Ankush Bansal

Product Manager with 10+ years in Product Management (13+ years overall) building and scaling enterprise SaaS, AI-powered and workflow products across North America, EMEA and APAC.

Experience spans platforms serving 1M+ users, 700+ enterprises and 100M+ sq ft of managed facilities, with expertise in AI personalization, RAG/HITL, workflow automation, product-led growth and enterprise platforms. Proven track record of launching 0→1 products, scaling global adoption and commercializing new capabilities, driving ~40% higher engagement, ~25% higher adoption, ~$2.5M annualized productivity savings and $2M+ incremental ARR.

Product Manager - CBRE SOUTH ASIA PVT LTD

(2024-05 - 2025-12)

ePermit — Enterprise Permit-to-Work & Safety Compliance Platform

• Owned product strategy, roadmap and prioritization for ePermit, translating safety, compliance and operational needs into scalable capabilities across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
• Led product discovery and workflow redesign with QHSE, facility managers and technicians, transforming fragmented paper processes into standardized digital journeys.
• Drove cross-functional execution across Engineering, UX, QHSE and Operations, owning requirements, backlog, solution design, UAT, releases and product KPIs.
• Led global rollout and continuous improvement, balancing customer needs, regional requirements, technical dependencies and stakeholder priorities.
• Launched and scaled ePermit from 0→1, onboarding the first 5 enterprise accounts and expanding adoption to 100M sq ft, 5K registered users and 3K MAU (~60% active penetration) within the first year.
• Reduced permit approval TAT by 50% and manual effort by 40% by digitizing risk assessments, technician eligibility, hazard/control validation, approval routing and permit closure.
• Delivered ~$2.5M in annualized productivity savings through workflow automation, faster approvals and reduced administrative effort across permit-controlled operations.
• Built RAG-powered, human-in-the-loop decision support using technician certifications, training, job-risk and performance signals, improving approval rates by 20% while accelerating assignment decisions and retaining human oversight for safety-critical approvals.

Product Manager - SIMPPLR INC.

(2021-12 - 2024-01)

AI-Powered Employee Experience & Enterprise SaaS Platform | 1M+ users across 700+ enterprise customers globally

• Owned product strategy, roadmap and prioritization across personalization, engagement and employee-experience products, translating customer insights and business opportunities into scalable product capabilities.
• Led product discovery and experimentation using customer research, behavioural data and Mixpanel journey analytics to identify friction, validate opportunities and optimize activation and engagement.
• Expanded the product portfolio across Q&A, Surveys/Employee Listening and Recognition, shaping new use cases, enterprise validation, packaging and commercialization.
• Built AI-powered content recommendations and personalization, using behavioural, role, organizational, social and preference signals to drive ~20% higher recommendation CTR and ~40% higher content engagement.
• Improved product activation and adoption through funnel optimization, increasing feature adoption ~25% and reducing funnel drop-offs ~15% through redesigned journeys, contextual nudges and in-product education.
• Scaled Q&A into a searchable organizational knowledge experience, increasing Q&A DAU ~15% while expanding employee engagement across the platform.
• Commercialized new enterprise engagement products across Q&A, Surveys and Recognition, contributing $2M+ in incremental ARR and expanding Simpplr beyond core intranet into a broader employee-experience platform.

Product Owner - CBRE SOUTH ASIA PVT LTD - APAC

(2018-11 - 2021-12)

PropTech, Property Intelligence & Immersive Experience Platforms

• Owned product strategy, roadmap and prioritization for MarketIQ and Perspectives, translating broker and enterprise-client needs into scalable PropTech capabilities across APAC.
• Drove product adoption and regional scale-up, partnering with brokerage and business teams to embed property intelligence and immersive experiences into client journeys.
• Scaled MarketIQ into a data-driven property intelligence platform supporting $250M+ in annual transaction pipeline, increasing broker-client engagement ~20% and reducing deal lifecycle ~30% through faster access to market and property intelligence.
• Conceived and launched Perspectives from 0→1 in just 8 weeks, integrating 3D experiences, Matterport virtual tours and immersive walkthroughs to reduce physical site visits by >50%.
• Scaled Perspectives across India and Singapore through digital channels and interactive experience centres; recognized with the RICS Innovation Award for innovation in commercial real estate.

Product Owner - DIGITAL AGENTS INTERACTIVE PVT LTD

(2017-05 - 2018-10)

3D, AR/VR & Immersive Enterprise Products

• Led product discovery, roadmap and 0→1 development for immersive enterprise products, identifying and commercializing 3D, AR/VR use cases across FMCG, automotive and learning.
• Commercialized new enterprise use cases contributing $500K+ in revenue, translating customer problems into scalable immersive product solutions.
• Launched a gamified retail execution and digital planogram platform for Coca-Cola Vietnam, improving merchandising execution and shelf compliance by ~30% across distributor networks.
• Secured selection into the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator by pitching the company’s product vision and technology strategy, unlocking $250K in Oracle Cloud credits to accelerate product development and scale.

Research Associate - Amrop

(2016 - 2017)

• Stakeholder research and leadership assessments for C-suite executive searches; translating ambiguous requirements into actionable criteria.

Business Analyst - Wipro Technologies

(2013 - 2015)

• Requirements analysis and process optimization for global SAP enterprise implementations; cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment.

MBA - Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore (2011 - 2013)

BBA - Amity University, Noida (2007 - 2010)