Anandam Sarcar

About Anandam Sarcar

Data & Analytics Leader with 22 years of global experience- 11 years in Product/Business, 11 years in Engineering (both as Software - Dev and QA disciplines) and a full stack hands on experience in Data, AI and Analytics in US and India for some of the most loved and used software products and services in the world. I have worked in IT, Business as well as core Product teams such as Windows, Azure and Xbox in both engineering and business capacities with Data and AI being the center of innovation in almost all positions. Specialists roles I excel are in Business + Technical global leadership roles which involve bringing the best in people, creating global impact and delivering tangible value to our customers and partners. Learning is my passion and throughout my 20+ career, I have been a continuous learner attaining education + professional certificates alongside working in tech and business management/leadership tracks with special emphasis on Gen AI, Microsoft Copilot stack and Data/AI industry knowlege in Amazon AWS, Databricks and Snowflake. Some of my white papers and industry publications are mentioned in the “Publications” section below.When not in front of the PC, I like spending time with my family and friends, experiencing different cultures, reading good books from philosophy to finance, being in nature and playing/watching my fav sports - Cricket and Football!

Experience

1. Lead Product Manager - Data, Business Insights & Ai, Xbox

   Microsoft

   Jan 2020 — Present

   My role is Data & AI lead for multiple verticals (Partners and Gamepass Business) in this startup team reporting to the Head of Data, AI and Insights. We own full stack Data->AI->Surfacing Business Insights to our customers and executive LT end-end. This role is a perfect intersection of business and technology and we report to the CVP of the organization. As such, I juggle with multiple roles like Product Manager, Dev Manager and QA manager with aggressive deadlines but a common mission to “Bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet”Some highlights:1. Shipped v1.0 AI tools for the Partners business. Parallely, learning as well on the continuous changing AI landscape (hands on exp with Roo/Kline and Github Copilot for PoCs/self-learning) and working truly like a start up team shipping, learning, unlearning and improving on delivering AI software with real applications to business!2. Standing up the Data & Business Analytics for Xbox Gamepass, 3PP Creators, Gaming Cloud Vertical business, ID@Xbox and ID@Azure from ground zero.3. Standup the Gaming Publishers Data & Business Analytics from ground zero4. OKR coach for the organization and conducting monthly business reviews for leadership and key decision makers.5. Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics to deep business questions and strategy. Lead PM for Gen AI data tools like Data GURU, Doc GURU, Super GURU (in prototype) used in XPM. Created the evals framework for Data Agent. Core-member behind creating this team from ground zero and infuse the org culture, vision and team-bonding amongst the team members.Apart from my core duties, huge advocate and a CULTURE Lead (Growth Connection track) in connecting people at my present organization too. Learnt to articulate better to CVPs, VPs, GMs, leaders and how to think of the business landscape in entirety as opposed to product silos and how to drive decisions with data quickly and proactively.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science and Engineering

• St. Xavier's Collegiate School - India

  School, Mathematics and Computer Science

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  General Management Program

• Yale School of Management

  Accelerated Management Program