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# Rohan Parakh on Tal

## 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

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