Raakesh Varadharajan Raji

Product Manager

Community Dreams Foundation

Sep 2024 - Current (1 year 11 months)

• Spearheaded the Green Connect App to match users with mentors/jobs in the green economy, aligning product roadmap with business goals using Figma and Jira for seamless execution and cross-team collaboration. • Led Agile sprints across engineering and design to deliver an AI-powered solution that improved matchmaking efficiency by 60%, enhancing user satisfaction and overall system performance across multiple user cohorts. • Conducted stakeholder interviews and user research to refine features and drive sustainable product-market fit. • Built Power BI dashboards to track KPIs and present investor reports, supporting data-backed scalability decisions. • Collaborated with marketing to launch go-to-market strategy, increasing early user

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Product Manager Intern

Changing The Present,

May 2024 - Sep 2024 (5 months)

• Tasked with revamping a philanthropic donation platform to streamline workflows and drive donor engagement. • Defined feature priorities, authored PRDs, and led Agile ceremonies, launching 3 high-impact modules. • Developed ETL workflows and API integrations that reduced data sync errors by 25% and improved donor communication across multiple fundraising campaigns and reporting systems. • Created Power BI dashboards that identified top-performing campaigns, enabling data-driven strategy shifts.

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Product Manager

Aspiring Product Managers Club @ Northeastern University,

Dec 2022 - May 2024 (1 year 6 months)

• Recruited to revamp the club's digital ecosystem; led website redesign that boosted student engagement by 54%. • Managed end-to-end delivery of a hardware product, a software tool, multiple data visualization solutions, and case studies in project management and economic decision-making, applying Agile and cross-functional collaboration. • Mentored 30+ students in product strategy and validation during university-wide hackathons. • Facilitated Agile sprints, created PRDs and user flows, and collaborated with design and development teams to ship features used by 1000+ members across club operations, student-led projects, and learning initiatives. • Conducted user interviews to gather insights and prioritized the backlog for continuous

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Product Management Consultant

Ernst & Young (EY) GDS,

Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 (7 months)

• Led a data modernization initiative, aligning ETL/data warehouse delivery with evolving client business needs. • Drafted user stories, defined KPIs, and coordinated with engineering to deploy high-performance solutions. • Designed dashboards in Power BI/Tableau that improved stakeholder decision-making with real-time insights. • Collaborated with QA teams to run test cycles and fix usability bugs prior to client rollout.

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Data Analyst Student Intern

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE,

Dec 2019 - Jan 2020 (2 months)

• Built a deep learning facial emotion recognition model to support smart interface R&D, achieving 83.7% accuracy. • Led a multicultural team through end-to-end model development and validation under tight project deadlines. • Delivered insights to senior researchers, directly informing next-gen application strategy and development.

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