
Jubilee Kar
Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager | Agile Coach
Salary / Daily rate
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Portfolio Strategy Manager & SAFe SPC with 16+ years in product management and agile transformation. Proven track record: increased market share by 15%, reduced time-to-market by 5x, and generated €10M annual revenue through digital transformation. Ready to drive your strategic initiatives and scale your products.
Work experience
Portfolio Strategy Manager (Software)
TGW Logistics
Jun 2025 - Present
1 year 5 months
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Projects: Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) for intralogistics business, B2B Creating the strategic initiatives for Large Scale WMS Transformation for the highly complex (Level 5) Warehouse hubs. Doing Market and User Research on the WMS world, Partnering with Market Research giants like Gartner, End Users and Customers. Creating Market and User Driven Portfolio roadmaps for various value streams. Supporting the build-up of a strong TGW WMS software brand (WERX), Sales and Promotion materials. Creating Business Planning for WMS
Founder
TGZed
Mar 2025 - Present
1 year 8 months
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Leading Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) Transformation Value Stream Mapping and Process Improvements Training and Consulting Product Management Hiring Agile Talent Roles like Scrum Masters, RTE, Product Owner, Product Manager, Lean Portfolio Managers Providing training on SAFe certifications (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Product Manager, Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe for Teams) Provind 1:1 Agile Career Coaching and Certifications for Individuals
Lead Product Manager
Luxoft
Mar 2022 - May 2024
2 years 3 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Projects: ADAS, OTA for Automotive OEM @VW Group, Magna International, B2B Led high performing cross-functional teams of Product Managers (4), Scrum Masters (4) and System Architects (4) for launching SaaS tools for the virtual testing of ADAS in Europe & China. Increased serviceable market to 60%, reducing time-to-market for new features by 5x and increasing team productivity by 25%, while maintaining a 99.9% uptime for critical services, by reinforcing SAFe framework, DevOps, defining product strategy to market fit, maintaining a data-driven product roadmap & aligning the product vision to company’s objectives. Increased stakeholders satisfaction by 30% for delivery outcome & received a compelling compensation. Prioritized & groomed the product backlog, defined OKRs, benefit hypotheses, DoD, DoR, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with business owners, system architects, and Product Managers. Led autonomous driving innovations using Gen AI, positioning the company at the forefront of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). Saved €240,000 annually on cloud storage and maintenance costs, reducing carbon footprint by 10%, by closing obsolete AWS applications. Expanded product portfolio to 2 new products, resulting in a 15% increase in market share, by forging partnerships and ramping up 15+ resources. Hired 25+ Product Owners, Product Managers and Scrum Masters across Europe, India and China. Mentored and worked as a Line Manager to 20+ people, reducing the attrition rate by 20%, by ‘leading by example’ leadership, honesty and transparency.
IT/Technical Product Manager
Gi Group
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
4 years 6 months
Milan Area, Italy
Projects: Human Resource Suite for Staffing and Recruiting (HR) companies, B2B & B2C Developed a portfolio of products from 0-1 (startup) to 1-10 (scaleup), prioritised & maintained the Roadmap & optimized value stream maps for 5 software applications to serve as a platform for all the functional activities of the Human Resource Recruitment firms, leading to 20% revenue growth. Explored market and user, conducted primary & secondary data research, applied market segmentation, identified market rhythms & events & made customer journey mapping to create the MMP and MVP. Made 15 rollouts of GiGroup’s first software product to 10 EMEA, UK and Brazil within 2 years from MVP, generating 25,000 end users, 80% customer satisfaction. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create the ‘Go To Strategy’ & launch the product. Established customer's engagement through ‘whole product thinking’ approach, personas, empathy interviews, empathy maps, design thinking & through CE activities, PI planning & system demos. Encouraged & Innovated Product features increasing the ROI by 40%. 9:1 idea acceptance to rejection ratio. Created product strategy & vision (focus on ‘crossing the chasm faster’) that aligns with the company’s business objectives through impact mapping. Managed & Prioritised the product backlog, defined OKRs, benefit hypothesis, DoD, DoR and Acceptance criteria. Implemented DevOps culture. Measured generated business value through KPIs (Pirate Metrics,NPS,CLV) & implemented google analytics to capture feedback. Initiated Agile Transformation through coaching increasing project deliverables by 40%. Led digital transformation from Paper-based to Digital Business by developing a cloud based Software applications (SaaS) platform generating €10 million annual Revenue. Built, led, and mentored a geographically distributed product team of 45+ resources Aligned product roadmap with lean business case to keep within budget
Senior Software Engineer
Saggezza
Feb 2013 - Jan 2015
2 years
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Projects: Supply Chain & Logistics Software Solutions for RR Donnelley, USA, B2C • Developed CRM web application using .Net, Agile Hybrid Model (XP + Scrum), TDD, Solid Principles & implemented best technical practices reducing the tech debt by 30%. • Acted as a Proxy Product Owner: Wrote user stories, created the product roadmap, wrote acceptance criteria, Groomed Product Backlog in Scrum Ceremonies, Reviewed Increments, did exploratory and usability testing, verified Use case diagrams and wireframes, helped in technical improvements. • Implemented CRM in Google Glass increasing the revenue by 25%.
Associate Software Analyst
Bally Technologies
May 2011 - Oct 2012
1 year 6 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Projects: Slot machines gaming applications for casinos, USA, B2C • Developed the IOT application using .Net. This project is placed in Guinness World Record for ‘World’s Largest Slot Tournament’ and also for ‘Most Slot Machines Running the Same Game Simultaneously at the Same Venue’ in the USA
Software Engineer
Ample Technologies
Nov 2008 - May 2011
2 years 7 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Projects: Insurance Applications for Insurance Industry, USA, B2C • Developed insurance application web portal using .Net.
Education
POLIMI Graduate School of Management
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2022 - 2024
1 year 10 months
Trinity College Dublin
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2023 - 2023
2 months
Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, BANGALORE
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
2004 - 2008
5 years
Licenses & certifications
Scaled Agile Practice Consultant 6 (SAFe SPC)
Issued: Sep 2024
PMI-ACP
Issued: May 2021