Ankitha Gadag is a results-driven and adaptable leader who is motivated by complex problems with no obvious solutions. She has the experience of cultivating relationships with strategic partners to build consensus across several organizational levels. With a background spanning various IT disciplines in software and product development, she has effectively built relationships with strategic partners to reach consensus across organizational levels. As a product leader, Ankitha Gadag has a track record of success shipping 0-1 technical platform and customer-facing products at Big-Tech companies, while streamlining processes and implementing Agile solutions. Ankitha thrives in fast-paced and ambiguous environment, where she can deliver value quickly.
Technical Product Manager
● Launched a “Skills” data platform which supported over 100k employees and a Career Expectations UI, resulting in improved workforce efficiency, talent mobility and equity in the performance review process noted by 87% positive sentiment score.
● Assembled and led a product team from ideation to a successful 0-1 launch building support for the 700k+ external developers using Meta’s services. Scaled support coverage for top developer pain points by 400% through ML driven personalization and self-serve resources.
● Developed and led the implementation of a global roadmap process at Meta, enabling engineering teams to align their strategies and collaborate on shared solutions, resulting in a 210% increase in engineering productivity and efficiency gains.
● Designed a channel for escalations and developed a prioritization framework for ad-hoc requests. Identified manual redundancies and designed a plug-in for automation of prioritization, reducing overhead of maintenance by 360+ hours.
Meta | Facebook
Assembled and led cross-functional teams to successfully deliver products and ML models across Meta's core investments:
Creators, People Products, Customer Care, and Trust & Safety
Collaborated across 135+ internal customers and fueled $1 billion in creator programs
Consultant | Product Manager
● Managed the Security Operations for EA, and reported to intra-organizational security divisions, including the CISO. Delivered secured Golden Images across several operating systems for Public, Private cloud, Maas and automated image creation process through CI/CD pipeline.
● Developed and delivered over 20 formal Kanban trainings to global teams across an organization of 300 engineers and managers.
● Automated Identity certificate provisioning for internal EA partners, which led to reduction of lead times from 24 hours to real-time.
Electronic Arts
Spearheaded organizational change management through workforce tooling adoption & agile development processes
Annual cost saving of 540k and increased work intake by 780%
Consultant
● Managed several agile release trains, conducted scrum of scrums and implemented a WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First) prioritization framework to features increasing engineering team’s velocity by 25%
● Oversaw more than $20M in portfolio budgets and developed detailed Product Planning (PI Planning) sessions to build one-year product roadmap considering strategic objectives
IBM
Managed all aspects of a cloud-native, greenfield product set to innovate the Tax and Accounting industry
Estimated to produce 8-Figure in revenue
Nubelity
Led enterprise clients to build a strategy to migrate their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud using AWS, Azure or hybrid cloud solutions
Consultant
Responsible for building and strengthening client relationships while ensuring project delivery through managing offshore engineering teams
Developed and led an organization-wide agile transformation for delivery teams and executive leadership that resulted in 50% reduction in release times
Constructed the Azure Services Portfolio by assessing Nubelity’s capabilities and researching market spaces to develop a business service strategy
Consultant | Product Manager
Collaborated with global executive stakeholders to roadmap significant marketing & media buy-ins to build project plan
Determined project dependencies across WFM development/support teams and supervised multiple streams of work
Managed a team of 7 engineers by implementing a Kanban Agile framework. Identified team SLA’s and KPI’s to set up dashboards and reporting metric
Managed key vendor relationships with a hands on approach, to ensure SOW alignment. Formulated various process improvement workflows to meet critical milestones
Whole Foods Market
Responsible for launching a $3 Million digital experience for 365 by WFM, a new value driven grocery store by Whole Foods Market
The new online sales channel integrated with the 365's robust loyalty program was responsible for adding an additional $40 per cart
Consultant | Product Manager
Establishing and automating a compliance/governance process to streamline approvals and gain operational efficiencies, including productivity increases and headcount savings
Revamping the NFP website and brand strategy to provide consistent and compliant messaging across 180 entities
Replacing existing content management platform with an enhanced system, leading to productivity improvements
Automating all print submissions using an online job submission portal and improving data integrity for e-mail distribution
National Financial Partners
Responsible for leading NFP's portfolio of projects to accomplish the Marketing department's strategic intiatives
Product Manager
Manged internal and external teams to secure infrastructure and environment stability for 2015 Superbowl
Managed the deployment of over 20 major releases to production
Created and negotiated SOW's that resulted in over $8M in revenue by defining scope, timelines, resource requirements
Interviewed and trained several Project Managers and Business Analysts to build agile team
Successfully delivered several mid-large scale projects on time and on budget while reporting to C-Level Suite
Pizza-Hut | QuikOrder
Digital Rebrand
Delivered the Pizza Hut rebrand and marketing image by rolling out an improved, scalable platform across all digital channels
AngularJS website is responsible for generating over 30% of sales
Technology Roadmap
Enhanced customer experience by customizing functionality allowing customers to track the status of their orders real-time
Improved customer service and provided for better management of delivery drivers through real time GPS tracking
Infrastructure Performance Management
2015 Superbowl broke sales records by delivering over $10 Million in online sales
Product Owner
Developed and managed a $2 Million project called Money2 for Health, a digital wallet that simplifies healthcare payments for consumers and providers
Designed a $1 Million investment platform for users to manage HSA funds according to their desired risk strategies
Aetna Healthcare
Partnered with Citibank to launch Money2 for Health to millions of members in 2013. The new service has won numerous awards including an Edison Award for Payment Innovation and a 2013 Top Innovation in Banking from the American Banker magazine
Estimated to deliver $20 Million in revenue by 2016
Lead Consultant
Evaluated Apache JMeter open source software against client’s existing software by performing a detailed cost/benefit analysis and presenting short and long term recommendations
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Managed offshore QA teams to deliver projects for clients in various industries including: Telecommunications, Retail and Financial Service.