Girish Krishnan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Payments Experiences and Merchant Services at Amazon Pay.
Drove over $1 million in ad revenue at Yahoo.
Awarded Yahoo! Ratna for audience analytics initiative.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and eCommerce expert with strong product management and analytics capabilities.

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Product ManagementAnalyticsBusiness StrategyStart-upsEntrepreneurshipSEOProduct RequirementsSoftware Product ManagementGo-to-market StrategyBig DataMobile CommerceMobile InternetSaaSProduct MarketingProduct Lifecycle Management

About

Entrepreneurial executive with an extensive experience in Product Management and leadership positions at leading Fintech, eCommerce, Search and Deep tech companies. Strong skillset of problem solving using strategic thinking as well as building products from scratch. In my current role, i lead all the Payments Experiences, Reward programs, Bank alliances, Merchant Services and Data Sciences at Amazon Pay.

Experience

Amazon

7 roles

Director - Payments Rewards & Merchant Services at Amazon Pay

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Director - Rewards BigData & Merchant Services at Amazon Pay

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

Builder - Amazon Pay Big Data Stack & Advanced Analytics Products

Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Builder - Amazon Pay Rewards, Smart Store Experiences

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Builder - Amazon India Home Services

Feb 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

Builder - Peer to Peer Buying/Selling at Amazon Local Finds

Apr 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Product Leader - Payments and Logistics at Junglee by Amazon

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos

Yahoo

4 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Mar 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Product Head of Image and Video search experiences and related technologies at Yahoo. I was responsible for Image/Video search products globally (40 + countries) and also managed all image/video experiences within web search. My team powered Video recommendations across the Yahoo network and also launched contextual thumbnails & previews for videos.
Awards and Recognition - Winner of the Yahoo CEO challenge in 2013. Put together a guerrilla team and drove more than $1 million in Ad Revenue during the challenge period by enabling improved video recommendations across Yahoo!.

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2011 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs

Lead all Multimedia search initiatives at Yahoo!. Also led all Shopping and Local intent experiences within Yahoo! search as well as the vertical search experiences in web search.

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr

Product Manager for Yahoo!'s Audience Dataplatform efforts with the goal of consolidating all datamarts and data systems using Grid Technologies, and also trailblaze the way to build closed loop systems leveraging the audience data.
Awards & Recognition: Awarded Yahoo! Ratna (Highest honour in the Yahoo! India center) for successfully leading Yahoo!'s mass market audience analytics initiative culminating in making available insightful analytics for all the Yahoo! properties worldwide, thereby opening up tremendous possibilities for site optimization & inculcation of a data driven culture across the company.

Product Manager

Nov 2006 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Manage Advanced Metrics and Analytical Products at Yahoo
Awards and Recognition : Selected for the Emerging Leaders Program - 2009, which is a company wide initiative to select a handful of prospective talents and groom them as future leaders

Virtusa hyd

Corporate Strategy, Planning, Pre Sales

May 2006 – Oct 2006 · 5 mos

Developed Market Entry Strategy, Service Offerings and Growth planning for Healthcare, Pharma, Telecom and BI Verticals.
Led multiple Pre Sales proposals and attained close to 80% conversion rate.

Infosys technologies ltd

Business Analyst - Third Party Logistics

Sep 2000 – Mar 2005 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Successfully developed a complete Load Building and Logistics Planning Solution for a Third Party Logistics client and led multiple Enterprise Integrations with other trading partners.
Ensured successful delivery of multiple projects in the Transportation domain - Cruiselines Reservation Planning, Airline Ticket reservation through Amadeus.
Awards and Recognition: Awarded Most Valuable Player, Infosys 2003 for outstanding performance.