Vinay Yadav

Senior Product Manager

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands9 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

5+ years of experience in product management.
Expertise in customer-centric product strategies.
Mentor for aspiring product managers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager specializing in SaaS and E-commerce with a focus on user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCustomer ExperienceData AnalysisSearch TechnologyMachine Learning

Other Skills

Algorithmic ProgrammingAlgorithmsAutosuggestBusiness AnalysisCC++Competitive AnalysisCompetitive CodingCustomer strategiesData StructuresDynamic ProgrammingGoogle AdwordsGoogle AnalyticsLeadershipMachine learnt ranking

About

As a seasoned Senior Product Manager with 5+ years of rich industry experience, I thrive in the dynamic world of customer-facing products, specializing in the Search domain. I'm passionate about creating meaningful experiences for users and optimizing product journeys to exceed expectations. A proud alumnus of IIT BHU with an engineering degree, I am well-versed in driving cross-functional projects, leveraging my expertise to foster collaboration among teams and stakeholders. A customer-centric approach lies at the heart of my product philosophy, enabling me to understand and cater to the needs of users, thereby ensuring delightful experiences. In addition to my professional pursuits, I channel my passion for continuous learning by serving as a part-time PM instructor, empowering aspiring product managers to excel in their roles and make a significant impact in the industry. Beyond the boardrooms and product strategies, you'll find me indulging in my other passions as a motorhead, exploring new destinations on exhilarating road trips. I'm open to networking with like-minded professionals, so feel free to connect. Let's collaborate to create exceptional products that shape the future of our digital landscape!

Experience

Uber

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Configuration Platform | Open source

Delivery hero

Senior Product Manager

Nov 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs · Berlin, Germany

Owned the Global search platform
Involved Query understanding, Semantic search, Personalisation, Machine learnt ranking, and Monetisation.

Query understandingSemantic searchPersonalisationMachine learnt rankingMonetisationProduct Management+1

Nextleap

Product Management Mentor

Oct 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mentored aspiring Product managers to help them build Product competencies

Upgrad

Product Management Instructor

Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Instructor for PMs who aspire to switch to ML Products. Helping build skillsets required for Product management in ML-led products.

Flipkart

3 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

Jun 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Owned the Central Personalisation Platform of Flipkart.
Involved building progressively personalized and coherent experiences throughout the shopping funnel.

PersonalisationUser experienceProduct strategyProduct ManagementCustomer Experience

Associate Product Manager 2

Jun 2019 – May 2020 · 11 mos

Owned the Gift Cards and the Lending product of Flipkart.
Involved building models to predict the creditworthiness of customers and building adoption-increasing strategies for Gift cards.

Predictive modelingCustomer strategiesProduct ManagementData Analysis

Associate Product Manager 1

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos

Owned the Autosuggest product in the Search domain.
Involved building Autosuggestions experience and personalised search filter experience.

AutosuggestSearch optimizationProduct ManagementSearch Technology

Wipro

Software Development Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Developed a classification model using Machine Learning for a client industry which helped in classifying different type of materials found in scrap and recycling industries. This was be achieved by analyzing the reflectance spectra obtained by Near Infrared Spectroscopy of the material.
Built the model by trying and testing different techniques like LogReg, Decision Trees, SVM, Naïve Bayes, kNN, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, PLSR, PCA etc. and successfully obtained an accuracy score of 81.87%.
Technologies used – Machine Learning, Python, Scikit Learn, Numpy, Matplotlib, Spectroscopy.

Training and placement cell, iit (bhu) varanasi

Core Team Member

Apr 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Varanasi Area, India

Worked in the Core Team of Training and Placement Cell, IIT (BHU) Varanasi consisting of 5 members. Concerned with handling and supervising all the Training and Placement activities of the college while also acting as the link between companies and students.

Indian institute of technology(bhu),varanasi

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos · Varanasi Area, India

Teaching Assistant for CSO-101 Computer Programming course offered to the Undergraduate Freshmen in Spring semester.

Machine LearningPythonScikit LearnNumpyMatplotlibData Analysis

Student Representative - Department Undergraduate Committee

Aug 2016 – May 2017 · 9 mos · Varanasi Area, India

Student Representative and member of the Department Undergraduate Committee of Department of Ceramic Engineering at IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

Technex, iit (bhu) varanasi

Marketing Head

Mar 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Varanasi Area, India

Led the 3-tier Marketing Team (consisting of 30+ members) of Technex'17 - the annual techno-management festival of IIT(BHU) Varanasi. Concerned with raising funds for the Fest via Corporate Sponsorships.