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ANANYA SAXENA

Summary

Product Manager with deep experience building CMDB-led digital asset management platforms that act as the information superhighway for infrastructure assets, resource metadata, observability, and governance in large-scale hybrid cloud environments. Currently leading a mission-critical CMDB platform serving over 100 customers, including the Government of India’s hybrid cloud infrastructure valued at INR 350 crores. Experienced in owning platform roadmaps, defining success metrics, enabling observability readiness, and translating complex system data into reliable insights through close collaboration with engineering, operations, and design. Focused on improving platform trust, operational visibility, and adoption through data accuracy, self-service journeys, and enterprise-grade controls.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager

Jio Platforms Limited
04.2023 - Current

· Owned the product roadmap and backlog for an enterprise CMDB-based digital asset management platform serving 100+ customers, including Government of India hybrid cloud infrastructure valued at INR 350crs

· Positioned CMDB as the information superhighway, enabling a unified view of infrastructure assets, resource metadata (attributes), configuration state, and telemetry signals

· Led observability readiness by defining discovery coverage for 130+ technologies and shaping monitoring enablement journeys across GCP, Azure, and ROS hybrid environments

· Designed self-service onboarding journeys for Community, AKS, GKE, and EKS clusters, standardizing Prometheus and log pipeline enablement to support consistent telemetry onboarding

· Created a unified customer experience, surfacing real-time observability metrics, alerts, incidents, security posture and logs

· Automated module initialization by removing 72 manual steps, improving platform readiness and reducing onboarding effort

· Partnered with engineering to streamline discovery and data pipelines (discovery & ingestion), reducing CMDB data latency by ~98% and improving time-to-discovery from ~2 hours to near real-time

· Strengthened data reliability by introducing automated IP discovery via network scanning, eliminating ~95% of gaps

· Defined adoption metrics and established governance control boards; collaborated with operations and engineering to monitor platform health KPIs, contributing to ~30% improvement in MTTR

· Automated physical server discovery and onboarding, reducing provisioning time by ~80% and manual operational dependencies

· Delivered a resource landscape dashboard to support decision-making, improving visibility and decision speed by at least 90%

· Launched storage utilization dashboard, helping customers identify cost optimization opportunities and reduce over-provisioning

· Strengthened governance by implementing RBAC and audit logs, improving data controls and access integrity by 50%

· Collaborated with SMEs to launch a license management module, enabling customer to track their usage and compliance

Expanded and standardized resource metadata across 1,400+ types, improving overall CMDB data completeness by approximately 33%.

· Conducted competitive benchmarking and customer interviews to define product vision, roadmap priorities, and GTM strategy

· Wireframed and collaborated with designers on Figma-based designs used for walkthroughs and stakeholder reviews

· Authored user guides and market-facing audio and visual content to support customer onboarding, adoption, and enablement

Business Development Lead

Happiness Technology
03.2019 - 12.2021
  • Identified product–market fit and designed new service offerings for enterprise customers, contributing ~INR 2 mn to topline growth
  • Supported sales through digital campaigns and customer demonstrations

Product Marketing & Technology Consulting

TT Consultants & XLScouts Labs
08.2016 - 02.2019
  • Ranked among the top 5% performers, leading 250+ technology research engagements primarily in the telecom sector
  • Launched a bi-weekly webinar series for an in-house patent analytics platform, contributing ~INR 1 mn to topline
  • Managed client-facing delivery and stakeholder communication across 100+ projects
  • Developed business proposals and onboarded 14 new high-value projects

Education

MBA - Marketing

SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
12-2022

B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jaypee University of Information Technology
07-2016

Skills

  • Product strategy and roadmapping
  • Multi-cloud Asset management
  • Marketing
  • Hybrid cloud management
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Product backlog management
  • Prioritization and execution
  • Documentation management
  • Resource metadata management
  • Dashboard creation and insights
  • Agile
  • Customer demonstrations
  • Wireframing
  • Cross-functional collaboration and leadership
  • Governance and access control
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • SQL

Hobbies and Interests

  • Storytelling through poetry inspired by nature and philosophy
  • Environmental volunteering

Timeline

Product Manager

Jio Platforms Limited
04.2023 - Current

Business Development Lead

Happiness Technology
03.2019 - 12.2021

Product Marketing & Technology Consulting

TT Consultants & XLScouts Labs
08.2016 - 02.2019

MBA - Marketing

SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

B.Tech - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jaypee University of Information Technology
ANANYA SAXENA