Singapore

AI Product Management

B Tech

Krishna Kumar K

Product Director

Problem-solving

Python

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Creating a product vision

Leading a team of product managers at different levels and guiding cross functional teams to drive innovation in public sector


Managing a portfolio of products at various stages across verticals

○ Initiatives to support upward mobility of Singaporeans
■ ResumeBoost: A tool to improve resumes and increase the chances of getting a shortlist (https://resumeboost.pic.gov.sg/)
■ AI career coach: An experimental chat bot to encourage university students to pursue career coaching (https://careerkaki.pic.gov.sg/)

○ Initiatives to support healthcare infrastructure
■ Nursing registration system: Aims to reduce the time it takes to hire foreign trained nurses to solve
the nursing shortage in Singapore. (https://nrs.moh.gov.sg/login)

○ Mission critical products to manage transactions and improve policy agility in customs, construction, land registrations, car park management etc

Contributed to the organisational transformation of Govtech by personally driving or co-creating the following:
○  Creation of a performance management process for product managers along with other roles
○  Evangelisation of PM best practices like moving to a product operating model from a project model

Phase 1: Product head of Indeed Education
- Led two talented PM leads & a cross-functional team of ~30  to build and scale our vision of “helping people get better jobs through education”
- We built an education marketplace (largest coverage of certifications & licenses for US) and grew it to 1M monthly visitors
- Crafted a vision to help career-switchers end to end via 1:1 coaching sessions, community guidance, education and job opportunities. Started experiments to validate our hypotheses

Phase 2: Product head of Growth teams focusing on demand-driven paid acquisition, landing page optimization &  reactivation 
- Led rapid explorations of different opportunities to craft experimentation roadmaps for growth
- Guided and supported the PM leads to form teams, build relationships, craft product strategy and get buy-ins from leadership and stakeholders

SPH is Singapore's leading media organization that owns many newspaper titles. 
My team & I were responsible for:
- Building a gamification based Loyalty and Rewards platform to drive users down the engagement funnel for The Straits Times & Lianhe Zaobao
- Driving product strategy, growth and monetization of vernacular publications Tamil Murasu & Berita Harian
- Launching the first version of Maanavar Murasu - an e-learning tool for primary students to learn Tamil
- Co-creating the product/content strategy & driving monetization/user engagement experiments for the business publication - The Business Times

At Bing Search Ads team, I was responsible for Product Ads. 
- Grew revenue by running multiple algorithm experiments & launching ads on multiple surfaces
- Drove user outcomes by launching experiences like 'shopping tab', 'ratings & reviews' and improving matching quality
- Drove advertiser outcomes like improving click volume & ROAS

Responsible for Social Channel of FreshDesk.

Led a team of product managers responsible for 
- Property Discovery Experience across various touch points like Search, Property Recommendations & Property Alert Mailers.  
- Customer service workflows
- Assisted buying service

Responsible for Firstnaukri.com - the campus hiring vertical of Naukri.com. 
The broad objective was to discover, launch and scale solutions that 
- improve efficiency of recruiters in campus hiring 
- improve employability and visibility of students from partner campuses 
and 
- match jobseekers with relevant jobs in the open job site

Developed a multi-channel digital video recorder.

•  Developed device drivers, file system(s), Power Management modules, multimedia systems, GUI and Application Software for Portable Media Players and Recorders. 
•  Devised Algorithms to Optimize JPEG and Mpeg4 Encoders/Decoders for ARM Core.

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