Sumaiya Noor

Award-winning Product & Strategy Leader | Product Management & Growth-PLG | AI driven B2B & B2C Products | 40Under40 | ex-IBM | Startup Advisor | Fulbright Scholar | Advisory Board Member, Judge, Coach & Keynote Speaker

In the end, we all become stories. Mine is about building products, AI solutions and ecosystems across the globe.

Outcome-driven AI, Technology & Product leader with 14+ years of experience leading product, data science, design and engineering teams. I love building transformative products and high-performing teams for solving customers' pain points. Specialized in AI based B2B, B2C & B2B2C SaaS products, User Experience & Engineering.

Adept in deriving optimal value from Applied AI, Data, Cloud applications, Web 3.0 and other emerging technologies. Technical, people and business experience with distinctive ability to utilize multi-functional expertise. Growth mindset with focus on execution utilizing analytical skills, agile and design thinking to deliver business results. 

Board Member, Startup Advisor, Author and graduate of IBM Leadership Development Program. Experienced in managing teams across 6 continents (being based in 4 continents) with Fortune100 companies and startups. C-suite leadership experience of collaborating with global cross-functional teams to drive innovation for high-growth organizations.

I attended Purdue University, USA on full scholarship (Fulbright - one of the most competitive scholarships in the world) for my MS/MBA. INSEAD certified Digital Strategy consultant, Certified AI Product Manager and a Software Engineer.

I speak frequently at multiple forums globally. Spoken at US State Department with delegates from 47 countries including US Congress members. Also gave a talk at Grace Hopper Conference, attended by more than 30K technologists world-wide.

In life, grit has enabled me to overcome adversity. Beyond work, avid supporter of women & human rights, education, and DEI.

EXPERTISE 
PRODUCT & TECH: Product Strategy and Development (0-1, 1-n) • Product-Led Growth (PLG) • Product Management • Product-Market fit • Product Roadmap • A/B Testing • SDLC • Experimentation • Applied AI & Digital Strategy • Agentic AI
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE/UX: Human-Centered Design • User Research 
BUSINESS & PEOPLE: Strategic Partnerships • Mergers & Acquisitions • Talent Strategy • Talent Acquisition • People Management • GTM Strategy 

VALUES & SKILLS
• Grit • Humility • Empathy & Kindness • Authenticity & Integrity • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Curiosity & Continuous Learning  

Looking for data-driven and customer-centric full stack Product & AI expert with global cross-functional leadership experience for taking your business to the next level or interested in hearing me speak, please reach out at sumaiyan@gmail.com.

Advisor - Product & Growth

I have been collaborating with multiple startups across the globe as an advisor mostly on Product and Growth for past few years. Some notable highlights of my work so far are:

• Enabled a startup to close $11.5Million of Round A funding.
• Helped an early stage startup in finding Product-Market fit for enhancing MVP and adding new features which finally resulted in 30% increase in conversion rate.
• Collaborated with founders to formulate a Product Strategy and Pricing Model for a 20% increase in retention rate over the period of 4 months. 
• Designed and helped the company to implement go-to-market strategy (PLG) for 45% MoM growth.
• Last and one of the most important ones is helping these startups to build highly effective teams responsible for delivering all these great results.

Please feel free to reach out if you want to take your startup to the next level.

Accenture

Management Consultant

University of California, Santa Cruz

Project Manager

Various USA and Canadian Clients & Organizations

Project and Program Manager for various USA and Canadian Clients & Organizations. Besides enabled day to day software development life cycle implementations and provided coaching and training in agile and structured project management, organizational agility, agile methodologies, requirements-design and development, testing and support to selected clients for their IT solutions.
Member and Participant- PMI Organizational Agility Conference 2017-2019. Active in lean, agile, PMI and SAFe community and extended my earlier research, study and publications, focus around:
• Integration Patterns of Agile Framework and CMMI-Development.
• Modeling Organizational Agility and Hybrid Product, Program and Portfolio Management and Planning.
• PCMM and Change Management Integration in Large Scale Agile Transformations.

Project and Program Manager; Agile Coach

Ignite - National Technology Fund

Deputy Manager Monitoring

UNDP

Program Manager

Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication

COMSATS University Islamabad

Faculty Lecturer

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

LMKR

Program Coordinator

COMSTECH - OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation

Parttime Lecturer

I specialize in business technology program and project management, strategy and consulting and have a career spanning over 12 years in High Technology, Telecom, Petroleum, Government, Humanitarian, Utilities, Health, Education, Trucking and Transportation, public, crown corporations and private various sectors.

I am a Pakistani Canadian American, foodie and fond of traveling, outdoors, hiking, yoga, volunteering and meeting new friends. I am a lifetime active member of Fulbright Association, RIT Alumni Association, NUSTIAN USA; also volunteering with National Leadership Council-American Pakistan Foundation, OPEN Silicon Valley and OPEN Global USA.

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