Kuber Sharma

PMM practitioner, writer, experimenter. 20 years at the intersection of enterprise technology and market narrative.

Kuber Sharma
Kuber Sharma
Sr. Director, Product Marketing · UiPath

I'm a product marketing executive who has spent 20 years at the intersection of enterprise technology and market narrative, at three of the companies that have done the most to shape how enterprises think about AI.

Right now I lead product marketing for UiPath, responsible for the GTM strategy, positioning, and market narrative across UiPath's product portfolio including Autopilot, UiPath's flagship agentic automation product. I own the positioning for what UiPath calls Agentic Business Orchestration , the idea that the next wave of enterprise AI isn't about smarter chatbots, it's about AI agents that can execute multi-step business processes end-to-end.

Before UiPath, I spent three years at Salesforce and Tableau leading product marketing across both companies. I launched Tableau Cloud — Tableau's first cloud-native offering — and led the go-to-market for Tableau AI and Tableau Pulse, repositioning Tableau from a traditional BI tool into an AI-first analytics platform. That strategic pivot exceeded pipeline targets by 150% and achieved record close rates. I also launched Salesforce Data Cloud and the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network, establishing a new category in enterprise data management that contributed directly to Salesforce's consecutive Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader positions across Analytics & BI Platforms, Customer Data Platforms, and Data Integration Tools. You can follow my work on LinkedIn.

Before that, I spent seven years at Microsoft building the product marketing function for Azure cloud infrastructure. I launched 12+ Azure services, generated $100M in pipeline in six months for a major Azure analytics launch, and was part of the team that grew Azure to the #2 cloud platform globally. I led positioning for Azure Synapse, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure AI, and drove a 400% YoY increase in digital impressions for the Azure analytics portfolio.

I write because the gap between how enterprise AI is marketed and how it actually works in production is enormous. After 20 years inside these companies, I've seen what works, what doesn't, and why the most sophisticated AI implementations often fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the technology.

I started this site and the Positioned newsletter to share those patterns with the enterprise leaders who are trying to make real decisions about AI, not the leaders who just want to know what to say at the board meeting.

Education

MBA. Duke University, Fuqua School of Business (Keller Scholar)
MA Mass Communication, Jamia Millia Islamia
BA Journalism, University of Delhi

Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI & Automation · Enterprise Go-to-Market · Product Positioning & Messaging · Category Creation · AI Product Strategy · B2B Content & Thought Leadership · Analyst Relations (Gartner/Forrester, 13× MQ Leader) · PMM Team Leadership

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2023-Present
Sr. Director, Product Marketing
UiPath
I lead product marketing for UiPath: GTM strategy, positioning, and market narrative across the full product portfolio including Autopilot, UiPath's flagship agentic automation product.
400% YoY impressions Full portfolio scope
2020-2023
Director, Product Marketing
Salesforce · Tableau
Launched Tableau Cloud, Tableau AI, Tableau Pulse, Salesforce Data Cloud, and the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network. Led PMM for Einstein Discovery and Salesforce Einstein Analytics. Contributed to 13 Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader designations across Analytics & BI Platforms (Tableau), Customer Data Platforms (Salesforce Data Cloud), and Data Integration Tools (Zero Copy). Led all Gartner/Forrester analyst relations and positioning strategy.
150% pipeline target 13× Gartner MQ Leader
2013-2020
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Microsoft Azure
7 years building the Azure PMM function. Launched 12+ Azure services across compute, storage, analytics, and AI. Part of the team that grew Azure to #2 cloud platform globally.
$100M pipeline (6 months) 12+ services launched
2007-2012
Founder & TV Producer
Independent · Delhi, India
Created and produced an automobile television programme that reached 11% primetime viewership, one of the top-rated shows in its category in India. Ran a 20-person consultancy with 20+ government and enterprise clients. Left to pursue MBA at Duke Fuqua, deliberately starting over in a new field at 31.
11% primetime viewership 20-person team · 20+ clients
Education
MBA, Duke Fuqua
Keller Scholar
Also: MA Mass Communication, Jamia Millia Islamia · BA Journalism, University of Delhi

The rest of it

On two wheels

I ride in Seattle. The Burke-Gilman trail, the Cascade foothills, wherever there's a climb worth earning. Some of my best positioning frameworks came out of a long ride where I had nothing to do but think. I highly recommend it as a strategy tool.

Behind the bar

I make cocktails and experiment with them obsessively. My current project is understanding what makes a negroni variation actually work versus just different. The answer, so far, is the same as positioning: balance, restraint, and one thing that surprises.

The rest

I live in Seattle with my wife and son. I drink too much good coffee and have no regrets about it. I started as a journalist and still read like one, broadly, skeptically, always looking for the story underneath the story.

By the Numbers

20+ Years Enterprise Tech
$100M Pipeline (6 months, Azure)
150% Pipeline Target (Salesforce)
13× Gartner MQ Leader

Peer Recognition

"Kuber's positioning strategy for Tableau's AI transformation fundamentally changed how the market understood what Tableau had become. He didn't just describe the product, he repositioned the entire category around a new buyer."
Senior Executive, Salesforce
Former colleague, 2020-2023
"The Zero Copy category creation work Kuber led at Salesforce set a new standard for how enterprise data products get positioned. The Gartner MQ outcome validated what the field had already started to believe."
Senior Executive, Data Industry
Peer recognition, 2023

Let's work together

Whether it's a podcast, a speaking invite, a writing opportunity, or a conversation about product marketing and AI. I'd love to hear from you.

Get in Touch → [email protected]