Sep 2022 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Led Bing’s AI/ML-powered Search & Recommendation team to drive user search experiences, growth, engagement and revenue globally.
• Delivered AI-first search experiences, generating revenue, DAU growth & query share growth.
• Improved user engagement and user satisfaction by by AI-driven product improvements.
• Conducted growth experimentation, market research and competitive products analysis to boost revenue by and DAU.
• Led cross-products collaboration to unify search, ads, and recommendation into cohesive user journeys.
• Optimized recommendation models and UX, improving search relevance and user engagement.
• Defined product vision & GTM strategy, aligning AI-powered initiatives with evolving customer needs and business goals.

Jul 2018 – Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Managed Bing Recommended Searches features that helps end users with contextual recommendations for exploration and successful search journey.
• Partner collaborations across different geographical areas to deliver integrated plans of creating new search experiences.
• Contributed on increasing Bing Revenue, User Engagement, Query Share and Daily Active Users by improving quality of recommendations and enabling delightful user experiences as compared to formidable competitors in the industry.
• Managed activities across all functions such as creating product vision, strategy, scoping, UX design and development. Additionally, performed market insights, competitive product analysis and user requirement analysis to innovate and design differentiating features with market competitors.
• Gained a good grasp of ML techniques used to tackle various components of this feature.

Mar 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Product owner for the team owning entire relevance quality of Bing Search recommendation feature available in 235 markets and 100 languages.

Sep 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Non-profit and volunteer driven organization that works to kindle the interest of book reading among young students. Vision is to enforce the joy of book reading among students so that they can take up book reading in long term.
• Created and executed entire strategic and associated plans.
• Designed features and user-interface of website. Administered and monitored all programming activities.
• Hired and developed initial staff.
• Designed all marketing and advertising material and led successful media and marketing campaigns. A Telugu language daily newspaper, Sakshi, published an article on Joy of Reading.
• Build partnerships with IIIT Hyderabad and implemented one of our programs as a full-fledged course for its 2nd year students. Partnered with two other non-profit organizations namely, Make a Difference (MAD) and The Atlanta Foundation (TAF) and 6 government schools for book sharing program.
• Planned strategy to build and set up of libraries having a repository of 2500+ U.S. books and a library at each of our partner’s center.
• Successfully led fundraising efforts for NGO, raising INR 50K+ from different walks of society which includes directors of social ventures, independent entrepreneurs and corporate professionals.

May 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Engineering Program Management Team:-
• Team was initially operating at CA Technologies Headquarters, USA and extended to Hyderabad, India with 3 software engineers chosen from the pool of 50 newly joined employees. The team comprises of a Senior Vice-President (as Reporting Manager) and 3 engineers aimed at end-to-end development of research projects of Executive Office.
• Lead the team of 3 software engineers as a Product Manager to develop an automated skill knowledge-base tool which helped Senior Executives in finding the right employee with the right skills with reduced man-hours by 90%.
• Defined, planned and manage functional requirements and specifications of project.
• Followed agile methodologies and led daily meetings to unblock daily impediments, manage project schedules and coordinate project goals.
• Led project to design the features of tool and involved in the development of tool with two engineers using C# - .NET, HTML, CSS, jQuery, MySQL, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and MS Visual Studio 2010 and successfully rolled out usage across Executive Office at CA Headquarters, USA.
• End of sprint demos and presentation to US reporting manager.

Jun 2012 – Apr 2013 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Reporting (Engineering) Team:
• Developed executive dashboards to enable the senior executive team to view, assess and compare reports for different features and metrics.
• Led project to gather the requirements of the Executives, design the features of dashboards and engaged in end-to-end development of dashboards using Business Intelligence Development tools such as SAP BO, Cognos, QlikView, Tableau.
• Developed product demos and presentations for VP, Engineering Program Director and Engineering Program Manager.