Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scaled Sales Navigator and Sales Insights to make every sales professional more efficient by leading efforts and driving innovation for large-scale B2B enterprises

Jul 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for strategy and growth of consumer products managed from India. Led 4 product tracks – discovery, creation, engagement, and trust with cross functional org of 50+ members to scale LinkedIn Professional communities used by more than 100M+ users.
• Product Strategy & Growth
• Identified competitive gaps and invested to better serve the professional communities use case, becoming the largest professional community platform.
• Crafted & executed a strategy resulting in 10X growth of Professional Groups DAUs. Also, created a vision and strategy to unlock net new conversations on LinkedIn by building private communities.
• Launched Public Groups to expand economic opportunities for all LinkedIn members by making knowledge shared in professional communities more accessible under 6 months.
• Prioritized and shipped multiple AI first solutions to scale conversation discovery, community discovery, creator matching and spam/promotional content detection while working with multiple teams split across geographies to materially improve healthy communities and retention.
• Started & scaled a community for entrepreneurs with >100K members to dog food the product. Additionally, managed a private community for community managers to build in community first way.
• Culture & Organization Success
• Started and led women in product chapter for India to facilitate initiatives to advance women in product.
• Invested in structures and processes that promoted effective decision making and data driven thinking.
• Helped scale the India product team through actively contributing to hiring senior product talent.

May 2015 – Jul 2022 · 7 yrs 2 mos · India · On-site

• Led a high performing team of 10+ PMs (including managers) and analysts for Microsoft Advertising and worked across multiple AI/ML focused areas: Trust and safety, Marketplace Management, Algo Optimization and New Ad Products.
• Product Growth & Scale
• Defended integrity of Microsoft Ads ecosystem (xB Ads, 10+ languages and ad types) from malicious ads and bad actors globally by building large scale, extensible solutions leveraging >AI/ML technologies for policy compliance and fraud detection (Payment Fraud, Phishing, Malware, Spam)
• Drove trust strategy and execution for scaling Microsoft Advertising’s footprint in 100+ countries across continents to unlock ($xxx M) within a year.
• Launched advertiser verification across 100+ countries to enhance user trust and lower fraud spent by more than half. Scaled adoption by 5X in 6 months by refining user experience.
• Simplified advertiser and reviewer exp reducing review SLA by 4X & annual support cost by > $xM by investing in redesigning editorial tools.
• Managed key Bing Ads International markets with 1.5B revenue across EMEA, LATAM and APAC markets and grew revenue by $xxM while striking balance between user, advertiser, and publisher KPIs.
• Grew 5 new markets by identifying & investing in experiences contributing to greater user engagement that translates into a significant recurrent incremental revenue($100M+) each year.
• Drove optimization of various algos to improve ad selection, relevance, pricing, user response prediction, personalization, and recommendations for international markets.
• Collaborated with global cross functional teams spread across geos to drive product adoption and sales initiatives to increase revenue for strategic customers.
• Culture & Team Building
• Coached product managers across Microsoft India to sharpen their data driven thinking & analytical skills.
• Successfully attracted and retained high quality talent including managers and senior ICs.
• Led Product Inclusion track at Microsoft India

Jun 2014 – Apr 2015 · 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• As a President of Business Technology Club's, I was responsible for leading a team of 15 to accomplish our mission to educate our 250+ members on the latest technology trends, innovations and disruptions, increase the number and quality of networking and recruiting opportunities with technology companies, and strengthen the ISB brand in technology and technology-dependent industries.
• Defined the roadmap for the year and conceptualized multiple activities for the club.
• Pioneered first sponsored conference on the topic "Mobile Disruption"​ with 4 panel discussions & 3 competitions to facilitate industry connect and entrepreneurship.
• Conducted multiple Product management workshop series in association with Microsoft, Amazon and Flipkart to help 100+ product management job aspirants.
• Organised "Design for Delight"​ workshop by Intuit to provide insights on usability, user experience and interaction design.
• Compiled BTC's first social interview handbook comprising of interview preparation tips and interview experiences of 60+ alums.
• Facilitated more than 15 industry speaker and alumni sessions on various topics to help the batch stay connected with latest developments in technology sector.

Jul 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, UK / Bangalore, India

• Apigee is the leading provider of intelligent API management solution with out of the box capabilities such as predictive analytics, MBaaS, Monetization for enterprises and developers.
• As a Solution Architect / Pre-sales professional I worked across EMEA and US geographies to help companies, from the 100 year old to the digital native, understand and achieve business success and competitive differentiation in the Digital Economy. I worked closely with prospective customers including business leaders and technology stalwarts (CTO/Architects) from various industry verticals like telco, healthcare, retail, gaming etc. and leveraged my technical aptitude and drive to envision, determine and communicate how Apigee can best serve their unique business needs.
• > Conducted opportunity analysis by keeping abreast of market trends to achieve market-share metrics and break new avenues for driving sales growth by securing high-value orders.
• >Established credibility and confidence with Apigee’s prospective clients, by demonstrating and proving Apigee’s value through detailed products and solution briefings, product demos and comprehensive proof of concepts
• >Prototyed architecture solution for integration with partner and customer environments by mapping client’s technology and product capabilities.
• >Made recommendations on enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete digital solution and providing “best practice” advice to customers for optimizing Apigee Platform effectiveness.
• >Worked closely with sales team to identify and qualify sales opportunities and developing the strategy to resolve technical impediments.
• >Worked with product management to identify product enhancements and features based on customer feedback and customer insights.
• >Worked with marketing to prepare and deliver product messaging in an effort to highlight Apigee's value propositions

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr

Jul 2009 – Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• NetApp, Inc., formerly Network Appliance, Inc., is a leading computer storage and data management company
• As a software development professional, I had a chance to work on all aspects of software development cycle.
• Led development of NAS IPv6 federal mandate for a crucial project worth $40m involving
• 4 geographically distributed teams
• Designed and developed features for NFS (Network File System). Also, worked on sustaining older releases by resolving bugs, customer escalations and feature enhancement requests.
• Mentored new joinees in the team and in HCL (a collaborator company)

Jan 2009 – Jun 2009 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Oracle Team Productivity Center is a product that helps high tech firms to streamline the process of delivering software as a continuously repeating cycle of inter-related steps: definition, design, development, testing, deployment and management. It provides a framework to integrate 3rd party repositories with JDeveloper IDE.
• This project required me to design and implement a Task connector (using JAVA )to help improve team efficiency .It basically involves data fetching and packaging in appropriate form making use of JDBC, xml parsing and Web