AI / ML Leader · 12 Years Experience

Prashant Jha

I build enterprise AI products that move real metrics.

AI-ML leader with 12 years of core DS experience including 6+ years of leadership experience building end-user facing enterprise AI products. My core expertise lie in developing AI and ML products that solve user problems. I also excel in building and running technical team of DS/ML/Engg skillset, have developed multiple 0 to 1 products and also successfully scaled '00s of million dollar products.

Core data science
12 yrsCore data science
Engineers & scientists led
40+Engineers & scientists led
Search platform owned
$300MSearch platform owned
Granted — US-10438133-B2
US PatentGranted — US-10438133-B2

What I bring

Capabilities that drive impact

Enterprise AI Product Leadership

Building and scaling AI/ML products tied to business KPIs — strategy, platforms, roadmap, hiring and coaching.

Product StrategyPlatformsHiring

Agentic Products & Infrastructure

GenAI tooling with MLOps and CI/CD to ship real-time, production-grade agent systems.

AgentsLLMMCPKubernetes

Search & Recommender Systems

Large-scale search engines, personalization, and LLM-powered conversational interfaces.

Hybrid SearchRAGPersonalization

Data Science & Analytics

From data to models — training, evaluation, and experimentation that solves business problems.

Model TrainingEvaluationA/B Testing

Career snapshot

12 years, three chapters

Jun 2018 – Present

GARTNER

Data Scientist → Sr. Data Scientist → Director → Sr. Director (4 promotions)

Directed global DS/ML team of 40+ building enterprise AI products. Developed AskGartner (GenAI assistant), managed $300MN Gartner.com Search with deep learning models, built Conference Recommender with DeepFM. Led innovation in personalization, hybrid search, and multi-stage retrieval systems.

Mar 2017 – Jun 2018

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Developed scalable ML models for online credit card applications to increase customer acquisition. Led modeling and analytics for international credit card acquisition through digital platform.

Jun 2014 – Mar 2017

GEP Solutions

Developed patented Spend Data Classification tool using Big Data & AI, reducing delivery times by 80% with 30% accuracy uplift. Built proprietary search engine on Elasticsearch for 300Mn+ line items.

Want to work together?

Open to leadership roles, consulting, and interesting AI problems. Let's talk.