Tarun Tiwari

Founder

Gurugram, Haryana, India14 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Experienced in building new industry segments in India.
Led product management for major lifestyle retailer Nykaa.
Co-founded India's first chain of branded backpackers' hostels.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C E-Commerce and Hospitality entrepreneur with a strong focus on product management and user experience.

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Business StrategyLeadershipManagementMarket ResearchMicrosoft ExcelProject ManagementStart-upsStrategyTeam Management

About

An Internet Entrepreneur & Product Leader with experience of leading teams and building entirely new industry segments in the Indian market. Functional Experience - General Management, Business Strategy, Operations, User/Customer Experience, Design, Product Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, Analytics Interests - Consumer Technology Startups, Hospitality, Travel Tech, E-Commerce, Retail, Education Currently on a break. Reachable at tarun.zostel@gmail.com.

Experience

Interactive ai

Founder

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Building meaningful AI experiences for Bharat — starting with companions that help ease loneliness, spark motivation, and soothe late-night self-doubt

Commerce marketplace - home & living

Founder

Oct 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Attempted building a premium, content-led & curated marketplace for Home & Living, for the women who want their homes as fashionable as their wardrobes...didn't work

Life

On a Break

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Nykaa

Director of Product Management

Dec 2017 – Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana

Nykaa is one of India's largest omni-channel lifestyle retailers. I led the consumer buying funnel there. I helped build the experience for -
1. Search & Listing Pages - Autosuggestion, Query pre-processing, relevance, popularity algos, merchandising controls, monetization controls, Filters, Sorting, Guided search, content integration, UI/UX
2. Landing & Navigation - Home, Offer, Sale, Mega Sale, Gateway Pages, Navigation, Gamification, UI/UX
3. Recommendations - User to User, User to Item & Item to Item recommendations + Personalisation layer
4. Product selection & transactions - Product detail pages, reviews/ratings, cart, payment, checkout
5. Nykaa Affiliate Program(NAP) - Selling through influencers

Zo rooms

Co-Founder

Dec 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Conceptualised and implemented the concept of ZO Rooms i.e. enabling the unorganized budget hotel sector through tech and training to offer a standardized customer experience and then selling the aggregated inventory directly to the customer under the brand name of ZO Rooms.
Raised from various investors including Tiger Global and brought over 750 hotels across 51 cities in India under ZO Rooms while managing a team of over 600 people.
Responsible for managing Product, Operations and Customer Experience at Zo Rooms.

Zostel

Co-Founder

Aug 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Zostel is India's First chain of Branded Backpackers' Hostels, currently present in 50+ locations across India and Nepal.
Lead the product management, operations and customer experience teams at Zostel. Expanded Zostel's operations domestically as well as internationally. Executed Entrepreneurship Development Programme - Zostel's franchise programme - increasing the number of Hostels from 5 to 25+ within a period of 2 years.

Sony pictures entertainment

Associate, Strategy

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Distribution Strategy for Metros and DAS Phase-2 cities.

Tata steel

Manager Operations

Jul 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Jamshedpur, Kolkata

Managed Plant operations. Reduced power consumption and machine failure by implementing TPM
Managed Electrical Construction Project for Kolkata Municipal Corp.