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I am a Technical Product Manager at Applied Materials, where I lead cross-functional initiatives focused on Value Capture and Customer IP Protection.

My Master’s in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford enables me to translate complex technical challenges into user-first products.

Previously, I served as a Product Manager (intern) at Amplitude and Niantic - collecting user pain-points and translating it into new features. My career began as an AI Engineer at a Retail Analytics company in India, where I honed my skills in leveraging data to deliver insights.

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Janani Balasubramanian

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<aside> 📝 Resume

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Past Projects


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Amplitude Product Teardown

This was a first-impression of Amplitude during my internship which includes some suggestions and feedback. Read More →


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Closing the Loop

Applying the design thinking approach to improve type-1 diabetes management working with Stanford Diabetes Research under Prof Michael Berry. Read More →


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Apple Music 9 years too late - can they win the market?

Strategic positioning of Apple Music - the history, present and future of Apple Music and the music streaming industry. Read More →


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Predicting the future using Graphs

A blog focused on understanding graph neural networks. Building and testing a Relational Graph Neural Network model to predict edges at a point in time. Read More →

Work Experience


<aside> <img src="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" alt="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Technical Program Manager Applied Materials Inc (Aug 2023 - Till Now)

Product owner for an enterprise software tool that integrates with 8 data sources to track and analyze customer opportunities and outcomes across global labs. During my tenure, I increased user adoption by 40%, improved data consistency across applications, and strengthened data security to protect customer IP. Further, I also launched a global Data Management platform across 7 sites to securely manage digital assets.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" alt="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Product Manager Intern Amplitude (June 2022 - Sept 2022)

I led three key projects on the Data Connections team: conducted user research to understand end-user pain points, developed a product roadmap focused on improving Identity Resolution, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to launch a data tracking feature with Time-To-Live (TTL) capabilities—enabling customers to set custom data retention periods.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" alt="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Product Manager Intern Niantic Inc (Sept 2021 - December 2021) We conducted 60+ user interviews to understand the AR/VR landscape that led us to a key incentive mismatch between end-users and Niantic. We developed and validated a gamified solution through three user surveys using mockups and prototypes. The success of this initiative led to hiring a full-time Product Manager to explore this opportunity.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" alt="/icons/tortoise_gray.svg" width="40px" /> AI Engineer SharedReach (July 2020 - June 2021)

Worked on Object Detection Algorithms and maintained a Machine Learning pipeline that detected and counted objects in an image. Further, I automated the process of detecting and flagging fake images, saving 800 man-hours annually. To improve the quality of data used in our ML models - I led the identification, adoption and documentation of a new annotation tool speeding up the process by 99%.

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