Indraja Karnik
Senior Product Manager at DroneDeploy
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
2023 - Current
DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Raised $142,552,368.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners, Emergence, Uncork Capital, Frontline Ventures, Airtree Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, AngelPad, Energize Capital and BluePointe Ventures.
Vice President of Product
2022 - 2022
Early employee, working directly with founders in a cross-functional role spanning Engineering, AI R&D, Product Marketing and Revenue Operations • Implemented PLG (Product Led Growth) practices to prioritize roadmap and launch Beta in summer 2022, increasing organic user growth to 1500+ users (a 10x improvement in 3 months)
Resultid provides a software platform that extracts obscured connections between scientific and market data.
Raised $3,376,340.00 from Bantam Group.
MBA Candidate
2020 - 2022
Activities: Columbia Venture Fellow, Venture Capital Club (Board Member - VP of Events), Technology & Data Analytics Association
MBA Associate
2021 - 2021
Part of the investment team responsible for market research, deal sourcing and due diligence with a focus on enterprise software, low/no-code and developer tools. • Sourced deals for and helped TMV invest in: Obviously.ai, ProcessLabs, Channel19, Resultid • Provided product and go-to-market expertise for: Obviously.ai, ProcessLabs, Channel19, Resultid, ProPhone, Transmute, Increment, and Shipskart
TMV is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the future of living well.
Senior Product Manager
2017 - 2020
Product owner for Appian platform’s interface design tool, delivered 10 features from ideation to impact within first 1.5 years. • Co-creator of Appian’s visual interface design experience (https://youtu.be/VhLADf85iQc) • Designed Appian’s visual report building experience (https://youtu.be/iD1zD1SZkxw at 9:00) • Presented at AppianWorld 2019 (https://youtu.be/t8VTT57-Gqk at 11:30 and 20:30) • Collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy, tracking adoption and feedback on prior features • Leading a team of 11 engineers (devs, UX, QE) to deliver value by prioritizing backlog of story and bug tickets, and providing detailed feature specification documents • Conducting usability testing and customer research sessions, and iteratively improving the product based on feedback
Appian is a software company that provides digital transformation, low-code application development, and business process management.
Raised $47,499,994.00 from New Enterprise Associates.
Founder
2018 - 2020
Founder and President of Appian Corporation's first employee network for the empowerment and inclusion of employees of color. • Personally developed the first employee in-person training on sharing dimensions of diversity and recognizing its impact at work, reaching 100 employees in the first year through multiple classes • Led a working group of 10 employees to host 15 networking events, ranging from social to educational, including a book discussion on The Culture Map by Erin Meyer and a Black History Month performance by 2Deep the Poetess
Business Analyst & Project Manager, Technology Division
2013 - 2017
Enterprise Platforms Group -- Part of internal boutique tech consultancy team, specializing in structuring and executing high-risk firmwide projects. • Promoted to Associate level in December 2016 based on strong track record of project delivery, impact, and leadership • Defined strategy for and executed UAT, production testing, and go-live/conversion of large, high-risk project with a business-critical deadline and involving multiple vendors • Identified and bridged gaps between Banking/Operations use cases and enterprise platforms capabilities; combined knowledge of both to define requirements and prioritize releases • Published communications across all levels of seniority, including to the Board of Directors (C-level), highlighting both project accomplishments and key risks with mitigation strategies • Retained 10000ft vision of project delivery but also deep-dived into code to troubleshoot system bugs during QA testing • Expertise in modeling business processes in Signavio using BPMN 2.0 • Participated in university recruitment, intern mentorship program, and community outreach with the Women in Technology professional network
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
A. James Clark School of Engineering - Office of Undergraduate Recruitment and Scholarship Programs
2009 - 2013
• Organizing outreach events to under-privileged high schools, with the specific goal of increasing applications and scholarships for under-represented minorities in STEM majors. • Helped to launch and run the first Pre-College Scholars Program (https://eng.umd.edu/k-12-pre-college/scholars-program), a summer program targeting bright students form under-privileged high schools • Interviewing, training and logistics for engineering student ambassadors program • Managing communications, logistics and staffing for large-scale School of Engineering events, including prospective student open houses, campus recruiting career fairs/info sessions, and Maryland Day (annual university-wide fair).
Technology Consulting Co-op
2012 - 2012
• Authored white paper investigating state-of-charge indicator technology for batteries
Manufacturing Engineering Intern
2012 - 2012
• Designed statistical model using PowerCom real-time data analysis software to identify biggest loss points during production • Saved plant over $57,000 in surcharges in one month by improving wastewater quality