I help early-stage tech startups design, refine, and launch new products

I'm Navaneetha Krishnan, a Product Lead. I've worked for pre-seed to series-A startups, having led the ideation, creation & launch of 15 products for Virtual Collaborations, Communications, Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence domain on web platforms and mobile apps.

About

Who am I?

Data Analyst -> Design Lead ->AI Product Lead -> Product Manager

I'm a Product Lead, I lead the product's Engineering, Marketing, ML/DL, and UI/UX teams at Teknuance Info Solutions. I'm responsible for the overall Product Strategy and driving strategic vision & leading the achievement of Data science & AI-powered Analytics platforms. I possess deep expertise in Embedded Analytics, Automated Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Self-service Analytics. I have hands-on experience in design thinking, user research, user observations, market analysis. I'm responsible for the product release schedules and communication. I design high-fidelity and low-fidelity mockups, and product wireframes. I'm responsible for defining and tracking product success metrics - including usage cohorts and setting up early-stage marketing, sales, and support teams.

My daily work routine involves several areas like, innovating new ideas for building desirable products and designs and on improvising the products; driving global product requirements definition, product planning and product design (including writing PRDs) of new features and enhancements; understanding the competitive markets, customers and other products to determine the right set of features to drive engagement and usage; working cross-functionally with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to bring features to life and conduct daily/weekly sync-ups; executing product demos and  roadshows to customers and investors.

I began my career as a Data Analyst where I worked in researching on various cross platform tools to innovate and build an AI based in-house BI tool. Later, I became a Design Lead and provided design solutions for various BI/AI, Collaboration and Productivity products. Now, I'm leading the Product teams at Teknuance Info Solutions for the past 2.8 years as a Product lead.

Area of Expertise

Business Intelligence

For the past 3+ years, I've been working in researching on the working architecture of several BI tools including Domo, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, Klipfolio, Thoughtspot, etc. for developing our own BI tool - SpellBi, which can generate visual reports and dashboards, and can generate thoughtful insights on its own. – ETL, Data Quality, Visualization, Documentation and Support.

AI Chatbot

I've worked in building an AI-Assisstant for Data Analytics ,designed to process BI queries. I have a good experience in building and architecturing a Chatbot for large-scale purpose. I've worked in developing and fine-tuning machine learning algorithms to improve chatbot engine accuracy and speed.

AI Researcher

I've worked in researching and developing a machine learning system that helps train and deploy models. I'm familiar with ML/DL algorithms for the problems, like Regression, Classification, Clustering, Dimensionality reduction, Neural networks, Structured output, Anomaly detection, etc.

Market Reserch

I posses a deep expertise in market research for  Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence. I've been following the last 4 years of Gartner’s AI/BI magic quadrants to watch for the evolving trends in the market.

Go-to-Market Strategies

I've worked in planning the go-to-market strategies for more than 4 suite of products, which includes devising and clearing the product pre-launch, launch, and post-launch checklists, tracking the KPIs and working on launch campaign

Brand Building

Worked on creating and executing branding strategies and brand marketing plans that are creative, engaging, testable, and highly analytical for more than 4 suite of products, and worked in designing, conducting and analysing consumer research and brand health tracking.

Product Design

I've been leading a Product design team for the past 3+ years. I've worked on creating innovative Product designs for more than 13 products including  the designing of logos, Website designing, product UI/UX, and designing for branding and promoting the products.

Product & Team Building

I've led and worked in the building of 15 products through various stages till launch. I've built a team of 60+ members including the recruitment, onboarding and training of the team members; leading and guiding the team in the successful build and launch of the products.

Tools

BI Tools: Domo, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, SiSense, Looker, Thoughtspot, Tellius, Microstrategy, Cognos, Klipfolio, Answerdock

AI Platform: Databricks, DataRobot, H2O.ai, Dataiku, Alteryx, MonkeyLearn, IBM Dataplatform, Peltarion, Knime, Orange, Labelbox

ETL: Trifacta, Data Prep, Parabola

Data Warehouse: Snowflake, Big Query

Collaboration: Sabhae Work, Keynote/PPT, Pitch, G Suite, Confluence, Slack, Coda, Notion, Miro, Dropbox Paper

Project Management Tools: Monday.com, Jira, Trello, Proofhub, Clickup, Asana, ProductPlan, ProductBoard, Backlog

Design: Invision, XD, Figma

No-code Platform: WebFlow, Framer, FlutterFlow

Sales & Marketing tools: HubSpot, Google Analytics, Mixpanel,publer

Languages: Python, R, Dart, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL & Hive

Mobile Development: Flutter, React Native

Machine Learning: TensorFlow, Scikit Learn, PyTorch, Keras

Chatbot: Rasa, DialogFlow