Experience
Fifteen years, in order
Product leader with 15+ years taking AI-first SaaS and enterprise platforms from vision to adoption across global markets. Leads a 30+ member cross-functional product and engineering organisation across three concurrent SaaS lines, and drove company-wide AI transformation as the organisation's AI-adoption lead — setting standards, aligning executives, and building reusable capability across delivery teams. Pairs executive-level strategy and stakeholder alignment with rare hands-on depth in modern AI — agents, RAG, evaluation, governance — to 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+ member cross-functional org · 3 concurrent SaaS lines · company-wide AI adoption
- Lead a 30+ member cross-functional product and engineering organisation across 3 concurrent SaaS lines — owning roadmap prioritisation and OKRs and installing the operating cadence and standards that lifted efficiency 25% and compliance 30%.
- Lead company-wide AI transformation as the organisation's AI-adoption lead — defining standards, aligning and enabling executives and delivery teams, and embedding reusable AI patterns and governance across the organisation.
- 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 under ambiguity.
- Established AI-powered automation (n8n + LLM APIs) with human-in-the-loop guardrails that cut targeted manual effort 60%+ and was adopted as a standard across delivery teams.
- Built organisational capability — trained and enabled 50+ staff 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 — driving discovery, feature prioritisation, and release planning against business goals.
- 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 regulation into a prioritised roadmap and epics that drove 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.
Tools & technologies
What I actually build with
Building & shipping
AI-assisted & agentic development
Product & delivery tooling
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.
hello@andrewsdean.com · Noida (Delhi NCR), India