Prathik Roy, PhD

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Product Director, SpringerNature - NYC, USA (2019 - Current)

 

• SaaS Customer base of over 1,000 accounts including big pharma, ML-AI companies, big tech, automotive, oil&gas, Academic & Goverment labs​

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• Manage a product business line of 1.1 billion$'s 

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• Responsible for building the technical (product) and sales roadmap

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• Responsible for growth through partnerships, vendor relations and corresponding expertise in contracts & licenses

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• Developed new data as a service business model with 36% CAGR 

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• Lead a team of product managers & collaborate with global engineering, design, sales & marketing team

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Senior Product Manager, SpringerNature - NYC, USA (2016 to 2019)

 

• Management and growth of products through close collaboration with Users, Buyers, Business Development, Publisher Relations, Content Operations, Marketing, and Sales

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• Revised pricing using a value driven approach for US & EMEA increasing renewals by 14%

 

• Active stakeholder for UI/UX improvements & scoping new features based on analytics, user validation, and alignment with business goals to delight engineers and users

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• Created JTBDs & prepared Wireframes using Balsimiq, used JIRA & Confluence stories with internal developers

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• Monitored performance of products, content, and tools via Google Analytics & Counter 5

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Senior Scientist (MacDiarmid Fellow),  University of Canterbury, NZ (2016 April to November)

 

• Led a team of scientific researchers & engineers to fabricate photovoltaic devices including solar cells and OLEDs

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• Acted as chief SME in the development of a Machine learning algorithm for nanotechnology data curation activities with engineering team and carried out multivariate analysis and testing to draw relevant conclusions

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• Collaborated with distributed team of engineers, designers, editors and data scientists across Wellington University, University of Auckland and Nanofabrication labs to modify semiconductor surfaces to control their surface electronic properties for photovoltaic devices

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Scientist Project Lead (PDF), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2013 June to 2016 March)

 

• In a world first, led a team of doctoral researchers to build photovoltaic LEDs and solar cells through 100% sustainable and renewable material sources

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• Authored 28 high impact research articles & two book chapters in prestigious scientific outlets including Nature, American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry

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• Led the scientific project on early cancer detection that would ultimately be used by Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) research work

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• Devised statistical models, data analytics methods and scientific software implementations for research needs

 

 

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