Vishal Ghotge

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States24 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product strategy for major fintech solutions.
  • Achieved significant business growth in North America.
  • Participated in a successful IPO process.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS leader with extensive product management experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStrategyBusiness GrowthProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentUser ExperienceTechnical LeadershipFile SystemsStorage Management

Other Skills

Coaching & MentoringBusiness AdvisingMindfulness MeditationProject ManagementUser Experience (UX)Team LeadershipCross-border RemittancesB2B Product ExperienceAPI Development

About

At Kiva we envision a financially inclusive world where all people hold the power to improve their lives. Through Kiva's work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care. By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life. http://www.kiva.org

Experience

Kiva

Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • At Kiva we envision a financially inclusive world where all people hold the power to improve their lives.
  • Through Kiva's work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care. By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life. http://www.kiva.org
Coaching & MentoringBusiness AdvisingMindfulness MeditationProject ManagementUser Experience (UX)Product Management+3

Sabbatical - career break

Sabbatical

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr

Remitly

EVP, North America

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Greater Seattle Area

  • At Remitly we built financial technology solutions to reach immigrant populations across the globe.
  • I had the opportunity to lead the North America product that built the app delivering cross-border remittances to 170+ countries. Business grew 70+% YoY and NA accounted for significant majority of the 450M+ revenue. Privileged to be a part of the executive team that took the company public in 2021! Transitioned to an Executive Advisor role in 2022 as I went on a sabbatical leave
Product ManagementStrategy

Payscale

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2019Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • PayScale is the leading compensation management solution, providing salary data to 80M+ consumers via its website and 10K+ businesses (includes half of Fortune 500 companies)via its SaaS products.
  • Started as the SVP of Product and then served as the Chief Product and Technology officer. Defined the new product strategy for both B2C and the B2B parts of PayScale's business and led execution of the strategy. Helped in the successful acquisition of PayFactors (key competitor), created the product strategy and integration plans for the combined company.
Product StrategyBusiness Development

Groupon

VP of Product

Jan 2014Jan 2019 · 5 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • VP of Product (Booking marketplace and Card Linked Offers)
  • Helped make Groupon's marketplace "bookable" - a key growth initiative for the company. Responsible for the mobile and web CX to make reservations and the B2B product experience to manage the inventory. Also briefly led the "Card Linked Offers" initiative. Through integrations with all major credit card companies we gave seamless cash back rewards to Groupon consumers on their cards.
  • Sr. Director of Product (Travel, Things To Do and Merchant platform)
  • Headed up product management for Groupon's verticals - Travel and Things to do. Led the teams to build vertical-specific consumer and B2B experiences as well as built supply integrations with inventory partners.
  • Also led the merchant product group building Groupon's B2B app and web experience used by all of Groupon's local merchants (several hundred thousand, worldwide). Improved the B2B experience to drive significant improvements in merchant satisfaction and retention.
Product ManagementUser Experience

Microsoft

Principal PM Lead

Jan 2002Jan 2014 · 12 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • Senior/Principal PM Lead, Windows Phone
  • Led several product teams in Windows Phone and Windows Mobile orgs - building both user
  • experiences as well as API platforms. Collaborated with 3rd party social networks - Facebook, Twitter, etc for aggregating social content on Windows Phone’s “people hub”. Worked with mobile operators for commercializing Windows Phone. Shipped 4 releases of Windows Phone.
  • PM, Storage and FileSystems team
  • PM for Windows storage and filesystem team. Co-Invented, shipped and standardized new filesystems (exFAT and UDFS) and helped create outbound licensing programs. Built new storage features in Windows - symlinks, file-classification, backup. Filed and granted 13 patents.
Product ManagementTechnical Leadership

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

M.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)

B.E. — Computer Engineering

Jan 1996Jan 2000

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