# Vidu Sharma

> Product leader with 16+ years at Google, Adyen and Atlassian, building AI-native developer tools and the platforms engineers depend on.

- Website: https://www.vidusharma.com
- Plain-text profile page: https://www.vidusharma.com/for-bots/
- Email: hi@vidusharma.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharmavidu/
- X: https://x.com/vidhu
- Last updated: 2026-10-24

## About

Product leader with 16+ years building developer tools and platforms that engineers depend on. Now Product Lead at Google, setting Generative AI and developer experience strategy for Android Studio. Previously Head of Generative AI at Adyen and Group Product Manager at Atlassian, building and leading PM teams at both. Engineering graduate, hands-on builder, and mentor in residence at Google.

## Skills

- Product Vision & Strategy
- Generative AI & LLMs
- Developer & Financial Products
- High-Performance PM Coach
- GTM B2B / B2C
- Customer Empathy & Data-Driven
- Innovation Catalyst

## Career highlights

- **3M+**: Leading testing and profiling efforts across a suite of tools that support 3M+ developers. Leading strategy, execution and forward thinking on how to make testing as agentic as possible.
- **3P**: Led the evaluation, pilot and partnership with a 3P vendor on merchant onboarding improvements, reducing the time to first transaction for merchants. A significant milestone, as Adyen has been a 1P, in-house platform and technology creator.
- **21%**: Drove the improvement of overall search journey success at Atlassian, as the GPM for Search and Smarts. Led the notifications platform product, while building and coaching a team of PMs.

## Experience

### Product Lead, Google (2024–Present)

Leading Generative AI and developer experience strategy for Android Studio, Google's primary Android IDE, serving 3M+ developers. Launched three capabilities at Google I/O 2026: tooling for memory-efficient apps, agentic integrations for testing, and new ways for agents to orchestrate apps. Building Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support so developers can bring third-party coding agents into Android Studio. Previously landed YouTube's first AI-native support experience for creators, cutting the contact ratio 9% and content-violation resolution time 19%.

### Group Product Manager, Head of Generative AI, Adyen (2023–2024)

Built Adyen's Generative AI platform for Ops and Risk from greenfield: a horizontal capability layer and control plane serving Ops, Risk, Fraud and KYC use cases, with CPO and CTO commitment to a multi-year roadmap. Cut false-positive fraud reviews 11% with no loss of fraud recall through cross-merchant fingerprint linking. Led three product lines (Analytics, Risk and Generative AI for Ops) with a team of 5 PMs, and moved releases to a monthly cadence.

### Group Product Manager, Atlassian (2016–2023)

Ran the Search and Notification platform powering ~43% of core daily active journeys for tens of millions of users, lifting search journey success from 9% to 21%. Led Jira Service Management's Data Centre editions through Server end-of-life, owning packaging and go-to-market. Defined the API and extensibility strategy that opened the platform to Marketplace developers. Promoted from Senior PM to Principal PM to Group Product Manager, building and leading a team of 3 PMs.

### Lead Product Manager, Intuit (2014–2016)

First senior PM hire for the Accountant Products Group in Bengaluru, building the local PM function from zero. Personally built the working prototype of the HMRC tax solution that won the CTOF 2015 award, and was recognised as a Design for Delight Innovation Catalyst.

### Senior Product Manager, Cricut (2012–2014)

Lifted activation and early engagement 15% (WAU) on Design Space, Cricut's creation platform across mobile, web and device software, and led go-to-market for the iPad launch.

### Product Manager, Software Platform, Logitech (2010–2012)

Cut activation drop-off 18% on Harmony's multi-step setup flow across web and mobile, serving 600,000 monthly active users in North America.

### Product Manager, PayPal (2009–2010)

Grew PayPal transaction volume 3% on eBay's two-sided marketplace through checkout and loyalty-engine improvements.

## Speaking & coaching

- **ProductCon** (Speaker & panellist): Talks and panels on building Gen AI products. Also spoke for Jira Service Management at ITSM and Atlassian Summits, 2017–2022.
- **Product School** (Instructor): Teaching product managers the craft, from discovery to delivery.
- **PM coaching** (High-performance coaching): Mentor in residence at Google. 1:1 coaching for PMs and product leaders stepping into bigger scope.
- To invite Vidu Sharma to speak, email hi@vidusharma.com with the event, date and duration.