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Vishak Shankar

Product Management

Works remotely from London

  • 51.509648
  • -0.099076
  • Suggested rate €791 / day
  • Experience 7+ years
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Location and workplace preferences

Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Preferences

Project length
  • ≤ 1 month
  • Between 1-3 months
  • Between 3-6 months
  • ≥ 6 months
Company size
  • 2-10 people
  • 11 - 49 people
  • 50 - 249 people
  • 250 - 999 people
  • 1000 - 4999 people
+1 other

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Categories

Skills (21)

Vishak in a few words

Vishak is a program manager, product owner, and technology consultant who navigates enterprise landscapes and manages complex stakeholder environments. He has worked for client service consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company and PwC and digital agencies, including AKQA, Huge Inc., and Bakken & Bæck, to build B2B and B2C applications. Vishak leads front- and back-end development teams, product designers, product managers, and data engineers in creating solutions for enterprise clients and startups.

Experience

Bakken & Bæck

Logistics & Supply Chain

Product Lead

London, UK

September 2021 - Today (1 year and 2 months)

- Led the redesign of services, operations, and technology of a software application paired with the hardware to improve warehouse supply chain automation.
- Conducted user research with customers by creating prototypes and hypotheses with product designers and development teams.
- Managed a team of product designers to create best in class UX and UI for an industry (warehouse automation) that requires user research, prototyping, and testing.
- Conducted user research with customers by creating prototypes and hypotheses with product designers and development teams.
Product development Product design Service design API Front-End development Back-End development Copywriting

Brookfield Properties

Real Estate

Project Manager  - As a freelancer

New York, NY, USA

September 2021 - May 2022 (8 months)

- Joined the engagement as a project manager and ended up working on user experience solutions, project management, content authoring, content strategy, and stakeholder management.
- Created the Figma boards for managing designs and client stakeholders to create a templated approach in structuring pages in Adobe Experience Manager.
Designed and authored over 100 corporate property pages, including landing, city-specific, and corporate information pages.
- Automated and managed the process for quality assurance and content gathering from stakeholders across the environment.
- Edited and optimized thousands of photos for websites using Figma frames and various online tools.
- Built a backlog of improvements to APIs, integrations, and components for front- and back-end teams to prioritize in sprint development.
Acted as the representative for my main client across the Brookfield Properties enterprise while creating marketing pages in Adobe Experience Manager.
Adobe Experience Manager Stakeholder Management Product design Product management Project Management Copywriting Content marketing

McKinsey & Company - McKinsey & Company

Digital & IT

Product Owner

Berlin, Germany

September 2020 - October 2021 (1 year and 1 month)

Product Owner at the Innovation Lab in Berlin

- Lead and manage the execution of digital product development and transformation initiatives
- Translate abstract visions into reality by creating product vision(s), strategic designs, and service blueprints through partnering with Service Design, Data Scientists, Operations SMEs, and Senior Stakeholders within the organization
- Conduct problem solving sessions through customized frameworks and methods with senior stakeholders and SMEs
- Oversee the rollout of a real time proof of concept, in order to test hypotheses and analyze KPIs
Innovation Product management Product development stakeholder management Product design

AKQA

Automobile

Senior Product Development Project Manager

Berlin, Germany

September 2019 - September 2020 (1 year)

- Partner with strategy and technology clients to manage roadmaps, product development, and design of a B2C tool. Deliverables produced include roadmap, capabilities/features blueprints, MVP launch, front/back end development, and coordination of inter-disciplinary teams.
- Managed the budgets and finances between AKQA and client lead/finance team.
- Lead technical decision making of a go-forward development approach, scoping included: integration touchpoint examination, backend re-architecture, and front-end/back-end syncs.
- Lead the scope and resource planning for multiple projects within the overall program.
- Ensured the deliverables from UX, Design, Strategy, and Technology met high-quality standards. Clients: BMW Group, Netflix
Agile method Product management Service design Corporate strategy

Huge

Digital & IT

Product Development Project Manager

Washington Metropolitan Area, USA

March 2018 - September 2019 (1 year and 6 months)

- Manage a global product development, consisting of AGILE methodology while collaborating with a Colombia based software development team and US based creative design team for a major European pharmaceutical company.
- Guide back-end team through troubleshooting sprint functionality blockers and designing architectural systems for scalability.
- Utilize Adobe Experience Manager to structure/author international web pages, oversee content strategist authoring, website roll outs, and asset creation.
- Coordinate creation of deliverables, including: application design, content/ copy, and user experiences with globally distributed client groups including legal, marketing/brand, design, business technology, and information technology groups.
- Communicated product and program requirements through Jira, Confluence, and client specific methods. Clients: Merck Group KGaA, United Nations
Adobe Experience Manager Project Management Product design Agile method

PWC - PwC Organisation

Digital & IT

Consultant

Greater Los Angeles, CA, USA

February 2016 - March 2018 (2 years and 1 month)

- Acting product manager / product owner across B2C and B2B development engagement.
- Perform Technology Due Diligences across various industries for private equity and M&A clients.
- Collaborate with PwC Experience Center (UI/UX) to design user experiences in relation to customer journeys, screen flows, and user processes.
- Conduct client interviews, design future-state flows, perform gap analyses, and identify reporting methods to improve effectiveness of client technology.
- Develop epics, user stories, technical requirements, and manage an AGILE development project with offshore teams for multiple implementations, including: Salesforce.com and custom built-Java instances.
- Research and synthesize industry trends for telecommunications, entertainment, and retail clients. Clients: NBCUniversal, AT&T, Comcast, Google, LogMeIn, Ansira, Vubiquity
Product management Agile method due diligence Scrum Requirements specification Business analysis

Education

  • Master of Information System Management

    University of Arizona

    2015

    Master's Degree, Management Information Systems

  • BSBA, Management Information Systems and Accounting

    University of Arizona

    2014

    BSBA, Management Information Systems and Accounting