Global Stakeholder Management & UX Alignment
09-2024 - 03.2025
- Ensure strategic alignment between business goals, user needs, and technical delivery across multiple regions, while driving product success through effective stakeholder collaboration and UX integration.
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Product Owner & Project Lead working with distributed
teams and stakeholders across India, the USA, and
Singapore.
- Responsible for facilitating workshops, aligning expectations, and guiding product development with a user-centered focus.
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Diverse stakeholder expectations and priorities across
regions.
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Communication gaps between business units, development
teams, and UX design.
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Need for a unified product vision aligned with user behavior
and business impact.
- Organized and facilitated strategic workshops to align business, UX, and technical teams on MVP scope and roadmap
- Led discovery sessions and design reviews to ensure UX insights were integrated early in the product lifecycle
- Maintained continuous communication with regional stakeholders to ensure transparency and shared goals
- Collaborated with UX designers to define personas, map user journeys, and refine feature designs
- Translated business requirements into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- ✅ Improved cross-regional alignment and faster decision-making cycles
- ✅ Increased feature relevance and user satisfaction by grounding design decisions in real user behavior
- ✅ Seamless collaboration between product, UX, and technical teams
- ✅ Accelerated delivery of high-impact features with reduced rework and scope creep
- Miro (workshops & journey mapping)
- JIRA & Confluence (requirements & sprint tracking)
- Microsoft Teams (stakeholder communication)
- Legacy systems integration with modern cloud architecture
- Balancing rapid delivery with regulatory compliance requirements
- Scaling agile practices across multiple business units with varying digital maturity
- Implemented hybrid agile methodology tailored to each team's maturity level
- Created cross-functional working groups to bridge regional knowledge gaps
- Established clear governance framework balancing innovation with compliance
- Developed phased migration strategy for legacy systems with minimal disruption
- Early stakeholder alignment is critical for successful cross-regional product development
- Regular user feedback loops significantly reduce rework and increase feature adoption
- Documentation of decision rationale helps maintain continuity despite team changes
- Investing in team capability building pays dividends in long-term product quality