Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Giving back to the community through advising and coaching to help product leaders land and succeed in product roles.
• Coach at Maven: https://maven.com/learntogether/landing-and-acing-job-interviews-leveraging-ai
• Find out more about us at: www.ascentadvisors.net

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Built is a Series D fintech unicorn backed by Index, TCV and Addition among others. Built delivers B2B workflow SaaS + marketplace for banks, builders, contractors and subcontractors to streamline the flow of funds in the construction industry.
• I led Product Management, UX Design and Product Marketing at Built. Under my leadership, the team delivered SaaS for banks, builders, contractors, expanded marketplace and enabled expedited payments through the construction ecosystem. In addition, I was responsible for putting in place GTM and planning processes and upleveling talent at Built.

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Knowde is a Series C startup backed by Sequoia and Coatue. At Knowde, I was responsible for building world's biggest B2B marketplace to digitize transactions in $5T Chemical industry - the industry that touches everything from the foods we eat to vehicles we drive and electronics we use.
• As part of the exec team, I led the Product org at Knowde and oversaw product definition and delivery across wide range of products, including buyer growth/engagement, Search and ML recommendations, lead management, SaaS offer for Sellers and eCommerce transactions. In addition, my team created and launched first eCommerce pilot. Created pricing tiers for Knowde's SaaS offer, and kick started a PLG motion.

Sep 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• As part of the Amazon Advertising org, I led the Product team for Amazon Posts and Brand Follow, new products that I built from vision docs to significant scale. Together, these products formed immersive, shoppable feeds on Amazon, that encouraged shoppers to browse, discover and find inspiration, while helping brands with awareness and loyalty. As the feeds scaled, we monetized them with brand ads.
• I was responsible for the vision and strategy, ML for feed ranking and quality, Ads, ML Ops, UX, B2B sales and marketing.

Mar 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Amazon's Choice recommends highly rated, well priced, low regret products that are ready to ship immediately.
• As head of product for Amazon's Choice, my work involved close collaboration with ML scientists, economists, engineers and PMs across multiple teams to bring contextually relevant high quality, low-regret products to shoppers on Amazon. In this role, I was accountable for Amazon's Choice revenue growth through scaling up the recommendations to more placements and international marketplaces, while improving recommendation quality in parallel.

Nov 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led team of product managers, engineers and data scientists to build and operate predictive ML models to predict inventory levels for upcoming year for Amazon's retail business WW. In addition, my team built tools that could automatically audit inventory levels everyday, and explain variances from predicted values to automatically identifying inventory defects for Amazon's retail business WW. Talk about scale through data science and automation!

May 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Redmond, WA

• Led engineering and product efforts for administrative capabilities and UX for OneDrive for Business, spanning security, device management, compliance and reporting.
• Responsible for B2B external sharing UX. Led improvements to invitation emails, sign-in and sign-up UX to increase external user conversion rate from 22% to 34%.
• Formed and led a new team to design and release open source toolset that unblocks customers to upgrade to SharePoint 2016. This toolset has potential of unblocking $1B in upgrade revenue over next two years.

Apr 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Redmond, WA

• Worked on a stealth start-up within Xbox division to build a new service to stream Xbox games to handheld devices.Led design and delivery of core service including authentication, authorization, scale, as well as end user experience.
• Designed DevOps processes for the new service from scratch. Created flighting and experimentation platform from scratch to enable team to iterate quicker and make smarter, data driven decisions.
• Led data analysis for the new product. Designed experiments and user surveys, conducted user interviews, and analyzed data to drive better product decisions.
• Contributed to business modeling and pricing decisions by analyzing cost of delivery and demand trends.

Dec 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Redmond, WA

• Launched Office365 Groups - a new product that simplifies communication and collaboration with groups of people. Personally owned vision framing, feature roadmap, UX and technical architecture. Successfully increased cross-suite user engagement from 10% to 52%.
• Helped in creating a pilot program for Office365 to give customers early access to features, gather feedback and drive product improvements. Personally built relationship with 3 enterprise customers as part of the program.

Jul 2006 – Dec 2011 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Redmond, WA

• Led SharePoint’s efforts to simplify B2B collaboration. Launched “B2B external sharing” feature set in SharePoint. Performed competitive analysis, designed technical architecture, end user experience, IT compliance and reporting capabilities for this feature set.
• Led SharePoint’s investments in Enterprise Social Computing area. Drove vision and long term feature roadmap. Personally wrote specifications and delivered UX, technical architecture, APIs and IT compliance/reporting for features such as Newsfeeds, User Profiles, Social tags, and Communities.
• Led investigation of privacy laws in EU and used that knowledge to design mitigations in the product. This opened up the EU market for social features in SharePoint.
• Drove performance and scale modeling for enterprise social computing features being released as part of Office365. Worked with engineering team to deliver required scale characteristics.

Jul 2003 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Developed and maintained risk management and portfolio management software for GE Asset Management.

May 2002 – May 2003 · 1 yr

• I was working on AI/ML before it was a buzzword. Back in 2002-03, working at Institute of Natural Language Processing at IIT-Bombay as a project trainee, my team designed and implemented a self-learning algorithm to parse and convert sentences in Marathi into a semantic tree representation called Universal Networking Language, which can be then translated into any language by de-translators.
• Ours was the first self-learning algorithm in this space. We documented our unique approach in a paper: “Computational approach to handle Noun Morphology as a part of Marathi to UNL Enconversion” that was submitted to International Conference on Natural language processing – 2003.