Aashrith S Dontha

Summary

Product Manager with 9+ years of experience building AI-powered platforms, high-scale consumer products, and intelligent workflow automation across enterprise and consumer environments. Built a 0→1 GenAI platform that cut decision cycle time by 60% and grew MAU by 40%. Delivered a real-time ML platform serving 1M+ users at sub-500ms latency. Led a 3M+ account cloud migration with 99.9% uptime. Deep strengths across the full PM toolkit: product vision and roadmapping, customer discovery, A/B and multivariate experimentation, API and platform strategy, data pipeline design, AI/ML productization (LLMs, model monitoring, explainability), and GTM execution. Consistently translates ambiguous problems into shipped products that move the metric that matters — at any scale, in any domain.

Experience

Product Manager — Gen AI Workflow Platform

RBC Bank

Mar 2025 – PresentToronto, ON

Built 0→1 AI doc-intelligence platform; reduced decision cycle time 60%

  • Launched a 0→1 AI document intelligence platform that automated high-stakes decision workflows across 3 business lines, reducing end-to-end cycle time by 60% and saving ~4,200 analyst hours annually.
  • Built and defended a product vision and phased roadmap under heavy governance constraints, securing $1M in incremental funding by tying every milestone to measurable risk-reduction and efficiency outcomes.
  • Co-designed an explainable ML decisioning layer with data science and governance teams, implementing real-time feedback loops and model monitoring that maintained 97%+ prediction reliability post-launch.
  • Owned adoption OKRs across 3 LOBs; drove MAU up 40% through instrumentation, enablement playbooks, and targeted lifecycle campaigns that doubled 30-day active usage.
  • Redesigned onboarding and in-app engagement journeys using segmentation and behavioural nudges, lifting feature engagement by 30% and reducing onboarding drop-off by 15% via A/B tested flows.
  • Led end-to-end discovery and delivery: ran 25+ VOC sessions, authored PRDs with API contracts, and drove cross-functional alignment across engineering, UX, data science, and compliance.

Product Owner — Transaction & Compliance Platform

TD Bank

Oct 2022 – Sep 2024Toronto, ON

Shipped real-time ML decisioning platform serving 1M+ users

  • Delivered a real-time ML-powered decisioning platform unifying data science, UX, and governance inputs, serving 1M+ users with sub-500ms latency and 15% improvement in detection accuracy.
  • Integrated external behavioural and financial signals into decision workflows, increasing approval rates by 22% while simultaneously reducing risk exposure by 9%.
  • Led 15+ A/B experiments across onboarding, dashboards, and notification flows, improving user engagement by 18%, conversion by 18%, and reducing churn by 12%.
  • Modernized mission-critical transaction flows to meet evolving compliance standards, delivering full regulatory alignment with zero disruption to daily processing volumes.
  • Revamped API documentation and sandbox environments, accelerating partner integrations by 40% and reducing developer onboarding time from 3 weeks to under 1 week.
  • Defined and shipped a KPI monitoring framework with real-time dashboards tracking SLAs, model performance, and business outcomes across all decision flows.

Senior Product Analyst — Platform Modernization

Bell Canada

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022Toronto, ON

Migrated 3M+ accounts to cloud; achieved 99.9% uptime

  • Led the migration of legacy billing infrastructure for 3M+ subscriber accounts to a cloud-native platform, achieving 99.8% billing accuracy, 99.9% uptime, and reducing manual adjustments by 70%.
  • Drove reliability and scalability improvements that enabled the platform to handle 2× concurrent load during peak billing cycles without degradation.
  • Revamped CRM-billing API integrations and developer onboarding flows, reducing integration time by 40% and cutting support tickets by 25%.
  • Launched a self-serve billing portal that improved NPS by +14 points and reduced inbound support volume by 25% within 3 months of launch.
  • Shipped in-app upgrade nudges and contextual prompts that lifted plan upgrade conversion by 10%; ran design sprints delivering 3 pilot-ready features in 2 months.

Product Analyst — Data & Insights

ATB Financial

May 2021 – Oct 2021Calgary, AB

Built real-time marketing dashboards; lifted CTR 12%

  • Built real-time marketing insights dashboards that enabled personalized campaign targeting across 4 channels, increasing CTR by 12% and contributing to a 6% lift in MRR.
  • Architected a centralized data lake enabling self-serve analytics for 5 cross-functional teams, reducing ad-hoc data request turnaround from 5 days to under 4 hours.
  • Diagnosed funnel bottlenecks using cohort and drop-off analysis; redesigned the signup flow improving conversion by 8% and reducing time-to-activation by 20%.

GenAI & Product Highlights

Predictive Risk Scoring & GenAI Intelligence

  • Built a predictive + explainable risk scoring product integrated with origination workflows, reducing loan defaults by 8% and saving ~$2M in annual write-offs.
  • Led transaction API redesign that improved throughput by 3× and accelerated partner adoption by 35%, contributing to $1.2M in new integration revenue.
  • Prototyped a GenAI Risk Intelligence tool that extracts and synthesizes signals from structured + unstructured documents, reducing analyst review time by 45%.
  • Designed an LLM Prompt Evaluation interface enabling non-technical reviewers to test and refine prompts; shipped an ethics dashboard surfacing fairness metrics and model drift indicators.

Education

Post-Graduate, Business Analytics

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021

Seneca CollegeToronto, ON

Post-Graduate, Global Business Management

Jan 2020 – Aug 2020

Conestoga CollegeKitchener, ON

B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

SRM UniversityChennai, India

Certifications

SAFe Agilist (Scaled Agile) | Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 (Microsoft) | CSPO (Scrum Alliance) | CBAP — In Progress (IIBA)

Technical Stack & Tools

Product: Product Strategy, Roadmaps, Prioritization, OKRs/KPI Trees, Discovery (VOC/Interviews), PRDs, GTM Narratives, Stakeholder Management
Analytics & Experimentation: Funnel/Cohort Analysis, A/B & Multivariate Testing, Instrumentation, Metric Debugging, Dashboards
Technical Fluency: API/Platform Strategy, Data Pipelines, SLAs, ML Evaluation (Precision/Recall/ROC-AUC), Monitoring/Drift, Explainability
Tools: SQL, Python, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Miro, Postman, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, Optimizely, Segment, Mixpanel, CleverTap, Microsoft Clarity, VWO