Shomir Dutt

Founder

New York, New York, United States14 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded a dating app for LGBTQ South Asians.
  • Drove $40M in annual revenue at Square.
  • Launched Instagram Reels to 2 billion users.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management leader in Social Media and Fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementMarketingGrowth StrategyUser Advocacy

Other Skills

Team LeadershipWeb AnalyticsMarketing CommunicationsAnalyticsCommunications StrategyAgile Project ManagementPhotoshopTrainingSalesEnglishMarket ResearchCross-functional Team LeadershipLeadershipCompetitive AnalysisAnalysis

About

Founder and CEO, Intro. Dating app for 100 million LGBTQ South Asian singles looking for love. Ex-PM Lead at Square, built the Square Marketing product and team. Drove 40M$ in annual revenue for Block Inc. Ex-Meta PM, 12 years. Founding PM for Instagram Reels. Built the Reels product, launched and scaled to 2 Billion people.

Experience

14 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Intro - lgbtq south asian dating app

Founder and CEO

Oct 2025Present · 6 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • Intro is a dating app where LGBTQ South Asians find love. Built by Queer Desis in New York, for 100 million Queer Desi singles worldwide. Our goal is to help 1 million people find love by the end of 2026. Available in 170+ countries.
  • Download the app now!
  • iOS: https://lnkd.in/ex2eEfib
  • Android: https://lnkd.in/ebcfqrid
  • More info at https://lnkd.in/epXFsPVF
EntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Square

Lead Product Manager

Feb 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · New York, New York, United States · Remote

  • Square Marketing (email/text) product suite. Building tools that help ~60 million businesses engage with their buyers and drive 1.5B$ in annual sales. Responsible for driving $40M in annual recurring revenue for Block Inc.
Product ManagementMarketing

Meta

2 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

May 2016Feb 2024 · 7 yrs 9 mos

  • Meta Monetization
  • Building Meta’s new billion dollar business opportunity, business messaging. Leading development for Unified Inbox in Meta Business Suite, helping 10 million businesses drive sales outcomes via messenger, instagram direct and whatsapp. Launched the Lead Generation surface in Meta Business Suite, helping businesses generate leads to drive sales.
  • Instagram Reels
  • Reels: Founded and led teams of talented engineers, designers and other cross-functional team members to conceptualize, build and launch Reels. Launched multiple features to help people create more Reels: Remix, Voice-over, Karaoke Captions, Sound Sync, Voice effects, Sound effects and Text-to-speech. Shipped foundational product improvements to the larger Instagram app to support Reels production: Ranking, Search, Comments, Save, Insights, Off-platform sharing, Branded Content, Shopping. Responsible for driving IG company top line metric of content production.
  • Lasso, Short Video App
  • Led the product development for Facebook’s first standalone entertainment app for short, fun videos. The Lasso app was built to help you showcase your talent and creativity to the world. Launched the app in Mexico, sunset the app within a year and founded the Instagram Reels team.
  • Facebook Growth
  • Locked Profile product to protect women’s safety in key markets, empowering them to use Facebook more while being safe.
  • Rotational Product Manager Program. Facebook AI, Platform: Improved Facebook’s self-serve AI Platform, Lumos. Facebook AI, Product: Shipped Facial and Speech recognition products to improve meaningful engagement. Facebook Core App, Video Monetization: Improved the video ad ecosystem with a focus on mid-roll video ads.
Product ManagementGrowth Strategy

Product Specialist

May 2011May 2016 · 5 yrs

  • Product Specialist: Emerging Markets, Menlo Park
  • Understanding and advocating for user quality and sentiment of all users on the mobile web interfaces across the globe on Facebook, especially emerging markets and feature phones.
  • Product Specialist: India Market, Hyderabad
  • Represent the voice of users (current and those who still need to be acquired) to the product teams, and to the rest of the company.
Product ManagementUser Advocacy

Education

The Wharton School

Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program — Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Dec 2023Mar 2024

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

Jan 2007Jan 2011

DG Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce

12th

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Campion School, Mumbai

10th — Science

Jan 1995Jan 2005

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