United States

Service Design

Group Product Management

UX Research

Bhavna Devani

Team lead

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

AI/ML

User research

Adobe Creative Suite

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

At Apricity, we specialize in delivering fractional product leadership and strategic guidance for organizations navigating pivotal transitions—whether it’s entering new markets, aligning leadership teams, or fostering a culture of innovation. With a focus on executive coaching and trust-driven collaboration, we help leaders and teams overcome inertia, drive meaningful change, and achieve scalable success.

Recent Highlights:

Nooma Group:
- Delivered fractional product leadership to support a retail leader’s new market entry strategy, driving alignment across digital and omni-transformation initiatives.
- Partnered with a major pharma VP to unify department leaders under a single strategic vision, building a world-class marketing team.
- Guided the consultancy’s go-to-market strategy through webinars, content promotion, and client engagement efforts.

Agency Guacamole:
- Designed and facilitated leadership workshops to address growing pains and equip executives with tools for navigating complex client relationships, prioritization, and strategic goal alignment through OKRs.

Corral:
- Advising on the product roadmap and user research for a platform aimed at improving tribal consultation processes, helping leaders access policymakers and influence legislation effectively.

Growth marketing for new business building: Proving commercialization of an app in a 121bn industry through ~70% user growth, 83% CTR rates on messaging and defined the fundraising strategy

Product and new business building: spinning out a development team of 120+ into a product-centric SaaS organization from org to MVP definition, that looks to disrupt the 10 trillion dollar construction industry

Innovation and new business building: Developed an ecommerce new market entry for incumbent business with a targeted ~$20M in business impact the first year with a team of 20 on and off-shore dev and design within scoped timeline.

Innovation and organizational design: Enabled a US national security office’s product organization to shift organizational needs to a product-centric model. Reshaped processes to accelerate the delivery of solutions to teammates in the field. 

Organizational transformation: Impacted 14 departments and 1200+ clients leading to 6x decrease in time to complete a similarly scoped piece of work, 20-point increase in employee engagement, 30% reduction in outside spend due to new operating model

Full-stack Product Manager and part-time Product Strategist
Provide 1:1 strategic support for start-ups in the LA and SF areas
Created the User Research Sprint, a new service for Carbon Five
Co-Authored Carbon Five's first e-book, the User Research Guide
Launched two internal projects, Vrogger  (VR game built in 2 weeks) & Expensely (reimbursements slackbot)

Lead Software Product Manager for six software products including firmware, web, iOS and Android applications. 
Defined and executed Alpha, internal and external Beta and managed feedback
Defined the analytics and tracking strategy to meet disparate needs across marketing, customer service, firmware feedback, and product teams.
Created cross-functional process to prioritize support for the hardware builds of two products
Vendor vetting and management for our database development, website, Android application and beta programs. 
Managed external development team and relationship for the development of the Android application. 
Established development and reporting processes for 22 internal and 8 external engineers. 
Developed and executed research methodologies which resulted in two research hires and the expansion of our efforts in research.

Product Owner and Agile Coach for Fortune 100s 
Identified locations of optimization by the introduction of software for financial institutions
Ran a 16 week project focused on improving the SMB interaction for one of the world's largest financial institutions

Trained two product managers, one project manager, and one intern.
Launched 4 localized and targeted eBay mobile apps in multiple countries including United States, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, and Mexico.
Supported and maintained applications with over 500K downloads often in the top 20 in the iOS store during their life cycle
 Partnered with Sao Paulo, Rio, and Moscow Fashion Weeks
Partnered with Samsung during Galaxy Gear launch and the Tizen Russia launch.
Hosted “Opportunity Hack” - eBay’s first non-profit and social venture conference, with over 200 attendees.
Led and managed the development of the first Android verticals platform for eBay

- Lead Product Manager on Student Entrepreneur, eBay’s first teen experience and internal skunkworks competition runner-up.

    .Facilitated and maintain a relationship with Junior Achievement, a collaborative educational non-profit

    .Created an internal marketing plan including securing support from StubHub, Paypal, MILO, as well as informational products

-Integrated 3rd party energy usage data into eBay core catalog, leveraging it for Green.eBay, a social ventures property

-Product Manager for Celebrity.eBay which hosts non-profit celebrity auctions and is growing internationally

- Product manager, and UX lead for the development of Smart Tab a bill sharing app, Babel Tweet, a translation application for Twitter

- Created and launched 6 communities, and sustenance of 10 ongoing communities, including Effie-winning Real Women of Philadelphia for Kraft, Walk with Walgreens, and several celebrity sites such as Lauren Conrad, and Taye Diggs

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