Key takeaways
- Saurabh Saxena has been with Intuit for over 13 years, progressing from Staff Software Engineer to site leader.
- He leads a team of over 1000 employees focused on delivering innovations for small business products.
- Saurabh's leadership has driven significant revenue, contributing around $2 billion for Intuit through various product suites.
- He emphasises talent development and customer empathy within Intuit's engineering and innovation culture.
- Prior to Intuit, Saurabh developed data warehousing software at Intel and holds a B-Tech from IIT-BHU.
Saurabh Saxena is the Intuit India site leader and Vice President, Product Development for the Small Business & Self Employed Group (SBSEG). Having been with Intuit for over 13 years, Saurabh is one of Intuit’s home-grown success stories from Staff Software Engineer to today leading a team of over 1000 employees who deliver key innovations for our products and technology platform that help our customers and communities overcome their most important financial challenges.
Result-oriented and passionate about talent development, Saurabh has successfully built high-performing engineering teams focused on innovation and customer obsession, powering the success of small businesses globally. He leads the product suites - QBO Advanced, QB Desktop, QB Enterprise, Point of Sale, Intuit Market - where he and his team define the strategy, vision and roadmap, driving ~$2 Billion in revenue for Intuit. While the QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) ecosystem has helped drive key business results globally, QB Online Advanced is a new offering to support the mid-market segment. It is aligned with one of the five Big-Bets positioning Intuit for durable growth in the future.
Instrumental in delivering people outcomes for Intuit India, Saurabh leads by influencing and coaching the top talent across Intuit India and SBSEG to nurture their understanding of deep customer empathy, making it an integral part of our engineering and innovation culture through Intuit’s leadership and manager communities. Saurabh is also the recipient of several Intuit corporate awards, including the Scott Cook Innovation Award, the Intuit CEO Leadership Award, the Intuit India Award, and the CTOF Award.
Before joining Intuit, Saurabh worked with Intel developing data warehousing software to support Intel's factory automation and Decision Support Systems. He holds a B-Tech degree from the IIT-BHU (Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University). In addition to being an ardent engineering leader, he is focused on deeply understanding what it takes to have a healthy mind and body as a personal passion.
