Kalyan Nistala

Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product strategy for Netflix impacting 150M+ subscribers.
Expert in building data-driven customer engagement solutions.
Strong background in machine learning and content quality.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product leader with expertise in data-driven customer engagement and media technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Other Skills

Data OrchestrationSegmentationCustomer EngagementData EngineeringData ActivationCustomer ProfilesMachine TranslationContent QualityProduct DevelopmentBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Pricing StrategyGo-to-Market StrategyProgram ManagementSoftware Project ManagementMobile Applications

About

I am a product leader passionate about turning nascent ideas into compelling products. I led product strategy and execution for several products that have provided entertainment, education and economic opportunities to millions of customers world wide. I bring a strong customer centric approach to creating innovative products that are aligned with business goals. Specialities: Product Management and Strategy, Cross Functional Leadership, Executive Proposals & Presentations, Global Team and Talent Development, General Management, Competitive Analysis, Vendor Relationship Management, Contract Negotiations AI, ML, NLP, Machine Translation, Digital Media, UX, and Content Creation platforms.

Experience

20 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Twilio

2 roles

Senior Director of Product Management

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Head of Segment CDP product. I lead teams responsible for all Segmentation, Activation, Data Orchestration products and foundational Data Platform Services that power Twilio Segment.

Product ManagementData OrchestrationSegmentationProduct Strategy

Director of Product Management

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Product Leader for multiple Twilio Segment top priorities including Profile Sync and Reverse ETL.
It can take several years for businesses to create and maintain custom, identity-resolved customer profiles that they can trust. With Profiles Sync and Reverse ETL products businesses can now enrich customer profiles in the data warehouse and also activate that data in any down stream destination.
Together these products help bring Twilio Segment’s powerful customer profiles and the power of cloud data warehouses to help unlock mission critical business use cases such as personalized CX and marketing, LTV, attribution analysis and advances AI and ML use cases.
I also manage and lead multiple product teams in the Data Lakes, Warehouses, Blob storage, Cloud Sources and GDPR deletions space. My team's primary customers are Data Engineers and Data Scientists and we are responsible for building the data layer and the infrastructure platform on top of which customers can build their applications.

Product StrategyCustomer EngagementData EngineeringProduct Management

Asana

Principal Product Manager

May 2020 – Dec 2020 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I led the build out of Asana's enterprise offering.

Netflix

Lead Product Manager

Oct 2015 – May 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Los Gatos, CA

Product leader in the Netflix Content Production and Promotion space. Led product strategy and vision that enables creation of Netflix content at scale, impacting customer experience for 150M+ Netflix subscribers worldwide.
I built the Netflix Subtitling product end-to-end and led the strategy, development, deployment and scaling of this platform . All subtitles in any language for any content(thousands of shows every year in dozens of languages) on Netflix are created using this product.
I was instrumental in bringing Machine Translation as a viable alternative to human translation.
I also led the overall Content Quality portfolio of products including quality control workflows, tooling and ML initiatives for quality and cost controls.

Amazon

2 roles

Manager, Technical Program Management

Promoted

Jan 2009 – Jan 2015 · 6 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

Led the ideation, development and deployment of several high-profile Kindle eBook customer experiences at the intersection of digital content, software and hardware, reaching millions of customers world wide. Managed a cross functional team of Product and Program Managers, Developers and Account Managers responsible for building ground breaking new experiences catering to the needs of diverse groups of avid book readers.