Anand Narayanan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of product leadership experience.
  • Expert in AI-driven product innovation.
  • Proven track record in revenue growth and customer acquisition.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI product management expert with extensive B2B experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyCustomer InsightSoftware Product ManagementCustomer ExperienceAgile Application Development

Other Skills

Growth StrategiesRevenue & Profit GrowthGlobal Product ManagementAI product ManagementSite leadershipLeadershipSoftware as a Service (SaaS)ChatGPTBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Customer AcquisitionGenerative AI ToolsCustomer Segmentation StrategyGen AIDALL-EProduct Design

About

With over 20 years of experience as a product leader, I am passionate about creating world-class products that transform the business. My strength lies in fostering customer centric product teams that are agile, data driven without the paralysis, outcome oriented and at the forefront of AI driven innovation. I am a big believer of "lead from the front" especially as it pertains to applying AI. Anand's product experience spans the US, Australia and India, B2B and B2C, startups to $100B+ companies and all archetypes of product management across growth, platform, e-commerce, Agentic AI and more traditional products.

Experience

24 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Atlassian

2 roles

Head of product, Service collection growth and monetization ; India site head, Product

Promoted

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · Hybrid

  • Spearhead revenue growth for Jira Service Management through both low-touch and high-touch monetization strategies.
  • Drive product strategy and execution across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Manage the product roadmap, packaging, pricing and distribution for service collection
Growth StrategiesRevenue & Profit GrowthGlobal Product ManagementProduct StrategyAI product ManagementSite leadership+1

Head of Product, Jira Scale and Product site lead, Atlassian India

Oct 2024Jan 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hybrid

  • Head of products, Jira: My mission is to create market winning products that allow Jira to scale into the largest customer use cases effectively.
  • Product site lead: I own and drive all capability development and craft uplift for the India site for the product management organization at Atlassian.
Product ManagementCustomer InsightLeadershipSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

Career break

Health and well-being

Aug 2024Sep 2024 · 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Took a long breath before going after my professional passion again. Spent the time with family, traveled in Egypt performed music shows, played a lot of football, met incredible leaders across companies and segments and read close to 15 books

Simplilearn

2 roles

Chief Product Officer

Promoted

May 2017Jul 2024 · 7 yrs 2 mos

  • Owner of the product portfolio at Simplilearn (Ranked among the top training providers globally and focused on transforming organizations and individuals). The owner of all product decisions from the day to day tactical to the long-ranging strategic.
  • Ecommerce and Growth Platforms: Drive traffic and lead growth through the 8Million MAU online portals. Also own the sales automation tools and hence drive traffic to lead and lead to order for this platform. As part of this platform, drive growth of the SkillUP platform where free articles, videos, webinars drive 30K monthly certificate shares and constitutes a large part of the top of the funnel
  • LMS, learning tools and learner operations: Product manage and own the platform for 70K paid users (MAU) and 1M free users (MAU). The platform is AI enabled and has AI driven evaluations and AI interactions. The entire platform and operations delivers CSAT of 4.6+/5 and a completion rate 5x the industry norm.
  • Programs: Product manage, develop and deliver the programs and the curriculum that is delivered in partnership with some of the biggest university names in the world (MIT, Caltech, IIT Kanpur, Purdue, Imperial and so on) and also with some of the biggest industry names in the world (Amazon, Google, KPMG, IBM and Microsoft to name a few). Pricing, promotions, product, place and people sits with this team This platform operates across B2B and B2C.
  • Overall experience and scale owner for the business across growth, conversion, experience, completion and placements.
ChatGPTRevenue & Profit GrowthSoftware Product ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Customer ExperienceAgile Application Development+9

Vice President, Product and Engineering

Mar 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Accountable for everything from product vision through delivery via the product management, design, engineering/QE and the content teams. Owner of the customer experience, the product roadmap and product delivery helping drive the company's financial goals.
Revenue & Profit GrowthSoftware Product ManagementCustomer ExperienceAgile Application DevelopmentCustomer AcquisitionCustomer Segmentation Strategy+1

Rackspace

Director of Product Management, Public Cloud

Jul 2014Feb 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin

  • Lead the compute public cloud portfolio of products (largest cloud portfolio within rackspace at ~$400M annual revenue) for the public cloud business within Rackspace. Owner of the Strategy, P&L, roadmap, customer voice for this IaaS cloud business across the virtual cloud servers and bare metal cloud servers.
  • Grew the compute revenue ~25% during my leadership period. Some Examples: Carina Beta (Container as a service offering) that grew from 0 to thousands of user in 6 months. OnMetal (bare metal server offering) that has exceeded business goals immediately after launch and is continuing to exceed forecasts.
  • Install base growth owner for the public cloud, driving 25% growth among the top strategic accounts over a 6 month period during my ownership. Won critical account deals through product delivery and partnership with these accounts. Owner of the Install Base growth plans and P&L goals. Drove a 75% improvement in product reliability leading to greater growth in the install base and turning around reliability NPS to historical highs for the business.
  • Managed a team of product managers guiding, mentoring and serving them to allow them the greatest latitude and growth possible, while leading the business outcomes of a matrixed organization across product, engineering, support, marketing and UX around my products and domains.
Software Product ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Customer ExperienceCustomer Segmentation StrategyProduct Management

