Shiva Prakash

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led product strategy for AI assistants at major tech companies.
Authored a bestseller novel recognized on The Hindu's charts.
Holds an MBA from ISB co-signed by top global business schools.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in AI and Voice Assistant technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementMonetization

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business StrategyCRMCommunicationConsumer ProductsCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)E-commerceEmerging MarketsEnterprise SoftwareGo-to-market StrategyGrowth StrategiesInternet Product DevelopmentLeadership

About

Search, Voice, Assistants, Commerce, Media products. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle. ISB MBA co-signed by Wharton, Kellogg, London Business School. B.E. in CSE. Machine Learning ( Stanford/Coursera). Author - Touching Distance (2011 bestseller list) and Talakad (pending release).

Experience

Google

2 roles

Head of Product - Google Home - New investments, Growth, Monetization

Promoted

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

MonetizationWearable TechnologySmart Home TechnologyGrowth StrategiesRevenue & Profit GrowthProduct Management

Product Lead - AI Overviews for Google Search in India and Google Lens for India

Nov 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Vahan.ai

Advisor

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Walmart

Senior Director of Product Management | Head of Product - AI Assistant for shopping

Apr 2023 – Oct 2023 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Leading Generative AI based Assistant efforts for consumer experiences

Google

Group Product Manager - Search

Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Responsible for better and more trusted people results on Google Search.

Facebook

Group Manager

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Menlo Park, California

Led a team that developed solutions in areas such as Search Integrity, Search Platforms, News, Creators and Discover.

Dhiyo.ai

Advisor

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · United States

Long term advisor to the Dhiyo team on product strategy and design.

Verizon media

Senior Director of Product Management | Consumer Search & Voice Assistants

Jul 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Sunnyvale

Head of Product focussed on innovation
1. Search on ~20 consumer properties across Yahoo & AOL
2. Yahoo Voice (“Talk to Yahoo”) & Member, Google Assistant Partner Advisory Board
3. Yahoo Audio (B2B, B2C) initiatives

Yahoo

4 roles

Senior Director of Product Management | Conversational Assistants

Sep 2016 – Jul 2017 · 10 mos

Strategic company initiatives in development in the domain of conversational interfaces & assistants

Senior Director of Product Management & Head of Product - ECommerce and Small Biz

Promoted

Sep 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr

Led product strategy and defined operational agenda for a business unit of over 300 employees, serving over 1M small businesses across multiple geographies, with six product lines, with some products driving transaction value in excess of $3B/year.

Director Product Management

Dec 2014 – Sep 2015 · 9 mos

Led Yahoo Small Business products that served over 1M small businesses with leading products in E-Commerce, Presence, Local, Marketing Communications and Productivity for US and International markets.
Product lead for Yahoo Vertical Search - Travel, Autos.

Director, Product Management - Yahoo! E-Commerce (Yahoo! Merchant Solutions) and Yahoo! SMB India

Jul 2010 – Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Responsible for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, a world leading E-Commerce platform for businesses.
Responsible for Yahoo! Small Business India, the leading online presence and mail platform in India for businesses.

Author of the bestseller - touching distance

Author

Mar 2011 – Mar 2011 · 0 mo · https://www.facebook.com/TouchingDistance

Debut novel - listed for several weeks on The Hindu's bestseller charts.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article2386015.ece

Oracle

Senior Manager of Product Management

Mar 2004 – Jul 2010 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Product initiatives for Oracle product lines - Oracle Enterprise, Siebel, Oracle Fusion.
Led Product Managers in multiple geographies. Responsible for strategy, pricing, definition and execution. Represented Oracle to tier-1 Analysts.