May 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Head of product for Brex' AI powered enterprise spend management, including Brex travel and Brex payables

Oct 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Pioneered a new product category of SaaS offering and product suite, an integrated employee experience platform, positioning Microsoft to capture new markets due to increased demand during the pandemic from the hybrid work model. In this multidisciplinary role, spearheaded all facets of product management, customer experience, data science, and ecosystem platform for the Microsoft Viva offering. Built organization from ground up, directing 1K+ team members involved in end-to-end product delivery.
• ✓ Architected product vision, launched Viva to market, engaging key company stakeholders and leaders
• ✓ Onboarded talent and built the organization 100% remote during the pandemic
• ✓ Initiated Viva’s V1 development and launched this HR Tech suite

Oct 2016 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Head of Product - Microsoft Teams Learning App
• Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
• Conceptualized, incubated, and took to beta an innovative product, setting the stage ultimately for a new product category and offering.
• ✓ Designed the product strategy, championed the offering resulting in accelerating investment
• ✓ Grew the organization and steered product management initiatives, overcoming pandemic obstacles of staffing and remote work settings.
• ✓ Mobilized a diverse team (60%+) of multidisciplinary product management, data science, and customer success engineering experts through focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts.
• Head of Product - Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers
• Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
• Equipped the company to enter the 2B+ global frontline worker base, shipping capabilities like shift scheduling, task management and digital push-to-talk communication, on Teams mobile. This won Microsoft the 2019 “Best of Enterprise Connect Overall” award.
• ✓ Created an industry-focused product strategy, guiding the team that delivered product truth
• ✓ Developed first in the industry partnerships and collaborations with OEMs, such as Samsung, adding PTT features and Teams to the Galaxy XCover Pro smartphone
• ✓ Launched Teams for Frontline app into the augmented reality space through RealWear partnership
• Head of Product - Microsoft Teams Mobile Platform
• Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
• Enlisted to develop and ship first few versions of the Teams mobile apps and its extensibility platform. The apps on iOS and Android app stores have since maintained 4.6+ star ratings and boast of 80M+ monthly active users now.
• ✓ Designed the strategy to differentiate with mobile only features, achieving a 99th percentile performance benchmark and growing user engagement
• ✓ Created a platform for developers and ISVs to bring their mobile experiences to Teams
• ✓ Built an agile, customer-centric culture focused on responsiveness, feedback and velocity of updates

Sep 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led strategic partnerships for the first-ever screen zero mobile content delivery platform in India, Glance. These partnerships led the way for pre-install on devices, and the product reached 100M+ users with the business making Unicorn status in 2020.
• ✓ Drove strategic alliances with global Android OEMs and ODMs to enable monetization through their devices.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos

• Developed, managed, and optimized relationships with OEM partners in APAC, Brazil and North America for pre-loading applications on their devices. Managed contract negotiations, new product integrations, marketing campaigns, feature requests, and strategic planning to drive successful implementations and increased user adoption and awareness of Microsoft Office products on Android tablets and phones.

Mar 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Shipped new MSN Money experiences on Web, Search and Mobile. Oversaw monetization of MSN Money properties across 50+ markets, including display and distribution revenue streams. Conceptualized FinTech experiences like account linking and tracking through integration with aggregator ISVs.

Oct 2007 – Feb 2012 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Delivered significant search quality gains for Bing in international markets, contributing to the Bing/Yahoo search deal in 2015.

May 2004 – Oct 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Chicago, USA and Hyderabad, India

• For a large Fortune 100 bank, recommended region-wise customizations to their global credit card processing system. Managed delivery for Visa/MasterCard compliance upgrades to production.
• Integrated the business processes and systems for the Operating Platform and Legal Entities of the Financial Services SBU across Capgemini in North America and India, post the merger announcement of Kanbay by Capgemini.