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title: "Santosh Lakshman M - Principal Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Santosh Lakshman M, Product @ Netapp | AI | Product Leadership | EX- Microsoft Copilot, Indeed based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor, gemini, and Microsoft Copilot."
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# Santosh Lakshman M on Tal

## Headline

Product @ Netapp \| AI \| Product Leadership \| EX\- Microsoft Copilot, Indeed

## About

I am a seasoned Product Leader with 15yrs of work experience in across eCommerce, FinTech, AI and HRTech domains\. I'm currently working as a Principal Product Manager at NetApp in their Cyber Resilience and Recovery team where I work in Ransomware protection, Backup and Recovery areas\. Previously worked in the M365 Core team on extending Microsoft Copilot\. Prev WorkEx: Before Microsoft, I worked as Director of Product at Rupeek Gold Loans and led the Customer Acquisition and Experience vertical\. My team of 5 PMs and 2 Product Analysts was responsible for the complete digital journey of gold loan customer\. We facilitated scaling of paid marketing campaigns, SEO, and customer lifecycle management \(entire digital journey\)\. \- Principal Product Manager at MySmartPrice\.com \- Worked on various areas\. Built the fashion ecommerce vertical grounds up and scaled the team to \~20\+ members\. \- Software Developer at Maxrange Retail Pvt\. Ltd\. \- A chain of Hybrid Retail stores with focus on providing e\-Commerce like experience\. Early member and stayed till it scaled upto 100\+ stores\. \- Partner and Co\-founder at Colon K \- a personalized merchandise company \- Internships at Yahoo Software, ICICI Prudential and Pentair Water Academic: MBA at IIM Calcutta and B\.E \(Hons\.\) EEE at BITS Pilani, Pilani Specialties: Product Management in Ecommerce and Retail, Ideation, Marketing Automation, SEO, Email Marketing, Digital Marketing

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

gemini

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Principal Product Manager at NetApp, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product @ M365 Core Teams \| Microsoft Copilot at Microsoft, Jun 2021 \- Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Worked on the central platform \(M365 Core\) powering Microsoft Teams \(300M\+ monthly active users\)\. I was responsible for provisioning and administration of users and tenants in Microsoft Teams\. Also worked on building Microsoft Copilot Agents \(AI\) Platform\. Helped drive the launch of Copilot extensibility features \- API Plugins, Graph Connectors and Copilot Agents in Microsoft Build\. I helped define and improve quality and performance metrics for Copilot Agents\.

Product Management Consultant at Freelance, Jan 2021 \- Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos, I have helped multiple startups \- build their first product roadmap \- build product strategy for digital acquisition/activation \(SEO, Performance Marketing\) and retention \(Email/App/Whatsapp Notifications\) \- hire first product manager \- define and build career paths for product teams Please message me on LinkedIn for engaging me

Director of Product Management at Rupeek, Jan 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading Customer vertical working on Fresh and Takeover customer digital acquisition and conversion

Group Product Manager at Rupeek, May 2020 \- Jan 2021 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading Customer vertical working on Acquisition, Activation and Referral

Product Manager at Indeed\.com, Mar 2017 \- May 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, I led the Marketing Automation team that works with acquisition and experience marketing teams especially in the areas of SEM, SEO and Email marketing\. I also worked with a team of Engineers building tools related to the HR \(Performance Management, Employee Lifecycle Management etc\) and Recruiting industries\. I worked with stakeholders and leaders from different geographies \(US, Japan and India\) in prioritizing and planning the products\.

Principal Product Manager at MySmartPrice\.com, May 2014 \- Feb 2017 · 2 y 9 mo, Hyderabad

Software Engineer at Maxrange India, May 2011 \- Jun 2012 · 1 y 1 mo, Hyderabad

Co\-Founder at Colon k, Jan 2009 \- Apr 2011 · 2 y 3 mo, Hyderabad

## Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Business Administration and Management, General, emlyon business school

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