About

Hitesh Manwar is a highly experienced Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of experience in the technology industry. Currently working at Microsoft as a Senior Product Manager, he is responsible for leading the add-in ecosystem for Outlook on the Web (OWA) and defining the contextual entry points for add-ins on Outlook Win32/Web. He is also working on UX experiments to optimize add-in discoverability and APIs to simplify signature management on Outlook. Prior to his current role, Hitesh was a Product Manager II at Microsoft, where he led the 3rd party Add-in Ecosystem for Microsoft Outlook. He has also worked at Cisco as a Product Manager, where he led the UX team to completely overhaul the legacy WSA UX/UI. He developed a heat map UI and published a paper on reducing the system health diagnostic time and was the Release Product Manager for Web Security Appliance AsyncOS 11.8. He conducted market study, competitor analysis & user research to define the feature roadmap and launched Web Security Appliance (WSA) virtual on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Hitesh has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing and Operations from Indian School of Business (ISB) and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology. He has a strong tech stack that includes product management, Web, AWS, UI, and research scientist. Hitesh has a proven track record of delivering successful products and has a passion for driving innovation and solving complex problems. He is a strategic thinker with excellent communication and leadership skills.