Madhava Narayanan — Product Manager
I’m a passionate, curious, and fun-loving product leader who finds joy in solving tough problems and transforming ideas into impactful products. Over the past 14 years, I’ve grown through multiple roles in the software industry, from developer to founding product manager to product leader, building SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS products for global enterprises. My experience spans the full spectrum of product management: defining vision and strategy, driving agile execution, and directly contributing across sales enablement, customer success, and go-to-market. At Prolaborate, I joined as the first Product Manager when the team was fewer than 10 people, and the product was still in alpha. Over four years, I helped scale it into a profitable company reaching 275+ enterprise customers — including 35+ Fortune Global 500 firms across 40+ countries. The success led to our acquisition by Sparx Systems. At ProManage (Sulekha), I joined just weeks before the alpha release — with no customers, no product team, and an unfinished strategy. I built the product function from the ground up, defined the vision and roadmap, and helped acquire 35+ enterprise customers within the first year, positioning the product as a strong market contender. Currently, at Appian Corporation, I lead platform engineering product initiatives, driving next-gen cloud capabilities that enhance scalability, reliability, and enterprise adoption. I thrive in chaos, enjoy working with smart, collaborative people, and love bringing structure and strategy to fast-moving, high-growth environments. What drives me most is the opportunity to build teams, systems, and products that create meaningful business impact.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with extensive experience in scaling products and teams.
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Experience: 14 yrs
Skills
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Mobile Application Development
- Product Development
Career Highlights
- Led product initiatives for next-gen cloud capabilities.
- Scaled Prolaborate to 275+ enterprise customers.
- Built high-performing product teams from scratch.
Work Experience
Appian
Senior Product Manager II (0 mo)
Senior Product Manager (2 yrs 7 mos)
College of Engineering, Guindy
Video Editor & Li Marketing - CEG Global Alumni Meet 4.0 (4 mos)
Indian Institute of Management Raipur
Chairperson - Alumni Association - Chennai Chapter (3 yrs 4 mos)
Sulekha
Associate Director - Product Management (1 yr 4 mos)
Sparx Systems Prolaborate
Senior Product Manager (4 yrs 6 mos)
Resilinc Corporation
Product Manager (11 mos)
Business Integration Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Product Manager (2 mos)
Product Analyst (1 yr 11 mos)
Exide Industries Limited
Market Research Internship (1 mo)
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Engineer - Application Development (8 mos)
Tata Consultancy Services
Systems Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)
Education
PGDM at Indian Institute of Management Raipur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at College of Engineering, Guindy
at Sri Sankara Vidyalaya, East Tambaram
