Chaitanya Rao

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in product management.
Led innovative projects at Amazon, winning top awards.
Passionate about building impactful fintech products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Management Leader with extensive experience in E-commerce and Advertising.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Other Skills

AnalyticsAsset ManagementBusiness StrategyCorporate FinanceExecutionFinancial MarketsFinancial ModelingInnovationKnowledge ManagementManagement ConsultingMarket EntryPrivate EquityStrategic ConsultingStrategic SourcingVBA

About

With over 12 years of work experience in product management, strategy, and consulting, I am currently the Head of Product at FinBox, a fintech startup that provides innovative and scalable solutions for credit risk intelligence and lending infrastructure. At FinBox, I lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, marketers, and PMs to deliver impactful and user-centric products for financial institutions. Previously, I was the Vice President of Portfolio Support Group at Advent International, where I helped portfolio companies accelerate their growth and digital transformation, and the Principal Product Manager at Amazon, where I led India-first projects in Amazon Advertising and Amazon Grocery, and won Amazon India's top award for innovation and execution (Cowboy Award). I started my career as a consultant at McKinsey & working across financial services and technology practices. I have a dual degree from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IIMA. I am passionate about building products that make a positive difference in people's lives and I am always eager to learn new things

Experience

Super.money

Head of Product

Dec 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Building something exciting in the fintech space. Hiring across roles

Finbox

Head of Product

Jun 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

Advent international

Vice President Portfolio Support Group

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Amazon

Principal Product Manager

Feb 2016 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Product lead at Amazon Advertising and Amazon Grocery. Awarded Amazon India's top award ("Cowboy/Just Do It")
At Amazon Grocery (now called Amazon Fresh), I led the Hybrid Stores product team. Hybrid Stores is Amazon's omnichannel solution, to deliver groceries from offline store networks (More and Big Bazaar) in scheduled 2 hr slots. Involved in building retailer tools that ensure low error rate in orders and high throughput. Launched 'click-and-pick' solution for groceries on Amazon (pick-up location at More stores). Involved in investments/acquisition of startups to increase the pace of innovation
At Amazon Advertising, I led the product team for India-first projects Amazon Advertising Manager (Project Drona) and Amazon Pi. Amazon Advertising Manager is an account management tool for service providers and ad agencies that contribute to >90% of advertising revenues.
Amazon Pi is an analytics tool for advertisers to track their brands performance on Amazon similar to Google Analytics.
As one of the early product managers in the team involved in projects to customize and launch Amazon Advertising Products in India viz. Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, A+ Content, Stores

Product ManagementProduct StrategyAnalyticsInnovationExecution

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Engagement Manager

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mos

Led consulting projects in IT & BPO sector. Projects involved Lean, developing arrow heads (product propositions that could be used to win new contracts/clients) and due diligence for PE firms