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Parag Dhanuka

Product Manager

Sunnyvale, California, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led large teams to enhance customer productivity.
  • Innovated search algorithms to improve user experience.
  • Built and scaled product teams in high-growth environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C E-commerce Product Leader with a strong technical background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementTeam LeadershipCustomer ExperienceData AnalysisManagement ConsultingBusiness StrategySoftware EngineeringProduct Development

Other Skills

Voice ExperienceProgrammatic MarketingSearch AlgorithmsPersonalization AlgorithmsConsumer ScienceTeam ManagementSearchRecommendation SystemsSupply Chain DiagnosticsOrganizational Structure DesignGoogle MapmakerPatent DesignPersonalizationEngineeringAnalytical Skills

About

Parag is passionate about tying engineering to business outcomes, especially during hyper growth. His diverse journey includes running a large, high velocity consumer product organizations, setting up the discovery product team for a large ecommerce company, consulting and hands on engineering experience, all rooted in leveraging data and consumer insights to solve real world business problems. He's currently the General Manager in Alexa Home Productivity Organization, leading ~50 product managers and engineers that build voice experience on Alexa to increase customer productivity in their home. Prior to Alexa he was a Senior Manager at Amazon India, leading ~15 product managers to improve seller experience for their India business Previously he was a Director of Product at Flipkart, and built the Flipkart Discovery product team that grew from 1 product manager to 10+ product and program managers in 4.5 years. He also collaborated with engineering team to setup processes as it expanded from 4 engineers to 80+ engineers. His work contributed to Flipkart achieving significant improvement in search quality and unlocking Flipkart's ability to personalize customer experience across the entire product discovery journey. He is an effective, driven technical executive with ~15 years of experience building software products in the consumer space. He has both strong infrastructure and product foundation spending initial part of his career working for one of the best engineering companies - Google. He’s capable of both tactically improving the execution of large technical organizations, as well as setting vision and defining strategy in line with top line business goals.

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Doordash

Senior Director of Product Management

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Heading core consumer product. Includes everything from core flow (Discovery, search, menu, cart/checkout) to new use cases(doubledash, hyperlocal)
Product ManagementTeam Leadership

Amazon

GM, Alexa Time and Weather

Oct 2016Jan 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California

  • Manage a 50+ member tech and product teams responsible for the end-to-end customer experience for Home Productivity including voice forward experience, growth, programmatic marketing, friction reduction, and UIs across a wide variety of Alexa enabled devices (Echo, Echo Show, On-the-Go devices, Fire TV, and 3P devices). Teams include product management, program management, and engineering.
Voice ExperienceProgrammatic MarketingCustomer ExperienceProduct Management

Flipkart.com

Director of Product

Feb 2013Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Grew the discovery (search and recommendation) product team from an IC to a team of 10+ product/program managers and quality analysts. Innovated on search quality algorithms (ranking and matching), personalization algorithms, programmatic notifications, website/app UI, and implicit and explicit understanding of user tastes. Particular focus on maximizing the LTVC by including critical post order metrics(e.g. returns, SLA etc) as additional signals in ranking optimization. Often relied on consumer science (A/B testing) to drive product innovation.
Search AlgorithmsPersonalization AlgorithmsConsumer ScienceProduct ManagementData Analysis

The boston consulting group

Consultant

Jun 2010Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Worked as a consultant on multiple projects ranging from supply chain diagnostics in India for one of the largest liquor manufacturers in the world to designing and implementing the organization structure of one of the biggest IT services player in India. Learned about multiple industries and using a structured hypothesis driven approach to problem solving
Supply Chain DiagnosticsOrganizational Structure DesignManagement ConsultingBusiness Strategy

Google

Software Engineer

Jul 2006May 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked as an individual contributor on Google Mapmaker a wiki-like tool to edit roads, POI etc on Google Maps. Coauthored a patent to design an online review system for Google Maps
Google MapmakerPatent DesignSoftware EngineeringProduct Development

Education

Indian School of Business

MBA — Finance and Strategy

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

B.Tech. — Computer Science and Engineering

Saint Lawrence High School

Science

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