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Mona G.

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • First female engineer at Airbnb, leading growth initiatives.
  • Founder of Upraised, an upskilling platform for product management.
  • Advised multiple startups on audience engagement and growth strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Marketing expert with a strong focus on growth and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStrategyAudience EngagementContent StrategyUser EngagementGrowth MarketingStrategic PartnershipsTrust & SafetyProduct LocalizationPaymentsBusiness DevelopmentPerformance MarketingSeoData AnalysisMentorshipStartup GrowthAnalyticsData InfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentAd TargetingPerformance Benchmarking

Other Skills

CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cross-functional CollaborationData ModelingData ProcessingDistributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptManagementMobile ApplicationsMobile DevicesMySQLOnline MarketingOptimization StrategiesPython

About

Growth (un)hacker. Engineer. Data. Startup junkie! First Female engineer at Airbnb, Apture & Socialmedia #Pavingtheway

Experience

Upraised

Founder

Mar 2019Present · 7 yrs · India

  • Upraised is an upskilling platform focused on Product Management. Our alumni are now building Products at 150+ companies ranging from early stage startups to unicorns like CRED, Razorpay, Swiggy et al.
Product ManagementStrategy

Popxo acquired by good glamm group

Board of Advisors

Sep 2017Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • POPxo is a women-centric content platform that grew to 43 million monthly active users across all platforms
Content StrategyUser Engagement

500 startups

Mentor

Dec 2015Dec 2018 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

MentorshipStartup Growth

Lbb - little black book acquired by nykaa

Advisor

Jun 2015Sep 2022 · 7 yrs 3 mos · India

  • LBB, founded by Suchita Salwan and Dhruv Mathur, focuses on audience engagement through content and discovery. It grew to over 70 million users before being acquired by Nykaa
Audience EngagementContent Strategy

Airbnb

2 roles

Strategic Initiatives and Growth, APAC

Promoted

May 2015Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Trips Lead, India: Currently leading our efforts on launching experiences in India.
  • Building Foundational components:
  • Trust & Safety: Strategy, design and implementation of a localized verification offering for Indian users.
  • Payments: Lead cross functional collaboration across Product, Engineering and our Local payment gateway partner to set up localized payment options (debit / credit)
  • Product Localization: Build product roadmap based on market knowledge to localize our product offering in India (demand and supply side)
  • Growth Marketing: Build locally relevant messaging and optimization strategies on key channels (google/facebook) to drive demand.
  • Strategic Partnerships:
  • Lead Strategic partnerships across verticals to build trust by association, awareness and demand for Airbnb. Few notable partners include Thomas Cook (one of a kind), Tripoto, TripHobo, Citibank, SBI, HDFC, Ixigo, CondeNast, Nat Geo, Little Black Book, JetAirways, British Airways, Paytm & Quirk.
  • Tested several affiliate partners and networks to drive demand for Airbnb.
  • Brand Marketing:
  • Interim lead on localizing our global brand campaigns to build awareness around the concept of Airbnb in India.
  • Led our first successful OOH campaign across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore
  • Cross functional liaison to run our first Bollywood influenced campaign with Dharma Productions
Growth MarketingStrategic Partnerships

Product Growth

Nov 2011May 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • First female engineer at Airbnb
  • Founding member of the growth team at Airbnb, currently a team of 30 people.
  • Productized our performance marketing efforts to scale, optimize and efficiently spend our marketing dollars across 20 languages.
  • Strategy, design and implementation of our in house tracking tool to measure our partnership and performance marketing efforts
  • Lead engineer to drive organic (SEO) growth on really competitive verticals (accommodation, vacation rentals etc)
  • Built Experimentation framework to test, measure and iterate at scale.
Performance MarketingSEO

Apture (acquired by google)

Analytics Lead

Jan 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Design, architect & implement analytics infrastructure for near real time processing
  • Define key performance metrics for the product and the company
  • Design & implement external facing dashboard for publishers as well as internal reports for tracking day-to-day progress - Ongoing product analysis & modeling to guide data-driven product roadmap
AnalyticsData Infrastructure

Socialmedia networks (acquired by livingsocial)

Software Engineer

Jun 2008Feb 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Design & architect targeting and delivery optimizations of social ads on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and the Web - Design & implement robust end-to-end reporting infrastructure using Hadoop,HBase, Hive
  • Data Modeling & Analysis to identify unique social insights for brand advertisers.
  • Product specification & documentation for new social advertising products (Pulse, SIA 2.0, Social Overlay) & features.
  • Work closely with team of 4 engineers with a focus on agile development philosophy
Software DevelopmentData Analysis

Sixapart (acquired by say media)

Software Engineer

Jun 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Designing and developing an antispam service for trackbacks on Movable Type blogging platform.
  • Prototyping & Cost/Benefit analysis of ad serving & ad management tools
  • Unified data analysis & reporting hub for all blogging platforms
Software DevelopmentData Analysis

Network appliances

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2006Dec 2006 · 6 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

  • Designed and developed a tool for benchmarking performance of Host Attach kits on Windows/Linux/VMware
  • Deployed by SAN/Host Utilities group for comparing performance measurements across product releases
  • Worked closely with a group of 12 colleagues at Netapp Raleigh and Netapp Bangalore
Software DevelopmentPerformance Benchmarking

Education

Indiana University Bloomington

Masters — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2007

D.J Sanghvi College of Engineering, University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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