# Sanjay Manghnani > Senior Product Leader | Platforms, APIs & Developer Tools | AI | Partnerships & Ecosystem Strategy Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sanjaymanghnani Product leader with 10+ years of product management experience building developer tools, APIs, and consumer platforms. Led teams from ground up and managed product portfolios across multiple platforms serving millions of users. Deep expertise in partnership strategies that create network effects, including growth strategies that balance supply and demand through strategic integrations. Experience spans early-stage startups to large-scale platforms, consistently focusing on user experience and ecosystem growth across both developer and consumer products. Currently exploring applications of GenAI and emerging fintech technologies in developer tooling. ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Manager @ PayPal Jan 2023 – Present | Toronto, ON Drove build/buy decision and executive alignment for new API management platform; delivered MVP with Led vendor evaluation and ongoing partner engagements for platform tooling 85%+ early adopter approval and 50% reduction in API design review time Built comprehensive catalog for all PayPal APIs, enabling discovery and governance at scale ### Director of Product Management @ Procurify Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Reorganized product team of seven managers and established annual roadmap for spend management platform serving SMB and mid-market segments Implemented product discovery and requirements gathering processes, improving team alignment and delivery predictability within first 4 months ### Senior Director, Product Management - Platform @ Ada Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Built and scaled AI-focused product team from ground up to six managers during company's rapid expansion phase Led development of AI-powered CX platform integrations achieving 70% customer adoption and measurable improvements in satisfaction metrics Architected product strategy for conversational AI platform serving millions of automated customer interactions across enterprise clients ### Director Product Management @ OpenTable Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Led integrations team that grew partnership revenue from 8% to 12-15% of total company revenue through strategic marketplace partnerships Developed shared restaurant booking inventory with Europe's second-largest player, doubling OpenTable's bookable inventory in six months from ideation to launch Built integrations with all major North American Point of Sale systems, increasing product stickiness and winning enterprise accounts with higher ARR Restructured APIs to support integration requirements for world's largest booking platforms including Google, TripAdvisor, and Apple Maps Spearheaded industry-first voice-driven AI booking agents through Amazon Alexa partnership, leading technical and product discussions ### Director, Product Management @ Mashery Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Leading product strategy, roadmap and business execution for Intel/Mashery's Developer Tools products. Lead product strategy and development of I/O Docs, the interactive API explorer tool included in Mashery portals. I/O docs became widely used by companies with an API program seeking to attract and educate developers about their API. Product goal: Make API discovery and learning easy. Made the business case for and managed the acquisition of Hacker League, LLC, a SaaS hackathon management service used globally to manage developer events. Product Goal: Allow enterprises to easily organize and operate professional and engaging developer hackathons while showcasing innovation, building teams, and evangelizing internal API programs. Lead the hiring and execution of Mashery's automatic SDK generation technology, Mashery's foray into mobile application development tools. Product Goal: Make it drop-dead simple for Developers to consume APIs ### Senior Product Manager @ Intuit Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View Designed and delivered a new developer product offering within eight months of joining the team. The product, “Intuit Anywhere”, is the de facto method of integrating third-party SaaS applications with the Intuit Partner Platform. The simplicity and broad developer adoption generated 50 app listings within the first year of general availability. Lead the design of the new developer experience from API discovery to application management and supportability. Achieved goal of making the first API call in 5 minutes and improved the quality of integrations between third-party applications Intuit. Managed and oversaw the deprecation of the native application platform based on legacy technology. Drafted the business case and delivered public communications of the overall QuickBooks API platform strategy and roadmap. Designed and documented the migration plan. ### Senior Program Manager @ Microsoft Corporation Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Redesigned the user experience for inserting web parts into SharePoint pages. This feature was critical to enabling simple content addition to SharePoint sites. Designed and wrote the functional specification for Firefox support of open-in-rich-client for Office. The plug-in was critical to Office 14 cross-browser support and is widely regarded as a key example of enabling ActiveX dependent features on non-IE clients. ### Program Manager @ Microsoft Corporation Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 Independently drove the release of Office Live to the India market. Designed and managed a regional technical adoption program, coordinated and managed a third party market research effort, and wrote a go-to-market functional specification. The functional specification was adopted as a standard for all Office Live worldwide releases. ### Web Developer Lead @ Microsoft Corporation Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 Managed 5 developers and mentored and grew them into a high-performing unit. My team was responsible for on-line sign-up and provisioning of Microsoft bCentral services for US and non-US markets which included 400,000 customers. ### Web Design Engineer @ Microsoft Corporation Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 Co-designed and developed Windows Update. The site was the first version implementation used by Windows 98 customers and became the basis of Microsoft Update currently consumed by 500 million Windows clients. ## Education ### BA UC Santa Barbara ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanman --- Source: https://flows.cv/sanjaymanghnani JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sanjaymanghnani/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07