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Tejas Joshi

Product Manager

Dubai, United Arab Emirates16 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in product management.
  • Led multiple successful product launches in navigation and e-commerce.
  • Strong expertise in AI/ML and data-driven product strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in the Maps and Navigation industry with strong capabilities in AI/ML and data-driven strategies.

Contact

tejas.v.joshi2005@gmail.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyBusiness StrategyTechnical LeadershipSoftware Development

Other Skills

AI/MLAPI IntegrationsAdTechAgile ManagementAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsArtificial IntelligenceBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBusiness PerformanceCompetitive Product StrategyCross-Functional LeadershipCustomer ExperienceCustomer Focus

About

► 13 + yrs of experience in Engineering, Managing & Growing products in Online Maps, Navigation, AdTech, Marketing Automation and Ecommerce Marketing ► 4+ yrs of experience, working closely with & reporting to C-level executives. ► Worn multiple hats including: Product Manager, Product Owner, Growth Manager, Program Manager, Strategic Adviser to CEO, Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Engineering Mentor, Scrum Master and many more ► Domain Experience: Online Maps, Location & Navigation Technologies, Digital Performance Marketing across Google, Facebook, Bing, Amazon, Ecommerce, Email Marketing, Machine Learning & AI ► Technical Experience: Programming (JAVA, Ruby, Shell, AppScripts, C, C++), StorageTech (MySQL, Redis, Amazon Redshift, InfoBright, MongoDB), Queuing systems (ActiveMQ, KafKa), Webservices (REST, SOAP) ► Skills: ■ Competitive Analysis ■ Market Research ■ Product Strategy & Definition ■ Product Roadmap ■ AGILE Execution ► Personal Strengths: ■ Entrepreneurial Sense of Ownership ■ Problem Solver Attitude ■ Growth Mindset ■ Cross-Functional Leadership ■ Analytical Thinking ■ Attention to Details ► Schengen Visa Holder - valid till 2024 ► UAE Residence Visa Holder - valid till 2024

Experience

16 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Careem

Senior Product Manager 1

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Careem is first Unicorn & SuperApp of MENA-P region and is owned by Uber and e&
  • Offers RideHailing, Food, Groceries, Delivery, Household services, Bikes in 13 countries & 100 cities
  • I lead Location Experience for all these businesses
  • Impact, Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Launched Unified location experience across Food, Groceries and Order Anything in UAE, KSA, JOR Improving GMV by xxM and customer experience by 45%
  • Delivered Step-function & Visible improvements in major Customer Experience areas for Location Search(4X faster), Predictions(41%) and ETA Accuracy (+20-40pp) across Rides, Food and Groceries delivery
  • Onboarded 2 PMs, a dozen engineers, Data Analysts, UX Designers onto Maps domain
Location ExperienceCustomer ExperienceProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Huawei technologies india

Chief Product Manager

May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 4 mos

  • Part of Big Data & Search Product Management Team for Petal Search-Huawei's very own Search Engine
  • Petal Search allows Text, Visual & Voice search for Apps, Web, News, Videos, Music, Shopping, Travel and may more
  • Petal Search supports 50+ languages, available in 170+ countries/regions around the world and is Full-GDPR compliant
  • I am responsible for Competitive Product Strategy and Innovative user Experience for Search Ads on Petal Search
Competitive Product StrategyUser ExperienceSearch AdsProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Tomtom

4 roles

Technical Product Manager (Product Owner)| Maps Search - Places, Address Points & Geocoding

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Owns Global Search Experience & Quality for Places (Point of Interests-POIs), Address Points & Geocoding Product Suite
  • Defining & Improving Metrics for measuring Maps Search User Experience
  • Defining & Driving a Data-Driven, Integrated Roadmap for Product, Engineering and Map Content Operations
  • Defining & Owning Annual & Quarterly OKRs
  • Driving Product Backlog Management, Prioritization & Delivery
  • Improved Key Quality Metrics of Places by over 80% with a Multi-Stage Places Uniqueness Improvement Strategy
Maps SearchUser ExperienceData-Driven RoadmapProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Technical Product Manager (Product Owner)| Maps Search - Geocoding Product Suite

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Managed 4 products in Geocoding Product Suite – Address Points, House Number Ranges, Areas and Postal
  • Strategy Owner & Primary Decision Maker for a Global, Multi-Million-Euros Map Content Procurement strategy
  • Defined & Drove a Data-Driven, Integrated Roadmap for Product, Engineering and Content Operations
  • Product Owner for 3 Agile Squads of 40+ Software & GIS Engineers
  • Defined & Owned Annual & Quarterly OKRs for each squad
  • Drove Product Backlog Management, Prioritization & Delivery
  • Improved product Efficiency by 66%, Quality by 34% & Address Search User Experience metrics by 31%
  • Additional Role: Software Engineering Manager for Address Points Product Squad of 17 Software & GIS Engineers, Data Scientists
Geocoding Product SuiteProduct StrategyAgile ManagementProduct Management

