Sri V.
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Senior PM at Reddit | Ex-Discord & Slack | Find what you makes you tick
Studied at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Works at Reddit
Available tomorrow at 3:00 PM UTC
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Sri’s Career Development Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
20+ people coached for Career Development
I went through many weardrobe changes to find what I love doing. I started off at Microsoft on a backend data team - but quickly learned that wasn't it. I used my skills that I learned to move to Slack where I really learned how to be a true product manager. And from there - I've been seeking constant challenges in a space that interstes me: connecting people on the internet. I've been there, and done that and am here to help you navigate your career moves that will make your work life a happy place.
Sri can help with:
Interview Prep
Skill Building
Career Planning
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Personal Branding
Networking Strategy
Salary Negotiation
Job Search Strategies
About Sri
👋🏼 I'm Sri, a product manager at Reddit. I am passionate about connecting people to communities on the internet - which explains a lot of my resume. I currently work on community chat at Reddit, and previously was at Discord, Slack and Microsoft. I originally wanted to be a software engineer, and went to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and majored in Computer Science. But quickly on, I learned that the thing I really enjoyed about engineering was more about the problem solving, and less about the coding. After I got my first big break at Microsoft, I knew I found my dream job. Aside from work, I truly enjoy the great outdoors and am a national park enthusiast. I've been nomading the last few years and have been to almost every national park in the US. I have about 10 more left :) HMU to chat about the outdoors, your latest animal encounters, work, life, the internet, product, anything!
Why do I coach?
I am a coach because I had to learn everything the hard way - and I'm a firm believer to work smarter, not harder. I come from a family of immigrants who moved to the states, and had to figure a lot of things on my own, a new language, American culture, college applications, career changes, the whole life thing. And I've learned a lot, and was thankfully supported by a great community. I'm here to help guide you through your tough decisions - and help shed some light with some of the experiences I had. Or just be a listening ear. I'm an elder sister to many, and am here to help you in any way you need.
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
March 2024 - Present
Product Manager
Discord
July 2021 - July 2023
Admissions Committee Experience
🚀 PM on Growth and Core Product 1️⃣ Worked on Growth and led all user resurrection initiatives, including notification campaigns and email/marketing campaigns 2️⃣ Drove millions of MAU with a small, yet nimble team of three engineers by: - Creating the first machine learning based notification campaigns at Discord from ground up by building user targeting models, scanning and aggregating content and incorporating safety and privacy models. - Utilizing the ML-powered notification systems and launching multiple notification and content experiments. 3️⃣ Led initiatives to expand product to newer audiences by improving the mobile experience and achieving parity with competitors 4️⃣ Product lead for the Discord username change - an company-wide effort to normalize identity across the product. - The change was polarizing the customer + employee base but was integral to make Discord more approachable because it removed a complicated (but sentimental) feature, decreased product debt and made it easier to find and connect with friends on Discord. - Drove cross-functional work streams E2E to land the usernames change successfully. This included legal/policy, revenue, safety, CX, creators and external partnership teams - and at least a hundred individuals. Notification, Analytical Skills and +5 skills
Product Manager
Slack
June 2019 - July 2021
🔥 One of the first PMs on the Slack Connect team 1️⃣ Built Slack Connect, Slack’s moat in the enterprise space, from a small beta feature, all the way to a full-scaled workflow used at large corporations. Slack Connect lets you invite your external partners to use the same internal ecosystem that you work in 2️⃣ Scaled enterprise adoption of Slack Connect by hundreds of enterprises (including companies like Amazon, Netflix, TMobile and more), leading to millions of MAU and hundreds of thousands of revenue. - This meant working closely with IT admins at each company, understanding their needs/blockers, prioritizing against other items, building and working with cross functional teams to ensure the entire ecosystem scales at each respective company. - Launched research campaigns and XFN company initiatives to understand adoption blockers and worked closely with admins, security teams, legal teams and other stakeholders to unlock usage of Slack Connect - Shipped numerous security and compliance features to unblock adoption at many regulated industries like finance and healthcare - Advocated for these large enterprise customers across the board at Slack to not only build out Slack Connect priorities, but also Slack Enterprise Grid functionalities Analytical Skills, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and +3 skills
Product Manager II
Microsoft
July 2018 - March 2019
PM on Office Online and Suite Header - Working on user personalization across the Office online platform - Creating cohesive user start experience so they can jump into any app with ease
Product Manager
Microsoft
August 2016 - July 2018
PM on Universal Store, focusing on the Distribution Services Platform - Work on the backend of delivering all software through the Universal Store pipeline (including PC, mobile and Xbox stores) - Drive download experience for all customers and work to improve current UI/UX flow - Focus on the delivery experience and solve issues by creating actionable improvements on the backened - Build plans for faster app beta testing scenarios from an app developer and user perspective - Work on acquiring telemetry to help deduce areas of concern in backend pipeline, including filling in hidden gaps and focusing on speed/efficiency improvements - Drive the push to install workflow where customers can acquire apps from any source
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
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