Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Product Head and part of the core team at Treebo Hotels, technology enabled full-stack budget hotel startup.
• Org-wide Initiatives
• Developed Treebo’s Product Strategy and built a 11-member Product Management team.
• As part of the core team, played a key role in shaping our corporate strategy and driving several company-wide initiatives such as our OKR based Goal framework, Tech Blog for building Tech@Treebo brand.
• Built a culture of innovation and enabled our team to build Intellectual Property for the company. Co-authored 2 patents on Quality Management. Enabled team to file 2 more patents on Revenue Management.
• Product Launches
• Launched our patent-pending Quality Management System to monitor and deliver a good in-room experience. Was the key pillar in bringing our disaster ratio to less than 2.5% and reducing our Cost of Quality.
• Conceptualised and launched our data powered dynamic pricing engine to maximise Revenue – leading to 25% increase in RevPAR (Revenue per available room).
• Other key products launched at Treebo – Booking apps on web and native platforms, Corporate Demand Platform, Property Management System, Treebo Rewards –Loyalty Program, Data Platform.

Jun 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Product Head and part of the core team at Treebo Hotels, technology enabled full-stack budget hotel startup.

Mar 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for product strategy and subscription P&L. Built engineering, design and SEO teams. Played a key role in the business growth.
• Subscription – Conceptualized and launched a discovery driven personalized subscription program. A machine learning recommendation engine picks teas chosen to match user preferences using data science. Subscription now accounts for 60% of monthly orders shipped.
• Filed a patent on the world’s first technology driven machine learning recommendation engine for tea at Teabox.
• Analytics – Instilled a data driven culture. Empowered merchandising, UX and business leads with visibility into every single click happening on our website.
• Rebranding – Re-launched Teabox with a new identity and a completely revamped user experience pillared around shopping, subscription and content.
• Media coverage: http://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/from-garden-to-teapot-115121100567_1.html

Jan 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Product Lead for Yahoo Stores, a world leading eCommerce platform that hosts 40,000+ online sellers and processes $3+ billion in annual sales
• Launched a new and refreshed platform as part of the strategic vision to regain the #1 position in the hosted eCommerce market. Built from grounds up with new Catalog, design, payment and shipping applications.
• App Gallery – Launched Yahoo’s Commerce Central app gallery to move towards an open innovation model.
• Launched a promotions engine allowing small businesses to dynamically create/manage shipping promotions.
• Analyzed and closed gaps to successfully retain the PCI certification for the platform.
• Awarded with spot-bonus awards in Q4 2012 and Q3 2013.
• Had presented two ideas with potential to generate $5m each in yearly revenue in a CEO challenge. Ideas green-lighted.

Apr 2011 – Nov 2011 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Part of the core team at Taggle. Shadowed the business and product co-founders and worked across Product, Sales, and Operations.
• Sales - Led several key sales and growth partnerships in the group-buying days
• Product Management - Was responsible for driving product requirements for COD and backend e-commerce operations.
• Operations - Setup logistics from scratch when Taggle pivoted from group buying to e-commerce.

Jun 2007 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Platform development for service modules on Catalyst 6500
• Led development teams for three high priority cross functional projects
• Proposed patents in clustering and efficiency optimization
• Awarded Cisco Achievement Award and Cisco Star for superior performance