Prashanth Rao

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in product management.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Expertise in scaling innovative products across industries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned product leader in eCommerce and enterprise software.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementSupply Chain & LogisticsBusiness DevelopmentLogisticsEngineering Management

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipStrategyAnalyticsBusiness StrategyBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceE-commerceStrategic PlanningIT StrategySoftware Project ManagementVendor ManagementIntegrationData AnalysisProject PlanningProduct Development

About

Accomplished product leader with a 20-year track record of unlocking business value by building innovative products and high-performing teams. Experience across diverse industries, domains and customer segments of conceptualizing and building 0-to-1 products as well as scaling and maximizing their impact. Manager-doer with a track record of building high caliber, globally distributed organizations with a knack for cultivating new and seasoned managers. Skills include: Product Management | General Management | Strategic Planning | Leadership | Global Talent Management | eCommerce | AI & ML | Product-Led Growth | Go-to-Market | B2B/B2C/B2B2C | SaaS | Mobile | Marketplaces | Agile | Supply Chain & Logistics

Experience

19 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Docusign

Senior Director and India Product Head

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Columbia sportswear company

Senior Director, Product Management

Mar 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

I owned a large product portfolio spanning multiple pillars, including Demand & Supply planning, Product Design & Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain & Logistics and Direct to Consumer experiences.

Compass

Senior Director, Product Management

Sep 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Boston

I owned a large product portfolio that was fundamental to long-term success of Compass, including 2 of the top-3 highest priority initiatives. These products spanned all constituents of the multi-sided Real Estate ecosystem and accomplished diverse set of outcomes such as driving top-line business growth, increasing productivity, reducing cost / improving margins, increasing customer satisfaction and retention etc.

Wayfair

Director of Product Management

Oct 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Boston Area

I owned several product areas including delivery promise, service levels, customer communications & notifications, warehouse operations, labor planning, last mile routing optimization & transportation execution, dispatch, day of delivery experience, Driver App etc.

Ebay

2 roles

Director, Product Management

Jun 2012 – Oct 2018 · 6 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I held multiple leadership positions across General Management and Product Management. My primary focus was to increase new customer acquisition, optimize conversion funnel and improve customer satisfaction/retention by ensuring a seamless post-purchase experience. Owning both buyer and seller outcomes and managing 3P relations with logistics carriers, technology partners etc. necessitated making multidimensional trade-offs and balancing the seemingly contradicting needs of diverse constituents.
Key Roles:
Director, Product Management - 2017-2018
Senior Manager 3, Product Management - 2015-2017
Senior Manager 2, Business Development - 2013-2015
Senior Manager, Marketplace Experience - 2012-2013

MBA Intern

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos

Tata consultancy services

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2004 – Jan 2010 · 6 yrs · New York, New York, United States · On-site

As an Engineering Leader, I conceptualized, designed and built several highly performant, scalable, enterprise products for Fortune-20 companies such as GE and Citibank. These products had $XXM impact on the client business in terms of increasing operational efficiency, driving growth and reducing cost.
Key Roles:
Citibank, Capital Markets and Banking - Onsite Lead - 2008-2010
GE Fleet - Onsite Lead - 2006-2008
GE Fleet - Offshore Lead - 2004-2006