Dharmesh Gandhi

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

20 years of experience in product management and marketing.
Proven leadership in taking products from concept to market.
Achieved significant increases in conversion and retention rates.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management leader in E-commerce and Digital Advertising.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser Experience

Other Skills

Team ManagementMobile ApplicationsBusiness IntelligenceBusiness PlanningProduct MarketingProduct DevelopmentGo-to-market StrategyCompetitive AnalysisMobile DevicesAgile MethodologiesBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipManagementProduct Lifecycle ManagementSales

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20 years of experience in product management, marketing, leadership and engineering roles for e-commerce, digital advertising, video and smartphone products. Proven leadership in taking products from concept to market covering aspects of customer experience, monetization, product design, and marketing.

Experience

20 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Oportun

VP Product and Country Head at Oportun India

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Byju's

Vice President Of Product Management

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead the Product Management for K10 Business Line at BYJU'S

Cardekho

VP and Head of Products at CarDekho

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Lead a 45 member product and UX team across new and used cars business

Rentomojo

SVP and Head of Product

Nov 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead a 13 member Product and UX team
Achieved a 40% increase in conversion rate via a revamped mobile
experience, a new KYC funnel, and other initiatives
Increased 3-month retention from 87% to 94% and 6-month retention from 75% to 82%(pre-covid).
Increased repeat rate from 20% to 33%
Increased Customer NPS from ~30 to ~50
o Decreased #Queries/New order by 30%
o Decreased #Queries/Existing Order by 21%
o Improved delivery/pickup slot adherence from 55% to 80%
o Improved Playstore rating from 3.6 to 4.5
o Introduced chatbot leading to 53% automation
Increased KYC automation from 14% to 89% and reduced Avg KYC TAT from 43 Hrs to 15 Hrs

Product ManagementTeam ManagementUser ExperienceMobile Applications

Uber

Head of Product, AdTech India

Apr 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Amazon

Head of Product Management and Marketing , Native Shopping Ads

Mar 2014 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Leading the Native Shopping Ads program at Amazon -lead a team of PMs, PMMs, BI and UXDs.
Conceptualized and launched Native Shopping Ads for Web and mWeb publishers in NA (Direct Supply/SSP) and then extended it to EU.
Grown the program to more than 20K active publishers and generated "millions of dollars in ad revenue"
Created and enhanced the Contextual bidding system
Increased the performance of the unit by more than 70%
Drove 300%+ YoY growth in revenue driven by customer-focused product enhancements and aggressive marketing.
Conceptualized and launched the product centricity engine to identify e-commerce centric supply
Conceptualized and launched the integration with Amazon's sellers and vendors registered with Sponsored Products - Extended Ad Network
Established the sales process to onboard some of the largest e-commerce centric publishers.

Cisco systems

Product Manager

May 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

PM for MediaHighway Middleware with 125M subscribers WW
Conceptualized , defined and launched EPG Advertising product for emerging markets and signed up customers like TataSky, Airtel DTH, Den , Hathway
Launched Videoscape Express -a pre-integrated and packaged solution for emerging markets .