Akshay Patil — Product Manager
Akshay is a result oriented professional with 11+ years of experience in sales, marketing, product management and analytics. He spent the first 5 years across automotive (Mahindra) and building material (Saint Gobain, Pidilite) in sales, sales planning and marketing in customer facing domains. He worked hands-on in ATL/BTL marketing activities, new product development and data analysis. Last 6 years he has been working for global e-commerce giant Amazon, solving complex and ambiguous customer and business problems across program management (first 2 years) and product management (recent 4 years). In his 2 years of program management, he seeded processes, tools and mechanisms to lay foundation of performance ads of Amazon in India , a business that grows 30% YOY. As product manager at Amazon Advertising, he has launched 0 to 1 products (video ads on prime video, auto-payments for prepaid advertisers, bidding and ad serving on non-Amazon ads platform), created innovative product tools to drive scale and efficiencies (digital media planner for agencies and advertisers, tax management system for seller advertisers) and improved existing products (ML based bidding algorithms for Amazon sponsored ads). His super powers are ownership, delivering results, deduce actionable insights from structured and unstructured data and strong execution working across teams and across hierarchies. He is a curious learner and focusses to dliver value in all situations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager in E-commerce with strong analytical and strategic capabilities.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 14 yrs 1 mo
Career Highlights
- 11+ years of experience in diverse roles
- Expert in product management and analytics
- Proven track record in launching successful products
Work Experience
Amazon
Senior product manager -Tech (1 yr 6 mos)
Senior Product Manager-Tech (4 yrs 3 mos)
Senior Program Manager (0 mo)
Program Manager (2 yrs 1 mo)
Pidilite Industries Limited
Category Manager- Dr. Fixit (6 mos)
Saint-Gobain India Private Ltd - Glass Business
Product Manager - Sun Ban (1 yr 8 mos)
Mahindra Rise
Product Launch Manager (3 mos)
Manager- National Sales Planning and Strategy (GMC Scheme) (1 yr 2 mos)
Cluster Business Manager- (GMC Scheme) (11 mos)
Colgate Palmolive
Summer Intern- sales (2 mos)
Reliance Infrastructure Ltd
Assistant Manager (1 yr 9 mos)
Education
Post Graduate at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at VJTI
HSC at Swami vivekananda Junior College, Chembur
SSC at St.Lawrence High School, Vashi