Hi, I'm Ankit Verma 👋

Product Leader with experience in crypto, healthcare and fintech. Passionate about building innovative digital products and mentoring teams.
Ankit VermaAnkit VermaAnkit VermaAnkit VermaAV

About

Product leader with experience taking digital products from ideation and design through shipping across healthcare, crypto, and fintech industries. Currently Director of Product at Novartis, driving AI-powered product strategy and digital transformation initiatives. Previously Head of Product at The Block leading web3 integrations, and led product teams at Johnson & Johnson and Nationwide Insurance.

Work Experience

N

Novartis

Aug 2025 - Present
Director of AI Products
Own the enterprise knowledge intelligence platform for Novartis US Commercial, combining agentic retrieval, an ontology-driven semantic layer, and multi-agent systems for product strategy. Delivered the MVP of the semantic layer and knowledge graph that grounds the platform in a shared ontology. Partner with data science, engineering, and business stakeholders to move agentic workflows from concept to production, and built the PRD framework and enablement practices now used across the PM team.
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder

Founder & AI Product Builder

Dec 2023 - Present
Founder
Built and launched multiple AI-powered products including Fambee (AI-powered operating system for modern family life, keeping parents and kids in sync), postshorts.ai (UGC ad and viral shorts generator), purpal.ai (AI receptionist and voice agent for SMBs), storypup.com (iOS app for personalized bedtime stories with voice cloning), and wealthaire (AI financial assistant powered by RAG and LLMs). Took each product from idea to live users and paid subscriptions, shipping end-to-end on modern LLM and RAG stacks (LLM APIs, Pinecone vector search, Supabase, Stripe).
T

The Block

Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Head of Product
First PM for a crypto information services startup. Led web3 integration with multi-chain protocols, launched B2B platform with multiple new apps, and grew monthly web traffic from 3M to 4M+. Created product OKRs and devised product strategy while implementing agile practices as company doubled in size.
J

Johnson & Johnson

Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Product Lead
Led team from ideation and design through shipping D2C and HCP digital properties for the Oncology franchise. Launched features for 15+ websites, improving metrics. Launched 'Contact a rep' feature during COVID, increasing sign-ups by 87%.
N

Nationwide Mutual Insurance

July 2017 - Aug 2019
Product Manager, Senior Business Analyst
Managed product roadmaps and solution scoping for data products. Led multiple Tier 1 Go-To-Market projects worth $4M+. Developed dashboards and metrics to track feature shipping efficiency.
T

The Blackstone Group

Nov 2012 - July 2015
Lead/Senior QA Consultant
Led QA team for web applications and Salesforce. Automated 75% of user management application, reducing manual effort by 30 hours/week. Managed IT support and resolved 600+ tickets.

Skills

Product Management
Web3
Digital Marketing
Analytics
Tableau
SQL
JIRA
Figma
Salesforce
Google Analytics
Entrepreneurial Ventures

My Startup Projects

I'm passionate about building innovative solutions to real-world problems. Here are some of the entrepreneurial ventures I've founded or co-founded.

Open Source

GitHub Activity

My contributions to open source projects and personal repositories.

Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or submit this form. I will ignore all soliciting.