Rahul Khandelwal
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic product management leader with a proven track record at Amazon India, leveraging data analysis and stakeholder management to drive impactful AI-driven solutions. Successfully launched multiple high-revenue products, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency. Expertise in machine learning and product roadmap development, consistently delivering results that exceed expectations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Product Management
GIST Impact (UBS Investment Firm)
Bengaluru
03.2025 - Current
- Led development of LLM driven KPI extraction platform using advanced AI capabilities such as RAG, Agentic AI etc.
Senior Product Manager
Amazon India
12.2021 - Current
- B2B Product (Sep'22-Present) Launched metadata management tool for 21 MPs driving $1.5bn impact & 90% stakeholder satisfaction.
- Led a team of 2 PM & 5 SE to remove CT within data intensive, distributed system for 78MM products.
- Launched Image similarity feature using Data processing capabilities to merge 80% of Duplicate ASINs.
- Part of Ideation team on usage of Large language models to generate product listing titles, bullet points.
- Launched the ML/AI based Sub-cat prediction model for Jewelry category, saving INR 28 MM in returns.
- Launched Tableau dashboard using ETL for DQ at ingestion & improving insights generation time by 20%.
- B2C Product (Dec'21-Sep'22) Owned product launch of ATC and personalized VSX mobile app experience for >10 MM customers.
- Authored Business requirement documents and executed 5% OPS uplift weblab with Scrum team.
- Owned Product vision document for 2022 personalization roadmap which was presented to Country CEO.
- Developed Strategy for E2E UX designing and implementation to build GST and ATC VSX capability.
- Delivered $2.9 million-dollar impact on Amazon topline by launching VSX on Desktop and mobile web.
Senior Program Manager
Amazon India
04.2020 - 12.2021
- Owned Alexa Products quality charter and improved customer experience by 27% Friction reduction.
- Owned Beta research (>2000 participants) for MVP launch of Filtering, Navigation, wakeword products.
- Authored 2 Customer Requirement documents and worked with engineering team for implementation.
- Participated in ASR and NLU Tech teams sprint planning sessions for product roadmap prioritization.
- Owned the Customer Data management platform for IN and US to drive 4 product improvement initiatives.
- Owned Hindi product launch roadmap and worked on defects, user feedback to meet launch criteria's.
Senior Program Manager
Amazon India
09.2017 - 04.2020
- Developed Engagement program for ~600 brands for B2B performance advertising managing 24 people.
- Led Consumer Electronics, Fashion and FMCG business to increase Ads revenue by 150% YoY.
- Part of leadership team to launch Amazon-Cognizant partnership by building project plan and schedules.
- Performed analytics on SQL to recommend Account score, Category metrics, Real time bidding improvements.
- Worked with US/EU teams to share cross-geography learnings and implement best practices in India.
Category Manager
Amazon India
04.2015 - 09.2017
- Owner of the P&L for one of the top 10 categories on Amazon India with business greater than 100cr.
- Managed 8 vendor relationships and developed partnerships including negotiation for exclusivity.
- Spearheaded Amazon Pantry to improve supply chain and decrease delivery time from 24 to 8 hours.
- Awarded Pre-Placement Offer (Category Manager, Amazon India) for performance in summer internship.
Associate Consultant
ZS Associates
02.2011 - 06.2013
- Product Launch Forecasted market share cannibalization & evaluated Brand Equity and Sales Force Effectiveness.
- Led team of 2 for a project covering 7 countries/3 continents; responsible for client management.
- Conducted qualitative market research for 50+ MDs and identified key launch gaps.
- SPOC for end-to-end deliverables of first project with new client having $49 billion revenue.
- Performance Tracking Conceptualized and implemented market research tool to analyze market trends using real time data.
- Worked with statistical tools like R/SAS for modelling and utilized statistics on client projects.
- Led 6 associates across multiple projects; Mentored them on communication, task, people management.
- Individual Achievements Promoted to the Associate Consultant level after being awarded a performance rating of 9/10.
- Instrumental in bringing 2 new projects worth EUR 500,000 from an European pharmaceutical major.
- Reduced project operation cycle time by 30% by automating client business process tool.
Technical Management Trainee
Reliance
07.2010 - 01.2011
- Suggested improvements in heat exchanger design to management for enhancing efficiency by 20%.
Education
PGDM -
IIM Lucknow
01.2015
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
01.2010
Class XII - CBSE
D.A.V. Public School
Kota01.2006
Class X - CBSE
D.A.V. Public School
Kota01.2004
Skills
- Data analysis
- Large language models
- Machine learning
- Requirements gathering
- Product roadmap
- Stakeholder management
Accomplishments
- Awarded the General Proficiency Medal for securing department 1st position at IIT Kanpur 2010.
- Selected in Top 25 concept papers in Asia during Asian Particle Technology Symposium 2009.
- Awarded National Talent Search Examination Scholarship (among 1,50,000 aspirants) 2004.
- Selected for Indian Physics Olympiad round 2 (top 1% among 29,856 candidates) 2006.
- Secured State Rank - 6 in Science Talent Search Examination and awarded scholarship 2004.
- Ranked among top 0.5% in IIT-JEE (3 lakh aspirants) 2006.
- Secured AIR 337 in AIEEE (5 lakh aspirants) 2006.
- Secured AIR 96 in National Science Talent Search Examination (Unified Council) 2004.
Personal Information
- Age: 36
- Gender: Male
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director of Product Management
GIST Impact (UBS Investment Firm)
03.2025 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Amazon India
12.2021 - Current
Senior Program Manager
Amazon India
04.2020 - 12.2021
Senior Program Manager
Amazon India
09.2017 - 04.2020
Category Manager
Amazon India
04.2015 - 09.2017
Associate Consultant
ZS Associates
02.2011 - 06.2013
Technical Management Trainee
Reliance
07.2010 - 01.2011
PGDM -
IIM Lucknow
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
Class XII - CBSE
D.A.V. Public School
Class X - CBSE
D.A.V. Public School
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