Ashu Manohar

Product Director

United States21 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years of experience in product leadership
  • Scaled platforms to over 100M users
  • Drove $100M+ in business impact
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C Product Leader with expertise in AI/ML and marketplace optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser ExperienceMarketplace Optimization

Other Skills

Product DevelopmentProgram ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisMachine LearningLocal SearchWeb SoftwareRankingSearch Engine TechnologyData MiningPersonalizationWeb ServicesBig DataPrototypingCompetitive Analysis

About

Product leader with 18+ years of experience building consumer products in AI/ML, marketplace, and growth domains. My work has spanned Microsoft, Twitter, Uber, and startups - launching industry-defining products, scaling platforms to 100M+ users, and driving $100M+ in business impact. I currently lead Uber’s Safety Product team. We build for rider segments like Teens, Seniors and Women and innovate to improve personal & road safety for consumers and drivers. Previously at Uber, I led the courier experience & pricing team on Uber Eats and driver onboarding for Rides.

Experience

Uber

Director, Product Management

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • I have the privilege of leading the Safety Product team. Our mission is to improve interpersonal safety between users, reduce accidents on the road, drive growth for the Family vertical (think Teens & Seniors), and build the platform that powers it!
Product DevelopmentProgram ManagementUser ExperienceCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct Management

Medely

SVP / Head of Product & Design

Jul 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Medely is a Series C startup tackling the nursing shortage. Our vision is to empower healthcare facilities to manage their entire clinical labor stack (internal and external) in a single solution, which would drive revenue and efficiency.
  • I led the Product & Design teams to scale our workforce management platform and labor marketplace. My team's focus was on optimizing & scaling the marketplace to ensure a highly reliable & quality customer experience, and expanding from a single to multi-product solution for total workforce management. In addition to new functionality, we overhauled the user experience for both professionals & facilities and launched new mobile apps.
Product DevelopmentUser ExperienceMarketplace OptimizationCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct Management

Uber

2 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Jan 2018Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Led Courier teams for Uber Eats, focused on pricing, reliability, growth, retention, and overall courier experience. Supported the business as it scaled from under $1B to over $50B in gross revenue, including during the hyper-growth phase of the pandemic.
  • Built the team from scratch to 10+ PMs and defined long-term vision and strategy.
  • Led 0>1 launches of new and innovative features at Uber - including courier Upfront Pricing, Variable Pricing, Loyalty, Tipping, and Navigation. These directly contributed $X00M+ in cost savings, 100%+ increase in Courier MAU and strong improvements in retention and sentiment.
  • Drive strategic initiatives across the Delivery product/ops org, including Marketplace Reliability and Defect reduction.
Product DevelopmentProgram ManagementData AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct ManagementMarketplace Optimization

Lead Product Manager

Aug 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Product lead for Driver Onboarding - responsible for the Onboarding Funnel (conversion & experience from signup to first few trips), and Compliance (collect the right documents to ensure global regulatory compliance).
  • Hired & managed the PM team and lead a large cross functional team of Eng, Design, Data Science, etc
  • Drove millions of incremental first trips and improved the user experience through funnel optimization. Conceived and executed on multiple big bets like a new acquisition channel, and chat assisted onboarding which had a large impact.
  • Rebuilt the tech stack to scale digital onboarding worldwide and for new use cases - across 500+ cities, 60+ countries and web/mobile.
Product DevelopmentUser ExperienceCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct Management

Twitter

Product Manager

Jan 2012Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Built products to help users discover interesting accounts & content.
  • Highlights
  • New user onboarding: Conceived and launched Instant Timelines, which created a home timeline using a machine learning recommendation system to deliver instant value to new users.
  • (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/twitter-displays-its-value-with-instant-timeline-for-new-users/).
  • Interest graph: Improved UX to connect new and at-risk users with their friends & interests which increased engagement and retention.
  • Referrals: Built a scalable system which led to many thousands of invited signups / day. Rebuilt the address book system to enable wider use cases
  • Shipped first "Events" experience to surface the most relevant content around major events happening in the real world. (http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/spotlight-on-olympic-stories.html).
  • Developed & shipped internal tools and performed data analysis to support product launches
Product DevelopmentData AnalysisUser ExperienceProduct Management

Microsoft

3 roles

Program Manager II (Bing)

Oct 2009Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Search results personalization - Worked an effort to use social data and user history signals to re-rank core search results that led to over 25% increase in targeted relevance metrics.
  • Local Search - Led a cross org team to improve restaurant search experience across Bing. Shipped UX and relevance improvements that led to multi-point increase in user engagement and relevance metrics.
  • Performed data and competitive analysis to drive prioritization. Prototyped internal tools and new ideas
Data AnalysisProgram ManagementUser ExperienceProduct Management

Program Manager II (Windows)

Oct 2006Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Helped define and ship the telemetry stack for Windows 7 that collected data to improve Windows, including App and Windows-OS level crashes. Built and upgraded key features including a Content Management System (CMS), web server and end user experience
  • Revamped a system to provide Windows end users with 1-click solutions to solve major pain points like App and OS crashes, and application compatibility with different OS versions. It led to double digit increase in user satisfaction, and more than doubled content throughput.
  • Wrote scripts and prototyped tools to manage a 10x increase in content authoring volume to help the business expand
Data AnalysisProgram ManagementUser ExperienceProduct Management

Program Manager Intern

Jun 2005Aug 2005 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Deutsche bank

Business Analyst Intern

Jun 2004Aug 2004 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

University of texas at austin

Undergraduate research assistant

Feb 2003Mar 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Austin, Texas Area

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

St. James School, Calcutta

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