Headline

Product Leader | Empowering Products with AI | From Search to Recommendations to GenAI Innovation

About

Product leader with 7+ years of experience scaling user-facing platforms through data-driven discovery, personalization, and AI/ML-led innovation. Progressed from building core search and ranking systems to leading cross-functional teams across discovery, navigation, and user intelligence. Specialize in 0→1 product thinking, scaling ML/LLM solutions, and driving measurable impact on conversion, retention, and monetization. Passionate about solving complex problems at scale with clarity, speed, and long-term vision.

Location

India

AI stack

claude

gemini

langfuse

Work experience

Product Leader at Checkmate, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr, New York, United States, (Restaurant Tech | AI, Smart Kitchens, Voice & Vision Systems) - Driving the product vision for Checkmate’s smart kitchen ecosystem. Leading AI initiatives across recommendation systems, voice-driven drive-thru's, and computer-vision-based kitchen intelligence. - Building models for predictive prep times, personalised upsells, and automated kitchen workflows, improving efficiency and order accuracy across platforms.

Group Product Manager - Global Search, Recommendations and Gen AI at Zepto, 2025 - Sep 2025 · 9 mos, AI Experiences, Search Relevance and Personalisation Overall responsibility for building product innovations to improve product discovery, navigation and category activation (optimising ARPU) across Zepto’s quick commerce platform. Led a team of Senior PMs, PMs and Product Analysts to design and scale seamless, high-speed discovery experiences tailored to the unique needs of Q-commerce users. Key areas looked into : - Search Relevance - Search Experience - Browse Experience - Personalisation - AutoSuggestions - Category Growth

Senior Product Manager at Zepto, 2024 - 2025 · 1 yr, Search Relevance & Experience

Product Manager II at Meesho, 2023 - 2024 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Led SEARCH charter across Relevance, Ranking, Autocomplete, Image and Voice Search. - Built in-house relevance systems, launched 0→1 multimodal search features, and drove multi-objective rankers. - Improved discovery and engagement through smarter retrieval, query understanding, and intent-driven autocomplete.

Product Manager I at Meesho, 2021 - 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Product Manager at Meesho, 2020 - 2021 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business Analyst at OYO, 2019 - 2020 · 1 yr, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Education

Bachelor's degree (Dual Degree), Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/sujith317

sujithcheedella.com: https://www.sujithcheedella.com/