Product Leadership Driving Global Impact

In an era of rapid technological change, businesses need leaders who can bridge strategy, innovation, and execution. Deep Gaur, has spent his career doing just that—building transformative products and GTM strategies that drive growth, efficiency, and long-term impact. His passion for building great products stems from his global outlook and a lifelong curiosity about solving real-world problems with data and innovation.

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$250M
in annual revenues
$0-$80M
in new product growth

About Deep

Industries

Core Skills

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Case Studies

Unlocking New Market Segments Through Product Expansion and Agile Development

Challenge

Situation: A Data , SaaS platform needed to expand beyond its core customer base into adjacent industries while maintaining profitability.

Task: Identify high-potential market segments, develop an expansion strategy, and align the product roadmap to meet new industry needs.

Results

  • Delivered a customer centric roadmap with 95% on-time feature delivery
  • Led technical business development with initial customers resulting in a $15M win
  • Grew revenues from $0 to $80M in 3 years, gained 70% market share, landed marquee customers Lyft, Uber, Amazon

Actions

  • What and Why: Leveraged Ansoffs model to identify adjacent and new industry segments. Shortlisted on-demand delivery and ride hailing as a adjacent market, SAM of $1B, which had slightly different needs with from automotive, created a strategic assessment including SWOT analysis, and business cases, and gained approval from LT to pursue the opportunity
  • Who: Collaborated with sales to identify beachhead customers, created customer personas across planner, drivers, riders. Mapped user journeys and identified pain points. Prioritised the pain point based on impact, frequency, alternative options to address them
  • How: Translated these pain points into product features, related to high precision geospatial data, search, and routing services - focused on last mile vs highway for automotive
  • Collaborated with engineering to carry out impact vs effort estimate

Driving $1B Revenue Through Strategic Product & GTM Alignment

Challenge

Situation: A leading SaaS and data company faced challenges in aligning product, sales, and marketing teams, leading to inefficiencies and suboptimal customer adoption.

Task: Streamline strategic alignment across teams, refine the go-to-market approach, and optimize revenue generation.

Results

  • $1B+ in revenue driven through improved GTM alignment.
  • 40% increase in pipeline conversion rates, leading to a $2.4B rolling pipeline.
  • Faster time-to-market for key product initiatives, strengthening competitive positioning.

Actions

  • Developed a unified product roadmap directly linked to revenue goals.
  • Implemented data-driven segmentation and positioning to enhance customer targeting.
  • Led cross-functional collaboration to create a seamless GTM execution framework.
  • Optimized pricing and packaging, driving upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

Enhancing Places Data and Search Results by 30% Through Integrating AI/ML and Strategic Partnerships

Challenge

Situation: A leading location platform company struggled with low accuracy in search results, outdated data, and duplication, risking multi-million-dollar losses in revenue and customer trust.

Task: Improve data quality to enhance search results, ensuring accuracy, freshness, and coverage.

Results

  • 30% improvement in places and search results accuracy.
  • 20% increase in customer satisfaction.
  • 40% YoY revenue growth.

Actions

  • Strategic Partnerships: Formed key partnerships with a social media company and a financial payment gateway to receive 100M+ weekly updates, ensuring near real-time data.
  • Automation & Machine Learning: Implemented web scrapers for business chain updates and deployed machine learning for a tiered data quality scoring system.
  • Performance Tracking: Defined KPIs for freshness, accuracy, and coverage, and conducted A/B testing, benchmarking, and ground truth testing.
  • Customer Collaboration: Developed an XML product format and worked closely with customers to gather feedback and iterate in an agile manner.
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"I’ve had the pleasure of working with Deep on several projects over the past few years at HERE Technologies.
I first worked with him on a strategic partnership opportunity with a leading technology company in Southeast Asia. Deep bought market and domain expertise along with strong structuring and relationship skills that allowed us to quickly explore the opportunity and move towards proof of concepts. More recently I’ve worked with him in a different capacity, where we’ve focused on setting the company’s strategic goals and in the process, driving transformation initiatives forward.
Beyond his strong skillset, he also brings a positive, collaborative, and curiosity-driven approach to his work, which makes him a pleasure to work with, and helps ensure he can bring others together towards a common goal.
I’m confident that Deep will be highly successful in whatever he does. I look forward to seeing where his career goes."
Eric Stuckey
Senior Director, Strategy Operations at HERE Technologies
"I have known Deep for a number of years, and have the pleasure to work with him on multiple key initiative in a couple of the roles he had within HERE.
As part of the leadership team, Deep has been contributed tremendously in defining and aligning the Annual Goals and KPI's.
He has a collaborative leadership style backed by a well laid out plan, and this contributes to his effectiveness as a leader. This contributes to drive executive decisions and consensus amount key stakeholders including senior leadership.
He is a well rounded business leader with a great understanding of Strategy, Operations and Product Management, factors that also compliment Deep in running successful cross-functional initiatives (e.g. Implementation of OKRs).
I would welcome the opportunity to work with Deep again in the future. He would be a great asset to any team he joins, and I am confident he will be successful in his future roles."
Zain Moosani
Senior Director - Global Sales Finance at HERE Technologies
"Deep is a very strong product manager and his work ethics are very high. He has a strong bias for action and makes data driven decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed working and partnering with him to improve Bing Local Search Experience. His interpersonal skills and ability to work with multiple teams and partners across geos are commendable. He is a great asset in any team."
Sandhya Guntreddy
Partner Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft Corporation | Chevening FellowPartner

"I have had the privilege of working with Jason on both the candidate side of recruiting as well as a client. Jason's dedication to his work is unmatched and his commitment to his team is truly remarkable. Jason would be a great asset to any organization. He is truly an expert in the property management/facilities arena."

