# Yash Doshi > Director of Product Management | Leading Data & AI Initiatives at Spotnana Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yashdoshi Yash is a results-driven full-stack product builder with over 14 years of experience building and scaling AI-powered SaaS products across enterprise and consumer environments. He has led impactful initiatives at industry leaders like Spotnana, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Tetration, and GE Digital: launching AI/ML features, data security tools, and creative dashboard experiences that range from traditional visualizations to natural language powered insights, driving millions in revenue. Most recently at Spotnana, Yash leads AI & Data strategy: building agentic booking platforms, conversational analytics, and LLM-powered experiences that are redefining how enterprises search, book, and manage travel. He excels at turning customer insights and technical possibilities into bold product strategies. Whether architecting AI orchestration layers, building scalable data platforms, or shipping intuitive user-facing analytics, Yash brings a full-stack product mindset from 0→1 to 1→10. His superpower is executing fast while balancing user empathy, data insights, and cross-functional collaboration. With a background that blends engineering, UX, and strategy, Yash thrives at the intersection of design, data, and scale. Key Strengths 🧠 AI/ML, LLMs, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Data Platforms 📈 Product Strategy, GTM, Monetization 🌐 SaaS, PLG, User Research 🤝 Cross-functional Team Leadership 📊 Metrics-Driven Growth & Execution 🧭 Customer Journey Design Yash is passionate about building intelligent, secure, and user-centered products that solve real-world problems and scaling the teams behind them. ## Work Experience ### Director of Product Management @ Spotnana Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, CA Driving Spotnana's AI and Data strategy: leading Agentic Travel Experiences, AI Personalization & Recommendations, Data Infrastructure, and Conversational Reporting initiatives. Building the intelligence layer that makes travel feel personal from preference-aware booking agents that remember how you travel, to recommendation engines that anticipate your next trip before you ask. Hiring Product Managers and Engineers for my team, reach out for opportunities. ### AI Product Lead - Visibility, Analytics & Reporting for Strata Cloud Manager @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Product Manager leading Security Visualization, Insights, and Reporting for Strata Cloud Manager (SCM). SCM is the industry's first AI-powered management and operations platform. I directly manage the roadmap for 50 engineers and lead a cross-functional UX team of 5 designers and 3 researchers, and a marketing/TME team. My responsibilities include designing super intuitive and creative visualizations with dynamic dashboards like Command Center and Activity Insights, and creating intuitive workflows to ensure unified visibility and analytics across all of Palo Alto Networks' platform and security services that include Prisma Access, NGFW, SD-WAN, IoT, Data Security, and CDSS. This involves collaborating with over 20 product and engineering teams, building data infrastructure, and driving product integrations to enhance these unified experiences. Additionally, I spearhead platform capabilities such as custom dashboards/reporting workflows, threat intelligence, navigation redesign, and the implementation of role-based access control functionalities. I lead our product analytics strategy through ownership of Pendo, enabling deep insights into how customers interact with our products. I’ve built scalable frameworks to track feature usage, uncover friction points, and guide prioritization based on real user behavior. Beyond analysis, I actively mentor and train product managers, UX designers, and engineers across the company on how to use these insights to drive roadmap decisions. As a customer-obsessed PM, I engage with at least five customers weekly and collaborate closely with UX researchers to conduct targeted studies: ensuring our product strategy is always anchored in real-world needs and behavior. Currently, I am working on key AI initiatives announced by our company: Copilot, Agentic AI & AI Canvas ( Intent based visualizations). working on device (IoT) security initiatives for our enterprise, healthcare and OT customers (CAASM market) ### Principal Product Manager @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States • Part of 3 people central team appointed by the SVP to work with influence on Project Actus to streamline the Activation & Onboarding experience for Prisma Access and Prisma Cloud, resulting in a decrease in support cases and an increase in NPS score. - Interviewed customers and non-users, partnered with 100+ Product managers, design, IT, engineering, sales, customer support, customer success, and many other teams to gather insights, improve the customer journey, and built relationships across speedboats - Competitive analysis of the customer experience and predict future features, products and revenue - Managed the planning and