Main note

Builder of products that make complexity feel simple.

MananOSTalk with Neti NetiRésuméExperience & outcomes

Product leader and hands-on builder with 12+ years turning complex workflows into shipped platforms, AI tools, and measurable business outcomes. I’ve led teams, launched 0-to-1 products, modernized legacy systems, and used code-based prototyping to close the gap between strategy and working software.

I prototype in code and use AI tools daily to design for evolving workflows, AI-native interfaces, and intuitive product experiences.

Career progression / accumulated scope

Product Lead, AI & Enterprise Platforms at S&P Global

Roles / tenureScope added over time
Career progression from roles and tenure to scope added over timeManan's roles are ordered from the most recent at the top to the earliest at the bottom. Role height represents approximate tenure. Dithered flows show how his scope expanded from learning internal workflows and platforms into strategy, portfolio ownership, people leadership, and hands-on AI-assisted building.NOW2014Associate Director,Product2022 - Present · 4+ yrsSenior Product Manager2019 - 2022 · 3 yrsProduct Owner2014 - 2019 · 5 yrsAI-native buildingPrototypes & agentsPeople leadership8 PMs & team craftPortfolio leadershipRoadmaps & tradeoffsProduct strategyDirection & decisionsBuilding systemsData & enterpriseWorkflow learningUsers & operationsCareer progression from roles and tenure to scope added over timeManan's roles are ordered from the most recent at the top to the earliest at the bottom. Role height represents approximate tenure. Dithered flows show how his scope expanded from learning internal workflows and platforms into strategy, portfolio ownership, people leadership, and hands-on AI-assisted building.NOW2014Associate Director,Product2022 - Present · 4+ yrsSenior ProductManager2019 - 2022 · 3 yrsProduct Owner2014 - 2019 · 5 yrsAI-native buildingPrototypes & agentsPeople leadership8 PMs & team craftPortfolio leadershipRoadmaps & tradeoffsProduct strategyDirection & decisionsBuilding systemsData & enterpriseWorkflow learningUsers & operations

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ProfessionalProduct / CM

Product philosophy

I see product management as central midfield: championing the product, connecting strategy to delivery, and coordinating teams toward better outcomes for customers and the business.

Product at central midfield, connecting quality, engineering, design, business, sales, operations, and users around a shared customer and business outcome.
  • Quality assurance
  • Engineers
  • Designers
  • Product manager
  • Business
  • Sales
  • Users
  • Operations
BuildingAI-native

AI-building momentum

58%YTD formbuilding & learning
4releasesin 2026
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Primary modelClaude Opus 4.81,261 logged turns

2026 / release roadmap

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Key skills

Systems ThinkingRoadmap OwnershipBacklog ManagementTrade-off FrameworksStakeholder AlignmentDesign CollaborationPersonal AI ToolingContext EngineeringCoding (Cursor, Codex)

Education

M.S. Computer Science
NYU School of Engineering · 2012

B.S. Computer Engineering
NYU School of Engineering · 2012

RésuméExperience, outcomes & collaborator signals

Selected experience

Selected experience

Associate Director, Product

S&P Global

Leads AI product direction, private credit workflows, data platform strategy, emerging markets research tooling, and a team of product managers.

  • New Product Launch: Growing private credit market meant redesigning internal workflows to provide accurate credit risk analysis; the work improved quality and reduced cycle time by 25%.
  • 0-to-1 AI Product: Owned strategy and concept design for MyNotebook, an AI tool for fragmented analyst research workflows — turning an open-ended opportunity into a scoped product.
  • Team Leadership: Managed and mentored a team of 8 PMs (junior to senior), creating a culture of ownership, craft, and execution discipline to create a great product team.
  • Platform Strategy: Spearheaded an org-wide migration from a vendor-managed data platform to an internally owned one, improving data governance while delivering $600K+ in annual savings.
  • Emerging Markets R&D: Led a research tool tracking market news and volatile events for real-time credit and macro risk — helping analysts publish reports faster, with more confidence.
  • Cross-Functional Influence: Aligned business, compliance, and engineering across competing priorities — unblocking a quarter of stalled delivery and shifting how technical work got prioritized.

Senior Product Manager

S&P Global

Modernized financial modeling, content publishing, and product documentation.

  • Financial Tools: Migrated Excel-based financial models to scalable web applications, reducing IT costs by 40% and delivering an estimated $4M in business savings over five years.
  • Content Platform: Built a CMS platform that automated data tables and charts, improving publishing and editorial efficiency by 30%.
  • Problem Reframing: Overhauled the legacy documentation process into modular digital artifacts, reducing project cost by 20% and eliminating integration overhead.

Product Owner

S&P Global

Improved operational workflows through analysis, automation, and fewer handoffs.

  • Operational Efficiency: Led a high-impact project to consolidate two operational roles by analyzing workflows, automating processes, and eliminating handoffs and bottlenecks; improved efficiency by 30%.

Principal Consultant

NTT Data Consulting

Applied Lean Six Sigma process improvement to financial services.

  • Process Analysis: Led Lean Six Sigma process improvement initiatives for financial services clients.
12+years across product and platforms
0-to-1products, prototypes, and workflows
AI-nativeproduct practice and experimentation
Enterprisesystems, operations, and change

Signals from collaborators

Manan's ability to command a room through storytelling and convince skeptics of a path forward made him a standout product leader.

Former manager, Product Executive

He was a mentor, a sounding board, and someone who genuinely invested in my growth — not because it was his job, but because that's just who he is.

Direct report, Product Manager

He reframes problems, simplifies complexity, and guides the team toward decisions that actually last.

Direct report, Product Manager

He always explained his views very concisely and was a great support to UX team.

UX lead, Design team
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