Viral Kadakia — CEO
Viral Kadakia was VP of Product at Indeed responsible for the product portfolio that included all employer journeys. During his 4 year tenure, Indeed grew hires and revenue by 100%. Prior to Indeed, Viral was the Chief Product Officer at Merit. Merit created the digital infrastructure for the 3-sided credentialing marketplace that allows any credential issuing authority the ability to unblock and accelerate the growth and efficiency of their industries by giving people autonomy over their credentials such as licenses and certificates Previously, as Co-founder & CEO of 500 Miles, Viral's team built a data-driven recruiting product for college students and recent graduates that analyzed millions of data points to render insights and make hiring easier for job-seekers and recruiting teams. Prior to 500 Miles, Viral was VP of Product Management at Hightail (formerly YouSendIt). In less than a year, his team transformed the legacy YouSendIt product into a brand new Hightail service and laid the foundation for a solid cloud storage platform. Before Hightail, Viral was Group Product Manager at LinkedIn where he managed products in the Core products group. In 2010, he founded TrustHop, a social marketplace for local services providers - a company that was acquired by LinkedIn. During his over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Viral has been an entrepreneur and product strategist at companies such as LinkedIn, Hightail (YouSendIt), Yahoo and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo). Viral earned his MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin and MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Marketplace expert with extensive product management experience.
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Experience: 26 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Entrepreneurship
- Cloud Computing
- Software Engineering
Career Highlights
- Drove 100% growth in hires and revenue at Indeed.
- Led product strategy for multiple successful startups.
- Expert in transforming legacy products into modern solutions.
Work Experience
PayPal
VP of Products (8 mos)
Work Connections (Nonprofit)
Helper (1 yr 4 mos)
Wisden Wealth
Founder (1 yr 4 mos)
Indeed.com
VP of Products (4 yrs 1 mo)
Merit
Chief Product Officer (2 yrs)
500 Miles
Co-founder & CEO (4 yrs 4 mos)
Hightail [acquired by OpenText]
VP of Product Management (1 yr)
Various
Investor and Advisor (13 yrs 3 mos)
Group Product Manager (1 yr 7 mos)
TrustHop [acquired by LinkedIn]
Founder & CEO (3 yrs 1 mo)
Yahoo!
Head of Product Management & Sales, SMB & APAC (Zimbra) (2 yrs)
Zimbra [acquired by Yahoo!]
Director, Product Management & Marketing (3 yrs 2 mos)
Openwave
Director, Product Management (2 yrs 5 mos)
Slam Dunk Networks, Inc.
Software Engineering Team Lead (2 yrs)
SGI
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer) (3 yrs)
Education
MBA at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
MS at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Engineering at University of Mumbai