Pam Martin
Director of Recruiting, Lever1
"Deep is a versatile product manager and a quick learner who has successfully managed products throughout the life cycle from concept to retirement. He has effectively managed products which were built for global offering and be able to live it for regional/local country usage. Deep has a great ability to really analyze and look at the use cases and ROI for a product line and provide direction based on that analysis.
Deep's attention to detail, passion and willingness to defend his turf are exemplary qualities that would benefit most any organization for an evangelist and experienced Product Manager"
Sulaizah Saptoe
Product Management and Product Marketing professional
"Deep was my direct manager at HERE Technologies , His team was responsible for global demand generation and pipeline management as well as initiating, executing and managing strategic initiatives.
What I appreciated most about Deep as my manager is his supportive leadership capabilities. For example, he is empathetic, and empowers his team to achieve their goals and objectives. I liked discussing ideas with Deep because he is a good listener. When needed, he offers a different perspective or presents additional information in a very calm and thoughtful way. This really fostered an open and relaxed working atmosphere, where I felt appreciated and motivated. Deep always supported his team's development and helped the team to get exposure and visibility within the organization. Deep is culturally aware, which is essential to successful collaboration in a global organization like HERE Technologies.
Deep is an absolute business professional with many years of experience in product management, business development and sales operations across the globe. He is a people connector and builds lasting working relationships. His knowledge and network was instrumental for our teams' success.
I would highly recommend hiring Deep for a leadership role, and have no doubt that people on his team will thrive and enjoy working with Deep like I did!"
Sigrid Van Veen
Sr. Global Sales Strategy Manager at HERE Technologies Sigrid reported directly to Deep
"Highly recommended!
Strategic thinker. Relationship building. Commercial Excellence. Leadership.
These are just a few of the many skills Deep delivers daily!
I've had the pleasure to have Deep as a leader in HERE Technologies.
He creates a positive work environment for innovation and for results to be achieved.
Under his leadership - leveraging on data - we identified bottlenecks, and shaped new processes and KPIs to achieve the strategic targets.
To sum up, he is an asset in any field or organization!"
Yugho Yoshida
MBA l Chief of Staff, Yugho reported directly to Deep
"Deep consistently brings a unique blend of Product Management leadership, GTM strategy, and the ability to drive high-stakes customer interactions. His ability to execute under pressure, bring clarity to executive decision-making, and lead complex cross-functional initiatives is exemplary."
Marcio Andrade
Director Technical Product management, HERE Technologies
"Deep brought market and domain expertise along with strong structuring and relationship skills that allowed us to quickly explore the opportunity and move towards proof of concepts. More recently I’ve worked with him in a different capacity, where we’ve focused on setting the company’s strategic goals and in the process, driving transformation initiatives forward."
Eric Stuckey
Eric Stuckey
Senior Director, Strategy Operations at HERE Technologies
"He [Deep] has a collaborative leadership style backed by a well laid out plan, and this contributes to his effectiveness as a leader. This contributes to drive executive decisions and consensus amount key stakeholders including senior leadership. He is a well rounded business leader with a great understanding of Strategy, Operations and Product Management, factors that also compliment Deep in running successful cross-functional initiatives (e.g. Implementation of OKRs)."
Zain Moosan
Senior Director - Global Sales Finance at HERE Technologies
"Deep is a very strong product manager and his work ethics are very high. He has a strong bias for action and makes data driven decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed working and partnering with him to improve Bing Local Search Experience."
Sandhya Guntreddy
Partner Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft Corporation | Chevening FellowPartner
"Deep has a great ability to really analyze and look at the use cases and ROI for a product line and provide direction based on that analysis. Deep's attention to detail, passion and willingness to defend his turf are exemplary qualities that would benefit most any organization for an evangelist and experienced Product Manager."
Sulaizah Sapto
Product Management, Product Marketing Professional
"What I appreciated most about Deep as my manager is his supportive leadership capabilities. For example, he is empathetic, and empowers his team to achieve their goals and objectives. I would highly recommend hiring Deep for a leadership role, and have no doubt that people on his team will thrive and enjoy working with Deep like I did!"
Sigrid Van Veen
Sr. Global Sales Strategy Manager, HERE Technologies Sigrid (reported directly to Deep)
"Highly recommended! Strategic thinker. Relationship building. Commercial Excellence. Leadership. These are just a few of the many skills Deep delivers daily!"
Yugho Yoshida
Yugho Yoshida
MBA l Chief of Staff (reported directly to Deep)
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Certifications

MIT Sloan School of Management

Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Program

MIT Sloan School of Management (2004)

UC Berkeley Extension

Product Management Excellence Executive Education Program

UC Berkeley Extension (2018)

International Software Quality Institute

ISPMA Certified Software Product Manager

International Software Quality Institute (2017)

Technical Skills

Education

Master of Business Administration

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, India (2008)

Bachelor of Engineering

PES Institute of Technology, India (2003)

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