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Vishak ShankarVS

Vishak Shankar

Product Management

€810/day
London, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Vishak

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.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Bakken & Bæck
    Product Lead
    LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
    September 2021 - Today (4 years and 8 months)
    London, UK
    - 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
    Project Manager
    REAL ESTATE
    September 2021 - May 2022 (9 months)
    New York, United States
    - 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
    Product Owner
    DIGITAL AND IT
    September 2020 - October 2021 (1 year and 1 month)
    Berlin, Germany
    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

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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

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