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painting, working on start up ideas
painting, working on start up ideas
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AVINASH AMBATI

Product Management Leader
Hyderabad

Summary

Product Leader with over 9 years of experience in dual roles as both a Product Leader and individual contributor. Demonstrated expertise in both B2C and B2B landscapes. Recently elevated to the position of Chief Product Officer, successfully navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic through digital transformation. Adapted remote work culture and ensured business continuity. Specializes in customer-centric solutions and agile methodologies, which have led to successful product launches and revenue growth amid uncertainty.

Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy is one of the strengths.

Possesses collaborative skills that extend across various teams, with hands-on contributions that showcase a deep understanding of emerging technologies. Swiftly adapts to business strategies and reevaluates the product roadmap to align with evolving customer preferences. Utilized data analytics to identify new market opportunities and optimize existing offerings, achieving gains in both market share and customer loyalty.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Rehlat
Hyderabad

Chief Product Officer
04.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Responsible for P & L. Scaled Flight bookings by 2X, Hotels bookings by 5X and ancillary revenue by 5X
  • Built and trained 25 members across product, data, design and mobile apps. Cascaded business goals and business strategy aligned with product strategy to teams driving results
  • Reduced the CX TAT to 3 hours from days by automating the post booking experience like refunds & pending booking conversions. Increased the ratings across Play Store, App Store and review websites like Trust Pilot, Site Jabber etc.
  • Aligned category, marketing, supply and partnership teams for product driven revenue maximization
  • Accelerated supplier integrations and launched in global markets (Americas, Europe & Aus.) and increased meta traffic by 100X. Localized funnel flows for each of the markets impacting the conversion rate by 2X
  • Instrumental in bringing page speeds of web SEO and funnel pages to 90+ impacting growth of organic traffic
  • Onboarded Saudi, Qatar, Morocco tourism boards with product 'Explore' adding to 33% of overall revenue
  • R & D of new products: Luxury Chalets, new ancillaries, AI tools and ML to maximize the transaction & revenue
  • Scaled the Rewards & Loyalty platform improving the engagement by 2X
  • Streamlined Data Warehousing, real-time reports improving CTR by 2X
  • Impacted daily active users by 5X in last 2 years

Rehlat
Hyderabad

PM, Senior PM & Product Head
04.2017 - 03.2021

Job overview

  • Set product vision of the company and executed product strategy
  • Optimized booking experiences across Web, mWeb and mobile apps and created consistent and predictable conversion rates
  • Improved organic app installs by 50% and overall active users to 1.5 million
  • Launched and grown app first products like cabs, trains, buses, explore, price alerts, etc., improved engagement by 50%
  • Integrated Flight & Hotel Add-on services – improved revenue by 10$/booking
  • Launched Hotel’s Pay Later & Flight’s Price Lock - improved bookings by 40%
  • Reduced discount per booking by 60%, incremented overall bookings by 10%
  • Integrated local payment gateways, reduced overall price to customers by 1-3%
  • Leveraged referral and wallet program – improved bookings by 13%
  • Implemented marketing automation to optimize ROI on ad-spend

Nuance Communications
Noida

Product Manager
01.2015 - 03.2017

Job overview

  • Headed Product Management of B2B Smart Campaign Management Platform for Telecom companies for recommended bundled products
  • Developed analytics platform which can process 1 billion transaction/day into informative KPIs and interactive real-time reports Increased 30-40% revenue by adding features backed with insights generated through analytics implementation
  • Executed launches of B2B mobile apps Airtel Call Manager and Vodafone Call Manager
  • Headed a Million download B2C Android mobile app ‘CASHON’ – engagement based reward platform. Handled team of 5 developers and 2 associate product managers
  • Planned and executed product road map to add >15 features in the first 3 months and enhanced revenue by 100%
  • Handled Ad Operations and ad affiliate networks to increase supply
  • Launched apps in Indonesia and Philippines and revenue increased by 200%

Mother Dairy
Delhi NCR

Management Trainee
05.2014 - 12.2014

Job overview

  • Optimized effective beat plans and distribution strategy. Increased product catalogue availability across areas to improve sales by 20%
  • Assisted established management staff with operational oversight, business development, and process improvement strategies
  • Negotiated with distributors and improved take rate of new product releases by 25%
  • Described product catalogues to retail stores and increased acceptance rate of low selling products by 10%
  • Created data capturing methodologies, aligned retailer, distribution sales manager and sales executives across 150 retail stores

Education

Indian Institute of Management
Indore

PGDM from Marketing, Analytics And General Management
06.2012 - 03.2014

University Overview

GPA: 7

  • Core Member of Marketing, Creative and Design clubs

VNR VJIET University
Hyderabad

Bachelor of Technology
09.2008 - 05.2012

University Overview

GPA: 9

  • Received Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) scholarship for excellent performance
  • Member of creative and design, painting, electronics clubs

Sri Chaitanya College
Hyderabad

12th Class
05.2006 - 04.2008

University Overview

GPA: 10

  • Top 1% of the Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET)
  • Top 2% of the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)

Sri Rama Krishna High School
Hyderabad

10th Class
03.2005 - 04.2006

University Overview

GPA: 10

  • Highest-Ranking Student in the School's 42-Year Existence

Skills

Strategy & Roadmap, Go to Market

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Timeline

Chief Product Officer
Rehlat
04.2021 - Current
PM, Senior PM & Product Head
Rehlat
04.2017 - 03.2021
Product Manager
Nuance Communications
01.2015 - 03.2017
Management Trainee
Mother Dairy
05.2014 - 12.2014
Indian Institute of Management
PGDM from Marketing, Analytics And General Management
06.2012 - 03.2014
VNR VJIET University
Bachelor of Technology
09.2008 - 05.2012
Sri Chaitanya College
12th Class
05.2006 - 04.2008
Sri Rama Krishna High School
10th Class
03.2005 - 04.2006

painting, working on start up ideas

painting, working on start up ideas

Painting is sort of a meditation where I focus only on one thing. 

In regard to the start ups, I try to deep think with first principle solutions which can be technology start ups.


painting, working on start up ideas

painting, working on start up ideas

Painting is sort of a meditation where I focus only on one thing. 

In regard to the start ups, I try to deep think with first principle solutions which can be technology start ups.


AVINASH AMBATIProduct Management Leader