Rizwan Ansary
Officer at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder/CEO
2022 - Current
Building the last dating app SaaS buyers will ever need to 'speed date' all their software options before finally committing to a long-term relationship with that special SaaS someone.
Product & Growth Consultant
2020 - 2020
Complex product. Easy onboarding.
Kentik is a network management platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises.
Raised $101,700,000.00 from August Capital, Delta-v Capital, Vistara Growth, DCVC, Jesse Robbins, Engineering Capital, Tahoma Ventures, Third Point Ventures, Golub Capital and Gaingels.
VP, Product & Design
2019 - 2020
Direct mail/gifting. Physical warehouses. ROI attribution.
Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Raised $152,700,000.00 from Storm Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, Struck Capital, FJ Labs, Prologis Ventures, Hack VC, Signia Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, Craft Ventures and Felicis.
Director Growth & Product
2017 - 2019
Dev tools marketplace.
StackShare is on a mission to connect every developer in the world with the right tools and the companies using them.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Citi.
Product Lead, $ubscriptions & Pricing
2017 - 2018
All things monetization. Iterated pricing towards profitable unit economics. Launched subscription plan.
Serve is a friendly, autonomous delivery robot.
Product Lead
2016 - 2017
Seamless credit card applications (despite banks and their lawyers). Reset iOS/Android apps, rated 4.8/5. XX mil installs.
Credit Karma offers a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help customers make the most of their money.
Raised $868,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Silver Lake.
Angel Investor
2016 - 2016
SaaS, AI, Fintech. Seed through Series A. Portfolio → Flex, Model ML, ReflexAI, Ninjatech, Kinship, Jericho Security, Advocate, Andi, Cosine, Leap, Unify, PocketPod, Sailplane, Tome, Mercury, Databricks. I don’t invest outside US, real estate, or Hollywood.
Director of Product and Growth
2014 - 2016
I headed growth of the developer community at HackerRank. Our team improved the onboarding and delivered on initiatives related to activation and retention. I led a team of engineers, designers, content curators, and data analysts to design and ship engaging experiences for skill improvement and testing.
HackerRank provides a platform that helps companies to evaluate technical skills and create opportunities.
Raised $102,900,000.00 from Recruit Holdings, Susquehanna Growth Equity, JMI Equity, Khosla Ventures and Randstad Innovation Fund.
Senior PM
2009 - 2014
This is a product leadership role on the PM team for Bing Image and Video search. I managed parts of the product as it went through hyper growth improving query share 3x and relevance DCG manifold. I have driven areas across the breadth of market segments, covering the entire depth of the technology stack from UX components to ranking, indexing and low-latency content serving architectures. Among areas that I have owned: 1. Search Recommendations (Related Searches & Autocomplete) Incepted the product area and grew the team into a growth hacking unit. Leveraged the latest innovation in data science and graph theory to differentiate against Google. Delivered search market share that elevated the feature area as the top contributor. Awarded Gold star for contributions. More details under 'Projects'. 2. Real-time Search All up owner for the real-time search product. Organized and managed a team of developers, designers, researchers, QA engineers and operations specialists. More details under 'Projects'. 3. Superfresh Index and Serving Infrastructure Built v1 and consolidated it further with improved search quality. Shipped machine learning based models for selection, ranking and query classification. 4. Search by Usage Rights We have made it easier for the blogger community to find images with appropriate usage rights to use in blogs. 5. Microsoft Office Inline Search Led the Office-Bing integration for image and video search. Details under 'Projects'.
Engineer
2007 - 2009
File Server Clusters – Worked on distributed file replication. Implemented perf benchmarks and workloads.
Engineer
2005 - 2007
MS Project Server
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Course Author, Monetization Growth
2005 - 2006
I created this program because there is a shortage of hands on quality resources to learn one the most intricate building blocks of our craft: monetization. This course focusses on financial metrics, profitability, UX design, psychology and last but not the least, general product design.