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