Headline

Vibe Coder | Head of Product @ GetSetYo - AI based Social Commerce in Travel | Ex-Ola-Flipkart-PhonePe | ISB

About

Founding member and Product Head at GetSetYo, seed funded Social Travel Startup. We're building an AI based platform for Travel Creators to monetise their content, across social media networks. Product Management professional with 14+ years of work experience across Travel Tech. Payments(PhonePe), Insure-tech (Ola Financial Services), Food Tech (Ola - Foodpanda India), Infotainment (Ola Play) eCommerce (Flipkart), Social Gaming (Zynga) and Wealth Management Tech (Morgan Stanley). I have led multiple cross functional teams to build customer apps and websites, platforms, and AI based products, spanning different business situations: start-up, turn-around, accelerated growth, re-alignment and sustained growth. Experienced with Agile Methodologies. Equally hands-on with creating a product strategy as well as a sprint backlog. Skills: AI, Product Strategy, Roadmapping, Market Research, Customer Analytics, Business Intelligence, AB Experimentation, Machine Learning, Agile ,Wire framing, User Stories, Functional Architecture, Stakeholder management, Brainstorming and Backlog Grooming, Customer Interviews and Surveys, Payments, Marketplace Promotions

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

hugging face

langchain

openai

Work experience

Founding Member, Head of Product at GetSetYo, Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building AI based social Travel paltform. For Travellers: Travel like influencers, memorable experiences & best savings! Powered by AI travel planner! For Travel Influencers: Monetise your existing content and your followers like never before, with your own AI Team!

Payments Product at PhonePe, Nov 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Product for PhonePe Wallet and eGV at PhonePe - Grew PhonePe wallet's market share - Launched Automatic Top-ups and easy monitoring of Wallet transactions

Senior Product Manager, InsureTech | Ola Financial Services at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Oct 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Helped users protect themselves against risks in life in a $Billion insurance market. Lead brainstorming, personas, user interviews, build vs buy evaluation, building a roadmap, the team and executed on the roadmap. Worked on both Business sustenance problems and 0 to 1 problems in a highly regulated InsureTech space. Managed two portfolios: byte-sized attachment insurance products, standalone Insurance products.

Senior Product Manager, FoodTech | Foodpanda India at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Ola Food Business: Solved growth and profitability problems for own food brands in the cloud kitchens space. Leading brainstorming, user interviews, build vs buy evaluation, building a roadmap and executing on it. Optimised order funnel on the food delivery marketplace, Foodpanda India that clocked a peak of 2 Lakh orders a day, by building customer payments and voucher products for customers. Lead a cross functional team of engineers, designers and worked with stakeholders from marketing, revenue and partnerships to imrove funnel conversion and secure offer funding. Led brainstorming, customer research, to come up with a roadmap and also executed on it. Wrote user stories, created wire frames and did hypothesis testing with AB experimentation. Foodpanda India Growth - Solved for strategically important Foodpanda India's growth after acquisition by Ola among Ola's existing customers during the massive promotional campaign we called the crave party. - This involved plumbing the CLM and mobile attribution systems of the two platforms along with Ola's data platform, utilising all customer touch points on Ola's platforms to create properties to reach customers, data instrumentation to understand customer behaviour and optimizing the funnel for the Foodpanda progressive web app on the Ola app.

Product Manager, Connected Car Platform | Ola Play at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Dec 2017 - Oct 2018 · 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Ola Play Driver Partner Experience - Worked on acquisition and Retention of Driver Partners on the Play Platform in Ola - Solved for Operators' and Driver Partners' Experience, Earnings and Pain Points with Ola play when it had 50k Play cars on road Ola Play Platforms - Road-mapped and solved for Data Sanity, Consumer Analytics, BI, Data Science Platform, Data Hub related needs at Ola Play for Passenger Infotainment and Driver Productivity initiatives. - Road-mapped the strategically important connected car platform to launch Ola play as a an independent product in association with OEMs. The objective got shelved later. - Road-mapped and solved for IoT Platform needs for Telematics at Ola Play for new Initiatives.

Product Manager, Pricing & Promotions Platform at Flipkart, May 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Pricing and Promotions Platform for India's largest e-commerce marketplace. The company was the biggest success story in the startup ecosystem in India and got acquired by Walmart at a valuation of $20.8 Billion. - Worked on an improved promotions and pricing manager for Flipkart's category management team, that would have let us implement selling strategies easily and efficiently - Launched Promotions spend management and ROI Optimisation based on Machine Learning - Helped 2.5k+ premium sellers on Flipkart grow by giving them flexibility to manage their own promotions - Improved value discovery for customers on Flipkart when they search for items - Data instrumentation and key metrics tracking on operational and executive dashboards

Associate Game Analyst at Zynga, Oct 2013 - Apr 2014 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Structure complex business problems and, understand and analyze player behavior. Analyze existing game and player data to draw insights and assist game leads in decision making. Provide reporting and performance monitoring to game team using data. Communicate complex analyses to senior teams and diverse audiences. Explore and manage large data sets using SQL and MS Excel

Associate Software Engineer at Zynga, May 2012 - Oct 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Mentored the engineering team for Hidden Chronicles - Zynga’s first post-IPO release with 7.3 million peak daily active users and 75.4 million installs to-date for two quarters. Charted the feature roadmap for Hidden Chronicles with the Product Managers and helped them exceed the target by 14%. Performed design and code reviews for the features. Coordinated with other functions to drive the features. Worked on a new mobile game and a new casino multiplayer game as an engineer.

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Indian School of Business

B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli