Ayush Saraswat

Founder

New York, New York, United States9 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Shipped Gusto's first AI product, Smart Import.
  • Grew Squarespace's mobile revenue from $0 to eight-figure ARR.
  • Founded splitty, an AI-powered app with 50k+ monthly users.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in Fintech and SaaS with strong AI and mobile expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementMachine LearningProduct DevelopmentProduct Strategy

Other Skills

Computer VisionLeadershipSwiftOCRData AnalysisPeople ManagementProduct VisionSQLProblem SolvingCommunicationTeamworkScrumImage ProcessingProject ManagementAnalytical Skills

About

I build products at the intersection of AI and core business problems — and I can write the code to prove it. At Gusto, I led the product teams building for accountants ($XXXM ARR), the company's fastest-growing segment. I shipped the company's first AI product — Smart Import, a patented system for parsing unstructured payroll spreadsheets — and an ML-based integration experience that cut support cases by 35%. At Squarespace, I took mobile from a side project to a major business line, growing it from $0 to eight-figure ARR. I started as a software engineer and was promoted five times. I still build every day. splitty is an AI-powered bill-splitting app with 50k+ monthly active users — I've written every line of code, including custom ML models that classify receipt line items with 98% accuracy. It went from idea to App Store in five months, while I was working full-time. I write about product, experiments, baking, and more at ayushsaraswat.com.

Experience

9 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Equals

Sr. Director of Product

Jun 2025Nov 2025 · 5 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • First product hire at Equals, a next-generation spreadsheet company. Led the product vision for Equals Analyst — an AI agent that automates GTM analysis — from concept through early customer adoption.
  • Shipped 8 major releases in 4 months, bringing the team from exploratory builds to a focused product strategy that drove meaningful incremental revenue. Helped an exceptional engineering and design team find customer resonance early by narrowing scope, tightening feedback loops, and shipping fast.
Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Gusto

Director of Product Management

Oct 2023Jun 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • Shipped Gusto's first AI product — Smart Import, a patented system that parses unstructured payroll spreadsheets with 96% accuracy, reducing processing time by ~25%. Smart Import now powers payroll data migration from ADP, QuickBooks, and Paychex, turning a historically manual, error-prone process into something that takes minutes.
  • Led the product teams building for accountants ($XXXM+ ARR), Gusto's fastest-growing large segment. Built an ML-based onboarding experience for integrations that cut support cases by 35%. Launched Payroll Hub (a command center for managing payroll across all clients) and cross-client reporting that eliminated 17.5% of duplicate reports. Led a ground-up redesign of Gusto Pro for multi-client workflows — shifting the product from transactional to strategic.
  • In addition, owned applied AI strategy, third-party integrations, and the enterprise product roadmap.
Product ManagementMachine Learning

Splitty, inc.

Founder & CEO

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · New York, United States

  • Built splitty — an AI-powered bill-splitting app with 50k+ MAUs and $Xk/mo in revenue. I've written every line of code.
  • Trained a custom ML model on thousands of receipts to classify line items (subtotal, tax, items) with 98% accuracy. Implemented real-time receipt detection using on-device computer vision and OCR, with geometry-based line grouping to understand receipt structure. Native iOS app in Swift/SwiftUI with Venmo integration for instant payments.
  • I went from idea to App Store in 5 months, while working full-time. To date, tens of thousands of users have split hundreds of thousands of receipts.
Machine LearningProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementComputer VisionLeadership

Squarespace

Group Product Manager, Mobile

Jun 2018Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • I joined a team of 5 mobile engineers working on 5 different apps that made no money. I reframed the mobile strategy from "clone desktop onto phones" to a companion experience — then built it. I consolidated 5 apps into one flagship Squarespace app, launched Point of Sale through a partnership with Square, and integrated Squarespace's first acquisition (Acuity Scheduling).
  • I took mobile from a cost center to a product 80% of customers used weekly. Revenue grew from $0 to eight-figure ARR, and ~50% of all orders are now fulfilled on mobile. I built the org from 5 to 30+ and led a team of 4 PMs. Started as a Software Engineer — promoted five times.
Data AnalysisPeople ManagementProduct StrategyProduct VisionProduct ManagementLeadership

Twitch

Product & Engineering

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco, California

  • Defined and drove the product roadmap for user identity and augmented reality features across Twitch while leading implementation for mobile client teams. Advocated for and shipped a major rewrite of core iOS frameworks, significantly improving crash-free sessions and feature velocity. Collaborated with senior leadership to establish code review guidelines adopted org-wide.
  • This was one of those rare internships where I got to do both product and engineering, alongside the sharpest minds in our industry.

Squarespace

Software Engineer, Mobile

May 2016Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area · On-site

  • Spearheaded a complete rewrite of the Portfolio product in 8 weeks — reimagining a multi-year codebase from scratch. Built a reusable framework to bring Squarespace's customer support tools to mobile and revamped the Commerce app's navigation for multi-store management.
  • Returned 2 years later as PM for the same products I built as an intern (& later, sunset).

Udacity

Software Engineer, iOS

Jun 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Built and shipped the Udacity iOS app used by millions of learners. Led the platform's migration from Objective-C to Swift. Designed and wrote curriculum for the Beginner iOS Nanodegree, guiding students with zero programming experience to publish their first app.

University of southern california

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · Los Angeles, California

  • Mentored students of ITP-140 (Mobile Application Technologies) and ITP-342 (Mobile Application Development) in the basics of mobile application technologies, Objective-C, and the Xcode IDE.

Testmax

Software Engineer, Mobile

Oct 2014Apr 2015 · 6 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Responsible for the maintenance of the current suite of TestMax products (LSATMax and BarMax) while also spearheading the development of new revolutionary iOS applications for test preparation.

Education

University of Southern California

Bachelor’s Degree — Major: Computer Science and Business Administration

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