About

Sameer Qayoom is a highly skilled Product Manager with experience building enterprise products and services in the software industry. His specializations include SaaS, Cloud solutions, and E2E product development. Sameer is passionate about problem-solving using a user-centered product strategy to clearly define the roadmap and business-critical outcomes. He combines data-driven insights with intuition and product sense to build customer-centric products that solve real-world problems. Sameer's key skills include customer centricity, product strategy, agile product management, design thinking, cross-team collaboration, and the art of getting things done. In addition to his work in software, Sameer is an entrepreneur with multiple startup initiatives in the areas of sports and education. He has domain expertise in the software, ed-tech, consulting, energy, and sports industries. Sameer was born in the Gulf and did schooling in England. He graduated in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and is a BITSAA 30 Under 30 winner, demonstrating his leadership, management, social-impact, and entrepreneurial skills. Sameer is also a recipient of the One Microsoft Award for demonstrating cross-team collaboration, efficient planning and execution, diversity and inclusion, and being an enabler for teams to perform better. Sameer is a FIFA Match Commissioner and Youth football coordinator, working on AIFF initiatives. At Microsoft, he was a member of the Sports vertical, with a focus on Digital Transformation for sports bodies. Sameer was also part of the venture LoneStar Kashmir FC, the first football team from J&K to participate in India's I-League. In 2013, he successfully founded the inaugural edition of the Kashmir Football Festival, unique for having matches under floodlights for the first time in Kashmir. Sameer's work on football was featured on YourStory & Hindustan Times. He volunteered with the Red Cross and organized events in Srinagar for the underprivileged as part of the initiative 'Children of Heaven.' Sameer's current role is as Lead Product Manager at Delivery Hero, where he works on core ordering experience and product strategy. He has also worked as an Associate Director of Product Management at upGrad, where he headed overall Learning Experience and Product Growth. Sameer has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and a Product Management certification from Duke University. He has 9.94 years of relevant experience and possesses skills in product management, AI, ML, and research science. Sameer is looking forward to sustainable academy programs and building