About

Atul Kumar Rai is a highly skilled Senior Program Manager with over 9 years of experience in Scrum Mastering, Project/Program Management, and coaching and mentoring multiple Scrum teams at a time and stakeholders involved. He is currently employed at bigbasket.com as a Senior Program Manager, where he organizes and leads planning activities resulting in the creation of a release/program roadmap. He ensures all teams align with enterprise planning expectations and defines launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp, and analytics plan. With his expertise in smart decision-making and effective collaboration with other leaders and stakeholders, Atul ensures that measurable KPIs are developed for the program and that they align with the overall KPIs for the product. He designs and manages pilots and beta testing, creates and manages clear Gating Criteria with business partners for Go/No-go decisions, and ensures regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions. In his past roles, Atul has worked as a Program Manager/Scrum Master at nineleaps and Senior Analyst/Product/Program Manager at Accenture. He has been responsible for driving and owning the full program life cycle from initiation to deployment, facilitating program increment planning meetings with leadership, business stakeholders, product management, and delivery teams on the agile releases, and supporting program level meetings in partnership with product management and system architect(s) to aid in the preparation, readiness, and prioritization of features for future planning sessions. Atul has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and completed his schooling from U.P. Sainik School, Lucknow. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in product management and senior software engineering. Overall, Atul is a highly experienced and dedicated Senior Program Manager with a proven track record of delivering successful projects and programs. He is ready to apply his expertise to a challenging long-term position.