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title: "Swati Poddar - Staff Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Swati Poddar on Tal

## Headline

Staff Product Manager@ Walmart \| XLRI

## About

Product Manager with 12 years of experience, including 5 years building and scaling B2B and B2C products end\-to\-end\. Strong track record of taking ambiguous problem statements from 0 to 1 — defining strategy, shaping roadmaps, and shipping with measurable business impact \($30M\+ GMV unlocked, 74% efficiency gains\)\. Operate equally well across engineering, design, data science, operations and legal, and influence senior stakeholders in distributed, global org structures\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Staff Product Manager at Walmart Marketplace, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore, \- Led product for Marketplace Brand Protection & Growth, helping over 50K brands register internationally and giving brands and sellers better tools to onboard, promote, and protect their products\. \- Shipped AI\-powered systems to detect counterfeit and fraudulent products at scale, improve enforcement workflows, build customer trust, and reduce international GMV lost opportunity by 5%

Senior Product Manager at Walmart Marketplace, May 2022 \- Apr 2025 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, \- Built strategy and DS\-led risk assessment model for buy box fraud; prevented \~$4M/year in estimated GMV loss \- Scaled the platform internationally to Canada and Mexico; cut IP claims SLA from 14 days to 48 hours and established a reusable globalisation playbook \- Recognized with the Bravo Award \(2022\) and Excellence Award \(2024\) for sustained cross\-functional product impact

Co\-Founder at Yellow Riddle, Mar 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, \- Built a web\-development company; generated a revenue of \~1M in first 4 months \- Consulted 40\+ DTC brands for optimizing & migrating their website on Shopify \- Product consultant for Klevu \(search optimisation app\) on the Shopify app store: Increased installs by \~40% & improved onboarding reduced drop\-offs by 10%

Growth Product Manager at Shopify, Jan 2019 \- Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, \- Drove growth experiments: localization to impact mid funnel \(india acquisition\) \- Ran a/b tests on localizing onboarding home\-cards; 8% increase in Lead to Prospect \- Spearheaded ‘How to set up an essential store on Shopify campaign during Covid\-19 \- Led Customer Success for Shopify Gold merchants in 2019

Consultant \( BD \+ full sales cycle \) at Michael Page, Jan 2017 \- Nov 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos, Gurugram, \- Identifying Business opportunities for MP talent solutions with leading Consumer & Chemical Companies; signed 10\+ contracts with new Clients for Page Group India \- Building database \(400\+ candidate meetings till \-to\-end date\) and driving end\-to\-end cycle\- including sourcing, Competency Based Interviews, process & offer\-management \- Signed a Regional PO contract with a key client generating significant revenue across APAC & Middle East and surpassed Quarterly Bonus target for 3/5 full quarters at Michael Page

DM \- SME Partner Accounts at Vodafone, Jun 2016 \- Nov 2016 · 6 mos, Amritsar/Ludhiana Area, \- Drafted distribution plan for SME sales in Ludhiana to provide Vodafone Business Services across Punjab \- Appointing Channel Partners for Distribution of Business Solution of Vodafone to the clients across Ludhiana region \- Handling the team of 10 sales people with designated region in Ludhiana to sell Vodafone products like ILL, PRI, M2M \- Managing key accounts directly by building relations and converting sales of complex product line like MPLS

Management Trainee at Vodafone, Jun 2015 \- Jun 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, \- Benchmarked workforce operating efficiency of VF23 circles for the consumer vertical \- Conducted a Hiring Audit for Delhi Circle & worked on improved efficacy of the mid\-probation/probation process \- Handled a distributor independently in East NCR Zone in the prepaid sales segment for 3 months; recognised with Star Performer of the Month \(Aug'15\)

## Education

PGDHRM, Human Resource Management, XLRI Jamshedpur

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Computer Science, Heritage Institute of Technology

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