Sabbatical@home

Sabbatical

Feb 2014Jul 2014 · 5 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Took a break from the workforce to explore various interests such as music production, golf, advanced swimming and music composition. Connected more with the family and spent as much time as I could with them. Introspected and passively looked around for exciting workplaces that had a people strategy aligned with my own views (servant leadership, transparency, direct honesty and a maniacal focus on results). while allowing me to make a real difference to their bottom-line. Came out refreshed, clearer about what I was passionate about and even more connected to my family.

Dell

3 roles

Director Product Management Enterprise Storage

Jan 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Championed product management, portfolio planning, and business development for >$600M line of storage and cloud computing products.
  • Closely partnered with customers, sales, advanced engineering/CTO team to create real products and offerings spanning cloud, XaaS, storage, converged solutions and big data domains.
  • Resourcefully initiated and provided influential business concepts and requirements for next-generation high-end portfolio products encompassing storage solutions for SMB, large enterprise, Big Data and XaaS/Cloud space.
  • Oversaw P&L management as business owner of Dell mid-range and high-end storage platforms, licensing system, associated software systems and third-party integrations.
  • Drove concepts for virtualization and XaaS markets including hyper-converged solution built in-house alongside partnership with key market disruptors.
Agile Application Development

Director Program Management File System Products

Promoted

Jan 2010Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Top ranked program management leader at Dell. Consistently above goals in all dimensions.
  • Exercised sharp organizational skills toward holding cross-functional, general management and portfolio ownership across three lines of business for network attached storage (NAS) business. The product line received multiple industry awards for innovation, quality and competitive differentiation subsequently (searchstorage.com award for quality, storage vision award for innovation to name a few)
  • Directed, motivated and supervised core business team (services, quality, marketing, engineering/test, sales, factory, product support) to achieve targets for P&L and customer satisfaction.
  • Drove extensive "Go to market" plans in action including the first of its kind channel strategy, special pricing for acquisition customers and sales commitments to drive increased P&L realization 10% in excess of goals for the year.
  • Grew new business (NAS/File systems) from the grounds up (Revenue=$0) to an excess of $100M in 2 years. Proposed expansion strategies to fuel the next generation of growth beyond the current plan.
  • Drove specific action plans around customer quality and experience issues resulting in a 25% improvement in portfolio quality.
  • Key leader in the post M&A integration of 4 Dell Storage acquisitions (Exanet, EqualLogic, Compellent and Ocarina) with the explicit target of successful people and process integration alongside new value creation through the development of the NAS portfolio.
  • Key driver of the OLP process (SDLC for Dell) and owner of the early concept process integration into the larger funding model. My process was adopted company wide to fund/develop and transition early ideas to delivery teams.
Agile Application Development

Senior Engg Manager

Jan 2007Jan 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Tasked with delivering UEFI based embedded systems management solutions for server portfolio by efficiently directing, mentoring and guiding team of 60+ engineers and technicians through seamless release via integrated Agile approach.
  • Recognized as division’s Agile roll-out champion, successfully increasing Agile reach and effectiveness 100%.
  • Strengthened defect early detection and closure rate by 15% and employed Agile methodology to
  • deliver 20% more features than originally planned.

National instruments

3 roles

Engineering Manager / Product Manager Labview Real Time

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr

  • Earned promotion to manage team of full-time employees and interns and strategic direction for the NI-Serial product line.
  • Devised product roadmaps and other executive communication presentations.
  • Steered efforts to propel revenue growth by 14% for product line within 24 months.
  • As lead recruiter for group and division, surpassed assigned goals through excellence in onboarding and recruitment of top talent.
  • Slashed process costs by 35% as software engineering process co-owner for company.

Staff Software Engineer / Product Manager Instrument Control

Promoted

Aug 2003May 2006 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Embedded software engineer for USB, Ethernet and GPIB products.
  • Large scale architecture with a clear focus on good architecture and solid coding standards. C++ and Design Patterns based code base.
  • Business owner, Product lead and Lead engineer for this product line.

Software Engineer

Jun 2001Aug 2003 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Embedded software engineer for USB, Ethernet and GPIB products within large scale architecture.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in programming with C++ and Design Patterns.

Education

Texas McCombs School of Business

MBA — General Management

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Texas A&M University

Masters — Computer Science

Jan 1999Jan 2001

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

BE — Computer Science

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Kendriya Vidyalaya

High School — Science

Jan 1993Jan 1995

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