Yogesh Ranjan
Director, Product Management | Monetization & GTM Strategies | Alliances
CiscoYogesh Ranjan is currently the Head of Product for the Splunk Cloud where he leads AI and LLM Observability, K8s, Cloud, and Infra. Monitoring, Database Monitoring, and Cisco Observability Platform.
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In this role, as a senior director, he manages multiple product lines across Full-Stack Observability, GenAI and LLM Observability, Observability for AI Pods, AI Security and Evals, Kubernetes and Cloud Monitoring, and Database Monitoring. Yogesh is responsible for business planning, product management, business development, GTM, monetization, and release execution etc. Prior to this, Yogesh was at VMware as global product management and GTM-Lead where he managed multi-Cloud IaaS platform, Sovereign Cloud Program, and the service eco-system and technology alliances for both. Over the past 20 years, Yogesh has held various product leadership roles at large enterprise organizations and start-ups such as Symantec, Veritas, LG Electronics, Motorola, Globalscholar, Experience: Product Management | Product Marketing and GTM | Business Development and Alliances | ISV eco-system, Marketplace, and Developer Platform and Community LLM and Gen AI Full-Stack Monitoring | LLM Chains Monitoring | Model Behavior and Quality | Model Evaluations | Agentic AI Monitoring | Conversation Centric AI | OpenLLMetry and OpenLIT | AI Security and eco-system integrations | FSO and AIOps platform | Observaibility Eco-system | Cloud Optimization | K8s and Cloud Monitoring | Network Monitoring | eBPF | DR to Cloud | DRaaS | Hybrid Cloud | Business Continuity, High Availability | Cloud Storage | Data Protection | Backup and Recovery | Multi-Cloud IaaS Platform | Sovereign Cloud | SaaS | Cloud Provider | MSPs | Digital Interactive Marketing | Web and mobile applications | eCommerce, Telecom, Wireless | LMS, Web Content management | K12 Education | Skills: Product Management and Development from conception to production to sunset | GTM strategies and Marketing | Business Development, Operations, and Planning | Alliances and Technology Integrations | Executive Briefings | Public Speaking | Sales Enablement and Training | Building and leading cross-functional teams
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- CISCOJOB
- Senior Dir, Product Manage…4Y 11M
Senior Director, Product Management
Cisco
[Head of Product Management - Splunk Observability for AI, AI eco-system, K8s, Cloud, DB, and Infra. Monitoring] Manages multiple product lines across - Observability for AI Applications including monitoring of LLM Applications, GenAI stack, Model Quality and Evals, Agentic AI, AI Security and eco-system integrations, and Cisco AI Pods - Cloud and K8s Observability, AI/ML-driven Cost, Performance, Workload Optimization - Database Monitoring, Performance, and Troubleshooting - Cisco Observability Platform, Developer Experience, and Marketplace - MELT data foundation, Identity and Access, Alerting, AIOps, Licensing, billing, and metering - FSO Modules and Applications across APM, Cloud Nativ…
- Dir of Product Management3Y 11M
Director of Product Management
Cisco
Head of Product and Developer Relations - Cisco Observability Platform
- TECHNOLOGY START-UPS (UNNAMED)JOB
- Board Advisor7Y 9M
Board Advisor
Technology Start-ups (Unnamed)
Board Advisor to tech start-ups in hybrid cloud, storage, and data protection space
- VMWAREJOB
- Global Product Management…5Y 3M
Global Product Management and GTM Lead
VMware Inc.
