RAJPANKAJA TALUKDAR
Seattle, WA • +1 (734) 546-1897 • [email protected]
Portfolio: **https://www.rajpankajatalukdar.com/**
CORE SKILLS
Systems Thinking • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Stakeholder Alignment • Design thinking • UX/UI Design • Human-Environment Interaction • Agile/Scrum • SQL • Jira • Confluence • Figma • Miro • Notion • R • Basic Python • Agentic AI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Product Manager - J.A. Brennan Associates | Seattle, WA, May 2024 - Present
- Coordinated planning and delivery across design, research, engineering, and operations, ensuring 95% on time completion and using simple KPI check ins to help teams stay aligned.
- Improved clarity and consistency of design workflows, contributing to a 20% improvement in project accuracy and quality through better coordination and structured reviews.
- Reorganized schedules, priorities, and responsibilities across multiple partners, reducing delivery ambiguity and decreasing team turnaround time by 15%, after lightly A/B testing different review and meeting formats to see what worked best.
Product Manager - BLISS | Carmel, CA, August 2023 - May 2024
- Managed multi-phase projects involving designers, engineers, and client teams, improving on-time delivery by 20% through tighter scheduling and milestone tracking.
- Reduced onboarding time by 25% by creating clear documentation, templates, and repeatable collaboration workflows adopted across 18+ projects.
- Facilitated cross-functional reviews and feedback cycles, helping teams resolve blockers faster and improving workflow efficiency by 30%.
Product Manager - SWA Group | CA / MI, Dec 2021 - May 2023
- Supported research and planning programs serving 30+ cities, organizing workflows and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams across planning, design, and field operations.
- Structured research activities, interviews, and working sessions that improved insight collection efficiency by 35%, enabling clearer decision-making.
- Synthesized complex findings into accessible summaries that improved team alignment and reduced revision cycles by 20%.
Licensed Project Architect - Manav Sadhana, NGO | India, 2017-2020
- Coordinated with different agencies to complete projects, designed layouts while taking inputs from clients and users.