Sid (Sadiq) Shaik

Sr. VP Product Management

2024 - Current

Advisor, Investor

2014

Advisor- Products That Count, others. Investor- Anthropic, SPD, Groq, Pulse42, others

Head of Product / Product GM

2022 - 2024

Turned around & Scaled by 12x the company’s growth engine- Cloud Native Data Platform product line for private cloud. * Full accountability to CEO-Staff for product revenue and growth, customer adoption, product strategy and execution for the company’s growth engine through cross-functional collaboration. * Turned around a nascent, struggling growth engine within 9 months, by shifting product strategy and setting goals for an R&D org of 100+, driving weekly war rooms with Go-To-Market org, introducing a product-led-growth motion and business reviews with CEO staff. * Recruited and developed a high-performing team of PMs. Built and developed an extended cross functional go-to-market tiger team of 30 PMs, PMMs, SEs, AEs, Customer Support and Alliances. * Expanded the annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 200% in 12 months by aligning go-to-market strategy with product reality and roadmap with market demand. Delighted customers, sellers and channel partners. * Scaled customer consumption by 12x in 18 months by scaling product definition, rapidly iterating through product execution & eliminating friction in the go-to-market funnel.

Sr. Director Products

2021 - 2022

Built Cloudera's growth Engine, a Cloud-Native Data Warehouse for private cloud. Established initial product-market fit. * Achieved product-market fit within 9 months, securing 3 critical technical design wins in key verticals- banking, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing with the v1.0 release using a customer lighthouse program. * Demonstrated exceptional cross-functional leadership by defining and driving the go-to-market strategy, based on market research and close collaboration with Sales and Marketing to secure initial sales and adoption.

Director of Product, Trainee GM

2018 - 2020

Grew cash-cow on-premise Data Warehouse (DW) business while building a growth product line on AWS Infrastructure. * Contributed to revenue growth exceeding $150M by crafting and executing a robust product strategy for the DW product line, catering to the needs of 2000+ customers in both public (AWS) and private cloud segments. * Drove accelerated growth and product scalability, achieving 108% attainment for DW technology.

Founder, CEO

2015 - 2018

TuneOps was a pioneer startup in the AI Ops space for distributed databases. * Identified a lucrative market niche, shaped company strategy to capitalize on emerging trends in AI Ops. * Founded & built a team of 12 engineers, marketers, and sales reps who delivered exceptional value to customers and drove six-figure deals. * Raised investment capital, grew TuneOps from inception to a high-performing startup, with operations spanning US, Hungary, India and Japan. * Defined and directed product vision, development and go to market which resulted in securing $500K in ARR from two Fortune 500 customers. * Guided two Fortune 500 clients in optimizing their IT Operational Expenditure (Opex) by $15M annually, establishing TuneOps as a trusted partner in lowering cloud infrastructure spend.

Director of Product Management

2013 - 2015

* Drove product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a $500M Yahoo! Hadoop Infrastructure to enable three core advertising businesses to achieve and exceed quarterly business objectives and revenue goals. * Collaborated with an R&D, Data and IT Operations team of 150 engineers to prioritize and ship new features, drive adoption among a diverse team of 2000 data pipeline developers, engineers, and analysts. * Identified and addressed major pain points in capital allocation processes, driving a 20% efficiency improvement in performance optimization of big data applications, reducing capital expenditure. * Transformed a critical data replication service from a manual process to a self-service model, significantly reducing operational expenses while maintaining service quality.

Founding PM, Head of Product

2012 - 2013

Qubole was a pioneer startup in the Big Data SaaS & PaaS space. Funded by Lightspeed ventures, acquired by Idera. * Drove product roadmap, groomed backlog for weekly sprints, drove customer engagements, established packaging and pricing and represented the company at all major events. * Built & led a team of 6 PMs, Marketers and Sellers, as the first business hire in a seed funded startup. * Grew customer base from 0 to 30 by establishing product-market fit. Achieved milestones for series-A funding.

Principal Product Manager

2011 - 2012

Drive product strategy for database product and partner ecosystem in the co's journey from $10-30M in ARR. Accomplishments: * Product roadmap: Drove product roadmap for two product releases * Partner ecosystem: Identified critical performance issues in integration with BI vendors, championed changes, got executive sponsorship for changes, and fixed issues

Senior Engineering Manager

2008 - 2011

Role: Engineer --> Sr. Engineer --> Project Lead --> Eng Manager --> Senior Eng Manager. Contributed in taking several products from $0-100M & $100M-1B ARR journey. Responsibility: Grew from managing a software module to managing an international team of 15 engineers. Developed Data Integration / ETL and BI Platforms and Applications for various product lines. Specialty: * Hiring, retaining talent, scaling global teams (US, India, Korea, UK, Australia) * Java / SQL stack to solve hard technical problems in the BI/ETL/DI space that Global Fortune 5000 care about * High concurrency application architecture-- hybrid OLAP/OLTP systems, cross data center DI, financial transaction models * Innovation, IP development * Performance tuning F1000 analytic compute workloads * Early adopter of cloud * Production Support, Customer Escalations, Deal support Recognition: * Outstanding contributor 2003, 2005, Oracle Innovator 2008