Ani Gupta

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About Ani Gupta

Ani is a remote work veteran of over 13 years. In a career spanning more than 25 years, he has built SaaS products for diverse verticals, including e-commerce, finance, business intelligence, education, media, publishing, internet security, law, real estate, non-profits, and more. His professional experience ranges from early to growth-stage startups and agencies to big distributed enterprise teams. Ani has harnessed a unique and diverse skill-set with expertise in the complete product lifecycle, from business and strategic planning to product management, user experience research and design, managing remote and distributed agile engineering teams, to continuous improvement with qualitative and quantitative user research and data-driven testing techniques. As an expert in growth and digital marketing, automation, and business storytelling, Ani consults with growth-stage startups and scaleups on innovative and compelling ways to engage with their audience. Ani co-founded a dotcom company, an internet consultancy, an enterprise web solutions firm, and has served in leadership positions in high-end digital agencies, enterprise teams like Pfizer Inc, OLX Group, Techstars, and more. Ani has led and managed multicultural remote teams distributed across 4 continents and 13 timezones. He is a firm believer in fostering innovation through collaboration and community participation. He has been a community leader in the open-source Drupal.org project since 2008. He mentors growth-stage startups and is an active member of startup communities like Techstars, beta-i. He has conducted webinars and organized large multi-track conferences. Living a digital nomad lifestyle over several years has imprinted the importance of empathy, minimalism, lean principles, and out-of-the-box thinking in Ani's approach to work and life.# Expertise- Remote Working, workflow, and team management - Full Product Lifecycle: Strategy > Roadmapping > Product Development > Growth & Sales > Customer Success > Continuous Improvement - Strategic product planning, OKRs, and roadmapping - Agile coaching, product development, and project management - Growth & digital marketing strategy - Data-driven user research and UX-design - Content strategy and storytelling - Open-source web solutions - Business development and sales - Community contribution through leadership, organization, mentoring and coaching