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Gajanan Khare

@gkhare2026

Product Manager – AI Products at Turing

Solapur, Maharashtra, India

TuringShivaji University, Maharashtra

Gajanan Khare is a strategic Product Manager with over 8 years of experience in B2B SaaS, AI-powered platforms, and cloud-based products. He has a proven track record of owning end-to-end product roadmaps and translating customer insights into measurable business outcomes. Gajanan is adept at Agile delivery, data-driven decision-making, and bridging the gap between technical teams and business goals. He has successfully delivered features that improved conversion rates and reduced resolution times across global teams.

Experience

Product Manager – AI Products

Turing

Oct 2024 - Dec 2025Solapur, Maharashtra, India

Defined and owned the strategic product vision and roadmap for AI chatbot initiatives supporting employee enablement across global teams. Translated LLM capabilities into scalable support workflows, accelerating ticket resolution timelines by 30%. Established KPIs and OKRs for chatbot training programs. Led cross-functional collaboration across engineering, data science, content, and product teams. Built Power BI and Datadog dashboards to enhance operational visibility, reducing average resolution times by 25%.

Agile Product Owner (Acting Product Manager)

EPAM Anywhere — Thomson Reuters (Onvio)

Jul 2021 - Aug 2024

Defined and communicated product vision for a cloud-based compliance platform (Onvio). Owned and prioritized the product backlog across multiple engineering teams. Established clear, measurable acceptance criteria, reducing QA defects by 20%. Monitored product performance using KPI dashboards, improving conversion rates by 15%. Advocated for UI/UX improvements, increasing task completion speed by 18%. Ran A/B tests to validate feature hypotheses.

Product Owner

Upwork — Cloud Control AppZ

Dec 2019 - Apr 2021

Defined product vision and roadmap for a cloud resource management platform, increasing stakeholder engagement and product adoption by 17%. Prioritized features using value-vs-effort frameworks, improving delivery velocity by 22%. Set clear success criteria and definition-of-done standards, reducing QA issues by 15%. Built performance dashboards to track key metrics, reducing support tickets by 20%.

Product Owner (Initially Co-Owner)

Crossover — Jive Employee Engagement

Sep 2016 - Nov 2019

Owned full product backlog and roadmap prioritization for a globally used employee engagement platform. Streamlined core workflows and improved information architecture, increasing task completion speed by 25%. Converted client feedback and user research into actionable roadmap items. Maintained on-time release rate above 95% and platform uptime at 99.9%.

Performance Test Lead / Engineer

Cognizant | Amdocs | Synechron | TechMahindra | Allscripts

Dec 2006 - Jun 2016

Designed and executed performance test strategies (JMeter, LoadRunner) for enterprise applications across UI, APIs, and backend services. Diagnosed system bottlenecks using New Relic, Datadog, and AppDynamics.

Education

Shivaji University, Maharashtra

Bachelor of Engineering

Computer Science

Licenses & Certifications

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

• No expiration

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• No expiration

PRINCE2 Foundation

• No expiration

ITIL-4 Foundation

• No expiration

Lean Six Sigma (White Belt)

• No expiration

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

• No expiration

Skills

Product Roadmap Ownership & Execution
Agile / Scrum / Kanban Delivery
Stakeholder Management & Strategic Alignment
Backlog Prioritization & Grooming
Customer Discovery & User Research
KPI / OKR Definition & Tracking
Go-to-Market Strategy & Launch Planning
UI/UX Advocacy & Prototyping
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
A/B Testing & Data-Driven Optimization
AI / LLM Product Development
B2B SaaS Platform Management
Aha!
Notion
Confluence
Miro
Jira
Asana
Trello
Azure Boards (ADO)
Microsoft Viva Goals
Workboard
Google Analytics
Mixpanel
Google Optimize
Power BI
Datadog
New Relic
AppDynamics
Figma
Hotjar