About

Vivek Kalra is a highly skilled product management professional with over 7.5 years of experience in building and shipping software products for internet, mobile, technology, and digital ecosystems for retail and enterprise customers. He has a track record of delivering end-to-end scalable products involving mobile, cloud, SaaS, machine learning, and big data for FinTech, financial, technology, and analytics clients. Vivek is experienced in creating product vision and roadmaps, defining go-to-market (GTM) strategy, leading product backlog refinement, and risk management with cross-functional teams. He is effective at leading and managing technical and design (UX/UI) teams, moving products from strategy to execution through planning, pre-production, and production (release) phases. Vivek holds an MBA from one of the top 10 B-schools in India (MDI Gurgaon) and finished among the top 5 students. He is a Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I) from scrum.org and an Azure certified Cloud & AI professional. He has strong exposure to products involving cloud and machine learning deliverables and has managed clients across the US, UK, Canada, Korea, Central Europe, and India. Currently, Vivek is a Product Lead at Arcesium, where he is leading the recommendation engine rollout for enterprise clients via ML. He is formulating product vision and scope, defining positioning, pricing, and GTM strategy, owning product backlog for prioritizing requirements, finalizing key metrics, effectively planning phase-wise launch (MVP), and driving implementation from design, development, and testing teams for launching new enhancements. In his past roles, Vivek has worked as a Product Owner/Sr. BA at Fidelity, where he increased revenue by 6.5% per annum by leading the end-to-end launch of a pension fund transactions & payments product and reduced costs by $1.5m by spearheading the firm's automation initiative via cloud-hosted SaaS APIs. He has also worked as a Product Management Consultant at PwC, where he automated and migrated to cloud new IT initiatives for a prominent global bank and increased revenue by 12% for a prominent FinTech firm by understanding competition and performing root cause analysis of customer churn rate using cloud and ML. Vivek holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance & Marketing from Management Development Institute and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology from Punjab Engineering College.