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Auromita Bhadra

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Last update: 03.04.2023

Product Leader, Product Advisor

Graduation: MBA(Purdue University, USA), Masters in computer applications (Bangalore University, India)
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Limited professional) | English (Native or Bilingual)

Keywords

E-Commerce Adobe Coaching and Mentoring Investments Software as a Service Content Management Data Visualization Finance Leadership Product Management + 4 more keywords

Attachments

Auromita-Bhadra-cv-Apr2023_030423.pdf

Skills

Auromita has over 16 years of experience in the software industry that spans e-commerce, content management applications,  cybersecurity, production management, e-learning, financial solutions, and key strategic initiatives. She served as the VP of Product Management at Coremedia between 2021-2023.
Before CoreMedia Auromita served in various product leadership roles at Cobalt.io, Wayfair, PSI AG and Adobe, leading key initiatives for customer self-service, e-commerce operations, international expansion, and integrated e-Learning solutions respectively. Auromita started her career as a programmer at Fidelity Investments and Adobe.
Auromita has extensive experience in building SaaS applications, creating product vision and roadmaps, working with data, and mentoring and coaching product teams.

 

Project history

11/2021 - 02/2023
Vice President, Product Management
CoreMedia GmbH

- Responsible for the product vision and strategic product roadmap, specifically with a focus on expansion
into the e-commerce segment and the North American region, resulting in major wins like JC Penny,
Deckers Brands, John Deer, etc., and a 200% ARR increase for the North American business alone.
- Led the development of a new SaaS product that improved overall customer retention rates, and was
adopted by major customers like the LVMH group.
- Built an analytics platform to track user behavior, identify bottlenecks in the customer journey, and
optimize the user experience, resulting in an improvement in the SUS by 15% as well as the overall
NPS score.
- Worked on growth initiatives through integration with partners like Salesforce, commercetools,
Dynamic Yield, Kibo, Algolia, and AI services from wonki for content personalization.
- Laid the foundations of a centralized data lake to store all product, engineering, and business metrics to
enable the product teams to be data-informed and data-driven.
- Manage a team of 14 Product managers and Product Designers, and was indirectly responsible for the
work of the tech org of 6 SCRUM teams and 60+ engineers, to build out new MVPs as well as
enhancements to existing features of our flagship product.
- Launched a host of internal product processes for customer feedback, stakeholder insights, design
strategy, etc.
- Active involvement and influence in the M&A initiative as a part of the due diligence process to
proactively identify synergies in product and technology.

04/2020 - 10/2021
Head of Product, Employee Experience, and Self-Service Platform
Cobalt Labs

- Created a strategic product roadmap based on the long-term vision, customer feedback, and market
trends.
- Spearheaded the development of the Cobalt self-service platform that resulted in stark improvement of
LTV/CAC from 2.5 to 3.4.
- Led automation and ML initiatives to scale and optimize internal operations like payments, invoicing,
staffing of projects, etc. that helped Cobalt scale as a global pentesting platform.




- Laid the foundations for the product team through the introduction of OKRs, PRDs, agile processes, and
design processes as well as set up the Product Mentorship program to coach talent in product
management .
- Managed the product and design team in 2 workstreams (5 direct reports in product and indirectly
responsible for 15 engineers)
- Served as the data team's interim PM, working closely with the lead Data Scientist.

01/2017 - 03/2020
Lead Product Manager
Wayfair GmbH

- Created the product vision and roadmap for the product catalog tech teams, aimed at improving Wayfair's
operations and storefront experience.
- Built the centralized system that was the leading system for all storefront data at Wayfair. Defined,
designed, and launched this new system which removed erroneous data on the storefront resulting in an
impact of over $ 2 billion in revenue and improved customer rating.
- Built internal frontend and backend tooling and automation to reduce operational costs by 750k annually
in the first 3 months of joining Wayfair in 2017.
- Conducted post-launch analysis to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations for future
product development.
- Led and mentored a team of 5 product managers and coached them on product management principles
and methods.
- Collaborated with stakeholders in the operations team, suppliers, data science, and engineering teams to
ensure products were delivered on time, within budget, and met quality standards and use cases.

01/2012 - 12/2016
Senior Product Manager
PSI AG

- Defined the product portfolio and Go-To-Market strategies for PSI's software products.
- Identified requirements from users and created new business cases based on the market requirements and
defined the product strategy and roadmap.
- Defined, built, and launched new modules and products related to Industry 4.0 / Internet of Things.
- Advisory function and direct report to C-level.
- Presented in many international events and trade fairs organized by Deutsche Messe, VDMA, VDI, etc.

01/2011 - 05/2011
Management Consultant (External)
Sennheiser Nordic A/S

As a part of the Experiential Learning Initiative by Krannert School of Management, Purdue University,
USA worked on an external project with Sennheiser to position their products in different geographical markets.

11/2008 - 07/2010
Product Manager
Adobe Systems Inc.

- Requirements analysis and defining detailed functional specifications for the E-learning product, Adobe
Captivate.
- Worked through the transition of the acquired product RoboHelp post Adobe's acquisition of
Macromedia into the Adobe Product portfolio, subsequently resulting in the sunsetting of RoboHelp.
- Managed B2B initiate through innovation projects with SAP, Sterling Commerce - AT&T, etc conducting
user research and workflow analysis to understand customer pain points and how to address them.
- Defined product roadmap and worked through planning, design, and execution of new product features
together with the product design and development teams.
- Incorporation of Adobe Captivate into the Adobe ecosystem like Creative Suite ( integration workflows
with other Adobe tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe Connect, etc) and launching a new
integrated Captivate Elearning Suite.

09/2006 - 11/2008
Senior Software Quality Engineer
Adobe Systems Inc.

- As the lead for the project, designed and developed the Automation testing framework for Adobe's print
and publishing tools.
- Automated testing of integrations of Adobe Captivate with other Adobe tools.
- Ensured product quality standards across all phases and sprints of the software development life cycle.

05/2005 - 08/2006
Software Engineer, IT Consultant
Fidelity Investments

- Design and implementation of new software modules for Fidelity Retirement Solutions
- Worked in a client-facing role integrating Fidelity's modules into Bank of America`s software
topography.

Local Availability

Only available for remote work

Other

Experience in
- Building products from scratch,
- Product-led growth
- Machine learning and data-driven optimizations.
- KPIs 
- OKRs
- Recruitment of PMs and Product Designers
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