Ankul Batra

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product strategy for GPay impacting SMB business.
  • Launched multiple personalization improvements for Google Search.
  • Developed innovative visual search capabilities for Myntra.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in E-commerce and Fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategySearchE-commerce Ui/uxAsic DesignResearch

Other Skills

AnalyticsAnalytical SkillsDeep LearningImage ProcessingMachine LearningUI/UXNotificationsE-commerceWeb DevelopmentUser EngagementVerificationDatabase ManagementPeople ManagementChange ManagementPeople Development

About

1. Responsible for defining the long term strategy of the product and express the details in a product roadmap 2. Product management experience in e-commerce and content delivery across web and mobile apps __________________________________________________________________________ - Own product search at Myntra - Improving notifications experience and targeted communication for myntra app users - Promoting product discovery and ensuring customer delight across various channels of communications - Converting customer insights to Products specs to platform features - Making data-driven decisions to evolve the app features over time 3. Develop, publish and market several android apps __________________________________________________________________________________ a. Launched 5 mobile apps on play store, constantly working on innovative ideas to be converted to Android Apps Specialties: ★ Product Management ★ Product Strategy ★ Search and Solr ★ Notifications ★ Android Development ★ E-commerce UI/UX ★ Content Portal management ★ Mobile/Web Analytics

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Group Product Manager (GPay)

Promoted

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • GPay India* - Lead SMB merchant business
  • Drive strategy and operations for SMB business in India
  • Launch and lead the devices arm of GPay
  • Liaise with strategic partners for Gpay in Indian payment ecosystem
Product ManagementProduct StrategyAnalytics

Senior Product Manager (Google Search)

Sep 2018Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Google Search Feed and Android Minus 1 surface Lead*
  • Built and leading a team of Engineers and PMs to transform product experience and improve recommendations quality that impacts multi-million users on Search Feed
  • − Crafted the product strategy and launched multiple personalization improvements focussed on India and South-east Asia markets
  • Spearhead growth of Search feed for New Internet Users (NIUs)
  • − Ensure feed ranking and quality by building automated content classifiers in 10+ languages
SearchProduct ManagementAnalytical Skills

Myntra

3 roles

Associate Director - Product

Promoted

Apr 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Own customer experience for catalog discovery and user communications. Deploy state of art technology like deep learning, image processing to the fields of Search, recommendations and notifications across all platforms including Android, iOS and web.
Deep LearningImage ProcessingSearchProduct Management

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2016Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Own end to end search and notification portfolio to ensure customer delight on Android, iOS and Web
  • Build machine learning based entity extraction framework in search to lay grounds for semantic search platform
  • − Conceptualized the entire Semantic search pipeline to associate intent with user queries and find relevant results
  • − Improved list to product detail ratio by 10% & conversion by 15%; competition benchmarking improved by 10%
  • Build End to UI/UX experience of search for Android and iOS apps
  • Launched Visual search on Myntra android app to improve product discovery from offline to online & user engagement
  • − Two use-cases with UI developed - click images to find products and discover visually similar products in catalog
  • − 20% improvements in CTR of visually similar products; Low adoption for click images but 1% higher user conversion
  • Devised a segmented notifications framework to send targeted notifications based on user’s affinity for time and products
  • − Big data analysis of constant stream of user generated events to capture actions; segmented notifs up from 7% to 20%
  • Improved delivery rates on Android app by combining Pull(server led pings) and push (GCM) mechanism from the app
  • Design an A/B test framework to execute experiments for determining right notifications frequency and format for users
  • − Developed ability to test multiple formats, creative and number of notifications; Improved ops efficiency by 25%
Machine LearningUI/UXNotificationsProduct ManagementSearch

Product Manager

Dec 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr

  • Own search discovery channel for India's best online fashion store and strive to provide world class user experience on mobile platform (Android & iOS)
  • Create robust, scalable product search and shop experience on mobile app
  • Improving relevance and search sort order based on user behaviour
  • Personalising the search experience
  • Improve targeted Notification and improve delivery rates to active users
  • Handle scale and capping requirements for notifications
  • Personalise notifications based on affinity to fashion products and brands
SearchNotificationsAnalyticsProduct Management

Ht media ltd.

Senior Product Manager

May 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • 1) Launched first-of-its-kind, all devices responsive e-commerce website for the resume services
  • Conducted customer surveys and studies to determine the customer browsing/purchasing behaviour
  • Developed the wireframes and prototypes for the new website (desktop/mobile/tablets) and coordinated with design team for final site
  • Drove the entire process from design to development to marketing of the new website
  • Set up metrics using google analytics/ Heat Maps to regularly measure the health of the website
  • Resulted in 3x increase in revenues after a month of the launch
  • 2) Revamped the entire content section of the site to increase the user engagement on site
  • Developed funnels and product interventions to initiate user actions for increasing the job applications and registrations via content section
  • Coordinated with the design team to have a responsive website to enable the content consumption on the mobiles and tablets
  • Coordinated with the tech team to transfer the code base from a .Net based framework to a django (python) based website
  • 3) Led the development of vendor payment system from scratch to integrate the entire payment cycle of the third party suppliers with the existing e-comm website
  • This product module was built with constant feedback from third party resume writers and Finance department of the company
  • Follows Indian GAAP principles
E-commerceWeb DevelopmentUser EngagementProduct ManagementE-commerce UI/UX

Nvidia graphics pvt. ltd

ASIC Design Engineer

May 2008Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • ASIC Designer – Improved chip design process & merged cross-product teams to create multi-million dollar impact
  • Led design and system level verification team in one of world’s first quad(4) core mobile phone processor (Tegra3)
  • Managed team of 3 for integration of baseband modem design to create Nvidia’s 1 st Application Processor with 4G
  • 1 of 35 engineers selected for prestigious UK assignment, specifically to negotiate deliverables with modem team
  • Created a complete scalable deadlock avoidance infrastructure by investigating data traffic patterns of chip for iGPU
  • Conceptualized an XML based framework to merge video and image processing tests in disparate environments
  • Convinced testing team managers to deploy improved structure; reduced 60% redundancy in test development time
ASIC DesignVerificationImage Processing

Iiit hyderabad

Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant

Jul 2007Apr 2008 · 9 mos

  • 1. Worked for FRLHT, Bangalore
  • 2. Developed a CBIR(Content Based Image retrieval System), using PHP interface with Potgresql database.
  • 3. developed a Matalab prototype to test the concept
Image ProcessingDatabase ManagementResearch

Ge healthcare

Summer Intern

Apr 2007Jul 2007 · 3 mos

  • 1. Image processing techniques for feature extraction and matching of Medical Images.
  • 2. Contributed to cardiac Atlas development process for GE, research published in leading biotech conference, MICCAI'08
Image ProcessingResearch

Education

Indian School of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Finance & Marketing

Jan 2012Jan 2013

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

B.Tech(E.C.E) — Hons. Center for Visual Information Technology

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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