Avinash Ambati
Product Management Leader
Hyderabad
Summary
I have 11 years of total professional experience, with 10 years dedicated to product management, including 4 years in leadership roles.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of Products, CPO
Rehlat
04.2021 - Current
- 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
- New products: Luxury Chalets, Ancillaries, AI projects to maximize the transaction & revenue
- Worked in an Individual Contributor role for several projects and products involving high-end tech R&D, leveraged ChatGPT and OpenAI APIs for scaling content creation and automating services and recommendation engines
- Reduced the CX TAT to 3 hours from days by leveraging GPT to automate 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 'Explore Destinations' adding to 33% of overall revenue
- Scaled the Rewards & Loyalty platform improving the engagement by 2X
- Streamlined Data Warehousing, real-time reports improving CTR by 2X
- Built internal payment orchestration plug and play platform to onboard multiple Payment Service Providers(PSPs) and improved success rates by 15% while reducing costs by 50%
- Impacted organic daily active users by 5X in last 2 years
Senior Product Manager
Rehlat
04.2017 - 03.2021
- Set product vision and executed product strategy
- Optimized booking experiences across Web, Mobile Web 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
Product Manager
Nuance Communications
01.2015 - 03.2017
- 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 and Vodafone Call Manager
- Headed 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 suppliers from 10 to 50+
- Launched apps in Indonesia and Philippines, increased revenue by 200%
Management Trainee
Mother Dairy
05.2014 - 12.2014
- Optimized effective beat plans and distribution strategy. Increased product catalogue availability across areas to improve sales by 20%
- 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
MBA - Marketing & Analytics
Indian Institute of Management Indore
Indore, India 06.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering
VNR VJIET Jawaharlal Nehru Tech University
Hyderabad, India 09.2008 - 05.2012
12th Class - Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala
Hyderabad, India 04.2006 - 05.2008
10th Class - General Studies
Sri Rama Krishna High School
Hyderabad, India 04.2005 - 04.2006
Timeline
Head of Products, CPO
Rehlat
04.2021 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Rehlat
04.2017 - 03.2021
Product Manager
Nuance Communications
01.2015 - 03.2017
Management Trainee
Mother Dairy
05.2014 - 12.2014
MBA - Marketing & Analytics
Indian Institute of Management Indore
06.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering
VNR VJIET Jawaharlal Nehru Tech University
09.2008 - 05.2012
12th Class - Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala
04.2006 - 05.2008
10th Class - General Studies
Sri Rama Krishna High School
04.2005 - 04.2006
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