Parag Dhanuka — Product Manager
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C E-commerce Product Leader with a strong technical background.
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Experience: 17 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Team Leadership
- Customer Experience
- Data Analysis
- Management Consulting
- Business Strategy
- Software Engineering
- Product Development
Career Highlights
- Led large teams to enhance customer productivity.
- Innovated search algorithms to improve user experience.
- Built and scaled product teams in high-growth environments.
Work Experience
DoorDash
Senior Director of Product Management (4 yrs 4 mos)
Amazon
GM, Alexa Time and Weather (5 yrs 3 mos)
Flipkart.com
Director of Product (3 yrs 8 mos)
The Boston Consulting Group
Consultant (2 yrs 8 mos)
Software Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)
Education
MBA at Indian School of Business
B.Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Science at Saint Lawrence High School