Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

• https://investors.cargurus.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cargurus-announces-appointment-manik-gupta-board-directors

Aug 2021 – Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Teams (Nov 2022 - Jan 2026):
• I lead product management, data science and growth for Microsoft Teams all up serving over 300M users across enterprises, small and medium businesses, consumers and the developer ecosystem.
• Corporate Vice President, Consumer Communications and Communities (Aug 2021 - Nov 2022):
• Led the Consumer Communications and Communities group under Microsoft Teams as a general manager across product management, engineering, data science and growth. Products include: Teams Consumer, Skype & GroupMe.

Feb 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Gores Technology Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: GTPAU) was a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The intention was to focus the search for a target technology business in the consumer internet, enterprise software, fintech, digital health, proptech, gaming, agtech, and logistics industries. The SPAC was closed as we didn't find a suitable target.
• S1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837105/000119312521025047/d122512ds1.htm

Nov 2015 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Chief Product Officer (Mar 2018 - Jan 2020):
• After serving as interim head of product for 6 months, I was appointed the Chief Product Officer leading a team of over 1100 people across Product Management, Data Science & Machine Learning, Data Analysis, User Design and Research, Program Management and Product Marketing functions. I was on the executive team that took Uber public in May 2019.
• Led the rider and driver facing products and the marketplace capabilities that connect riders and drivers for Uber's global ridesharing business. I also led all the technical platforms spanning Payments, Maps, Customer Service, experimentation and others that power all of Uber's business segments.
• Director/Senior Director/VP, Product Management, Maps & Marketplace (Nov 2015 - Mar 2018):
• Led the Maps and subsequently also the Marketplace teams (total of ~200 people). The Marketplace team at Uber tackles some of the hardest quantitative problems related to improving Uber’s realtime marketplace. These include pricing, dispatch, forecasting and incentives for riders and driver partners. The Maps team works on search, ETAs, routing, navigation, maps and local data to improve pickup and dropoff experiences for more than 15M trips every day.
• Left Uber in January 2020 to take a break to spend time with my family, recharge and learn new skills.

Dec 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 4 mos

• Angel investments:
• Scale.AI, Coda, Carbon Health, Faire, Fast, Shuffle, Raycast, UserLeap, Mainstreet, Synctera, Teamflow, BukuWarung, Vareto and over 100 others.
• Advisor:
• All.Health (Sep 2020 onwards) [https://all.health/]
• rideOS (Feb 2021 onwards) [https://rideos.ai/]
• Innovaccer (Aug 2020 - Jun 2021) [https://innovaccer.com/]
• Singapore Telecom Technology Advisory Panel (Jul 2018 - Jul 2020) [https://www.singtel.com/]

Jun 2008 – Nov 2015 · 7 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Director of Product Management, Maps, Local & Google My Business (Dec 2014 -Nov 2015):
• Responsible for long term vision, strategy and execution for three product lines - Maps Data, Local Data and Google My Business to ensure Google Maps' maps and business (local) data is most accurate, comprehensive and useful, globally.
• Product Lead, Ground Truth (May 2011 - Dec 2014):
• Led "Ground Truth", one of the most ambitious projects that Google undertook to create the best maps from scratch using a combination of data sources, machine learning and elbow grease. I built products to engage users to help curate the map based on their local knowledge. As a result, Google owns the best map data in the world.
• Led the acquisition of Waze into Google and managed the integration between the Google Maps and Waze teams post acquisition.
• Product lead, Google Map Maker and Maps, Asia-Pacific & Japan (Jun 2008 - May 2011):
• Joined Google in India in June 2008 and led Google MapMaker, a tool to engage users to curate maps. I also led Google Maps & Local search efforts in Japan & Asia-Pacific with a particular focus on India which became one of the largest markets for Google Maps in terms of monthly active users.

Jun 2003 – Apr 2007 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Singapore

• Recruited to lead a transformation in HP's legacy supply chain and eCommerce capabilities in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) and build compelling direct to consumer and small-and-medium businesses offerings.
• Led engineering and product for multiple web-stores and call-center sales applications in APJ. I was also one of the core architects of a solution to upgrade and deploy HP's next-generation eCommerce stack spanning catalog management, online ordering, payments, supply chain and order management in all the regions around the world.

Jun 1999 – Apr 2003 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Singapore

• Co-founded BuyItTogether.com, an eCommerce marketplace, that helped consumers combine purchases of popular products to obtain volume discounts from retailers. I owned engineering and product and conceptualized, architected and coded the first few versions before building an engineering team.
• CoShopper, a Norway based eCommerce company, acquired 51% of BuyItTogether.com for US$4.5M based on our fast traction in the Singapore market. Post acquisition, I drove market expansion in the region and led product and engineering for Asia-Pacific and Japan.
• As the dotcom bust happened, we ran out of funding and pivoted towards being a SaaS company. I proposed and led an engineering team in Bangalore, India to rearchitect our solution for external customers and deliver projects at better economics and higher velocity. The company managed to survive the bust and continued to operate for several years.