Sanjay Paithankar
Sr. Technical Product Manager
Pune
Summary
Having over 23+ years of experience in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders, I possess strong abilities in gathering requirements, developing scopes, and coordinating inventory. As a passionate and data-driven product manager, have experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch, and manage world-class Enterprise & SAAS innovations. I blend my technology skills with extensive Agile/Scrum experience, marketing orientation, and analytical abilities to evolve product strategy. I am adept at prioritizing and managing multiple products within specifications.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Technical Product Manager
Privacera
Pune
08.2021 - Current
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Presented category insights and new item recommendations to major retailers and led teams in developing marketing, pricing, product and sales strategies.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully deliver release.
- Successfully change the Release cadence from quarterly to monthly (Platform release per quarter and SaaS release monthly)
- Majorly work on stopping customer churn (currently having 36 customers, 12 customers moved to SaaS)
- Introduce "Data Plane Control Plan" deployment model to push customers towards SaaS
Sr. Product Manager
Veritas Technologies
Pune
03.2017 - 07.2021
- Helped incorporate product changes to drive customer engagement and firm profits.
- Compiled product, market and customer data to forecast accurate sales and profit projections.
- Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer data.
- Managed benchmarks, product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation.
- Executed due diligence to increase sales lead pipeline.
- Working on data protection for "Kubernetes" , "OpenStack" & "AZURE Stack" , Also Working on SAAS solution for in Cloud workloads
- As a part of "ease of licensing" improved around 80% of data processing time while calculating backed-up data.
- Liaised with sales and marketing team to collect customer feedback, incorporating into subsequent production runs and development lifecycles.
- Worked with marketing teams to create, deploy and optimize effective campaigns for clients.
Principal Architect, Service Development Group
Commvault
Pune & Singapore
01.2013 - 03.2017
- Lead APAC region (major customers are StarHub, SingTel, Globe, Tech Mahindra, NetMagic, NTT) & EMEA region; provided customization of service and aligned service as per customer’s business growth path.
- Designed & implemented end-to-end solution for customer, in Integration with third-party products.
- Automated business process, provided solutions by conducting workshops or events within estimates
- Supported in-sync for new project implementation by providing inputs on product management.
- Designed and developed CommVault’s data management services (Backup as a Service, Archive as a Service, Desktop Laptop Backup (DLO) Service, Disaster Recovery Service, etc).
Solution Architect, Cloud & Data Center Practice
BMC Software
Pune
01.2004 - 01.2013
- Worked on various products like PATROL , Atrium Orchestrator (automation product) , Remedy , Bladelogic & Cloud LifeCycle Management (CLM) etc.
- Taking complete ownership right from concept stage till the implementation stage (cradle to grave) of SDLC in consultation with trusted advisor for customer.
- As a part of professional services conducted service delivery workshops, requirement analysis, scoping, solution design & delivery of project. (end-to-end responsibility)
- Providing feedback to support and product management team
- Provided support during customer implementations and applied industry best practices.
Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies
Pune
01.2000 - 01.2004
- Worked on VERITAS Cluster Server (i.e. VCS)
- As a software developer worked on Java GUI component.
- Worked on USER management module, accessibility & Java Help etc.
Education
Product Management Certification Program - Product Management
Duke Corporate Education
US 09.2019 - 04.2020
International Certificate in Product Management - Product Management And Marketing, Leadership
Institute Of Product Leadership
Bangalore, India 02.2016 - 11.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computers
Nagpur University
Nagpur 03.1994 - 03.1998
Skills
Prioritization
Quote
One’s own thought is one’s world. What a person thinks is what he becomes.
Maitri Upanishads
Timeline
Senior Technical Product Manager
Privacera
08.2021 - Current
Product Management Certification Program - Product Management
Duke Corporate Education
09.2019 - 04.2020
Sr. Product Manager
Veritas Technologies
03.2017 - 07.2021
International Certificate in Product Management - Product Management And Marketing, Leadership
Institute Of Product Leadership
02.2016 - 11.2016
Principal Architect, Service Development Group
Commvault
01.2013 - 03.2017
Solution Architect, Cloud & Data Center Practice
BMC Software
01.2004 - 01.2013
Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies
01.2000 - 01.2004
Bachelor of Engineering - Computers
Nagpur University
03.1994 - 03.1998
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