My 2.5 year stint in Bluejeans was one of the most fulfilling experiences I've had in my professional career. in my tenure, I pioneered a full revamp of the Admin experience which had remained the same from the early days of Bluejeans and had over time become very difficult and cumbersome to use. Alongside the admin experience, my focus included the Enterprise Analytics offering called "Command Center", where-in IT admins to view reporting and monitor product usage in realtime for call drops and other issues. The same anlaytics features were also available across all Enterprises for internal support and Customer Success teams through an internal portal called "Indigo".
I also led the integration of Bluejeans scheduling and meetings into various complementary platform tools like Slack,Salesforce, Genesys, Schoology, and Teams.
We also bravely faced the might of Zoom and Microsoft on the B2C and B2B segments and kept the Bluejeans flag high for as long as we could until the eventual shutdown. As part of the same fight, we introduced "Bluejeans Freemium" Plans as one of the last ditch efforts to gain more users and somehow stay afloat in the highly competitive video conferencing market.
In my tenure I led the outside meeting app experiences for end-users & IT admin personas across the entire suite of Bluejeans products & services, encompassing meetings, events, telehealth, messaging, & rooms. As a PM, I improved a range of internal & customer-facing tools, enabling enterprise admins, internal support, & end users to efficiently manage features, settings & monitor product usage.
These included
The end user web-account where users could schedule meetings/events, view recordings
The admin interface for management the enterprise account, features and user settings
The admin interface for monitoring usage and platform performance called "Command Center"
The internal customer facing org interface & super set of "Command Center" called "Indigo"
For the end users ,
Improved sign up & first time onboarding experiences, resulting in quicker sign up to meeting conversion.
End users could now set up their own password instead of getting started with a mailed password that would have to be reset on first use.
Provided a guided onboarding for users to
completely set up their profile so as to not miss key info,
Understand the difference between one-time meeting links and recurring personal meeting link
Scaled the platform experience to support all new features introduced in the platform during my tenure. These included
Ability to set up a poll while scheduling a meeting
Ability to invite interpreters for multi-language meetings
Ability to set up custom consent forms for organisations providing tele-health
Ability to set up recurring meetings and break out sessions while in meeting
Led the integration of meetings into platforms such as Salesforce, Genesys, & Schoology
For Admins
Improved command center efficiency by introducing new dashboards to monitor usage & adoption of new features.
Scaled & Revamped the entire Admin experience for more efficient organisational admin control.
Ability to add one-off contractual users outside of the organisations Active user Directory for a limited time in SSO enabled organisations
User groups and roles for easier admin control over the entire organisation
Introduced user level plans so that organizations could choose amongst multiple plans & admins could assign individual plans to end users
Pioneered a concept of “M-score” to objectively assess platform performance against perceived meeting quality by participants . Admins could monitor and report the M-score in their monthly reporting against the quality scores coming from the actaul participants
Overall for the platform , from a business, UX, engineering and scalability point of view
Benchmarked performance using Google Lighthouse reports, more than doubled performance scores to 80+/100 by focussing on tech upgrades, performance, accessibility & best practices.
Reduced costs of analytics backend by up to 80% by building new APIs, & streamlined data collection & reporting.
Bolstered retention & expanded acquisition funnel by introducing “User level” & “Freemium” pricing model
4000+ new users signed-up Month on Month (Mar’23-Oct’23)
Helped retain multiple churning enterprise accounts by expanding the “Freemium” concept to enterprises