Rizwan Ansary

Officer

2022 - Current

Business dressed up as Entertainment

Self Serve Growth Consultant

2020 - 2020

Complex product. Easy onboarding.

VP, Product & Design

2019 - 2020

Direct mail/gifting. Physical warehouses. ROI attribution.

Director Growth & Product

2017 - 2019

Dev tools marketplace.

Product Lead, Subscriptions & Pricing

2017 - 2018

Monetization: Iterated pricing towards profitable unit economics. Launched subscription.

Product Lead

2016 - 2017

Seamless credit card applications (despite banks and their lawyers). Reset iOS/Android apps. XX mil installs.

Angel Investor

2016 - 2016

Director of Product and Growth

2014 - 2016

I head the growth of the developer community product at HackerRank. Our team is responsible for improving the onboarding and initiatives related to activation, retention and resurrection. We have built a growth model and continuously update it with the results of our experiments. I lead a team of engineers, designers, content curators, and data analysts to design and ship engaging experiences for skill improvement and testing. Contact me for my portfolio and numbers I was able to achieve.

Founder Fellow

2015 - 2015

Senior Engineer -> 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