[Group PM + GTM Lead - Multi-cloud and Sovereign Cloud] - Product management and go-to-market lead for Multi-Cloud IaaS platform, cloud services eco-system, and Marketplace integrations - Program Lead for Sovereign Cloud Initiative - Cloud services portfolio includes Hybrid Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, and Storage services among others - Additionally responsible for business development and technology alliances
- SYMANTECJOB
- Group Product Mgr2Y 11M
Group Product Manager
Symantec
[Product Management and Business Planning] - WW Product Management lead for $200 MM BC/DR product portfolio. - Responsible for Business Planning, Product Strategy, and Field enablement
- STARTUPSJOB
- Head of Product Management1Y 1M
Head of Product Management
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- Headed Product Management, Operations, and Business Development for Marketing Asset Management Platform
- Head of Product Management1Y 1M
Head of Product Management
Startups
- Headed Product Management, Operations, and Business Development for Marketing Asset Management Platform
- GLOBALSCHOLARJOB
- Dir of Product Management3Y 3M
Director of Product Management
GlobalScholar
[Product Management and Professional Services] - Head of products for Educator Effectiveness platform. Managed product management, pre-sales, and client engagement teams - Previously product manager on Learning Management System, Student Information System, Gradebooks
- LG ELECTRONICSJOB
- Technical Program Manageme…5Y 11M
Technical Program Management-Research Engineer, Messaging and Communications
LG Electronics
- TPM: Mobile Applications, Unified messaging, Functional design, UI/UX, - Research Engineer: Software engineering and development, C, C++, RTOS
- Job: Cisco — Senior Director, Product Management · 2021-11 – present · 4y 9mo — [Head of Product Management - Splunk Observability for AI, AI eco-system, K8s, Cloud, DB, and Infra. Monitoring] Manages multiple product lines across - Observability for AI Applications including monitoring of LLM Applications, GenAI stack, Model Quality and Evals, Agentic AI, AI Security and eco-system integrations, and Cisco AI Pods - Cloud and K8s Observability, AI/ML-driven Cost, Performance, Workload Optimization - Database Monitoring, Performance, and Troubleshooting - Cisco Observability Platform, Developer Experience, and Marketplace - MELT data foundation, Identity and Access, Alerting, AIOps, Licensing, billing, and metering - FSO Modules and Applications across APM, Cloud Nativ…
- Job: Cisco — Director of Product Management · 2021 – 2024 · 3y — Head of Product and Developer Relations - Cisco Observability Platform
- Job: Technology Start-ups (Unnamed) — Board Advisor · 2019 – present · 7y 7mo — Board Advisor to tech start-ups in hybrid cloud, storage, and data protection space
- Job: VMware Inc. — Global Product Management and GTM Lead · 2016-08 – 2021-11 · 5y 3mo — [Group PM + GTM Lead - Multi-cloud and Sovereign Cloud] - Product management and go-to-market lead for Multi-Cloud IaaS platform, cloud services eco-system, and Marketplace integrations - Program Lead for Sovereign Cloud Initiative - Cloud services portfolio includes Hybrid Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, and Storage services among others - Additionally responsible for business development and technology alliances
- Job: Symantec — Group Product Manager · 2013-08 – 2016-07 · 2y 11mo — [Product Management and Business Planning] - WW Product Management lead for $200 MM BC/DR product portfolio. - Responsible for Business Planning, Product Strategy, and Field enablement
- Job: Startups — Head of Product Management · 2012-07 – 2013-08 · 1y 1mo — - Headed Product Management, Operations, and Business Development for Marketing Asset Management Platform
- Job: Startups — Head of Product Management · 2012-07 – 2013-08 · 1y 1mo — - Headed Product Management, Operations, and Business Development for Marketing Asset Management Platform
- Job: GlobalScholar — Director of Product Management · 2009-04 – 2012-07 · 3y 3mo — [Product Management and Professional Services] - Head of products for Educator Effectiveness platform. Managed product management, pre-sales, and client engagement teams - Previously product manager on Learning Management System, Student Information System, Gradebooks
- Job: LG Electronics — Technical Program Management-Research Engineer, Messaging and Communications · 2002 – 2007 · 5y — - TPM: Mobile Applications, Unified messaging, Functional design, UI/UX, - Research Engineer: Software engineering and development, C, C++, RTOS
- School: University of Washington — MBA, Strategy and General Management
- School: University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business — MBA, Strategy and Management
- School: Kurukshetra University — B-Tech, Electronics
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