Aug 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• CPO for Marketplace Platforms which operate in multiple South American countries and is at a $3 Billion annual run rate. In addition, I lead the India tech center for Falabella that currently consists of ~450 engineers who work on niche technology and transformational efforts for the Group.
• Falabella Group operates in seven countries: Chile, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina. It operates department stores, home improvement stores, supermarkets, e-commerce / marketplace, bank branches.

Nov 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• I lead the Product, Engineering, Design and Analytics teams at CLiQ

Mar 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Product Management mentor on the Platform. Mentored 30+ product folks from US, Europe and Asia in that 2 year period across levels, from early product managers to Directors, CPOs / Founders.

Sep 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• MoneyTap is one of the leading Fintech startups in India & the biggest digital lender in the consumer space. I am responsible for the overall product strategy and roadmap.
• Lead a team of product managers, user researchers and product designers.

Feb 2016 – Aug 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Hush ( Sep 2017 to Aug 2020) : Hush was an online community (App + Web) for Indian employees to get answers for career / workplace issues. Raised a seed round of $1.2 Million from Accel & prominent angel investors. Upto 3 Million Indian employees from thousands of companies used Hush every month. It also included a ML based Salary module that helps Indian employees figure out salary ranges for roles in different companies.
• VoyageUp (Feb 2016 to Sep 2017) : VoyageUp was an app to help people discover and connect with like minded people nearby based on some common interests. It evolved into communities based on activities, interest and proximity. 100,000 registered users, 100+ active communities
• The registered name of the company was Erbauen Labs Private Limited. We launched two different ventures during this time

Feb 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Dataflow is a EQT (eqt.se) portfolio company headquartered in HongKong that provides background screening & immigration compliance solutions to companies / governments
• 1> Setup a 12-member product + tech team from scratch
• 2> Launched an online workflow product for universities to improve educational documents verification process
• 3> Launched a customer support portal that improved our customer satisfaction scores
• 4> Formulated and put the new data strategy in action. This also included legal reviews of our data assets

Sep 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

• 1> Multiple user experience and relevance improvement initiatives launched.
• 2> Launched a major redesign for the search and listing pages in partnership with the UX team.
• 3> Extensive A/B testing for monetization and user experience. Partnered heavily with the DVM team to improve monetization on Target.com
• 4> Mentor for start-ups in the 1st and 2nd batch of the Target Accelerator program.

May 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Part of the Global Search Monetization product team of Yahoo. The key areas of focus:
• 1> UI experiments & product launches for Search Ads globally.
• 2> Global Product lead for More Sponsors and Favicon products .
• 3> Partner with EMEA and APAC regions to deliver on their Monetization roadmaps.
• 4> Launch new products to monetize searches that don't have adCenter ads.

Jul 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Led a 25+ member product and tech team. The key areas the team worked on:
• 1> Product Management and A/B testing for US and UK Search and Mapquest
• 2> Search Marketplace Product - Advertiser Campaign optimization, Sales support, Budget maximization, KW list expansions programs etc.

Feb 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Was part of the search product team at Dell. I worked on creating metrics and analysis to increase search effectiveness & relevancy on the Dell websites in various regions. Worked extensively on Clickstream data and also used advanced Web Analytics tools like Visual Sciences.

Nov 2002 – Feb 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Led sales and distribution for the state of Karnataka with a team of 4 sales managers and an outsourced sales team of 500+. Process changes made by me resulted in the highest approval rate in the country and the lowest application processing cost

Apr 2001 – Jun 2001 · 2 mos

• Worked on a new Corporate Salary Account product. This involved Competitor analysis, product features and finding ways to increase the profitability of the product.