Akhil Guru

About Akhil Guru

With over 15 years of experience in building and scaling enterprise platforms, with a growing focus on creating practical, AI-powered experiences that simplify how businesses work. I’m comfortable taking ambiguous problem areas and turning them into clear strategies, meaningful MVPs, and products that balance capability, cost, speed, and reliability.I work closely with research, engineering, and design to bring Copilot-style, agentic experiences to life—experiences that can reason, plan, and take action across apps, the web, and the OS. I’m known for grounding decisions in data, using experiments and telemetry to validate direction, and building solutions that are reliable, compliant, and ready for global scale.Above all, I care about designing products that remove friction, feel intuitive, and make enterprise customers’ lives easier.

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager

   Microsoft

   Mar 2019 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   I lead the end-to-end enterprise customer and partner journey, designing a unified and differentiated commercial experience across the Azure and AI ecosystem. My charter spans product discovery, solution development, cross-sell motions, invoicing experiences, and revenue recognition—ensuring seamless, intelligent interactions across the full commercial lifecycle.I serve as the Product Management lead for Microsoft’s enterprise ordering platform, which processes over $100B in annual revenue and powers critical downstream sales, licensing, billing, and compliance systems. I define and evolve commercial and business models for Microsoft sellers and partners, simplify complex enterprise workflows, and modernize them into cloud-first and AI-first architectures that improve operational efficiency, reduce friction, and unlock scalable cross-sell opportunities across all channels.With a strong engineering foundation, I bring systems thinking, clarity, and inclusive leadership to how I build products.

Skills

• Web Services
• Project Management
• Sdlc
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Enterprise Software
• Business Analysis
• Xml
• Pre-Sales
• Vendor Management
• Test Planning
• Integration
• Software Project Management
• Team Management
• Sql
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Testing
• C#
• .net
• Microsoft Sql Server