I am a global product and digital business leader who thrives at the intersection of product, technology, customer experience, and commercial growth. Throughout my career, I have ideated, built, launched, scaled, and transformed digital products and businesses from early-stage concepts and startup-like ventures to globally scaled platforms, generating hundreds of millions in revenue.
Over the past two decades, I have led Product Management, Technology, Analytics & Customer Insights, and Digital Fraud Management teams across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific to drive revenue growth and customer acquisition in 0 => 1 => N scaleup businesses. I have owned and managed a digital business P&L of $350M+ at Pearson while building and expanding its product portfolio, commercialized SaaS products generating $65M+ ARR, and co-founded a digital business at SAP that grew to $180M+ in revenue while driving a successful digital transformation in a global enterprise.
My experience spans:
✅ Product Strategy & Disciplined Execution
✅ Portfolio Management and P&L Leadership
✅ ECommerce & Direct-to-Consumer Growth
✅ Subscription & Platform Businesses
✅ AI-Enabled Product Experiences
✅ Digital Transformation & Business Model Innovation
✅ Analytics, Customer Experience Measurement & Personalization
✅ Commercialization, Monetization & Go-to-Market Strategy
✅ Hiring & Cultivating High-Performing Global Teams
✅ Vendor & Budget Management
I'm adept at defining product vision and strategy, and managing commercialization, growth, and operations by rallying cross-functional teams around a shared mission with a clear operating model, and empowering them to deliver exceptional customer and business outcomes. I've been consistently recognized for combining strategic thinking with a strong bias for action, simplifying complex challenges, and creating environments where innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer obsession thrive. I believe the best products are built by teams that deeply understand customer jobs-to-be-done, and relentlessly execute against that.
Recognized as a 40 Under 40 digital executive by DMN. Frequent speaker at industry events and with media, analysts, influencers and customers on eCommerce and digital transformation. INSEAD MBA and IIT Delhi Engineering undergrad.
Gaurav Jaiswal has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Speedrunning $0 to $180M: The Intrapreneur's Playbook | Gaurav Jaiswal, VP Product (ex-Pearson, SAP)
August 11th, 2026 | Season 2 | 24 mins 8 secs
business, digital experience, product management, technology
Everyone loves to romanticize the founder who starts from zero. But most successful product and digital leaders will likely find themselves using a slightly different flavor of that skill: intrapreneurship — building something new inside an established company...whether it be a business unit, go-to-market approach, product, or other.
Gaurav Jaiswal has done exactly this several times. At SAP, he co-founded SAP Digital, a B2B2C business built to let anyone in the world discover, try, and buy SAP products — taking it from zero to $180 million in just a couple of years. Most recently, as VP of Digital Product at Pearson, he did it again, launching a subscription e-textbook product from idea to market in six months, and scaling to $65 million in just about 2 years.
In this episode, Gaurav shares:
- How he got SAP's board to approve an entirely new business unit in just six months, and the framework he used to get market traction just as quickly
- How he took those lessons to Pearson, a 150-year-old publishing company, and helped turn it into one that runs like a software business
- And why building inside a public company is a trade — you get the brand and customer base built in, but you’re on the hook for the full legacy culture and scrutiny that comes from operating in a larger, established company