Kushal Lunawat
Edinburgh,UK
Summary
14+ years of experience in product services. Accomplished Product Manager with over 4+ years of expertise in product strategy, planning, and end-to-end management. Demonstrated success in Fintech, Employee Benefits, and Healthcare domains, delivering innovative solutions for internal clients and B2B/SaaS products. Adept in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, leading global teams and fostering new team formations. Proficient in Jira/Confluence, Miro, and AHA. Excels in leveraging exceptional communication, analytical prowess, and leadership skills to drive product excellence.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Product Owner
Solactive AG
Dresden, Germany
02.2021 - 10.2023
- Managed the transition towards a new data platform aligned with the company's objectives and tech strategy, aiming to streamline complex data transformation and delivery within a high-pressure fintech environment.
- Defined the product vision, maintaining a clear roadmap and outlining OKRs for user-centric solutions.
- Led the development of new data platform products like Corporate Actions, reducing manual effort for Financial VPs by 70% through innovative data transformation techniques, resulting in cost savings.
- Initiated and launched phase 1 of the data product 'Float,' collaborating with SMEs and GTMs, resulting in a 30% increase in efficiency for index lifecycle management and clear reporting to clients.
- Led cross-functional teams, incorporating continuous discovery techniques, and delivering incremental solutions together with technical architects, ensuring seamless migration to the Cloud at a minimal cost.
- Directly communicated with high-level executives, fostering strong relationships with C-suite members and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Played diverse responsibilities across roles such as Scrum Master, Team Lead, Delivery Manager, and UX Designer.
Senior Business Analyst/Proxy Product Owner
Mercer Marsh Benefits
Singapore
09.2018 - 12.2020
- Lead Business Analyst/Product Owner of New Reward Centre, the frontend for on of the leading global benefits platform, being part of core team from inception to BAU utilized by 1 million users.
- Backlog management, analyzing requirements, gap analysis, SWOT, designing and reporting for strategic decision making.
- Responsible for interacting with clients/ end- users, understanding and documenting the global requirements, discussing and working together with the product, UX, and Development team for each release, making sure new features for clients are catered.
- Mentoring team members and leading.
Technical Business Analyst
Darwin, Mercer Marsh Benefits
Singapore
09.2016 - 09.2018
- Responsible for designing and developing the completely new modernized front-end with responsive design to support all devices like smartphones, tablets, and desktops.
- The idea was to provide a responsive web page instead of a native app with the view that over the longer term hybrid applications may be released.
Senior Developer
Darwin, Mercer Marsh Benefits
Singapore
04.2014 - 05.2016
- Lead developer in the claims management and administration process for the internal application called Darwin, understanding the requirements and designing the front-end, coding and testing.
Technical Specialist
AEM Singapore PTE LTD
Singapore
06.2013 - 04.2014
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and testing complete auxiliary PC modules using .Net technologies like WCF, WPF, and Threading, etc for Gen3x is automation engineering system used to test the ICs of Intel.
Technical Specialist & Developer
Philips India PTE LTD
India
01.2008 - 06.2013
- Responsible for estimation, design, implementation, unit testing and review of the module along with user interface using WPF.
Education
Bachelors - Electronics and Telecommunication
Nagpur University
06.2003 - 08.2008
Skills
- Leadership Business Strategy Market Research Business Analysis Feature Prioritization Product Management Product Discovery Agile Leadership Application Programming Interfaces (API) Customer Journeys Product Road Mapping Requirements Analysis UX Design/Prototyping
- Agile Scrum Team Leadership Communication Cross-functional Team
- MS Office Jira Confluence AHA Miro
- SQL Net, Kubernetes CI-CD Python
- Cloud Technologies: Firestore BigQuery Retool
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- IIBA Certified for CCBA
Languages
English
Fluent
Hindi
Native
German
Elementary
Hobbies
Art and Crafts, Leisure walks
Timeline
Senior Product Owner
Solactive AG
02.2021 - 10.2023
Senior Business Analyst/Proxy Product Owner
Mercer Marsh Benefits
09.2018 - 12.2020
Technical Business Analyst
Darwin, Mercer Marsh Benefits
09.2016 - 09.2018
Senior Developer
Darwin, Mercer Marsh Benefits
04.2014 - 05.2016
Technical Specialist
AEM Singapore PTE LTD
06.2013 - 04.2014
Technical Specialist & Developer
Philips India PTE LTD
01.2008 - 06.2013
Bachelors - Electronics and Telecommunication
Nagpur University
06.2003 - 08.2008
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