Hi, I’m
AKSHIT KAWATRA
New York,NY
Summary
Experienced and passionate Product Leader offering 8+ years of product development, launch and sales execution experience across Indian, European and American markets; Decisive, results oriented and collaborative professional bringing expertise in technology strategy, e-commerce and advertising across consumer, real-estate, travel, finance and B2B sectors
Overview
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Amazon
Senior Product Manager
07.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Launched Buy with Prime app for Shopify that allows Shopify stores to offer Prime benefits off Amazon; Led product development for engineering work spanning 100+ engineers across both Amazon and Shopify; led to 30% sales conversion uplift based A/B test of 100 stores
- Built ML-based ad delivery optimization system for Amazon's Audio Ads allowing Amazon to expand to 3P channels like Spotify and Pandora, and delivering $10M incremental ad revenue due to 40% increase in RoAS for advertisers.
Omio
Product Manager
02.2018 - 07.2018
Job overview
- Built and launched accommodations experience on app, mobile web and desktop by adding hotel booking touchpoints at various points in a user journey, improving accommodation CTRs from 4% to 8%
Housing.com
Head of Product - Special Projects
03.2015 - 02.2018
Job overview
- Developed and launched ‘Housing Events’, time-bound e-commerce promotions page for real-estate projects, involving 3D visualizations and advanced search that led to $15M in incremental GMV with 150 homes sold in 1 month
- Built ‘Housing Assist’ platform, cloud-based CRM for real-estate developers, promoted products actively with clients, ran pilots leading to 75% adoption rate amongst existing clients
Bain & Company
Associate
01.2012 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Designed operational improvement plan to cut $25M in costs to a $25B Australian telecom player by analyzing 10 TB of customer-lifecycle data, and recommending rebalancing headcount from operations to customer support and refining CS SOPs
- Conducted worldwide technology survey and interviews to develop and publish Bain Point of View for cloud-computing and mobile markets, resulting in $6M incremental revenue to TMT practice
Education
The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA
MBA from Finance, Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship
05.2020
University Overview
- Awarded Community Ambassador Award for class of 2020
- Extracurricular Activities: President, Blockchain Club; President, Soccer Club; VP, Wharton Graduate Association Communications Fellow, Teaching Assistant for Negotiations and Quantitative Reasoning courses
- Research Project: Developed framework for blockchain-governance by interviewing cryptocurrency and blockchain community leaders and evaluating 20+ blockchains-governance models
Birla Institute of Technology And SciencePilani, India
Master of Science (Technology) from Computer Science
05.2012
University Overview
- Research Paper: Co-authored and presented paper on 'Data mining algorithms for optimization of test cases', in Indian International Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IICAI), Bangalore
- Project: Won national business-plan competition, Epsilon’11, for pitching an idea for a social platform to create and share digital comics; developed prototype using Adobe Flash for a comic builder tool
Skills
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Technology Skills:
- C#, C, Java, Python, SQL, R, Tableau, SPSS, JMP, advanced Excel, Balsamiq, Figma, Confluence, Adobe Creative Suite
Hobbies
Soccer (Manchester United fan), Travel (visited 35 countries), Music (drums and electronic), Snowboarding
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Amazon
07.2020 - Current
Product Manager
Omio
02.2018 - 07.2018
Head of Product - Special Projects
Housing.com
03.2015 - 02.2018
Associate
Bain & Company
01.2012 - 01.2015
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
MBA from Finance, Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Master of Science (Technology) from Computer Science