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Microsoft
Senior Product Manager: Feb 2013 - Sept 2016
My first role at Microsoft was that of a Product Strategy Manager with Bing Ads. Then I moved on to my first product management role with Bing Local Search Division.
Proudest moment: Winning a hackathon to get a project funded that was later showcased by our CEO Satya Nadella at the Microsoft MGX conference.
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Shawn Mohamed
Director of Business Strategy : Microsoft
Managed Amit at Microsoft
Amit has worked on my team for over 2 years and over that time he has made a significant impact to the team and business. First and foremost, his foundational layer of passion, energy, and motivation to always take things to the next level of excellence is inspiring. He often goes above and beyond typical expectations in his ability to thoroughly analyze business problems. He has demonstrated his resourcefulness and creativity to solve ambiguous problems, often when data was not readily available. He forged tracks to discover new ways and partnerships to obtain the information he needed. I am also proud of Amit’s responsiveness and willingness to provide support and intelligence to groups who needed his help. Through sharing his analysis with other teams, they were more knowledgeable about making the right business decisions. When he moved to another role within the company, he left the team with a host of newly developed resources and methodologies that could sustain the teams productivity in his absence. I am confident that the combination of Amit’s drive for results, analytical capabilities, creative problem solving, and collaboration with lead him to further success.
Ganapathy (Krish) Krishnan
Vice President : AI Center at Flipkart USA
Managed Amit at Microsoft
Amit reported indirectly to me at Microsoft and it was a lot of fun working with him.
Amit is passionate about his work and works very hard. The project we worked on together was had a very tight timeline with daily scrums and a tremendous amount of uncertainty.
Amit was instrumental in making this project happen. He has very good business insights and was the key link between product marketing and product development. I recommend Amit highly!
Gagan Chopra
Product Leader : Microsoft
Managed Amit indirectly at Microsoft
Amit is a diligent, practical, and detail oriented researcher, and articulator. We had an opportunity to engage with him for many months on competitive, technology, and industry trends research; especially in the context of personal assistants, personalized search results, and consumer scenarios with commercial intent focus. Amit's research work contributed significantly towards development of our roadmaps and execution plans. Even though a couple of years have gone by since this work was done, his insightful presentations are still fresh in our minds, and continue to influence our current work.
Leon Xu
Engineering Leader at Microsoft
Engineer peer to Amit at Adobe
I worked with Amit as the founding team of Bing Business Bot. Amit is my product manager. The project is to build MVP project to quickly use conversational AI on enterprise customer. Amit has rich business ideas, technical and action oriented. He successfully managed all dependencies and effectively sells to real customers just at the time we built our MVP. We won no.1 place among 250 project nomination and demo'ed by our CEO and are very glad to have him in the team,
Ria Shakar
General Manager @ Amazon
Product peer to Amit at Microsoft
Amit is a highly driven and detail-oriented product manager. Amit can seamlessly straddle breath and depth due a diverse background spanning market research, development, and consulting. Working with Amit on Bing Local, I was super impressed with his collaboration across teams and ability to lead with agile, data-driven decisions. He will be an asset to any team.
Anand Vishwanathan
Product Manager : Meta
Worked closely with Amit at Microsoft
I had an opportunity to work with Amit on the Bing Business Bots project. A highly enthusiastic person and a great team player, I found him to be innovative yet grounded in customer needs. He values insights and market research and invited us early on to define the Value Prop for customers and assess the opportunity for us. This project was executed under tight deadlines and was fairly iterative requiring a close collaboration.
I highly recommend Amit as a product manager with a keen business acumen and wish him all the best.
Zac McQuistan
Sr. Manager, Corporate Strategy : Renewable Energy Group
Worked closely with Amit at Microsoft
Amit has been a great business partner for several years. I've always been impressed about two things in particular.
1) Amit invests time into gathering industry knowledge at a level rarely seen in most people. I always would have him check my competitive updates for completeness.
2) Amit isn't afraid to dig into incredibly complicated things. He takes the time to learn the details of how things work and happily shares simplified views with an expanded team.
I fully enjoy working with Amit - and hope to continue to do so in the future.
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