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Harikrishnan Ramadass

Product at Marketing Cloud

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Work Experience

Salesforce

Senior Product Manager - MC Next

Jul 2026 — Present
  • Analyze adoption, usage and health metrics to guide iteration and measure feature impact.
  • Partner with Sales, Marketing and CSM to align GTM positioning and enablement with new capabilities.
  • Represent voice of the customer, synthesizing feedback from support and direct management.
  • Manage cross-functional stakeholders, balancing priorities and communicating trade-offs clearly.
  • Prototype with AI tools to enhance marketing workflows and experiment agentic workflows.

Salesforce

Senior Technical Architect / Product SME - Marketing Cloud on Core

Apr 2022 — Jun 2026
  • Partner with Product & Engineering for low-latency, high-throughput data ingestion, API orchestration, and real-time activation pipelines powering enterprise-scale personalization and conversational experiences.
  • Designed cross-cloud data architecture integrating Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, and external CDPs, improving data unification and activation latency by 35% for Signature enterprise clients.
  • Work with Product to closely influence product roadmap for Marketing Cloud on Core capabilities around email, SMS, whatsapp, push notifications, automation events and real-time personalization.
  • Directing cross-functional teams to integrate complex systems, achieving a 20% improvement in operational efficiency and a 15% increase in customer ROI.
  • Evangelized Salesforce's Data + AI + Messaging platform vision across executive forums and conferences (Connections, World Tour), shaping industry adoption and enabling $10M+ in renewals/upsells.
  • Experience prototyping and validating product experience cycles using AI tools such as Cursor.

CVS Health (Aetna), NY

Senior Marketing Cloud Architect - Behavior Change

May 2019 — Apr 2022
  • Owned end-to-end lifecycle for an AI-powered real-time personalization platform driving content decisions across Email, SMS, and IVR, reducing campaign latency from 24 hours to 30 minutes and delivering $2M–$5M annual savings.
  • Partnered with engineering and data science to design event-driven decisioning pipelines, integrating claims, pharmacy, and engagement telemetry into a unified predictive ML-ready feature layer.
  • Partnered with data science teams to build decisioning models and identity resolution pipelines, ensuring personalized content delivery across 30M+ members.
  • Mentored product and engineering squads to shift from campaign-execution mindset to platform-led product development, improving delivery velocity by 40%.

WW (formerly WeightWatchers Inc), NY

Salesforce Marketing Cloud - Product SME

Aug 2016 — May 2019
  • Led the technical product strategy for WellnessWins, a new tiered loyalty program. Integrated CrowdTwist with Salesforce Marketing Cloud to drive member retention across the US & Canada.
  • Collaborated on the roadmap for omni-channel messaging capabilities (SMS, push, and email), collaborating with engineering, UX, and marketing to prioritize features that improved onboarding, retention, and customer lifetime value.
  • Implemented Movable Ink and OneSpot to automate content personalization, reducing manual creative workload and boosting app ratings from 1.0 to 4.1.
  • Prevented the migration from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to Braze by counseling stakeholders on risks of platform migration, identifying architectural optimizations to meet the evolving needs of 25M+ members across North America and Europe.

TATA Consultancy Services, India / NY-USA

MarTech Consultant / Salesforce Analyst

Jan 2009 — Aug 2016
  • Designed cross-channel customer and order-engagement journeys across email, SMS, and push as part of the Salesforce Centre of Excellence (CoE).
  • Managed enterprise-scale Salesforce Sales Cloud + Marketing Cloud implementations for 4,000+ users.
  • Authored migration and implementation proposals ($2M+) driving full-scale adoption of Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Featured Projects

Email Force

EmailForce is an intelligent email marketing platform designed to move beyond automation to autonomy. This prototype showcases how AI agents can autonomously design, optimize, and personalize revenue-generating email campaigns.

Email Force

Kite

This prototype demonstrates the user interface and interactions for Kite, an intelligent middleware layer designed to identify and block non-billable events (AIT, Scripting Arbitrage, and Billing Evasion) for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Kite

About Me

Hi, I’m Hari — Product manager with 15+ years of experience driving AI-native SaaS solutions across enterprise CRM and customer engagement. Strong background in cross-functional leadership, UX collaboration, and go-to-market enablement. Experienced in building AI-powered personalization and content delivery frameworks that scale across enterprise environments. I’ve led high-stakes technical engagements for global enterprise brands and have evangelized Salesforce’s platform vision across executive forums and major conferences like Connections and World Tour — enabling $10M+ in renewals and upsells.

Harikrishnan Ramadass