Manish Bujranpally

Director – Product Management

Hyderabad, India

Profile summary

Strategic Director of Product Management with 18 years shaping enterprise product strategy, AI integration, and cross-functional leadership outcomes. Known for steering large product organizations and aligning technical roadmaps with business priorities. Committed to driving customer experience transformation and operational efficiency through data-driven decisions and intelligent automation.

Career highlights

Product Organization Leadership: Directed product strategy across multiple portfolios while steering a 20-member product organization and shaping enterprise objectives.

Customer Experience Transformation: Engineered a customer experience turnaround by improving the Net Promoter Score by 30 points across 140 plus enterprise B2B customers.

Navigation Platform Strategy: Guided product vision and execution for the Core Navigation suite, directing a cross-functional organization of 45 members to deliver mapping solutions.

Financial Infrastructure Automation: Architected automated scripts for monthly financial reconciliation, saving 100,000 dollars annually and reducing manual operational overhead.

Key skills

TechnicalAWS Java PostgreSQL MongoDB
ProfessionalProduct Leadership Matrix Organization Leadership Product Strategy & Roadmaps Hiring and Mentoring Stakeholder Management (C-Suite) Budget Management Product Lifecycle Management Market & Competitive analysis Customer Journey Mapping Data-driven decision making Agile/Scrum User Experience (UX) Design Minimum Viable Product (MVP) A/B Testing Wireframes Agentic AI Generative AI (GenAI) Large Language Models (LLMs) Intelligent Automation AI-powered Workflows Technology and Tools Aha JIRA Confluence Figma Miro Amplitude Pendo PowerBI Tableau Azure Microservices COBOL C++ DB2 Kafka MQ Domain Expertise Banking and Financial Services Consumer Lending Accounts Payables/Receivables Retail & CPG Location Technology Dealer Management Systems (DMS)

Professional experience

Senior Group Product Manager (Director-Level)Sep 2024 - Present
CDK GlobalHyderabad, India

Defines product strategy across Dealership Accounting, Inventory Management, Payments, Identity and Access Management, and Data Platform portfolios. Steers a 20-member product organization, shaping enterprise objectives and aligning product execution with business priorities.

  • Drove an 80% increase in adoption for accounting products by embedding Agentic AI into core workflows.
  • Rolled out reimagined accounting workflows to 8,000+ dealerships.
  • Onboarded 1+ million users onto Multi-Factor Authentication to meet enterprise compliance standards.
  • Architected a Single View of Customer system with 500M+ unique IDs, enabling personalized relationship management for dealers.
  • Established a Product Management Center of Excellence, defining standard operating procedures and creating frameworks for AI augmented product management.
Director Product ManagementNov 2022 - May 2024
HighRadiusHyderabad, India

Shaped the product strategy and roadmap for a cloud-native B2B SaaS Deductions Management System, steering an organization of 12 Product Managers and 70 cross-functional members across Engineering, UX, and Data Science. Partnered with C-Suite executives during Weekly Business Reviews to align product roadmaps with corporate strategy, ensuring accountability and accelerating the delivery of key strategic initiatives.

  • Engineered a customer experience turnaround, improving Net Promoter Score by 30 points from -20 to +10 across 140 enterprise B2B customers.
  • Accelerated Client Time-to-Value by reducing the implementation lifecycle from 11 to 8 months by 27%, improving onboarding efficiency and revenue recognition.
  • Scaled automation capabilities for Top 30 enterprise accounts, driving a 55% improvement in automation rates from 44% to 68% and maximizing platform ROI.
Senior Product ManagerMar 2022 - Jul 2022
SorocoHyderabad, India

Shaped the Workgraph platform strategy at Soroco, guiding product direction to help B2B customers locate operational bottlenecks and uncover opportunities.

  • Built product workflows that allowed enterprise clients to examine execution patterns.
Senior Product ManagerSep 2020 - Mar 2022
TomTomHyderabad, India

Steered the Core Navigation suite covering routing, trucking, and restrictions, managing a cross-functional organization of 45 members including 4 product managers and 40 engineering and QA personnel to deliver enterprise mapping solutions.

  • Automated complex data ingestion pipelines for an AI-powered Real-Time Map Update platform, reducing manual processing efforts by 35%.
  • Accelerated data velocity and map freshness by 20% across the top global markets for navigation accuracy.
  • Aligned platform capabilities for enterprise and consumer markets by building the multi-year strategic roadmap for the Navigation Kit SDK.
AVP Product ManagementJan 2015 - Apr 2019
JP Morgan ChaseHyderabad, India
  • Modernized the Credit Bureau data infrastructure to support high-velocity daily reporting for automotive loans, ensuring data integrity and adherence to credit reporting standards.
  • Architected the Liquidity Risk Infrastructure framework for the Auto Loans division, establishing governance protocols to ensure regulatory compliance and mitigate enterprise risk.
Engineering ManagerOct 2010 - Dec 2014
JP Morgan ChaseHyderabad, India
  • Delivered 100,000 in annual cost savings by architecting automated scripts for monthly financial reconciliation, reducing manual operational overhead and error rates.
  • Engineered a solution for rapid Mainframe test region replication that accelerated environment provisioning by 20 and eliminated critical testing bottlenecks.
Senior Software EngineerDec 2009 - Apr 2010
HSBCHyderabad, India
Programmer AnalystJul 2004 - May 2009
InfosysHyderabad, India/USA
Senior Product ManagerMar 2022 - Jul 2022
• Directed the Workgraph platform strategySoroco | Hyderabad, India
AVP Product ManagementJan 2015 - Apr 2019
Portfolio: Auto Loan ApplicationJP Morgan Chase | Hyderabad, India
  • Modernized the credit bureau data infrastructure to support daily reporting for automotive loans.
  • Architected the liquidity risk infrastructure framework and established governance protocols.
Engineering ManagerOct 2010 - Dec 2014
Portfolio: Auto Loan ApplicationJP Morgan Chase | Hyderabad, India
  • Architected automated scripts for monthly financial reconciliation, saving 100,000 dollars annually.
  • Engineered a solution for rapid Mainframe test region replication that accelerated environment provisioning by 20x and eliminated critical testing bottlenecks.

Education

Master of Business AdministrationApr 2019 - Mar 2020
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Bachelor of EngineeringJun 2000 - May 2004
Osmania University Hyderabad
Master of Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management CalcuttaApr 2019 - Mar 2020
Bachelor of Engineering, Osmania University Hyderabad

Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)PSPO
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS CCP)
Project Management Professional (PMP)