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Ajay Nainani

AI Product Leader/Founder, Founding numerous successful AI teams in Google/X/DeepMind for Analytics, Retail, SWE, and Enterprise AI Agents across Support, Sales, Marketing... 10+ years in AI, 15+ in PM

United States
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Updated 9 months ago

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Years Experience

16

Roles

22

Skills

2

Education

About

18 years of professional experience, with a focus on rethinking with emerging technology. Repeated experience founding teams with lasting missions and impacts specifically focused on AI/ML. Recent (~3yr) specialization in Generative AI, with a track record of successful launches (e.g. PaLM, GenAI for Code). Several team creations, rethinkings that have stemmed from personal drive and organic gaining of influence and followers through visionary storytelling, clarity of objectives, clear definitions of impacts and opportunities.

Experience (16 roles)

15 yrs 1 mo

7 roles · Aug 2012 - Present

Enterprise AI Product Lead, Google Cloud Business Platform

Current
Jan 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Pitched a GenerativeAI for Enterprise Startup to GoogleVC, with Advisors from Google Deepmind; Recruited into Google Cloud - Founded and grew team to build Enterprise AI Agents for Support, Marketing, and more business use cases - Designed and Launched Tooling for Prompt Engineering and GenAI Agent...

Group Product Manager, Google Brain

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

- Launched PaLM for Google, Google's first 500Bn+ LLM and first AI model trained across multiple TPUv4 Pods; Significant launch for Google AI leading to numerous x-Google AI initiatives - First PM on GenAI for Code, launched AI code generation and completion into Google SWE IDE. Initial launch led t...

Senior Product Manager, Google X

Apr 2019 - Jan 2020 · 10 mos

- Founding PM for a Machine Vision + Edge Compute + ML Startup for Retail in Google X - Achieved Product-Market-Fit leading to $XXM in external funding from 3 out of the top 5 multinationals in retail segment - Startup Acquired by Google Research/DeepMind

Lead Product Manager

May 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

Lead for Google Analytics Reporting, Mobile App, and Intelligence.

Product Manager

Apr 2014 - May 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos

PM for Google Analytics, founder of Analytics Intelligence team. Grew from 0 to 40+ people today; established ongoing mission and team; launched natural language querying of big data prior to LLMs. Launched natural language insight generation prior to LLMs.

Founder of "Cognito" - Advanced AI + BI Solution Generation team for Finance

Dec 2013 - Apr 2014 · 5 mos

Founded a team focused on creation of solutions for Finance using AI + BI tooling that led to many innovations within Finance; team still exists today and has grown 10x from initial founding

Founder - Ads Billing Experience

Aug 2012 - Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

Self-started and spearheaded cross-divisional global initiative to improve the user experience on Google's main revenue-generating product • Gained buy-in from all levels of leadership across Google on specific commitments to improve user experience • Conducted research and built a data warehouse su...

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Founder

Biddenly, Inc

Aug 2012 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos·San Francisco

A fun side effort to create a site that would help property managers create beautiful, mobile-friendly online rental listings. Ran a successful kickstarter campaign and delivered on the promise. Biddenly - How To Create Beautiful Rental Listings

15 yrs 1 mo

2 roles · Jul 2010 - Jul 2012

Global Operations Manager

Aug 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr

Designed, executed, and managed initiatives across global team; responsible for $15BN of revenue • Reduced costs by $5MM annually by inventing, piloting, and implementing patent-pending billing algorithm • Managed distributed program to reduce operating capital, achieving over $40MM reduction in o...

Regional Manager, Finance Operations

Jul 2010 - Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

Led North America operations for AdWords electronic payments • Created SQL-based operational “red flag” dashboard, uncovering over 25K errant AdWords customers and saving over $15MM annually • Spearheaded cross-functional re-boot of Google's financial data warehouse

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Education (2)

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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

2003 - 2005

Activities and societies: - Teachers Assistant for several mathematics classes in Northwestern's curriculum

University of Chicago

University of Chicago

1999 - 2003

Activities and societies: - Graduated with Honors; Dean’s List 1999 – 2003 - Selected as Assistant Resident Head in a dormitory of 75 students - First-ever undergraduate instructor for the Young Scholars Program, an advanced middle and high school math program

Skills (22)

Strategic VisionTeam BuildingStrategyGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudInventory ManagementManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)FoundingStrategic LeadershipProcess ImprovementLeadershipE-commerceOperations ManagementProduct ManagementPricingAnalysisGenerative AIData AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipCompetitive AnalysisSales Operations

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Ajay Nainani is currently working as Enterprise AI Product Lead, Google Cloud Business Platform at 15 yrs 1 mo.
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Ajay Nainani studied Master of Arts, Mathematics at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. They have 2 education entries on their profile.
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Ajay Nainani's top skills include Strategic Vision, Team Building, Strategy, Google Analytics, Google Cloud. They have 22 skills listed on their profile.
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