Indra Pal S.

Product Director

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada11 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in product leadership.
Expert in aligning stakeholders for strategic initiatives.
Proven track record in enhancing user engagement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in the Software and Media industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser ExperienceBusiness DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringData Analysis

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAnalyticsBig DataBig Data AnalyticsBusiness PlanningBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness StrategyCC#C++Cross-functional Team LeadershipCross-team CollaborationCustomer Engagement

About

Problem solver at heart, product & people leader by profession for over 12+ years. Skilled in product strategy and planning, executive stakeholder alignment, high-stakes strategic missions and building high performing, happy teams. Recent domain experience includes marketplaces, personalized recommendations, payments, tech partnerships, platforms, search and mobile.

Experience

Boulevard

Director of Product Management

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Shopify

2 roles

Senior Product Lead

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Product Lead

Nov 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Hulu

Senior Product Manager, Search and Personalization

Jul 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Seattle, Washington

1. Improved user engagement of Hulu through search, owning the roadmap of search on Hulu, including the user interface, search relevance and content metadata. Bringing alignment between leadership, data science, UX, tech, QA, finance and other departments to drive well calculated efforts that move the core KPIs
2. Led generation of consensus based metadata for our content catalogue, derived through practices of web mining and machine learning

Microsoft india

4 roles

Program Manager - 2, Bing Local and Maps

Jul 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs

1. Business Chat Bots: Long term vision and strategy, roadmap for business facing features of the product (sign-up, provisioning, seed data, analytics, chat-endpoint, mobile apps).
2. Bing Maps Measurements – defining the key business, relevance and content metrics for Bing Maps search, geocoder, routing etc. Driving the maps feature groups to track and act on these key metrics

Software Engineer - 2, Office PowerPoint

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs

1. Shipped PowerPoint App for Windows 10 phone, Windows 10 tablet, and Android K & L tablets
2. Release driver and overall product experience for the phone release
3. Developed and validated the features – thumbnail list rendering, thumbnail actions, slide level edits, tables
4. Telemetry and Measurement pipeline development and engaged partners by defining & tracking key metrics
5. Drove the Localizability and Globalization practices across product team and worked with localization vendors

Software Engineer, Office Mobile

Jul 2010 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs

1. Shipped PowerPoint for Windows Phone 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0
2. Developed and validated the features - thumbnail view, zoom, animations, transitions, file open and file save
3. Engineering Systems:
o Designed and developed cross-platform test automation infrastructure for mobile platforms.
o Designed and built file open/load testing infrastructure

Intern Software Engineer, Office Mobile

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

1. Developed metrics to organize and analyse the test automation and code coverage data
2. Created a visualization dashboard for decision making, used by entire team