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# Abhishek Malhotra on Tal

## Headline

10 years of building 0\-1 products \|\| 2X founder \|\| Amazon \|\| Ex\-McKinsey \|\| IIM Ahmedabad

## About

Principal Product Manager at Amazon with 15\+ years of experience spanning Product Management, Management Consulting, and Entrepreneurship \(2X founder\)\. I have built multiple “zero to one” products across seller and vendor ecosystems—from Agentic AI for account and vendor management, to GenAI solutions that improve product discovery through image enhancement and search CTR optimization, to platform products that power seller experiences across catalog, inventory, supply chain, and inventory liquidation through discounting and promotions Previously, I co\-founded two startups, including one \(PropRates\) that was acquired, where I led product, go\-to\-market, growth, fundraising, and operations\. I also worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey, advising companies on product strategy and go\-to\-market\. Outside work, I mentor product managers on product strategy, AI product management, interview preparation, and career growth\. I also share practical insights on building AI products and product leadership\.

## Location

Mumbai

## AI stack

claude code

claude

## Work experience

Principal Product Manager at Amazon, Mar 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Building agentic AI platform products for Amazon’s 1P business

Group Product Manager at Coupang, Nov 2024 \- Mar 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Managed a suite of supply chain products to: 1\) Reduce fresh inventory waste and maximize recovery via proactive expiry detection and dynamic discounting 2\) Improve customer availability by enabling forward\-selling through virtual inventory based inbound supply visibility and lead\-time predictability 3\) Optimize in\-stock rates through dynamic fresh inventory placement

Product at Amazon, Jun 2022 \- Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Managing end to end seller experiences on Amazon Bazaar \(Amazon India's value commerce offering\) \- listing, catalog, ordering, shipping, last mile fulfilment, payments and seller trust 2\. Optimizing the customer funnel \- Using Gen AI for visually enhancing product images to improve “product detail page views” and “add to cart” conversion funnels\.

Product at Amazon, Jan 2021 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Using Machine Learning \(ML\) and Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) to auto detect & correct catalog defects at scale across millions of Amazon products spread across 20\+ Amazon marketplaces \(geographies\)\.

Senior Product Manager at Expedia Group, 2019 \- 2021 · 2 yrs, New Delhi Area, India, Was managing "Egencia", the expedia for business travel product\. It was a B2B2C product where users could use Expedia for their corporate travel bookings in a self serve manner\. The product also supported a number of power user personas like Arrangers \(book on behalf of others\), Approvers \(approve travel\) etc\. I was owning the "Travel Manager" persona and building features to simplify the key travel manager CX\. I was also managing the charter for the "User Profile" and "User Auth N/Z" products \(25\+ SDEs\)\.

Product Manager at McKinsey & Company, Apr 2018 \- Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Helping McKinsey clients build digital products the right way\. Was involved in activities pertaining to building the product roadmap, creating the go to market strategy, designing the product MVP, and building CX for product check out journeys \(B2C & B2B products\)\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Luxury Brand Management, Managing Innovation In Europe, Financial Markets in Europe, ESCP

General Management, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

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