Parul Walia

About Parul Walia

Empathetic and data driven Product Manager with 17 years of proven leadership experience…

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager Tpm - Cloud Ai Datacenter Expansion

   Microsoft

   Feb 2017 — Present

   Developing products and processes to oversee Microsoft\'s long-range datacenter (DC) plans, delivering GW+ of additional DC capacity worldwide • Lead end to end product management for Azure’s supply chain platform, including establishing strategy and long-term roadmap, user experience, incremental execution hops, experimentation (A/B) and telemetry. • Established product management best practices including refining intake processes, improving customer listening mechanisms, leveraging prioritization frameworks, and fostering a data driven culture through OKRs and metrics. • Built frameworks to estimate ROI of Azure ISV’s GTM and Business investments. • As a Lead PM for Demand Forecasting, I improved accuracy of Azure’s forecasting platform by zz pp, impacting multi-zz $ capex decisions and FinOps each month, by ideating and building a breakthrough multivariate VAR and ML model. • Led LinkedIn’s cloud migration from legacy to Azure, resulting in a savings of $zz Azure Compute Units (~zz), and zz PB for Storage, through extensive partnerships. • Improved 6-month accuracy of Azure Premium Compute ($zz capex) forecast by zz bps (zz% to zz% MPE), by building regional and customer segmentation models. • Drove product strategy for Azure’s internal reserved instances, resulting in $zz+ yearly savings, through adoption scenario modeling, in partnership with 7 teams. • Established, owned and ran several monthly rhythms of business such as MBR, QBR with senior executives (CVPs, VPs, Directors and Partners) to help drive important outcomes for the Cloud business. • Extensive experience working with x-functions such as engineering, design, research, data science, sales, marketing, planners, finance, demand forecasting and C-suite.