Headline

Transforming Business outcomes with AI-native Rails | Product & Tech Leader - Vice President @ Flipkart. Previously @Amazon @Target @Bosch

About

Divyesh Shah has over two decades of global executive leadership experience in building Marketplace, Retail, Consumer Tech and AI strategy, platform across Flipkart, Amazon, Target Proven track record of building highly-scalable solutions and driving transformational innovation both in startup and large enterprises. Bring entrepreneurial & growth mindset with expertise in multi-party marketplace strategy, consumer technology platforms continue to empower teams to achieve sustainable growth & profitability. Deep understanding of Biz strategy, P&L, Cost and Compliance needs. As Vice President at Flipkart group & Head of Marketplace & Retail Tech, I have led the tech strategy, platform, and product initiatives to manage the complete lifecycle and growth of over 1 million sellers and brands across key demand channels, including Flipkart, Minutes, and Shopsy. We focus on delivering a superior customer value proposition by ensuring a wide selection is available at affordable prices, with high quality, and convenient delivery speeds. Together, we aim to build a thriving marketplace growth flywheel that balances profitability and a best-in-class experience for sellers and consumers alike. - Head Technology, Product, Strategy - Over 22 years of experience with proven track record in strategizing, delivering highly scalable enterprise, consumer internet scale & marketplaces product and solutions - Leadership: Led diverse multi-site, multidisciplinary teams from ground-up. Built a culture of innovation and sustained high performance. - Global roles in India, US, Canada and China while building global products and enterprise solutions Entrepreneurial and multi-disciplinary approach to build, evolve and scale technology, product and AI transformation thru all stages of customer acquisition lifecycle (0-to-1 and 500m+ customer journey) - Biz Strategy, P&L, Monetization : Deep understanding of biz models, finances, P&L management, Fixed or Variable Cost optimization, Asset Monetization - Vendor, Partners, Sellers development: Active approach to building long-term relationship with vendors, partners, sellers/brands to create win-win strategy - Industry : eCommerce, Retail, Marketplaces, Automotive, IoT Automation, FinTech, SaaS - Led Tech and Biz Transformations journey in organisations like Flipkart, Amazon, Target, Bosch.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Vice President - Head of MaRT (Marketplace, Retail and Demand/Supply Planning platforms) at Flipkart, May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, ✔️ Heading Strategy, Platform and Products to manage complete lifecycle and growth flywheel of 1M + Supplier and Sellers on Flipkart group (Flipkart, Minutes, Grocery and Shopsy) ✔️ Delivering Customer Value Proposition of Wide Selection at Affordable Price with High Quality and Convenient Speed ✔️ Creating Marketplace Growth flywheel --- The MART strives to deliver Profitable Growth and Best-In-Class Experience for 1M+ Seller / Vendor / Brand partners. We enable the selling partners to deliver best Customer Value Proposition (CVP) ie. right selection, affordable price, high quality and convenient speed to all Indian consumers across Flipkart, Grocery, Minutes and Shopsy demand channels.

Founder at Bitplay Technology (MolWol) - Social commerce startup, Jun 2020 - May 2021 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Launched MolWol - local, decentralised commerce platform Scaled to 1M+ catalogue from sellers across 20+ countries Engaged Key Opinion Leaders(KOL) in India to build content, community to drive commerce Driven upto 4cr+ / hr sale events by engaging with Influencer / Suppliers

Senior Tech & Product Leader, WW Buying Experience, Product Aggregator, Payment Products at Amazon, Jul 2014 - Jul 2020 · 6 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, • Heading diverse and high performing team of Software development managers, Product managers, Program managers, and Engineers to build and innovate on global Amazon product page (one of the highest transacted pages in the world) • Delivered multi-billion dollar incremental revenue WW by improving product evaluation and purchase experiences on global product detail pages across 16+ countries, serving 500MM+ impressions per day • Built product api serving billions of transactions per day, keeping high availability and low-latency while serving authoritative data for million of Amazon products

Software Development Manager - Store Systems & Location Analytics at Target, Jun 2011 - Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Developed location analytics platform leveraging ArcGIS and managed portfolio of 30+ application/packaged solutions under Finance/Property development vertical to streamline $2B/yr capital investment • Led diverse team of engineers, architects, business analyst and vendor contractors to deliver solution using technologies like ESRI ArcGIS, Google/Bing Maps, IBM Tririga, Java, .NET, Flex API, Datamart, Reporting • Developed early vision for omni-channel strategy (buy online, pick up at store/deliver from store)

Technology Lead / Solution Architect at CGI, May 2009 - Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos, • Led $5m spend multi-year technology transformation initiative to implement Enterprise Service Bus & ACORD standards for Insurance company • Built Agile team of Engineers, BAs, vendor contractors to deliver transformation by leveraging technologies like Java/J2EE, ESB/SOA, C#.NET, MS SQL, XML, Mainframe CICS, Web Services, ETL, SOAP, JBoss, Enterprise Architect, MS Project

Project Lead at Bosch, Jul 2005 - Apr 2009 · 3 y 9 mo, Bengaluru

Software Engineer at CAMO, Jul 2004 - Jun 2005 · 11 mo, Bengaluru

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Gujarat University