Prasita Prabhakaran
With two decades of experience in the IT industry, Prasita has honed her skills across various domains, from development to scrum and agile methodologies, as well as product management. Her career spans both the ERP sector and the dynamic startup environment, where she has contributed significantly to numerous projects and initiatives.
Prasita contributed to the growth story at Ather Energy for a little over 2 years. She worked on the key products and tools in Vehicle Service Delivery. This included delivering meticulous service experience for the staff at Ather service centers, while keeping the end customer experience at the core. During her 2nd year as the Growth PM she worked towards improving the existing digital sales pipeline and introduced new and more efficient digital leads pipeline.
Her journey at SAP Labs India was close to 15 years, starting as a developer, moving on to scrum and agile roles and later into Product Owner and Product Manager Roles. Prasita served as a Product Manager for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, where she was responsible for overseeing the complete life cycle of the RASD tool. Her role encompassed gathering customer requirements, crafting user stories, designing user interfaces, prioritising features, leading development teams, managing both internal and external stakeholders and customer roll-outs.
Prasita worked closely with customers to enable the tool and gain deeper insights into their concerns and requirements. Her ability to foster creative ideas was recognised through peer feedback and active participation in internal innovation events. Additionally, she took on the roles of an OKR coach and Product Thinking trainer, further showcasing her leadership and expertise in product management. Her blogs from the SAP Community can be found here.
In her early career at ITC Infotech, Prasita distinguished herself by delving into SAP Technologies. She was assigned to work on a contractual basis as a JAVA developer for SAP Business ByDesign at SAP Labs India . She holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics, and a masters in Computer Applications.
