Résumé · Product Manager
Vinitha Reddy Erusu
Product Manager · AI & User Experience
Product Manager experienced in building SaaS platforms and operational systems in startup environments. I translate complex workflows into scalable products through user research, cross-functional collaboration, and iterative development, partnering with engineering and operations teams to replace legacy systems and define AI-driven product roadmaps.
Experience
Product Manager · Live Eye Surveillance
- Led development of an in-house video-surveillance SaaS platform, partnering with the CEO, CTO, and Operations to replace legacy third-party software and support company growth.
- Defined core workflows and a modular UI through 20+ user interviews and competitive analysis, reducing incident-response time to 1 minute and improving monitoring efficiency by 40%.
- Transitioned development from outsourced vendors to in-house Agile delivery, cutting release cycles by 30%.
- Optimized IoT sensor setup and support workflows, cutting troubleshooting time by 30%.
- Owned the AI-driven loss-prevention roadmap, balancing short-term monitoring needs with a long-term proprietary-data strategy.
Product Manager · Relgo Networks Inc.
- Defined the product and customer experience for biometric attendance devices through scoping and UX-flow design, improving onboarding efficiency by 25% and daily active usage by 15%.
- Partnered with Marketing and Business teams on product USPs, customer-facing content, and go-to-market messaging, boosting demo-to-install conversion by 20%.
- Ran market research and competitive analysis to inform product strategy and refine the company’s product lineup with a customer-centric lens.
Product Analyst · Ideagen ConvergePoint
- Owned backlog management and delivery quality, translating business requirements and UI mockups into 20+ user stories and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps, and tracking 60+ front-end bugs to cut turnaround time by 30%.
- Informed product strategy with market research on AI-driven anomaly detection in compliance data, delivering competitive and regulatory insights that shaped roadmap priorities.
- Prototyped and iterated a compliance-analytics dashboard, cutting the support team’s data-gathering time by 40%.
Product Researcher, Apprenticeship · T-Mobile
- Drove product strategy for an AI video-based situational-awareness solution for first responders, distilling 40+ research inputs (literature reviews, interviews, contextual inquiries) into prioritized requirements and user-journey maps across privacy, technology, and interoperability.
- Partnered with UX, engineering, and product leadership to scope and ship two prototype iterations; set success criteria and ran usability tests with 11 participants, achieving unanimous validation of desirability.
Product Researcher, EmTech · National University of Singapore
- Ran a 60+ paper literature review, 20+ interviews, and 20+ surveys to propose a smart-glass solution for on-the-go text editing, contributing to a leading-conference publication (CHI ’22).
- Visualized and analyzed quantitative and qualitative data in Excel and Tableau to recommend product-design directions for future heads-up text-editing tech.
Education
M.S. Technology Innovation · University of Washington
Bachelor of Architecture · R.V. College of Engineering
Skills
- Product
- Product strategy, roadmapping, PRDs, feature prioritization, Agile
- Research & UX
- User interviews, usability testing, journey mapping, wireframing
- Analytics
- Excel, Tableau, KPI definition
- Tools
- Jira, Confluence, Figma, Notion, Miro, Azure DevOps
- Technical
- APIs, system-design basics, HTML / CSS / JavaScript