Sharangdhar Sharma

About Sharangdhar Sharma

Product Leader delivering innovative, data-driven B2B & consumer platform products across global marketplaces. Known for leading end-to-end product strategy from 0-to-1, with deep technical fluency and a proven track record in driving product growth, creator integrations, and global onboarding experiences. Adept at navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and scaling platforms across enterprise and SMB segments. Currently, leading Xbox Marketplace Platform’s growth and experience, including developer integrations, certification, packaging, content ingestion pipeline, publishing, and post-launch support. CORE COMPETENCIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS Product Leadership | Technical Program Management |Game Publishing Experiences | Creator Experiences || BI & Analytics | Delivery Management | B2B Platforms | Growth & Strategy | Team Leadership • Product Management: Orchestrated the execution & development of product roadmaps for scalable business solutions with globally distributed teams. Articulated product vision and strategic plans, ensuring clarity in requirements while maintaining a customer-centric approach aligned with business objectives. • Technical Program Management: Spearheaded multiple programs across diverse product lines and engineering teams, defining and executing product vision and roadmaps. Established project plans from inception, driving strategy, design, development, resource management, and ensuring on-time, value-driven delivery within budget and accuracy parameters. • Customer Advocacy: Championed customer feedback by formulating actionable plans in collaboration with business and engineering teams. Engaged stakeholders to manage expectations, ensuring seamless project execution and consistently achieving high customer satisfaction. • Delivery Management: Led cross-functional teams to deliver complex, high-impact programs. Expertly planned and managed project schedules, proactively addressing risks with mitigation strategies, and made engineering trade-offs in line with business goals. Initiated new projects, created charters, and drove process and performance improvements while ensuring organizational compliance. • Stakeholder Management: Effectively managed conflicts and fostered collaboration across multiple business units with competing priorities, ensuring cohesive teamwork and communication.

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager

   Microsoft

   Aug 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading end-to-end product strategy for Xbox Marketplace Tools, delivering multi-hundred million revenue impact, boosting profitability, and driving adoption. Scaling global marketplace platform for 200K+ creators and 200M players, enabling purchase conversion, automated workflows, and operational productivity across self-serve tooling, content delivery, publishing, and multi-region rollouts.Built the industry’s first AI-powered certification platform (xShield), deploying autonomous workflows, validation, and automated decision loops that reduced GTM time by 65%, delivered 40%+ productivity gains across publishing operations.Launched PAI360 (Publishing Actionable Insights 360), a single source of truth platform providing actionable insights, anomaly detection, account oversight, and integrated business insight.Unified cross-org execution across engineering, commerce, finance, sales, compliance, and marketplace ops to modernize fragmented systems and deliver an integrated ecosystem combining self-serve tooling, and automated publishing workflows on a global scale.Led PM org development at Microsoft IDC, hiring & coaching, leading mentorship programs, strengthening Xbox’s product management capabilities and building a cohesive, high-performing team culture.

Education

• KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

  Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

  2010 — 2014