Indraja Karnik

Senior Product Manager

2023 - Current

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)

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

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

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

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