Purnima Rao

Business Strategy & Operations | MongoDB | ex-Meta | ex-Linkedin

Milpitas, California, United States

About

Passionate about using a data-driven strategy and value-based execution to drive great business decisions. Having worked primarily in strategy and operations functions in the tech industry for ~8 years, I have developed my skills and expertise in stakeholder management, cross functional collaboration, operational attention to detail, analytical rigor, and problem solving in ambiguity.

Experience

  • MongoDB (Palo Alto, California, United States)
    • Senior Manager, Global Presales Strategy and Planning
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Manager, Global Presales Strategy and Planning
      Apr 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Meta (5 yrs)
    • Strategic Planning Manager
      Jul 2022 - Jan 2023 · 7 mos

      Strategic Planning Manager - Content Strategy and Acquisition (Partnerships)1. Annual planning for 4 content teams - content deals, program management, analytics and marketing teams to define and prioritize focus areas for 2023 (60+ FTEs). 2. Collaborate with partnerships leadership team to build go to market plans for reels content activation across funded (creator incentives) and non funded (distribution, education and ad credits) levers. 3. Roadmapping content analytics insights supporting content investment decisions across FB and IG (Eg: content verticals and trends to invest in)

    • Business Planning and Operations Lead
      Dec 2019 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Central Europe - SMB Lead 1. Driving revenue insights, operations and planning for the $1B+ sales scaled central europe organization including DACH, Benelux and Central & Eastern Europe 2. Building the bi-annual XFN collaboration model and cadence across regions in EMEA 3. Developing change management plans for transition to new incentive plans in collaboration with global compensation and operations teams

    • Business Planning and Operations Lead
      Oct 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

      DACH and CEE - SMB Lead 1. Leading the deep dives into growth drivers and segmentation for 4K+ clients 2. Organizational design and Reorganizing a $3B+ organization to unlock opportunities and growth

  • Business Strategy Analyst at LinkedIn
    Jul 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Member of the 2016 class of the Strategy & Analytics Leadership Program in EMEA. This program consists of rotations across functions such as Business Operations, Finance, and Sales Operations. Rotation 1: Sales Operations - Talent Solutions, EMEA (Jul 2016 - Feb 2017) Rotation 2: Business Operations GSO, EMEA (Feb 2017 - Jul 2017) Rotation 3 : Economic Graph (Jul 2017 - Jan 2018)

  • Systems Engineer at Infosys
    Jun 2011 - Feb 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology, and outsourcing and next-generation services. Led team to design and develop a log retrieval tool for the call center infrastructure management project of the client Managed major deployments in the production environment for global telecom client AT&T Co-ordinated and implemented the Knowledge Transfer process for a team of 7 members