Abhilash Pillai

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product teams at Flipkart and udaan.com.
  • Expert in building consumer and enterprise products.
  • Strong cross-cultural stakeholder management experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in E-commerce and Tech industries.

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AnalyticsBusiness StrategyCompetitive AnalysisE-commerceLeadershipMarketingProduct ManagementProduct MarketingRetailUser Experience

About

Abhilash believes in absolute customer obsession and loves building products/ecosystem that can model a fuzzy business area and drive intelligent decisions. He has worked with and built products that work at huge (web) scale, at both Yahoo! and Flipkart. Abhilash thinks strategically, believes in building products for the long term, and has an analytical bend of mind. Abhilash has worked on both consumer internet and enterprise products. Among industries, he has worked in retail and search. He has worked across India, US, Taiwan and Hongkong markets. This exposure gives him the ability to manage diverse stakeholders, different personality types and embrace nuances of every new culture, industry and company. Abhilash has collaborated with offsite teams (across international boundaries) across his experience. He loves building highly focused teams with passionate individuals and motivates them to achieve ambitious goals. He is able to handle pressure and resolve high degree of conflicts in decisions. Abhilash has a Business degree from IIM Lucknow and an Engineering degree in Information Science from PESIT Bangalore.

Experience

Udaan.com

2 roles

SVP & Head of Business - Staples

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • Accountable for the complete staples business P&L including go-to-market, category management, sourcing & supply chain

SVP & Head of Customer Platform & Retail

Jun 2018Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • Accountable for customer experience product and commercial design of the business including demand and sourcing

Startup

Explorer

Jan 2018May 2018 · 4 mos

Flipkart

2 roles

Director of Product Management - Fulfillment

Apr 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Heading Fulfilment product team for Flipkart. The vision is "promise an amazing service to customer and then fulfil it at high accuracy, and do all this at not so ridiculous costs" across vendors including eKart.
  • Leading the network product team at eKart; set of systems that plans and orchestrates the movement of shipments through the network optimising for cost and speed.

Director of Product Management - Data Platform

Apr 2015Mar 2016 · 11 mos

  • Head of Product for Flipkart Data Platform. A product where the vision was to help developers, analysts and product managers build data applications themselves that work on large data sets. The vision was, "if we make it super easy for all folks in the company to work with and do crazy things with data, even an average employee will start innovating and display step jump in their quality of work"

Freecharge

Associate Vice President - Moonshot Projects

Aug 2014Apr 2015 · 8 mos · India

  • Headed the strategic wing of Freecharge that works on long term projects. One such product provided the ability for offline retailers to send location and audience specific ads to the core freecharge customers (college students) in the brick and mortar shopping ecosystems (a.k.a malls, streets etc.)

Flipkart

2 roles

Senior Product Manager - Consumer Promotions & Merchandising Platform

Oct 2013Jul 2014 · 9 mos

  • Building Flipkart's Promotions Platform with a vision to do Merchandising with intelligence at scale
  • Building a team of passionate product managers
  • Conceptualised Flipkart's Visual Merchandising platform that enables seeding of inorganic content with a high degree of balance between customer relevance and business value

Product Manager - Promotions Platform

Dec 2012Sep 2013 · 9 mos

  • Built the Promotions Platform for Flipkart that runs Flipkart's sale events including the Big Billion Day event with a vision "give great offers to customers that is attractive in value, delightful in experience and hence provides returns to the business"
  • Conceptualised and built the product from scratch with focus on scale and intelligence
  • Contributed to massive uplift in revenue and customer acquisition. Innovative offer formats and completely automated offer life cycles.
  • Today Promotions Platform contributes a significant amount of growth in revenue to Flipkart. It creates offers for sellers, enables coupons, builds product clusters etc. and pushes them to customers generating demand. It is built on the philosophy of customer obsession, fairness & transparency in marketplace and business efficiency, in that order.

Yahoo! inc.

2 roles

Product Manager - Membership Platform

Jun 2012Dec 2012 · 6 mos

  • Taking Yahoo!'s Membership Platform towards its charter of solving identity for users
  • Build strong synergy with engineering to deliver towards product and business goals
  • Operationalised the Sky - Yahoo! partnership
  • Got a chance to understand customer problems in Account Recovery to capture the genuine "on the brink" customers

Product Manager - Search

Aug 2011May 2012 · 9 mos

  • Deliver product initiatives to increase Yahoo! search volume in APAC
  • Grow the Yahoo! Downloads property in terms of monthly active users
  • Delivered search volume growth via Y! customized browsers in partnership with Microsoft & Mozilla, Toolbar Installations and various on-network and off-network plays.
  • Improved the performance of Yahoo! Downloads property by 75% collaborating with teams in Beijing

Itc limited

2 roles

Assistant Under Training - Trade Marketing and Distribution

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  • - Worked with distributors across Gujarat on distribution of Tobacco and Food products of ITC

Summer Trainee, Trade Marketing and Distribution

Apr 2010May 2010 · 1 mo · Chennai

  • Increase sale of ITC's then newly launched "Classmate" branded writing instruments
  • Working with ITC's trade channel and analysing competitive channels to understand channel needs
  • Implemented Pilot initiatives and increased sales by 150% in Chennai metro market and 500% in Pondicherry market
  • Awarded PPO (Pre Placement Offer) for delivering more than the committed results

Indian institute of management, lucknow

Placement Coordinator

Aug 2009Mar 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · India

  • Part of the 8 member student placement committee building the strategies and executing the complete recruitment process for 800 PGP students across the batches of 2010 and 2012.

Autonomy interwoven (interwoven inc)

Senior Software Developer

Jul 2005May 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Developing Email Management Product on Lotus Notes for WorkSite NT, company's flagship document management server for Enterprises
  • Build teams in India office as part of the core recruitment team
  • Create a channel of communication with key customers to ensure continuous feedback on product
  • Worked on C++, C# and COM

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

PGDM — Marketing & Strategy

Jan 2009Jan 2011

P.E.S. Institute of Technology

BE — Information Science

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