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Andrews Dean

Experience

Fifteen years, in order

Product leader with 15+ years driving AI-first SaaS and enterprise platform strategy, from vision through delivery, across global markets. Early adopter of Generative and Agentic AI who has shipped production AI, led 30+ member cross-functional organisations, and driven company-wide AI transformation. Trusted to set product direction, align executives and stakeholders, and turn ambiguous, low-structure problems into scaled, adopted products with measurable business outcomes.

SD Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Noida, India · Jan 2022 – Present

Apr 2025 – Present

Associate Manager — Product & AI Upskilling

30+ person cross-functional org · 3 concurrent SaaS lines · company-wide AI mandate

  • Own product strategy and delivery across 3 concurrent SaaS lines with a 30+ member cross-functional team, setting roadmap priorities and OKRs that lifted operational efficiency 25% and compliance 30%.
  • Lead the company-wide AI transformation as the organisation's AI-adoption lead — defining standards, running executive and team enablement, and embedding reusable AI patterns across delivery teams.
  • Directed delivery of an enterprise integration platform for a global software client in under 3 months in a no-BRD, no-infrastructure setting — owning requirements, architecture direction, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Established AI-powered automation (n8n + LLM APIs) that cut targeted manual effort 60%+, with human-in-the-loop guardrails adopted across teams.
  • Built capability beyond product — trained 50+ staff in communication skills and led the company's brand and identity revamp (logo, colour system) across all digital and print assets.

May 2024 – Mar 2025

Product Consultant

Event-tech & sales-enablement SaaS · primary client partner

  • Owned product roadmap and GTM strategy for an event-tech and sales-enablement SaaS as primary client partner across discovery, feature definition, and release planning.
  • Launched Generative AI sales-enablement workflows that lifted content output 25% and cut turnaround from days to hours through hypothesis-driven iteration.

Jan 2022 – Apr 2024

Senior Business Analyst — Product

Multi-state cannabis compliance SaaS

  • Shaped product direction for a multi-state Cannabis Compliance SaaS — translating complex, state-by-state regulation into roadmap, epics, and measurable adoption gains.
  • Led discovery (usability testing, customer interviews, competitive analysis) and high-fidelity Figma prototyping that improved task completion and informed prioritisation.

SDG Corporation

Noida, India · Oct 2010 – Jan 2022

2015 – Jan 2022

Lead Business Analyst

GE OneHR platform · 10+ analysts across geographies

  • Owned the full product lifecycle of GE's OneHR platform — launched 25+ responsive enterprise HR portals and cut migration time 15%.
  • Led a 10+ member analyst team across geographies, setting the discovery and documentation standard the practice ran on.

Oct 2010 – 2015

Senior Business Analyst → Software Engineer

Fortune 5 payroll systems · Java engineering

  • Automated payroll processing for a Fortune 5 client — eliminated manual reconciliation and cut downtime 15%.
  • Began as a Java software engineer (2010–2015), which is where the habit of staying technical started.

Education

  • MBA, Project Management

    Manipal University, Jaipur

    2023 – 2025

  • PG Certification, Product Management

    IIM Indore

    2022 – 2023

  • B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

    UPTU

    2006 – 2010

Certifications

  • Generative AI Foundation — Microsoft & upGrad
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®)
  • Product-Led Growth Micro-Certification (PLGC™)
  • Build Apps with ChatGPT
  • Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Recognition

  • SD Global Annual Achiever

    2023 and 2025 — company-wide annual award

  • Quarterly & monthly excellence awards

    Multiple, for execution across product and delivery initiatives

Contact

Let's talk.

If you're building an AI-first product org — or you need someone who can take a vague mandate and return a shipped, adopted product — I'd like to hear about it.

andsdean@gmail.com · Noida (Delhi NCR), India