Abhishek Sawhney
Dublin,USA
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented product leader with over 20 years of experience in steering cross-functional teams to successfully plan, build, and launch cutting-edge SaaS and AI solutions. Expertise in merging technical acumen with Agile/Scrum methodologies, a strong marketing focus, and robust analytical skills to drive product strategy evolution. Proven track record of delivering innovative products that meet market demands while enhancing user experience. Committed to fostering collaboration and leveraging insights to achieve organizational goals and exceed customer expectations.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director of Product Management (Technology Services and AI)
SAP SuccessFactors
07.2022 - 11.2025
- Lead and mentor a team Director and Senior PMs and collaborate with Engineering, Design and go-to-market leaders to drive the development of Technology Foundations Services
- Developed, Influenced C-level stakeholders and executed a comprehensive product strategy to spearhead the investment into innovation workstream to reduce TCO by 20%, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction by 10%
- Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for generative AI initiatives, driving customer value and adoption through innovative solutions
- Established and identified new technologies and frameworks to improve platform capabilities around different domains: Security, Compliance, CI/CD, DevOps, Containerization & Extensibility
- Define and drive the vision of SAP SuccessFactors platform and partner with infrastructure and DevOps teams to ensure scalability and develop efficiency
- Own Product decisions that ensure the organization adheres to data protection, privacy and industry specific regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with InfoSec and legal teams to embed security into product lifecycle
- Lead modernization of legacy systems into distributed/microservices based architecture and ensure consistency and interoperability across services via standardized APIs
- Conducted market research and customer feedback analysis, influencing product direction and ensuring alignment with user needs
- Oversaw product roadmaps, ensuring the alignment of product features with business goals and customer value
- Drove strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
- Evaluated employee performance and conveyed constructive feedback to improve skills.
- Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.
Director of Product Management- Platform Cloud Services
Risk Management Solutions (RMS: Acquired by Moody’s)
06.2021 - 07.2022
- Responsible for definition and execution of product roadmaps for Risk Intelligence Platform to enable RMS applications teams unlock the full potential of RI platform cloud services
- Lead the product management team responsible for RI platform core services, journey-to-cloud, security & trust (> 99.9% uptime) and reducing COGS to improve profitability
- Partnered with Engineering, Data Scientists and UX building consistent processes, harnessing test and data-driven approaches
- Own end-to-end Product Strategy and partner with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams to define scope and requirements for delivery of security and compliance (SOC2, GDPR & MFA), scalability and availability initiatives
- Responsible for all project deliverables including detailed project plan, product requirements, producing collateral and sales tools such as white papers, blogs, demos etc.
- Own the competitive market landscape for the Platform and share findings with C level executive on a period basis to ensure proper investment and execution in support of strategy
- Play the role of SME of the areas of ownership and the target market
- RMS provides industry-leading risk management solutions for insurers, reinsurers, financial services organizations and the public sector.
- Company Overview: RMS provides industry-leading risk management solutions for insurers, reinsurers, financial services organizations and the public sector.
Director (Head) of Product Management- Platform
GEP Worldwide
09.2020 - 06.2021
- Defined inspiring vision for the GEP’s Nextgen low code Platform to empower application engineering, customers and partners to easily build, deploy, integrate, customize and extend GEP suite to meet their specific business needs that resulted in, on average, a 35% efficiency increase for citizen developers
- Established and scaled a world-class Platform Product Management organization by defining the rich organization structure, unlocking the talent and capabilities of the current team and recruiting top talent
- Partnered with Engineering and drive world class execution of the product roadmap, including GEP’s platform architecture and standards, building consistent processes, harnessing test and data-driven approaches
- Worked with cross-functional Application Product owners to develop a clear and compelling Strategy for a low-code/no-code Platform, built on a core foundation of flexibility, extensibility and self-service
- Engaged with internal teams, share GEP’s platform vision, capabilities & roadmap, align with applications roadmap to drive adoption of common capabilities and help onboarding new modules/applications on the newer platform
- GEP provides award-winning digital procurement and supply chain platforms that help global enterprises become more agile, resilient, competitive and profitable.
- Company Overview: GEP provides award-winning digital procurement and supply chain platforms that help global enterprises become more agile, resilient, competitive and profitable.
Sr. Product Manager
Informatica LLC
09.2016 - 08.2020
- Responsible to define and execute the requirements and roadmap for Data Integration (SaaS) & Platform(iPaaS) capabilities including Data Synchronization, Data Quality, Data Replication, Advanced Orchestration and other enterprise level features that provides (50%- 60%) of the total company revenue.
