Darsh Thakkar
Product Manager, AI And Monetization Microsoft Teams
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDarsh Thakkar is a product leader with 8 years of experience building consumer-facing collaboration products, currently leading AI-driven experiences and monetization for Microsoft Teams. He has repeatedly scaled new features from zero to millions of users—most recently growing Teams Communities to 1.31M MAUs and boosting community owner retention from 2.5% to over 8%. Comfortable at the intersection of research, design, data and engineering, he runs disciplined experimentation (20+ A/B tests regularly) and has shipped end-to-end features including Copilot entry points, AI content suggestions, and subscription flows. Darsh pairs startup-style community building (co-founding Product Buds and growing it to 25k+ members) with enterprise delivery at Microsoft, driving both activation strategies and cross-team operational improvements. He’s pragmatic about inclusive design and accessibility, embedding a11y early in the process and empowering teams to remove bottlenecks. Based in New York, he blends technical curiosity (UX, data science, prototyping) with a knack for turning research insights into measurable product and business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech. Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech. Computer Engineering at Nirma UniversityMaster of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMinor Enterpreneurship and Finance, Minor Enterpreneurship and Finance at Institute of Management, Nirma UniversityHigher Secondary High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Higher Secondary High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans
English, Hindi, Gujarati, German
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
darshthakkar/Hyper-Spectral-Data-Analysis
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
darshthakkar/Analyzing-Political-Subreddit-Similarity-
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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