Vidhi Desai

Business Development, Cloud Migration & Modernization | Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Bengaluru2.6k followers
Rotary Club of Bangaloreex-IBMex-Jewish Family & Children's Services

Passionate, experienced portfolio marketing professional with over fourteen years of experience in product marketing, sales, business development and product management in enterprise software and SaaS.

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Developed marketing strategies and launched products with comprehensive go-to-market plans for product portfolios up-to $300M. Leveraging my strength in story-telling and deep understanding of buyers, developed messaging that resonates with clients and demonstrates market leadership. Based on a well-defined content strategy, developed engaging and compelling content and offers. Designed campaigns and marketing programs to drive demand and help clients progress through the buyer’s journey. Strong experience in working closely with sales: developed tactics to build and progress pipeline, developing sales enablement material (Quick reference guides, sales plays, playbooks, battlecards etc. and enabling them to progress and win deals. Specialties & Skills: • Enterprise B2B and SaaS (Hybrid Cloud, Containers/Kubernetes, Application Modernization, Security, IT Service Management, Analytics, Cognitive, Middleware, System z) • Product Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Competitive Analysis, GTM strategy and execution Driving joint GTM strategies with cloud partners (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud) • Storytelling, Understanding buyer personas, Messaging that resonates with clients • Marketing campaigns/programs, metrics and measurement • Sales, sales enablement, pipeline management - Program Management • Writing and presentation skills

Career Timeline

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GTM Index

  1. AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)JOB
    1. Principal GTM Specialist,…
      2Y 2M
    2. Principal GTM Specialist,…
      2Y 5M
  2. ROTARY CLUB OF BANGALOREJOB
    1. Education Chair
      7M
  3. VMWAREJOB
    1. Sr. Principal PMM - VMware…
      1Y 8M
  4. RED HATJOB
    1. Principal PMM, Red Hat Ope…
      1Y 4M
  5. ORACLEJOB
    1. Sr. PMM - Oracle Cloud, Se…
      1Y 11M
  6. IBMJOB
    1. WW PMM, IBM Cloud
      4Y 2M
    2. WW PMM: IBM Security Solut…
      2Y 11M
    3. Technical Sales Specialist…
      2Y 6M
    4. WW Product Mgr, IBM Tivoli…
      1Y 4M
    5. Extreme Blue Technical Int…
      2M
  7. JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICESJOB
    1. Technical Consultant
      3M
  8. MOTECH SOFTWARE, INDIAJOB
    1. Software Developer/Intern
      11M

Time in market 23Y 4MOpen 5Closed 11Stints 16

gtmindex.io/p/vidhi-desai-5735622

  1. Job: IBM — WW Product Marketing Manager, IBM Cloud · 2013-01 – 2017-03 · 4y 2mo
  2. Job: Jewish Family & Children's Services — Technical Consultant · 2005-01 – 2005-04 · 3 mo
  3. Job: IBM — WW Product Manager, IBM Tivoli Security · 2006-02 – 2007-06 · 1y 4mo
  4. Job: MoTech Software, India — Software Developer/Intern · 2003-06 – 2004-05 · 11 mo
  5. Job: IBM — Extreme Blue Technical Intern · 2005-06 – 2005-08 · 2 mo
  6. Job: IBM — WW Product Marketing Manager: IBM Security Solutions · 2010-01 – 2012-12 · 2y 11mo
  7. Job: Oracle — Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Oracle Cloud, Security · 2017-04 – 2019-03 · 1y 11mo
  8. Job: IBM — Technical Sales Specialist - IBM WebSphere Software · 2007-06 – 2009-12 · 2y 6mo
  9. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Principal GTM Specialist, Microsoft Workloads on AWS | Cloud Migration & Modernization · 2024-08 – present · 2y — Business development, Modernization
  10. Job: Rotary Club of Bangalore — Education Chair · 2026-03 – present · 5 mo
  11. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Principal GTM Specialist, Containers & Serverless · 2022-03 – 2024-08 · 2y 5mo — Specialize in all things Containers, Serverless, and Application Modernization
  12. Job: Red Hat — Principal Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform · 2019-03 – 2020-07 · 1y 4mo
  13. Job: VMware Inc. — Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager - VMware Cloud Infrastructure, Modern Apps · 2020-07 – 2022-03 · 1y 8mo — - As a Product Marketing Manager, responsible for driving GTM strategies, product launches, demand generation campaigns, sales enablement and thought leadership initiatives around VMware Cloud Infrastructure (vSphere with Tanzu, Modern Apps, Containers, Kubernetes, AI/ML, Full stack HCI etc.) - Leading Sovereign Cloud and Zero Carbon Committed initiatives and programs
  14. School: Carnegie Mellon University — Masters, Information Systems Management
  15. School: University of Washington — Certificate, Marketing Management
  16. School: Mumbai University — Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology

Skills

Sales OperationsSellingProduct ManagementITIL CertifiedProduct MarketingIntegrationGo-to-market StrategyCloud ComputingContainersSales EnablementStart-upsCRMSaaSStrategyBusiness DevelopmentManagementSalesKubernetesDocker

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