Ankur Nandu

Director of Product Management, Motive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

Experienced Product Leader & Passionate Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building & delivering scalable tech products in the industry for both Startups & Enterprises. Core competency in - • Business Strategy • Product Management • Product Integrations • Building Scalable applications • Talent Development • Marketing Automation

Experience

  • Motive (6 yrs 7 mos)
    • Head of Product, Spend Management
      Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

      Founding product leader for Motive Card, responsible for the strategic roadmap, execution, and scaling of our financial services ecosystem. * Zero-to-One Scaling: Built and scaled the Motive Card business from initial inception to ~$XXM in annualized revenue. * Scale & Volume: Overseeing a platform driving $1B+ in annualized spend for our customers. * Risk & Profitability: Engineered a proprietary risk and underwriting framework that reduced loss rates to best-in-class industry levels, ensuring sustainable hyper-growth. * Market Expansion: Spearheading the evolution of the financial services product suite into new verticals and leading our international expansion strategy beyond the US market

    • Director of Product, Fleet Management
      Jan 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Led the Fleet Operations Product charter at KeepTruckin with the mission of helping Fleet managers optimize their fleet operations & maximize ROI on their fleet. Built multiple cutting-edge data driven products across Fuel, Maintenance, Fleet app, Telematics & Fleet Operations to drive higher fleet utilization & increased profitability.

  • Chief Product & Operations Officer, Co-founder at Canvass Inc.
    Dec 2011 - May 2020 · 8 yrs 6 mos

    • Canvass recognized by Nasscom, Software suggest & Finances Online as among top bootstrapped companies in India • Created & Launched Cloud based (SAAS) Marketing Automation software – Firecart.io. Led and grew the product to 1000+ business customers globally, handling over a million triggered emails every month. Drive product, user-engagement & marketing activities for Firecart.io • Developed a Marketing Automation Success program for Firecart - increasing product adoption by 50% • Exhibited at Gitex in Dubai in Oct 2015 to promote Firecart & the product development offerings at 36 Thirsty Media • Drove account management activities supporting existing customers to better use & up-sell product features & handle on-going product & support needs better

  • Chargebee (2 yrs)
    • Director of Product Management
      May 2019 - Nov 2019 · 7 mos

      Led strategy for over 30+ Chargebee integrations across multiple categories - Payment Gateways, CRM, ERP & the open App Marketplace.

    • Director Of Ecommerce
      Jul 2018 - May 2019 · 11 mos

      Led Vision, Strategy & Execution of eCommerce initiatives at Chargebee. Built the team & grew revenue for the vertical to more than 10% of the total revenue for the company.

    • Product Manager
      Dec 2017 - Jun 2018 · 7 mos

  • Co-Founder, Products & Technology at 36 Thirsty Media LLP
    Jan 2015 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    36 Thirsty is a Software product development company that specializes in cloud based web & mobile development. Built extremely scalable products & delivered more than 50 custom projects - marketplaces, ecommerce websites, custom web & mobile apps on various web & mobile technologies like - ▪ Cloud Infrastructure – AWS, Heroku ▪ Databases – Postgres, Mongo, Redis ▪ Backend – Java, PHP, NodeJS ▪ Queuing – RabbitMQ, SQS, IronMQ ▪ UI – Angular, HTML/CSS, JS ▪ Apps – Android, Ionic, iOS Mentored 5 web & mobile startups - LocalOwls, Multplyr, Swoon, Snacked, Mytha from a product & technology standpoint. Hired & Mentored a team of 20+ rockstar developers, project managers & digital marketers from IITs & other engineering institutes across India

  • Software Engineer (Wireless Business) at Cisco Systems
    Jan 2008 - Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Received Outstanding Achievement Award (Sept 2010) • Lead Innovator & filed a Patent on Cloud based Contextual Ads over a Wireless Infrastructure for the Business unit • Received a ‘Cisco Achievement Program Award’ within the first year of joining the team for exemplary efforts & innovation Was part of the Mobility Services division in the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco and actively developed features for three products -- Mobility Services Engine (3310, 3350), Wireless Control System (WCS) & Location Appliance (2710). The Mobility Services Engine (Interop Finalist 2009) is a platform which can support multiple Services like Context Aware Services, Wireless Intrusion Prevention (Wips) that can run over a single product. These Services are offered on top of a Wireless (802.11) deployment. WCS is the Management System used to configure and manage large scale wireless deployments. Gained areas of ownership across various parts of these products.