May 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs · Greater London

• Working on conversational commerce, AI driven bots and WhatsApp Business messaging

Apr 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Google Pay, Google Assistant and Google Next Billion users (NBU)

Mar 2015 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Led a team of PM’s and Engineers working on the core Mobile Platform focusing on Growth, Personalization and Retention on the company's Mobile Apps on Android and iOS (50 Million + users).

Nov 2014 – Mar 2015 · 4 mos

• PM for Core Messaging Product at Hike, catering to 35+ Million users

Jan 2014 – Oct 2014 · 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked at the intersection of technology, design and business to create world class apps and web products across MSN, Windows Phone and Desktop, Android and iOS platforms (part Of Information and Content Experiences – ICE Group at Microsoft)
• Core PM Managing the API Stack powering all Sports Experiences across 300 Million Monthly Active Users across MSN, And Windows Apps in 20 Markets and 10 languages
• Managed SEO and ASO for MSN Sports Web and Mobile Apps Led Content Analytics for all Sports Content served across MSN Web and Mobile Apps

Feb 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Led Product Management for Mobile Products dealing with flagship travel products across all major Platforms – Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia S40, Symbian.
• Instrumental in growing the Mobile business by 20x in less than 2 years, basically started out from scratch to a state where Mobile revenues became signficant
• Launched 10 Products through an internal engineering team of 15 Engineers and 3 external App development vendors.
• Managed P&L (revenue) and product deliveries for all Mobile Development for Flights, Hotels, Bus and Holidays verticals with over a Million mobile users
• Managed deliveries across cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Content, Design, Marketing, External vendors, Customer Support and Legal
• Products launched at MakeMyTrip -
• MakeMyTrip on iPhone - http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/makemytrip/id530488359?ls=1&mt=8 (Featured as Top Free App)
• MakeMytrip on Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.makemytrip
• MakeMyTrip on Windows Phone - http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/makemytrip/c0317107-738b-4391-854c-ef93e3af968f
• MakeMytrip Mobile Site (HTML5 Mobile Site) - m.makemytrip.com
• Hotel Booking on Mobile (Domestic and International) - http://m.makemytrip.com/hotels
• MakeMyTrip Windows 8 App - http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/makemytrip-explore/b8a18577-b26b-4af6-b42a-b5d905eeda33
• Holidays on Mobile - http://m.makemytrip.com/holidays/packages
• Bus Bookings on Mobile - http://mbus.makemytrip.com/BusOnMobile
• Trip Ideas App on iPhone and Android -
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trip-ideas/id586246967?mt=8
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.makemytrip.calendar
• Last Minute Hotel Deals on Mobile
• MakeMyTrip Route Planner App on Nokia S40 - http://store.ovi.com/content/379525

May 2011 – Jan 2012 · 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• About PlayCez – PlayCez (http://playcez.com) is India’s first location based recommendation engine (Local Search Engine) for the best places and events related to Food, Shopping and Parties/Gigs based on a specially designed ranking algorithm that takes into account popularity of places and brands on various Social Networks like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare etc. PlayCez was the finalist at Eureka, organized IIT-B (Asia’s Biggest B-Plan Competition) and the Next Big Idea organized by IIM-B, chosen from hundreds of product startups.
• My Roles
• Responsible for Product Management of the core product of PlayCez. I conceptualized the product as a social/personal recommendation engine for places ranked on the basis of their reputation on various social networks like Foursquare, Facebook Places, Google Places etc.
• Responsible for the product design and managed a team of 2 developers, throughout the product development phase, that built the core web application, mobile web app and Android and iPhone apps
• Wore multiple hats working on activities involving marketing, product, operations, technology & strategy
• I was also the chief creator of all monetization models at PlayCez. I was one of the co-inventors of a Patent Pending Application Filed in this regard – 2549/DEL/2011. We were able to launch a couple of Proof of Concepts in the market through tie-ups with Local businesses
• PlayCez Team got its first round of funding recently - http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/07/delhi-startup-playcez-gets-seed-round-for-location-based-social-app-for-india/
• PlayCez got acquired by IndiaMart – http://www.medianama.com/2013/08/223-biztradeshows-playcez/

Mar 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Consistently “Exceeded Expectations” and quickly established myself as a thought leader in the domain of Web Spam on Google Search. Led and conceptualized important initiatives and team projects such as Query Based Spam Trend Analysis, Free host Spam Classifier, Query Based Spam Fighting and Automation (using data driven models to take Web spam at scale)
• Filed an Invention Disclosure Form for a Google Patent titled – “Monetization of Embedded Youtube Videos - Contextual E-Commerce Slide Ads”
• Received a Google Gold Award in December 2010 for my contributions to the Global Search Quality Team within the first 6 Months of joining Google
• Worked in close sync with the Web Spam Engineering team in Mountain View on Classifier Projects on various Web Spam Issues
• Mentored new team members and helped them ramp up to everyday workflows and spam trends affecting Google Search

Jan 2008 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India