Anjali Balakrishna
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
For the past five years, 安佳利一直领导产品和服务开发团队，为重要的社会问题建立和推出有效的解决方案. 她的工作主要集中在学习和发展领域，但作为数字和模拟产品经理，她拥有强大的可翻译技能. 她是一个强有力的领导者和创造性的问题解决者，她会投入时间和努力把工作做好.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
VP, Invention
The Future Project
- 领导团队负责制定组织的产品策略. 这包括确定最具战略性的机会领域，以增加组织收入和影响，然后通过设计和部署新产品和服务来创造性地表达这些机会，以达到新的和现有市场的客户. This role also involved business development work, 确定最具战略意义的市场，并建立基本的商业模式和销售基础设施，以发展新的产品.
- 管理200万美元的预算和9名员工，为几个新的创收计划开发概念, 并将其中一个倡议作为一个成熟的业务部门启动.
- Led a 9-month R&D intensive and pilot this initiative, Future Camp, resulting in over a dozen new products and artifacts, 以及为期3天的沉浸式转型体验，为全国7个社区的650多名年轻人提供了体验.
- 领导对未来项目学校项目的全面重新设计，战略性地增加影响规模，并将每个学生的成本降低到以前水平的5-10倍.
- Sat on the organization’s executive team as head of product, 对整个组织的健康负责(1200万美元预算和100多名员工).
Senior Director, Innovation
The Future Project
- Led all product development for the organization. 建立了组织的第一个专门的产品团队, developed a signature product development process, 集成来自敏捷软件开发的技术和最佳实践, human-centered design, instructional design, and more, 并建立了一套实物产品和课程资源，向10个地区的40多名高中工作人员推广, reaching over 25,000 customers.
- Recruited, trained, and mentored a team of five staff members, sourced from our schools, in best design practices, developing them into effective product/curriculum designers.
- 带领产品团队完成每月的设计冲刺——为期3天的便利体验，在此期间，我向团队发布了包含约束条件和目标的清晰设计简报, 并指导他们进行市场和客户研究和分析, storyboarding and prototyping, feature specification and development planning, and more.
- Sat on the organization’s leadership team, 负责确保公司各部门之间的信息对称和一致.
Deputy to the Chief Innovation Officer
The Future Project
- 为两名不同的首席创新官提供战略和运营杠杆. This role involved extensive project management, participation, and leadership in product and experience design efforts, and programming support for existing offerings.
Chief of Staff
The Future Project
- 支持首席执行官和总裁度过了前所未有的组织成长的一年, 在此期间，组织的足迹从十几个站点增加到三倍, all on the east coast, to over 30 sites on nationwide.
- 建立运营系统——从影响报告到数据收集, to organization-wide communications practices, 城市团队管理结构-使60多名员工的组织有效运作.
- 设计并制作了一个学生活动，将来自全国七个城市(包括旧金山和底特律)的500多名年轻人聚集在一起，进行为期一天的体验，展示他们正在进行的项目，以积极影响他们的社区.
Project History
Future Camp
Led the design, development, and deployment of a new business unit of The Future Project, doubling our national footprint.
The Launch Box
领导了一套教育工具的产品设计和开发，被全国3000多名学生和教育工作者使用.
Dreamly
领导数字团队重新设计并重新推出了一个数据和洞察工具，供美国各地学校的教育工作者使用.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in American Studies
Yale University - New Haven, CT
Skills
Tools
Asana, Adobe Creative Suite, Trello
Industry Expertise
Nonprofits, Sustainability
Paradigms
敏捷产品管理，敏捷工作流程，设计思维，敏捷，Scrum
Other
Product Management, Business Analysis, Requirements, Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Go-to-market Plans, User Research, Business Models, Product Design, Product Marketing, Product Frameworks, Innovation, Product Ownership, Product Discovery, Product Delivery, Sprint Planning, Education, Learning & Development
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