# Rizwan Ansary > CEO, Zeros Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rizwanansary Growth led SaaS ## Work Experience ### Founder/CEO @ Zeros Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Building the last dating app SaaS buyers will ever need to 'speed date' all their software options before finally committing to a long-term relationship with that special SaaS someone. ### Consultant, Product Led Growth @ Kentik Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Complex product, Easy onboarding ### VP, Product & Design @ Sendoso Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Direct mail/gifting. Physical warehouses. ROI attribution. ### Director Growth & Product @ StackShare Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Dev tools marketplace. ### Product Lead, $ubscriptions & Pricing @ Postmates by Uber Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 All things monetization and driver growth. Launched subscription plan, new pricing with profitable unit economics, driver onboarding. ### Product Lead @ Credit Karma Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Seamless credit card applications (despite banks and their lawyers). Reset iOS/Android apps, rated 4.8/5. 140 MM users globally. ### Angel Investor @ Various Startups Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 SaaS, AI, Fintech. Seed through Series A. Portfolio → Flex, Model ML, ReflexAI, Ninjatech, Kinship, Jericho Security, Advocate, Andi, Cosine, Leap, Unify, PocketPod, Sailplane, Tome, Mercury, Databricks, OpenAI, Anthropic. I don’t invest outside US or Hollywood. ### Director of Product and Growth @ HackerRank Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 I headed growth of the developer community at HackerRank. Our team improved the onboarding and delivered on initiatives related to activation and retention. I led a team of engineers, designers, content curators, and data analysts to design and ship engaging experiences for skill improvement and testing. ### Senior PM @ Bing Jan 2011 – Jan 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 @ Bing Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 File Server Clusters – Worked on distributed file replication. Implemented perf benchmarks and workloads. ### Course Author, Monetization Growth @ Udacity Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 I created this program because there is a shortage of hands on quality resources to learn one the most intricate building blocks of our craft: monetization. This course focusses on financial metrics, profitability, UX design, psychology and last but not the least, general product design. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rizwan-ansary --- Source: https://flows.cv/rizwanansary JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rizwanansary/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05