execution of a workshop, including competitive analysis, blueprinting, group ideation, prototype building, and action priority matrix, leading to a successful Northstar and roadmap plans • Performed detailed case data analysis (50K+ cases) for different products across Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow; gained insights into churn rate, customer growth, problem areas, and ways to improve the taxonomy issue • First dedicated design systems PM hire tasked with establishing a systems practice to drive rapid company growth and product scalability • Managing timeline & execution for the Central Design system and Data visualization platform #PM #Tech #UX #ProductStrategy ### Senior Product Manager @ Cisco Tetration Analytics Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 100 person startup generating 150 million per year acquired into Cisco • Built a technical roadmap and delivered features working with cross-functional teams consisting of Engineers, QA, and Designers. • Analyzed amplitude analytics data to identify features in workload profile that correlate with customer attrition resulting in product prioritization • Hired, onboarded and trained a team of engineers • UI harmonization between Cisco SBG's design system and Tetration's design System to create a cohesive user experience between all of the SBG acquisitions and products • Identified and deprecated underutilized product features with the help of detailed Amplitude analytics, resulting in no change to customer retention while achieving significant cost savings for the business. Projects: Design system adoption, Workload profile, Accessibility ### Lead Software Engineer @ Cisco Tetration Analytics Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Managing a global team of 9 engineers (across USA, Romania and India) for building our Tetration product • Developed core features of Segmentation, a Policy enforcement feature that generates 45% of Tetration's revenue; built a drag-and-drop complex data visualization to view, create and enforce policies. • Creating re-usable components across the application to easily customize, scale with the demand and reduce testing time. • Took web accessibility from 0 to 90% in a span of 6 months, making us WCAG compliant Projects: Application dependency mapping (ADM), Segmentation ### Senior Software Engineer @ Versa Networks Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Joined Versa Networks during its early growth stage (~$5M revenue) as the first UX and product-minded engineer: helped define the product vision and front-end architecture from the ground up in the absence of dedicated Product and UX teams. Collaborated closely with the CTO to re-architect a multi-page analytics product into a high-performing single-page web app, resulting in a $1.2M revenue lift and significant UX improvements. Led product discovery and implemented user analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Amplitude, session recordings, heatmaps) to identify bottlenecks, prioritize redesign efforts, and measure success. Redesigned and modernized the entire front-end experience for Versa's SD-WAN analytics platform, boosting usability and visual clarity for enterprise customers. Improved website conversion rates by 30% by applying behavioral data insights to landing pages and integrating tools like live chat, resulting in better lead qualification and support responsiveness. Built the FlexVNF application from scratch—owning the process from ideation, wireframing, and prototyping to full-stack development and customer delivery. Played a key cross-functional role by partnering directly with customer support, marketing, and QA, while managing UI accessibility and performance for large-scale enterprise deployments. These foundational efforts helped double the company’s revenue in one year and laid the groundwork for Versa’s rapid scaling into a $100M+ revenue run rate. Skills: Product-Led Growth · Customer Obsession · Data-Driven Decision Making · UX/UI Design · Front-End Architecture · Analytics Instrumentation · Cross-Functional Collaboration · Strategic Execution · Startup Growth ### Design Technologist @ GE Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Spearheaded the design and development of a predictive maintenance solution for locomotive wheel replacement using real-time sensor data and machine learning models: resulting in $4.5M annual cost savings and improved field safety across North American rail operations. Transformed a manual, Excel-based workflow into a cloud-powered hybrid app that automated inspection decisions, improved accuracy, and reduced human error. Conducted deep field research by shadowing engineers and gathering first-hand customer insights to design intuitive workflows tailored for technicians in high-risk industrial environments. Designed and implemented a reusable UI library that became the standard across GE’s 45,000+ customer applications and was published as part of the official Predix Design System. Led cross-functional scrum teams, facilitated agile ceremonies, and ensured backlog grooming and execution met business-critical milestones. Collaborated closely with platform architects, data