable, business-aligned products.
  • Proven track record of developing product strategies that align with business goals, influencing executive decision-making, and delivering innovations that yield significant ROI.
  • Recognized globally for innovation leadership, strategic influence, and collaborative thought partnership with proven track record of winning accolades and multiple patent submissions.
  • Actively seeking senior product leadership roles where technology foresight, executive presence, and organizational impact converge.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Product Owner

Siemens Foundational Technologies
10.2024 - Current

Assetfox is a SaaS platform provisioning information for managing equipment lifecycle based on Digital Product Passport (DPP) and Digital Data Consortium (DDC) regulations to support multi-stakeholder collaboration in Manufacturing-X and Factory-X ecosystems.


  • Defined product strategy and roadmap, aligning with EU Digital Product Passport regulations and industry consortia standards based on Asset Administration shell.
  • Translated strategic ambiguity into product clarity, bringing structure to diverse stakeholder demands.
  • Launched MVP within 6 months through lean experimentation, resulting in early-stage market validation.
  • Drove investor engagement and pilot customer onboarding by crafting compelling product narratives.
  • Integrated compliance, security, and usability into core product architecture for long-term scalability.


Key Contributions:

  • Reduced OEM onboarding time by 40% through modular data provisioning framework.
  • Achieved 35% decrease in decision churn via agile prioritization and alignment of cross-functional processes.
  • Accelerated readiness for conformance to IDTA standard to position for Digital Twin solution

Product Portfolio Manager

Siemens Advanta
06.2022 - 09.2024
  • Owned the strategy and execution for digital industrial analytics and process optimization portfolio on Edge computing platform.
  • Designed scalable roadmaps for cognitive apps, APIs, and platform services with API-first approach based on SAFe framework - Lean Portfolio Management.
  • Delivered high-impact demos to C-level audiences and international industrial fairs (SPS Nuremberg).

Key Contributions:

  • Developed award-nominated SieMirror App, enabling AI-based workforce attention analytics.
  • Reduced factory-level decision time by 20% through real-time visualization apps.
  • Led cross-regional teams across India, US, China, and Europe to ship five industrial-grade solutions.
  • Drove 50% product line growth through strategic innovation pipeline and team seeding.

Product Owner

Siemens Advanta
11.2018 - 05.2022
  • Delivered AI/ML-powered Edge analytical applications, improving customer satisfaction by 25%.
  • Owned 12 Program Increments and over 120+ Agile sprints.
  • Managed full product lifecycle, from backlog grooming to deployment and feedback integration.

Key Contributions:

  • Launched Machine Insight App, top-rated in German Digital Magazine.
  • Filed two European patents in predictive analytics for industrial equipment.
  • Reduced time-to-market by 30% through agile optimization and improved developer engagement.

Technical Product Specialist

Micro Focus (formerly HPE), Hewlett Packard Enterprise
05.2016 - 11.2018
  • Led Microsoft Stack Management packs that monitors MS Servers from backlog management, planning and release management.
  • Demonstrated ownership in the development of management packs for monitoring various services on Microsoft Azure including observability use-cases for telemetry data analysis.
  • Proposed generic framework to execute REST APIs to collect metric values of Azure RM Services using Azure Monitor REST API and achieved to save 50% development efforts and unit testing efforts.
  • Conducted research on various observability tools in market, understood customer needs, gathered product requirements and defined product roadmaps.
  • Coordinated with Senior Product Managers and architects in assisting and executing product requirements.
  • Managed Critical Customer escalations with a focus on customer satisfaction and quality, received CSAT rating of 4.8.
  • Supervised the on-time development & delivery of products while working with Development & Operations teams.
  • Collaborated with the pre-sales teams to ensure that products & services meet customers' current or future needs.

Consultant

Siemens Technology India
05.2014 - 05.2016
  • Researched, designed, implemented, and tested enterprise large scale products.
  • Acted as a key role in troubleshooting, debugging and upgrading existing 25+ applications.

Senior Developer

Wipro Technologies
08.2007 - 05.2014
  • Played a key role in coding & testing applications and fixed bugs in existing code across various product suites like Norton Security, HPE OpsBridge, Intuit CRM application and Collaborated with the Product & Design teams to develop 10+ new applications.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Anna University
06.2007

Skills

  • Domains: Manufacturing-X, Industrial Automation, Digital Twins, Cloud Services, ITSM
  • Tech Stack: Cloud and Edge Computing
  • Product Leadership: Product Strategy, Roadmap, Agile Product & Portfolio Management, Executive Storytelling, Business Case Design, Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Soft Skills: Strategic Influence, Stakeholder Alignment, Thought Leadership, Mentoring & Coaching

Certification

Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager, Scaled Agile, Inc., 08/21, https://www.credly.com/badges/1717feea-19df-4c8c-bf83-5c2a8c584e00?source=linked_in_profile

Awards

  • Winner, Innoshark campaign - Commissioning Agent: An AI agent for all commissioning needs
  • Finalist Recognition for the SieMirror App, Innovation for Social Good category, Aegis Graham Bell Award, 02/24, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
  • IP Samman - ID Champion, Siemens, 06/21, Recognition for submitting the highest number of Invention Disclosures.

Patents

  • GenAI Commissioning Expert: an AI agent Multitool Researcher and Designer for all commissioning needs
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING DAMAGE TO PHYSICAL COMPONENTS IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT, 20178448.5, European Patent Office
  • SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING CONDITION OF AN ASSET IN TECHNICAL INSTALLATION, 20178448.5, European Patent Office

Timeline

Senior Product Owner

Siemens Foundational Technologies
10.2024 - Current

Product Portfolio Manager

Siemens Advanta
06.2022 - 09.2024

Product Owner

Siemens Advanta
11.2018 - 05.2022

Technical Product Specialist

Micro Focus (formerly HPE), Hewlett Packard Enterprise
05.2016 - 11.2018

Consultant

Siemens Technology India
05.2014 - 05.2016

Senior Developer

Wipro Technologies
08.2007 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Anna University
Nirmal Sabaree R