Sid Mankad

Product-Led Transformation: Spearheaded the transition to a product-led operating cadence, establishing sprint reviews, quarterly roadmapping, and structured intake processes that eliminated development thrash and unified cross-team delivery.

Infrastructure Modernization: Enabled the discovery and strategic roadmap for index modernization; synthesized complex technical constraints into a phased MVP that unlocked global scalability.

AI/ML Innovation: Enabled the product strategy for document-understanding features (PDF/HTML to Markdown), directly improving LLM generative answer quality and expanding data coverage for enterprise search.

People Leadership: Led a high-impact team of Senior PMs focused on the Unity Commerce Platform, overseeing domains in subscriptions and post-purchase management.

Global Billing Ecosystem: Drove the foundational roadmap for Unity’s SaaS/metered billing platform, ensuring accurate, automated invoicing for thousands of global enterprise customers.

Enterprise Scaling: Enabled self-serve workflows for enterprise customers to manage subscription seats, reducing manual support overhead and increasing account expansion velocity.

Platform Onboarding: Enabled the integration of core products (Cloud Content Delivery, Simulation, Plastic SCM) onto the unified commerce stack.

Strategic Roadmap: Owned the end-to-end product strategy for the ArkAngel security risk management platform.

Full-Stack Refresh: Led the 6.0 platform overhaul, modernizing the technical stack to support next-generation cybersecurity requirements.

GTM Strategy: Led Go-to-Market execution for the NetBackup 5340 Appliance, coordinating across Pricing, Engineering, and SKU Strategy to ensure a successful global launch.

Data-Driven UX: Developed the "Design/Release Conversion Ratio" metric to track the implementation of UX stories, successfully reducing "shelfware" and increasing engineering efficiency.

System Architecture: Defined the information architecture and CLI guidelines for the Veritas Appliance Platform, standardizing user interaction across the product portfolio.

Enterprise Design System: Developed and maintained a shared UI component library (Bootstrap/SASS) used by engineers company-wide to ensure brand consistency.

Mobile Innovation: Created the concept and wireframes for Veritas AppAssist (Android/iOS), a tool utilized by 200+ global service personnel for appliance maintenance.