About

Devidutta Nayak is a highly accomplished Product Manager with over 6 years of experience in product management, strategy consulting, and product designing. He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and has a proven track record of conceptualizing, developing, and implementing scalable products and business solutions. Devidutta is currently working as a Product Manager at Ola, where he is responsible for driving the product strategy and roadmap for the company's mobile app. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Consultant (Product Strategy) at EY, where he played a key role in ideating, building, and launching the COVID-19 Odisha Mobile App using EY’s Crisis Management Framework. He interviewed over 50 migrant workers to define the product scope, created user stories and segmentation, performed hypothesis testing, and delivered a User Persona Framework to prioritize the product feature list. He also worked on API integrations with the state labor department database and UX designs - wireframes. He forecasted demand for hospital beds, associated infrastructure/PPEs using COVID-19 Resource Planning Tool by EY, and built and improved support chatbots (English, Hindi & Oriya) - user adoption increased by 30%. He measured user pain points, areas of realignment, and defined performance metrics based on NPS and feedback. Devidutta is highly interested in mentally stimulating and learning-oriented jobs, and takes a special interest in the areas of Product Management domain. He holds a Master of Business Administration - MBA degree in Product and Strategy from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design Engineering from NIT Rourkela. He has expertise in product management, test, mobile, infra, and research scientist. He has a superior team-building and management expertise, which has helped him build and lead high-performance teams. He has institutionalized end-to-end S&OP processes leading to a potential EBITDA impact of ~70 Cr INR and developed a supply chain control tower as part of reviews and CXO dashboard. He has also spearheaded optimizing port handling and truck logistics operations (Port to Plant) and implemented the Single Customer View process, which helped reduce plant stock out days resulting in a potential cost saving of ~48 lakh INR per day (23.75m $ per year). Overall, Devidutta is a dynamic and highly skilled Product Manager with a passion for building innovative and scalable products. He has a strong background in product management, strategy consulting, and product designing,