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SHAILESH KUMAR

Bangalore

Summary

Overall, 17 years of experience with 13 years in client facing, cross team collaboration- Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance. Managing Publishers, Programmatic Buyers, Data Management Platform, Audience Management, and Analytics. Built Teams across JAPAC and North America

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Work History

Manager- Ad Cloud- North America

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
- Current
  • Responsible for strategizing and managing Programmatic Campaigns including optimization, troubleshooting, and delivery worth USD 200MN ASV
  • Responsible for Growth and Retention of 50+ Tier 1 and Tier 2 Advertiser accounts with above 90% retention rate
  • Transitioned the Account Management function ~50 Clients from the United States to India
  • Defined Processes and Governance for the new team structure
  • Provide Bi-weekly Business Updates to All Stakeholders related to Growth, Incremental revenue, upsell/ cross sell opportunities, and challenges
  • Work closely with cross functional teams- Product, Eng, and Sales Team to define and prioritize product roadmap, DX Solutions Cross Sell Opportunities.

Project Manager (Consultant) – Ad-Tech (Global)

Uber Technologies
  • Responsible for managing all MarTech activities related to queries handling, issue resolution across global campaigns worth USD 90 MN per month
  • Platform Experience- Programmatic- DV360, Xandr, Mediamath | Social- Facebook, Twitter | Affiliates- Button, Hireclix, Impact Radius etc
  • Managed 11 resources across Business Analytics, Mobile App Attribution, Tag Management, and Data Quality, defined processes and SLAs.

Technical Account Manager (India & AU) - Zipline DMP

KBM Group- A Wunderman Company
  • Responsible for launching Zipline DMP in India Market
  • Responsible for first USD 1 MN Spend via Zipline in India
  • Started Managing ANZ Market as well
  • Data Partner Onboarding, DMP Solution pitch to GroupM Agencies, Conducting POCs, Activation and Yield Optimization of Audience Targeted Campaigns via Programmatic Platforms.

Group Manager- Publisher Operations (JAPAC)

PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Subject matter expert in Ad Tech with a strong track record of building high performance teams which fits the culture
  • Successfully managed teams supporting North America, and APAC both on Demand and Supply Side
  • Managed clients directly with annual platform spend of USD 30MM with overall accountability for clients worth 65 MN platform spend
  • Managed serious escalations: preventing key client’s loss and hence resulting in annual platform spend gain of USD 15MN
  • Helped build teams 3-times (both on demand and supply side) from ground up including hiring, training, process design & implementation, and skill development
  • Implemented Ad Quality processes for creative classifications, domain categorizations resulting in platform wide Ad violation reduction by more than 50%
  • In depth knowledge of entire Ad-Tech Suite- Programmatic, Audience, DMP, Cross Device Targeting across- web, mobile, & CTV, Video and Native Ads, Mobile Attribution, Tag Management, Viewability, Ad fraud prevention etc
  • Managed 17 Account Managers to ensure products and services are in line with business and budgetary requirements
  • Successfully worked with Product, and Engineering teams to deliver various projects and features which helped in long term benefits of clients- both supply and demand side
  • Implemented processes and defined SLAs for round the year support to existing customers to go the extra mile in achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Manager- Demand Operations (Global)

PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Managed clients directly with annual platform spend of USD 30MM with overall accountability for clients worth 65 MN platform spend
  • Managed serious escalations: preventing key client’s loss and hence resulting in annual platform spend gain of USD 15MN
  • Helped build teams 3-times (both on demand and supply side) from ground up including hiring, training, process design & implementation, and skill development
  • Implemented Ad Quality processes for creative classifications, domain categorizations resulting in platform wide Ad violation reduction by more than 50%
  • In depth knowledge of entire Ad-Tech Suite- Programmatic, Audience, DMP, Cross Device Targeting across- web, mobile, & CTV, Video and Native Ads, Mobile Attribution, Tag Management, Viewability, Ad fraud prevention etc
  • Managed 17 Account Managers to ensure products and services are in line with business and budgetary requirements
  • Successfully worked with Product, and Engineering teams to deliver various projects and features which helped in long term benefits of clients- both supply and demand side
  • Implemented processes and defined SLAs for round the year support to existing customers to go the extra mile in achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Lead- Publisher Operations (Americas)

PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Managed clients directly with annual platform spend of USD 30MM with overall accountability for clients worth 65 MN platform spend
  • Managed serious escalations: preventing key client’s loss and hence resulting in annual platform spend gain of USD 15MN
  • Helped build teams 3-times (both on demand and supply side) from ground up including hiring, training, process design & implementation, and skill development
  • Implemented Ad Quality processes for creative classifications, domain categorizations resulting in platform wide Ad violation reduction by more than 50%
  • In depth knowledge of entire Ad-Tech Suite- Programmatic, Audience, DMP, Cross Device Targeting across- web, mobile, & CTV, Video and Native Ads, Mobile Attribution, Tag Management, Viewability, Ad fraud prevention etc
  • Managed 17 Account Managers to ensure products and services are in line with business and budgetary requirements
  • Successfully worked with Product, and Engineering teams to deliver various projects and features which helped in long term benefits of clients- both supply and demand side
  • Implemented processes and defined SLAs for round the year support to existing customers to go the extra mile in achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Education

PGDBA- Marketing and Finance -

Maharishi Institute of Management, Noida
01.2006

B.Sc. - Statistics (H) -

Hindu College, Delhi University
01.2002

Skills

  • Ad Operations and Account Management
  • Project Management
  • Programmatic and Real Time Bidding Tech
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Team building and Leadership
  • DMP & CDP Technology
  • Data Analysis, Analytics
  • Resource Planning
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence
  • Process Improvements
  • Cross Function supervision
  • Mobile App Attribution
  • Debugging and troubleshooting issues
  • Product Planning Support

Certification

  • [Product Management Launchpad], [Airtribe] - [Lifetime]
  • [Retail Media Platform], [Criteo] - [Lifetime]

Timeline

Manager- Ad Cloud- North America

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
- Current

Project Manager (Consultant) – Ad-Tech (Global)

Uber Technologies

Technical Account Manager (India & AU) - Zipline DMP

KBM Group- A Wunderman Company

Group Manager- Publisher Operations (JAPAC)

PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd.

Manager- Demand Operations (Global)

PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd.

Lead- Publisher Operations (Americas)

PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd.

PGDBA- Marketing and Finance -

Maharishi Institute of Management, Noida

B.Sc. - Statistics (H) -

Hindu College, Delhi University
  • [Product Management Launchpad], [Airtribe] - [Lifetime]
  • [Retail Media Platform], [Criteo] - [Lifetime]
SHAILESH KUMAR