Sachi Mahajan
Naperville
Summary
Technical Product Manager with extensive experience in managing large-scale projects and driving data-driven product development. Achieved significant revenue growth and increased market share through innovative strategies and competitive analysis. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products while improving profitability and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Recognized for strong leadership and effective communication, dedicated to enhancing product excellence and business growth.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Owner
Zebra Technologies
Lincolnshire
12.2024 - Current
- Leading product vision and strategy for Print Solutions' firmware.
- Responsible for driving the roadmap focused on security, compliance, performance, and integrating AI solutions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define product requirements and features.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define product requirements and features, prioritize the product backlog by assessing user needs and market trends, and deliver secure, high-quality firmware releases.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies to enhance team collaboration and program delivery.
- Mentor junior product owners on best practices in product management processes.
- Champion customer-centric and data-driven decision-making, aligning technical execution with company objectives, business goals, regulatory standards, and customer expectations.
- Communicate regularly with senior leadership regarding progress against key performance indicators.
- Partner with UX and UI teams to design intuitive interfaces that increase customer satisfaction ratings.
Senior Technical Product Manager
TransUnion
Chicago
09.2023 - 05.2024
- Subject-Matter Expert for OneTru solution enablement platform that connects separate data and analytic assets and responsible for aligning stakeholders in the Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations teams.
- Led the implementation of a comprehensive data migration strategy that streamlined operations, saving $7 million annually, and positioned the company for future growth in the cloud-based AI/ML space.
- Offered technical guidance and oversight to the engineering and design teams, ensuring the implementation aligns with the overall strategy and cost thereby reducing the go-to-market time by 6 weeks.
- Developed product roadmaps demonstrating a deep understanding of the operations, governance, and compliance to make informed decisions, identifying opportunities for improvements and increased efficiency.
- Owned end-to-end feature delivery for roadmap items, enhancements, and bug fixes, including gathering functional requirements, documentation, and user story creation by using tools like Confluence, Rally and JIRA.
- Managed the deliverables, including creating Epics and User Stories, setting milestones, calling out dependencies, and mitigating risks, while communicating with teams and driving results.
- Built the product management team, and recruited 3 junior product managers by conducting interviews with 30 candidates.
Senior Product Owner
TransUnion
Chicago
07.2019 - 09.2023
- Served a subject-Matter Expert for TruIQ Solutions, set of analytical tools that allow access to depersonalized consumer credit data from a web-based platform, appended with models and attributes thereby gathering faster insights.
- Launched Analytics Studio, a self-service platform for model development and deployment, enabling customers to gain insights and unlock growth opportunities 13% faster.
- Orchestrated engineering teams to move our on-prem analytics solutions to a cloud-integrated platform, resulting in a 3-month reduction in delivery time.
- Adviser to the Pre-Engagement and Sales team to drive decisions based on market research on how customers can use these analytical solutions efficiently for their growth and portfolio profitability increasing market penetration by 15% within the first year.
- Improved product quality by reducing software defects by 6% and increased development efficiency minimizing manual testing by 30% by prioritizing automated regression testing.
- Articulated MVP concepts, user personas, and pain points to key stakeholders based on customer feedback to make informed decisions and enhance user experience while maintaining DevOps CI/CD.
- Partnered with Solutions and Engineering teams to prioritize security, software updates, and code quality.
Senior Data Science Analyst
TransUnion
Chicago
08.2015 - 07.2019
- Developed and formalized next-generation search and match algorithms used in different Credit Bureaus globally.
- Supervised a team of 3 employees both in-person and remote to deliver custom data quality dashboards to ensure adequacy, accuracy, and legitimacy of data.
- Led teams to migrate data per newer standards for individual countries like India, Mexico, and Columbia.
- Led the launch of a new branch of the Commercial Bureau in India offering predictive insight into commercial borrowers to assess their financial responsibility.
- Tracked, extrapolated, and interpreted customer data to report customer behaviors and revenue numbers to higher management to bring in the user perspective to 2 successfully launched projects.
- Handled volumes and variations of data by building data pipelines, analyzing, investigating, and interpreting trends using Tableau Dashboards, and providing KPIs for insights on parameters required for Credit Reporting.
Senior Software Engineer
Enghouse Interactive
Oak Brook
02.2012 - 08.2015
- Demonstrated business needs for the IVR market and the Mobile IVR Systems by creating prototypes.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams by designing and deploying policies and guidelines ensuring optimal results.
- Led team of junior developers to mine data and report results that increased customer engagement.
- Provided leadership and managed resources cross-organizationally and worked with senior leaders and stakeholders to maximize department outcomes and the return on resource investments.
- Created processes, and messages to store and reference data from complex datasets.
Education
Master of Computer Science -
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL12.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Jaypee University of Information and Technology
India05.2009
Skills
- Data analysis
- Data visualization
- SQL/Databases
- Big Data, Python, R
- Cloud somputing
- AI/ML
- Data warehousing
- Data migration
- Data integration
- Analytical skills
- Financial analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Data-driven decision making
- Product vision
- Product roadmap
- Product strategy
- Business development
- Agile and SAFe methodologies
- Backlog management
- Feature prioritization
- Critical thinking
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Problem solving
- Communicative
- Collaborative
Accomplishments
Led the EU RED compliance initiative through Advanced Security Mode (ASM), enforcing secure defaults, disabling insecure protocols, and blocking unauthorized firmware downloads, thereby saving company 46M in revenue loss.
Certification
- SAFe for Product Owners/Managers, 10/01/19, Scaled Agile Inc.
- SAFe DevOps Practitioner - SDP, 10/01/19, Scaled Agile Inc.
Passions
- Technology Innovation - Passionate about leveraging technology to transform the technology to drive efficiency and accessibility.
- Agile Product Development - Dedicated to continuous improvement and efficiency in product development through agile methodologies.
Timeline
Senior Product Owner
Zebra Technologies
12.2024 - Current
Senior Technical Product Manager
TransUnion
09.2023 - 05.2024
Senior Product Owner
TransUnion
07.2019 - 09.2023
Senior Data Science Analyst
TransUnion
08.2015 - 07.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Enghouse Interactive
02.2012 - 08.2015
Master of Computer Science -
Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Jaypee University of Information and Technology