Product Manager| Intuitive Guidance

Dec 2018 – Jun 2019 · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Launched TomTom India’s 1st end-to-end-developed Product for Microsoft
  • Defined Product Concept, Product Strategy, Roadmap and Go to Market Strategy
  • Built a New Team, aligned internal stakeholders and Launched the product on an extremely challenging timeline
Product ConceptProduct StrategyGo-to-market StrategyProduct Management

Product Owner | Maps R&D in AI/ML

Jan 2018 – Nov 2018 · 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Led R&D unit for Automated Map-Making using AI/ML, Satellite Imagery and GPS
  • Defined Strategy, Success Metrics & OKRs for R&D Activities and Squads
  • Grew R&D Outcome by 6X, Diversity by 2.5X and Success Rate by 9X
  • Successfully Demonstrated a Sustainable Map-Making Strategy using AI/ML to TomTom’s Executive Management Board
AI/MLMap-Making StrategyR&D ManagementProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Merkle sokrati

2 roles

Sr. Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Onlinesales.ai (Merkle Sokrati Product Division) - [April 2017 - Nov 2017]
  • Strategic Growth Adviser to CEO on Business Performance & Product Adoption
  • Partner Manager for Google, Facebook, Bing & Amazon
  • Played Key Role in securing Preferred Marketing Developer status on Facebook
  • Played key role in maintaining Premier Partner status on Google
  • Merkle Sokrati [Sep 2013 - Mar 2017]
  • ► Sokrati Product Ads
  • Defined Core Product Offering that improved Conversion Rates by over 2X using ML & Predictive Analytics
  • Innovated Product Image Optimizations to improve Click-Throughs by over 70%
  • Grew product Users by 4X+ and Brands by 15X+ including eBay, Marks & Spencer, Snapdeal, Shoppers Stop and many more
  • Expanded International customer base from 0 to 4 countries
  • Published eBay India Success Story in collaboration with Google
  • Played key role in winning Google Global Award for Shopping Innovation 2017
  • Headed a cross-functional team of 9 (Engineers, Data Scientists & BAs)
  • ► Data & Actionable Business Insights
  • Defined Core Product Offering, Product Strategy & User-Experience for Actionable Business Insights for Marketing Campaign Managers
  • Designed the Architecture, Storage & Process to generate Meaningful, Actionable Insights from 2 Billion+ potential insights
  • Designed 1-Click Actionability for faster, simpler User Experience
  • Improved Weekly Active Users on product by over 3X, Actionability by 2X
  • Published 1st ever Research Reports on Trends in Indian Ecommerce
  • Headed a cross-functional team of 16 (Engineers, UI, UX, Marketing)
  • ► Email Marketing, Cross-Channel Marketing Campaign Launcher
  • Defined Core Product Offering that Improved Email Open & Click rates by 2-3X with Dynamic and Personalized content
  • Successfully onboard 1st International, Recurring-Paid customer
  • Designed a 1-Click, Cross-Channel Marketing-Campaign Launcher for Google, Facebook, Bing & Amazon that reduced cross-channel marketing campaign management efforts by 3X
Business PerformanceProduct AdoptionCross-Functional LeadershipProduct ManagementBusiness Strategy

Engineering Manager

Apr 2010 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Architected and Led multiple projects for Multi-Channel Marketing Launch Automation, API Integrations – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Bing, Thematic Ads Generation @ Scale, Business Analytics Dashboard
  • Hands-on Software Development in JAVA, MySQL, Redis, REST & SOAP, Ruby, PERL, Kafka, ActiveMQ and Linux
  • Led teams of various sizes from 3 to 7
Multi-Channel MarketingAPI IntegrationsBusiness AnalyticsProduct ManagementTechnical Leadership

Coriolis technologies pvt ltd

Member of Technical Staff

Nov 2009 – Feb 2010 · 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • • Software Development in JAVA, J2EE, Apache Wickets, Perl, Linux
Software DevelopmentJAVAJ2EE

Infosys technologies ltd

Software Engineer

Nov 2006 – Jul 2007 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • • Software development in JAVA/J2EE
Software DevelopmentJAVAJ2EE

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

MTech — Information Technology

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

Maharashtra Institute of Technology

BE — Information Technology

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006

Abasaheb Garware College

HSC — Science

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002

Vimlabai Garware Highschool

SSC

Jan 1995 – Jan 2000