United States

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Platform Product Management

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Bachelor of Engineering

Prashant Rana

Sr. Product Manager

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

User research

Product roadmap

Figma

Jira

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

Fostering a good team culture

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Responsible for the framework that enabled large-scale import, export, administration, and automation of data flows used within Oracle’s B2B Customer Experience (CX) platform.

Building out a platform to truly democratize enterprise data

• Building the Datafi data discovery, catalog and access platform from concept to MVP 
• Created product requirement document, short-term roadmap and User Interface Design for the MVP using customer interviews, SME insights, and market research

- Ideated, defined specifications, supervised the development, and release of a new process framework deployed to streamline the processing of product service requests from 5000+ users.
- Improved service request response through 2 major changes in the service request portal. 
- Promoted the enhancements through the firm, obtaining seamless user acceptance, and established customer interaction protocols for product support.
- Revamped the associated product documentation promoting user self-service in troubleshooting issues.
            

    
    

    
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- Analyzed the existing web marketing strategy and provided recommendations on the website and a newly built chatbot. 
- Modeled a competitive analysis scorecard to benchmark the effectiveness of the strategy execution against 3 key competitors.

- Managed two flagship proprietary software platforms as a Product Owner, Javelin™ Application Catalyst Platform in use by over 29 clients with over 85 implementations in 20 countries and the all-new AWS based REVO™ Analytics Workbench in collaboration with cross-functional teams (product engineering, marketing, sales, legal and finance) while interfacing with customers
- Created and owned the Product Backlog and Roadmap, building implementation strategies along with engineering teams and proposing future investment strategy  to leadership along with ROI analysis
- Interacted with Senior Consultants, Managers, and Partners across the organization for new product feature development, product innovation, and feature signoff
- Provided functional signoff to all new implementations by the Product Development team
            

    
    

    
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- Presales and delivery of a flagship TCS Product (TAP Procure to Pay) focusing on global procurement and accounts payable processing (P2P) to multiple large US-based customers in SaaS and BPaaS model. Product competes with like products by SAP, Oracle Corp, NetSuite and Microsoft
- Guided Due Diligence activities on-site, before and/or after award of a contract to investigate customers’ “as-is” existing business to target process changes; proposed solution roadmaps as “to-be” scenarios and transition to delivery teams for efficient and quick deployment of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies
- Worked with Client partners and senior sales teams in the US, UK, EU, LATAM and APAC regions on multiple RFx responses, and conducting product demos and delivered Proof of Concept on proposed solutions for successful closures of opportunities.
- Lead on the successful before time delivery with a freshly minted team to of a customized product version to a high-profile US-based client. 
            

    
    

    
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- Designed, implemented, customized and deployed an opensource CMS platform for usage over the internet
- Platform helped reduce the cost spent on providing Product Support significantly by providing product information online and hence make users self-reliant and improved technical writer efficiency
- Developed and conducted web and classroom-based training programs to train Technical Writers and Product Leads in the usage of the developed platform
- Worked along with multiple products of the Telecom CRM, Inventory Management, Multi-Brand Customer Loyalty Management, and Retail e-commerce to integrate the CMS platform as an Online Help for Users
            

    
    

    
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- Performed database optimization and maintenance of multiple data warehouses containing real-time online analytics data. 
- Created custom PLSQL scripts and UNIX shell jobs for generating content on back-end used for data-analytics results presented on the front end and for scheduling to run automatically for non-production environment; Resulted in quicker processing of very large data sets

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