NCR Corp. Product Director on The Key Drivers of Product/Market Fit

Amit Acharya

NCR Corporation, Director of Product - Retail

Amit Acharya is the Head of Product - Retail Innovations & Self-checkout at NCR. He is a former Head of Product at Gigster (a startup based in San Francisco) leading a SaaS platform for Future of Work. Prior to Gigster, Amit led various products at IBM in enterprise B2B SaaS, software and appliances in the API, Cloud integration and digital transformation space – catering to different industries such as finance, retail, automobile, telecom, non-profit etc. He did his MBA from Duke University and MS from Purdue University. He is a storyteller to his 2 little kids! * Enthusiastic and self-driven product management leader with proven experience of bringing products to market be it emerging, open source, appliance, traditional and cloud (SaaS & on premise) * Thrives in high-pressured environments to deliver customer-focused results * Adept at leveraging strong analytical & problem solving skills to lead cross-brand & geographically dispersed teams towards successful product launches. * Customers, technology and building teams from scratch drives the inner core.

About the host

Nita Maheswaren

Director, Product Management

I'm passionate about taking new products to market, driving product strategy and winning in a competitive market. Complexity just adds to the fun! I've served in various technical and leadership roles in my past decade at IBM and Pivotree. My background and experience enable me to seamlessly switch between big picture thinking and handling fire-drills all in the same hour.