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Rohan Parakh

Product @ Google | Search and Ads | IIT, Harvard

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

Google
Mar 20267 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Building agentic experiences on AI Mode for Real World Journeys (going out, lodging, travel)
Google
Sep 20241 yr 7 mosMar 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building SOTA GenAI development tools and infra for Search developers
Zepto
Mar 20247 mosSep 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built and launched in-house retail ads platform (Jarvis) with self-serve tools to manage display and performance ad campaigns
ShareChat
Dec 20221 yr 3 mosFeb 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Spearheaded 0 to 1 for Dynamic Shopping Ads to boost funnel conversions by programmatically rendering hyper-personalized ads - Built ad delivery engine, campaign and catalog manager, S2S APIs & ad formats - Architected multi-stage bid computation engine with candidate generator and product ranker - Lead cross-functional team of PMs, Designers, SDEs, TechOps, AdOps and BizOps to steer roadmap for self-serve Ads Manager Platform - Drove key strategic investments in GenAI creatives, pixel/postback integration, advertiser workflow, payment modes & political ads. Grew SMB gross MRR through multi-fold improvements in activation, net revenue retention, yield and budget consumption - Automated touchpoints to enhance throughput; reduced time-to-value, cost-to-service & resolution TAT - Revamped ad delivery by setting up advanced instrumentation/observability, L0 metrics health blackbox monitoring & code rewrite
Joveo
Sep 20211 yr 4 mosDec 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Established Data Science product vertical to optimize 20M+ job daily; streamlined delivery into 5 pods: traffic prediction, job personification, candidate relevance, content enrichment & ML-ops - Released Media Planner to optimize publisher×bid selection and built location normalizer, occupation classifier using SentenceBERT - Took hard decision to deprecate Media Planner due to poor adoption, waning relevance and cannibalization, leading to significant cost savings - Devised job-candidate matching algorithm using collaborative and content-based filtering - Instituted Analytics pod to serve statistics/Power BI requests, and bought data platform to harvest third party data for targeting
Wadhwani AI
Apr 20201 yr 6 mosSep 2021

Mumbai

Led development and scale-up strategy for a path-breaking farm decision support system powered by deep learning R-CNN algorithms, for smallholder farmers

Education

Harvard Kennedy School

Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID)

Harvard Kennedy School

20162 yrs2018
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

20075 yrs2012

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Headline

Product @ Google | Search and Ads | IIT, Harvard

About

13 years’ experience in product management, data science and consulting, across Search, Adtech, HRtech and Agtech; demonstrated expertise in pioneering and scaling innovations in AI infra, computer vision, NLP, deep learning, neural networks, and language models.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Product Manager - Search Verticals at Google, Mar 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Building agentic experiences on AI Mode for Real World Journeys (going out, lodging, travel)

Product Manager - Search Platform at Google, Sep 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building SOTA GenAI development tools and infra for Search developers

Director - Product Management, Ads Monetization at Zepto, Mar 2024 - Sep 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built and launched in-house retail ads platform (Jarvis) with self-serve tools to manage display and performance ad campaigns

Group Product Manager - Ads Monetization at ShareChat, Dec 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Spearheaded 0 to 1 for Dynamic Shopping Ads to boost funnel conversions by programmatically rendering hyper-personalized ads - Built ad delivery engine, campaign and catalog manager, S2S APIs & ad formats - Architected multi-stage bid computation engine with candidate generator and product ranker - Lead cross-functional team of PMs, Designers, SDEs, TechOps, AdOps and BizOps to steer roadmap for self-serve Ads Manager Platform - Drove key strategic investments in GenAI creatives, pixel/postback integration, advertiser workflow, payment modes & political ads. Grew SMB gross MRR through multi-fold improvements in activation, net revenue retention, yield and budget consumption - Automated touchpoints to enhance throughput; reduced time-to-value, cost-to-service & resolution TAT - Revamped ad delivery by setting up advanced instrumentation/observability, L0 metrics health blackbox monitoring & code rewrite

Group Product Manager - Data Science at Joveo, Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Established Data Science product vertical to optimize 20M+ job daily; streamlined delivery into 5 pods: traffic prediction, job personification, candidate relevance, content enrichment & ML-ops - Released Media Planner to optimize publisher×bid selection and built location normalizer, occupation classifier using SentenceBERT - Took hard decision to deprecate Media Planner due to poor adoption, waning relevance and cannibalization, leading to significant cost savings - Devised job-candidate matching algorithm using collaborative and content-based filtering - Instituted Analytics pod to serve statistics/Power BI requests, and bought data platform to harvest third party data for targeting

Product Lead at Wadhwani AI, Apr 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Mumbai, Led development and scale-up strategy for a path-breaking farm decision support system powered by deep learning R-CNN algorithms, for smallholder farmers

Education

Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID), Harvard Kennedy School

B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR