Ravikiran Rajagopal

Director of Product Management · Experimentation · eCommerce · Consumer Platforms

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Technology Product Management executive specializing in digital transformation, advanced experimentation, and data-driven platform strategy. Proven track record delivering $18M+ annual impact across Parks & Entertainment, Financial Services, and Consumer sectors. Co-Investigator on a 2.9M-sample academic RCT; Optimizely North America Award winner (2022); peer-reviewed co-author with Nobel laureate Guido Imbens (Econ Journal Watch, March 2026).

Experience

Director, Product Management — SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment

Mar 2021 – Present · Remote

eCommerce platform across 12 consumer park websites driving hundreds of millions in annual ticketing revenue

  • Delivered $18M+ in measurable business impact in 2025: 35 A/B experiments (6 statistically significant wins), Apple Pay rollout ($4.4M lift), SEO and email capture improvements, and early prevention of a $7.2M platform migration mistake.
  • Rebuilt digital checkout infrastructure, reducing failure rate from 20% to 5% and recovering $20M+ in at-risk annual revenue across 12 branded theme-park websites.
  • Designed and scaled an enterprise Experimentation Governance Framework; executed 250+ A/B tests over 4 years achieving 40% latency improvement and $10M+ annual ROI — recognized with the Optimizely North America Optimizer Award (2022, “Best Experimentation Practice”) and Quantum Metric CPD Signal Award (2022).
  • Co-Investigator on an AEA-registered randomized controlled trial (2.9M visitors); co-authored peer-reviewed paper “Power Analysis is Essential” in Econ Journal Watch (Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2026) with Nobel laureate Guido Imbens, Andrew Gelman, and Ron Kohavi.

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Product Manager, Digital Product Development — Prudential Financial

Apr 2015 – Mar 2021 · Newark, NJ

Fortune 100 financial services company; regulated retirement & investment platforms

  • Launched Prudential’s first consumer-facing native mobile retirement app — 844K unique users, 250K monthly active — preventing $5B+ in quarterly AUA loss risk.
  • Shipped the industry’s first Alexa skill for retirement account management; won P&I Eddy Award (2019) for communication excellence.
  • Recovered $6M in quarterly revenue at risk and drove 150% growth in mobile engagement through digital platform modernization and password-less authentication innovation.
Prudential retirement app Alexa integration

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Senior Product Manager — AccuWeather

Aug 2011 – Apr 2015 · State College, PA

Global consumer mobile platform with 35M+ users and multi-channel advertising revenue

  • Grew user base 350% (1M → 35M users) through 25+ product launches across web and mobile platforms.
  • Generated $10M in annual revenue increase from platform redesigns; drove 150% growth in advertising revenue.
AccuWeather Android AccuWeather on BlackBerry 10 AccuWeather on Sony Smartwatch AccuWeather on Connected TV

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Student Consultant — AccuWeather

2009 – 2011 · State College, PA
  • Conducted product and market research while completing MBA; contributed to mobile strategy.

Lead Software Engineer — Various Companies

2003 – 2009
  • Six years of software engineering at Robert Bosch, Visteon, and Schneider Electric, building embedded systems for automotive and industrial applications — the technical foundation for product leadership.

Education

MBA, Marketing — Penn State Smeal College of Business

2011

Bachelor of Engineering, Telecommunication — PESIT, Bangalore

2003

Skills

Product Management & Strategy

Analytics & Experimentation Platforms

Technical & Platform Skills

Business & Operations

Industry Domains

Awards

Publications

“Power Analysis is Essential: High-Powered Tests Suggest Minimal to No Effect of Rounded Shapes on Click-Through Rates”
Econ Journal Watch, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2026, pp. 139–172
Ron Kohavi, Jakub Linowski, Lukas Vermeer, Fabrice Boisseranc, Joachim Furuseth, Andrew Gelman, Guido Imbens, Ravikiran Rajagopal
Affiliation: Director of Product Management, United Parks & Resorts
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Writing

The Lens — Newsletter on product management: prioritization, metrics, OKRs, and engineering partnerships. 11 editions, 2020–2021.