- Drive Product Strategy and roadmap for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Platform(iPaaS) global expansion which connects 100,000 applications/ end points, processes 2.5 trillion transactions/month, 3M+ Integrations/day and accelerates data driven digital transformation of enterprises
- Product owner for the PC to Cloud conversion app(built from the ground up), which enables and drive the replication of metadata and data on-prem customers accelerating their cloud journey & digital transformation to Informatica's Cloud Data Platform by reducing the manual effort by up to 70%.
- Established and managed the beta program of the PC to Cloud converter app, which allowed quicker feedback from customers before releasing it to the partners and increased adoption by 40%.
- Responsible for owning, driving and executing the enterprise security and privacy strategy for Informatica Cloud Platform and Apps
- Own end-to-end Product Strategy and partner with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams to define scope and requirements for delivery of security and compliance (SOC2, GDPR & MFA) initiatives
- Work with cross-functional teams and develop consensus among stakeholders across Informatica Product Management teams with diverging points of view to align to a common vision & Product Strategy
- Work with UX on wireframes and engineering to balance functionality and feasibility and manage implementation and delivery timelines. Enable Sales, Architects and Marketing on new features and closely engage with customers on getting early feedback on the Beta Releases.
- Informatica LLC is the world's leader in enterprise cloud data management. Thousands of enterprises worldwide depend on Informatica Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management and Big Data Solutions to help transform with timely, relevant and trustworthy data.
- Company Overview: Informatica LLC is the world's leader in enterprise cloud data management. Thousands of enterprises worldwide depend on Informatica Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management and Big Data Solutions to help transform with timely, relevant and trustworthy data.
Sr. Product Manager, Data Integration
Apixio
06.2015 - 09.2016
- Worked closely with senior IT and business leadership(C-Level) to define and execute the Data Integration strategy and roadmap.
- Started, grew and managed the Data Integrations Product team of outstanding individuals with a focus on delivering break-through data management solution for data acquisition, data transformation and data ingestion into Apixio’s Platform.
- Owned end-to-end product roadmap for continuous data integration and data quality features.
- Defined and maintained standards and best practices for information architecture, data modeling, data integration, metadata, data quality across organization.
- Developed service model and built internally staffed and outsourced team to deliver data warehousing and integration services to the organization.
- Provided technical and organizational leadership in the design, definition, planning, development and operation of the enterprise data warehouse platform.
- Apixio brings a world class healthcare data analysis engine (using NLP & Machine Learning) that is widely used by major health plans and provider groups.
- Company Overview: Apixio brings a world class healthcare data analysis engine (using NLP & Machine Learning) that is widely used by major health plans and provider groups.
Team Lead
Informatica Corporation, U.S.A/India
11.2004 - 05.2015
- Managed communications at all levels to maintain positive relationship with IIR/MDM-RE , Informatica Cloud/Cloud-MDM & Active EndPoint customers.
- Served as a Account Manager(SAM) for quite a few large accounts.
- Owned end-to-end product roadmap for Real-time data integration capabilities and Mainframe Integrations
- Closely worked with Infrastructure and Operations to led several initiatives to improve TCO
- Led Customer success teams & technical specialists to help increase their efficiency with Informatica product.
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science
VIT, Bangalore
Bangalore, IndiaSkills
- Product research and development
- Effective team leadership
- Product lifecycle oversight
- Agile/ Scrum Methodologies
- Market entry strategies
- Strategic product roadmaps
- SDLC
- User experience design
- Requirement Gathering & Analysis
- Market & Competitor Research
- Test-Driven Development
- Data Integration
- Troubleshooting and Debugging
- Product Launch
- Product lifecycle expertise
- Market analysis expertise
- Culture transformation
Timeline
Senior Director of Product Management (Technology Services and AI)
SAP SuccessFactors
07.2022 - 11.2025
Director of Product Management- Platform Cloud Services
Risk Management Solutions (RMS: Acquired by Moody’s)
06.2021 - 07.2022
Director (Head) of Product Management- Platform
GEP Worldwide
09.2020 - 06.2021
Sr. Product Manager
Informatica LLC
09.2016 - 08.2020
Sr. Product Manager, Data Integration
Apixio
06.2015 - 09.2016
Team Lead
Informatica Corporation, U.S.A/India
11.2004 - 05.2015
Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science
VIT, Bangalore