Vaibhav Bhargava

Co-Founder

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India10 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Built billion dollar businesses at Uber.
Established largest content commerce initiative in India.
Launched global knowledge sharing platform during lockdown.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management leader in E-commerce and Transportation sectors.

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Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

Asian MarketsE-commerceMarket ResearchProduct MarketingRecommender SystemsSalesSearch EnginesStart-upsStartup investingStrategy

About

I've spent the last decade building consumer products for customers around the globe. From reporting metrics for Flipkart's first Big Billion Day, leading the Superapp expansion at Grab, seeding content commerce at Meesho, to growing travel verticals at Uber – I've had the privilege of working with pioneering companies alongside some of the best growth and product people in the market. Also had my share of lessons in trying to build and grow startups. Enjoy building way more than managing. Go by agency more than process.

Experience

Uber

Product leader - Verticals

Jul 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs

Driving X to 10X for major growth verticals globally, to build out new billion dollar businesses for Uber.
Led a team of PMs in India building for riders across the world, as Uber expanded it's product footprints to Bangalore.
Highlights include taking a PLG route on an otherwise ops heavy vertical (Micromobility) and expanding an India first Intercity business to 4 more continents. Charter went from an underinvested entity to top 10 growth bets of the company in 2 years.

Product ManagementLeadershipStrategyMarket Research

Entrepreneur first

Principal (Contract)

Apr 2023 – Jul 2023 · 3 mos · Bangalore, London · On-site

Freelance venture investing stint to broaden my knowledge and meet 100s of talented people. Entrepreneur first is a UK based pre-seed accelerator specialising in SAAS and deep tech.
Played as right hand to India head and helped build the 38 member winter 2023 cohort in India - which has turned out to be most successful one for EF so far
Conceptualised and hosted a GenAi hackathon titled “AI for India” alongside another major VC fund ( Stellaris )

Meesho

Senior Director Product - Content Commerce and Growth

May 2022 – Apr 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of company leadership. I helped seed Meesho’s Live / video commerce practice which has since evolved into the biggest content commerce play at any Indian marketplace .
Also led the User Growth team focussed on user acquisition, activation, engagement, loyalty.

Product ManagementLeadershipE-commerce

Grab

5 roles

Sr. Product lead - Transport, Grocery social commerce

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos

Led product for Grab's entire Transport vertical (2M+ rides a day)
Also did some social commerce experiments with grocery in Indonesia.

Product ManagementLeadership

Sr.Product Lead - SuperApp experiences

Jan 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

In charge of vision for overall Superapp discovery and engagement to grow user stickiness (50M+ MAU across 7 countries )

Product ManagementLeadership

Product Lead, Consumer - GrabFood

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Led the Search and Discovery Portfolio at GrabFood with a team of 4 PMs, achieving 2X growth in conversion and increased customer loyalty, while the business itself scaled 20x.
The foundations laid in this period helped Food surface mobility as a business segment post COVID

Product ManagementLeadership

Senior Product Manager - Transport

Promoted

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos

Handled the New Verticals charter of our Transportation business
Built and launched GrabNow, a motorcycle street hail service
Built and launched GrabRent, the first hire by the hour service in SEA.
Advisor in launch of GrabShuttle, which was our first foray into mass commute.
Foundations of other new services like Scheduled rides, Premium etc.

Product ManagementLeadership

Product Manager, Transport

Dec 2016 – Aug 2017 · 8 mos

The undistancing project

Founder

Jul 2020 – May 2021 · 10 mos · World

Launched a global knowledge sharing platform for Tech professionals in the middle of 2020 lockdowns. Hosted 50+ speakers from Big Tech leaders to startups CEOs to share experiences live with an audience of 5000+ from over 60 countries while raising donations for various Covid related charities. Made some really cool friends around the world.
Tried to convert this into a commercial startup during a sabattical, did not succeed.

Zipgo

Founding Member

Aug 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

ZipGo was a pioneer in tech enabled mass commute in India. I joined the team when we had no office, no product and no customers. We raised $3M in VC funding and in a matter of months expanded to multiple cities carrying 1000s of passengers everyday. Led all our product and some big ticket corporate sales.

Flipkart

2 roles

Associate Product Manager, Seller Platform

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos

Owner of major payments and accounting products in Flipkart's seller division, as the company transitioned from retailer to marketplace.

Product ManagementLeadership

Analyst, Flipkart Ads group

Jun 2014 – Dec 2014 · 6 mos

Business Finance partner to Flipkart Ad Services, setting targets and tracking performance to grow the fledgling business unit - ads is big business in Indian ecom now. Also worked with marketing for a while.

Product Management