Lahari Sk

Product Manager with 8+ years of experience building and scaling B2B Enterprise Platforms across Financial Services, Automotive Leasing, and AI-enabled workflow products. Proven experience owning the entire Product Lifecycle from Product Discovery, 0-1 Product Development, and MVP definition through roadmap ownership, launch, Product Adoption, and continuous optimization. Experienced in Product Vision, Product Strategy, Product Analytics, User Personas, Journey Mapping, Customer Feedback, AI Products, Enterprise SaaS, Platform Modernization, and Cross-functional Leadership.

Director - Product Manager at Morgan Stanley (2026-05 – Present)

• Own product vision, multi-year roadmap, and strategic investment allocation for 4 Wealth Management advisory applications, aligning product investments with business objectives and technology strategy.
• Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle of advisory applications, from business need identification and requirements definition through development, QA, release, and continuous enhancement.
• Partner closely with Wealth Management business stakeholders, advisory users, Engineering, QA, and Technology teams to translate business needs into scalable product solutions.
• Lead product planning and prioritization, managing competing requirements while balancing business value, technical feasibility, application dependencies, risk, and delivery capacity.
• Define and maintain the product backlog and roadmap, prioritizing enhancements and strategic initiatives across multiple Wealth Management advisory applications.
• Lead cross-functional Development and QA teams, providing product direction, clarifying requirements, managing dependencies, and driving initiatives through successful delivery.
• Evaluate technology and product approaches to strategize optimal solutions for advisory applications, considering scalability, resiliency, usability, maintainability, and long-term business needs.
• Translate complex Wealth Management and advisory business requirements into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery objectives.
• Work directly with advisory application users to identify pain points, gather feedback, understand evolving business needs, and drive improvements to application functionality and user experience.
• Track delivery across multiple initiatives, proactively identify risks and dependencies, and work with Engineering and QA teams to resolve blockers and maintain delivery timelines.
• Drive future-state product strategy and application modernization, identifying opportunities to enhance existing capabilities, introduce new functionality, streamline workflows, and improve advisory experience.
• Collaborate with senior Wealth Management stakeholders to communicate roadmap, priorities, investment decisions, delivery progress, risks, and strategic trade-offs while ensuring compliance with enterprise technology, risk, security, and operational standards.

Product Manager | Enterprise Platforms at Societe Generale (2022-03 – 2026-05)

• Owned Product Vision, Product Strategy, and end-to-end Product Lifecycle for multiple Enterprise Platforms supporting Banking and Automotive Leasing.
• Led 0-1 Product Development by identifying customer problems, defining MVPs, and launching scalable platform capabilities.
• Conducted Product Discovery using stakeholder workshops, Customer Feedback, User Personas, and Journey Mapping.
• Defined multi-quarter roadmaps aligned to business goals and Platform Modernization.
• Prioritized roadmap using Prioritization Frameworks balancing customer value, engineering effort, and business impact.
• Managed enterprise workflow, approval, validation, and notification platform capabilities.
• Partnered with UX to deliver User-Centric Design and simplified enterprise workflows.
• Collaborated with Engineering, Architecture, and AI teams to build AI Products integrating LLMs, workflow automation, and decision support.
• Defined Product Metrics and Product Analytics to optimize adoption, turnaround time, and customer engagement.
• Led Cross-functional Leadership across Product, Engineering, QA, Design, and Business teams.
• Increased Product Adoption to 80%+ through experimentation, iterative releases, and continuous feedback.
• Drove Platform Modernization improving operational efficiency by 30%+ and enabling Product Innovation.

Product Manager | Enterprise Products at Goldman Sachs (2020-03 – 2022-03)

• Defined Product Vision and Product Strategy for Enterprise Platform capabilities.
• Led Product Discovery through workflow analysis, Customer Feedback, User Personas, and Journey Mapping.
• Defined MVP scope and managed Product Lifecycle for multiple feature releases.
• Prioritized Product Roadmaps using customer impact, business value, and engineering complexity.
• Collaborated with Engineering and UX to build scalable Platform Products.
• Applied User-Centric Design to simplify enterprise workflows.
• Used Product Analytics and Product Metrics to evaluate feature performance and Product Adoption.
• Led Cross-functional teams delivering enterprise platform enhancements.
• Supported Platform Modernization through API-enabled services and digital workflows.
• Used Experimentation and iterative releases to maximize Feature Adoption and Product Innovation.

Business Analyst | Product Analyst at HSBC (2018-05 – 2019-09)

• Collaborated with Product Managers on Enterprise Platform enhancements across KYC/AML products.
• Gathered customer requirements and translated them into product enhancement opportunities.
• Supported Product Discovery, Agile delivery, user stories, feature validation, and workflow optimization.

MBA in Marketing – JSS CMS, Mysore

BE in Aerospace Engineering – Jain University