scientists, and field engineers to align UI/UX design with performance, safety, and compliance needs in regulated environments. Trained dozens of field engineers and stakeholders across the U.S. on system usage, becoming a trusted technical partner and change agent during rollout. Recognized with an innovation award for end-to-end delivery and business impact. Strengths: Customer Obsession, Product Design, Technical Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Strategic Thinking, Data-Driven Decision Making, Communication Certifications: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified ### Web Developer @ USC Viterbi Startup Garage Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 As an early product and technology consultant at Viterbi Startup Garage, I partnered directly with Ashish Soni (Founding Director) to help build and launch early-stage web products for a portfolio of incubated startups, including Tilofy, Taggle, Racevine, and others. Key Responsibilities & Impact: • Collaborated with founders and early teams to define MVP scope, build rapid prototypes, and translate business ideas into tangible products ready for investor pitches. • Supported multiple companies selected into the Viterbi Startup Garage program, each of which received $50K in seed funding, by acting as a fractional product and engineering lead. • Delivered hands-on support in product design, frontend/backend development (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress), and early UX. • Applied machine learning patterns and built intelligent product features to help differentiate startups in highly competitive markets. • Participated in investor meetings and pitch prep, helping startups secure initial rounds of funding through compelling product narratives and demos. • Served as a connector between teams, identifying shared opportunities and enabling cross-company collaboration to accelerate product development. This experience shaped my product mindset early: balancing speed, user value, and engineering tradeoffs to deliver real outcomes with limited resources. ### Web Developer and Designer (UI & UX) @ USC Marshall School of Business Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles • Headed the Organization staff during the International Conference: Improved productivity and efficiency • Designed and implemented A/B experiments to improve the conversion rate by 26%, achieving the highest sales record through my user retention web design approach • Developed websites for Asia/Pacific Business International conference and Pacific Rim Entrepreneur Summit • Designed e-flyers/email marketing using HTML5, CSS3 &Javascript for marketing the Conference sales. Increasing the Overall traffic through websites, using strategic marketing, SEO, In-depth analytics research, making the User Interface as per the analytics to fetch more Users, User retention, etc • Asia/Pacific Business Outlook Website: http://www.apboconference.com/ • Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative Website: http://pacrimentrepreneursummit.com/pcsi/mission-pcsi.html Soft: Engineering Management, Continuous Improvement Technology: ReactJs, AngularJs, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, NodeJs, Ruby on Rails Mobile experience: React Native, Android & iOS development, Firebase, Expo. UI Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom Web Tools: Hubspot, Clicktale, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, Scrum, App Annie, ChatGPT, OpenAI Database Systems: mongoDB, MySQL ### Web developer Intern @ iRevo Multimedia, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Led the end-to-end development of the hybrid application, combining technical execution with early-stage product ownership. Worked closely with business stakeholders to define user needs for each module (LiveTV, Digital Signage, Virtual Receptionist). Designed a modular architecture using backbone.js, node.js, require.js, and HTML5, ensuring scalability and reusability across features. Reduced onboarding time for new signage campaigns by 40% through a simplified admin panel. ### Programmer @ USC Robotics iLab Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles • Working on Focus of Expansion, Image Processing on BeoBot Robot. • Published Research Paper as Acknowledgment under Christian Siagian, Professor of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. ### Intern @ ThinkLABS Technosolutions Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 • Designed and Programmed Atmega32 based circuits and made various Projects on RTC, Timers, Counters, Game Controller using Joystick, GPIO, UART, ADC, DAC, Data Acquisition. ### Intern @ Powerlink Systems Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 • Designed and made Autonomous Robots, Digital counters, Digital timers, Temperature controllers, A.C. and D.C. drives and various other projects. ## Education ### Masters of Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yashvdoshi - Website: http://doshiyash.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/yashdoshi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yashdoshi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05