Janet Rajan — Co-Founder

I work at the intersection of product strategy, technology, and leadership transformation enabling organizations to build impactful products while developing high-performing teams and leaders who can scale them. With over 24 years of global experience across product, engineering, entrepreneurship, and executive coaching, I’ve led and advised organizations across BFSI, insurance, ecommerce, and deep-tech to: • Build and scale digital products from idea to market • Drive product-led business outcomes, growth, efficiency, and customer impact • Transform cross-functional teams into strong product organizations • Align strategy, execution, and leadership in fast-changing environments Through my work at Growth Collective, I partner with startups, GCCs, and enterprises as a Product & Leadership Advisor, supporting: 👉 Product strategy & roadmap shaping 👉 Product operating models & agile transformation 👉 Customer-centric design & innovation 👉 Building strong product leaders & teams My background spans product management, technology leadership, startup scale-ups, and organizational transformation, enabling me to bring both strategic clarity and execution rigor to complex product journeys. Alongside this, I’m deeply invested in leadership development and performance coaching, helping senior leaders and product teams strengthen: • Decision-making under uncertainty • Influence & stakeholder leadership • Team effectiveness & execution excellence I’m a Harvard Business School PLD graduate, certified Gallup, Hogan & Erickson coach, and an active contributor to industry and academia across product, design thinking, and leadership. Some organizations I’ve partnered with include Microsoft, Cisco, Zetwerk, Target, Odessa, Grundfos, IIMs, Indian Oil, OneShield, Meredith, and more. When not building products or leaders, you’ll find me exploring new places, ideas, cafés, books, and emerging technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product and Leadership Transformation Expert with a focus on SaaS and Agile methodologies.

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience: 23 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Product Management
Leadership

Career Highlights

Over 24 years of global experience in product and leadership.
Expert in transforming teams into high-performing product organizations.
Harvard Business School PLD graduate and certified executive coach.

Work Experience

StealthMode

Founder (4 mos)

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Strategic Advisor (1 yr 5 mos)

Growth Collective

Founder & Principal (5 yrs 4 mos)

Mad Street Den

Head of Product (1 yr 3 mos)

Odessa

AVP - Strategic Product Management/Engineering (1 yr 4 mos)

OneShield

Senior Product Manager (Core Platform) (1 yr 11 mos)

Implementation Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)

Technical Team Lead (3 yrs 1 mo)

Senior Java J2EE Developer (2 yrs 5 mos)

Wells Fargo Bank

Lead Design Analyst (7 mos)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)

Senior Java/J2EE Developer (2 yrs 1 mo)

Harbinger Pvt. Ltd

Java/J2EE Developer (1 yr)

Zensar Technologies

Java/ VB Developer (2 yrs)

Education

Management at Harvard Business School

Strategic Marketing at Harvard Business School

Masters at University of Cincinnati

Masters at Pune University

Bachelors at Fergusson College

Janet Rajan

Co-Founder

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India23 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 24 years of global experience in product and leadership.
Expert in transforming teams into high-performing product organizations.
Harvard Business School PLD graduate and certified executive coach.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product and Leadership Transformation Expert with a focus on SaaS and Agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

Product strategyAgile transformationCustomer-centric designLeadership developmentProduct roadmapAgile development practicesAI-based product data predictionsDevOpsTest automationDesign ThinkingEntrepreneurshipCareer Development CoachingCoachingPerformance coachStrategy

About

Experience

Stealthmode

Founder

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Learning fuels the journey to our best selves!
Currently crafting the future of leadership through AI-driven gamification experiences blending innovation and engagement to fuel effective learning journeys.

Indian institute of management ahmedabad

Strategic Advisor

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Growth collective

Founder & Principal

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

Growth Collective is a product and leadership transformation firm helping organizations build impactful digital products while developing strong leaders and high-performing teams.
We partner with startups, GCCs, and enterprises to:
Shape product strategy, innovation, and operating models
Drive customer-centric product discovery and execution
Build cross-functional product teams and leadership capability
Enable agile, outcome-focused ways of working
Our approach integrates product rigor, technology depth, and human-centered leadership, ensuring measurable business impact from stronger product-market fit to improved execution and performance.
Beyond advisory and consulting, we design immersive development journeys and build scalable tools that strengthen both product capability and leadership effectiveness.
At Growth Collective, we enable products and the leaders who scale them.

Product strategyAgile transformationCustomer-centric designLeadership developmentProduct ManagementLeadership

Mad street den

Head of Product

Jun 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Owned the product roadmap and work closely with the executive team to create strategy, vision and delivery model. Maintain, monitor and publish progress to leadership on product goals for maintenance (SLA) and milestones (KPI).
Lead a team of product/program managers with close collaboration with engineering and AI teams by streamlining agile based development practices. Enforced best engineering practices, competitive analysis, and product usage analytics to enable improved metrics.
Optimized search results and increased product discoverability on customer websites by consistently increasing accuracy (90% +) of AI based product data predictions. Also, reduced time to market employing data segmentation and automation.
Scouted and managed vendor relationships to fuel product implementation processes.

Product roadmapAgile development practicesAI-based product data predictionsProduct ManagementLeadership

Odessa

AVP - Strategic Product Management/Engineering

Jan 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Spearheaded an agile transformation for a product team of 150+ and successfully setup & led the Devops practice for CICD enablement & implementation of core engineering practices for the product team.
Skillfully increased the utilization of the team from 17% to 80% in 4 months to establish a profitable P&L practice.
Took the product through a full upgrade to adhere to the latest regulatory Financial Accounting Standards as established by the US government and ensured compliance for all customers.
Enabled an enterprise wise test automation program, to maintain a regression suite to reduce turnaround time, improve quality & enhance code coverage.

Agile transformationDevOpsTest automationProduct ManagementLeadership