Rizwan Ansary
Officer at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Officer
2022 - Current
Business dressed up as Entertainment
Self Serve 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, Subscriptions & Pricing
2017 - 2018
Monetization: Iterated pricing towards profitable unit economics. Launched subscription.
Serve is a friendly, autonomous delivery robot.
Product Lead
2016 - 2017
Seamless credit card applications (despite banks and their lawyers). Reset iOS/Android apps. 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
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.
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.
Founder Fellow
2015 - 2015
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
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
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.