Amit Walia
Principal Product Manager
Summary
Knowledgeable principal product manager with proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative product solutions. Successfully managed product lifecycles and launched multiple high-impact initiatives. Demonstrated strategic thinking and problem-solving skills while fostering collaboration and driving results.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal product manager - Supply chain defect reduction
Amazon.com
Seattle
10.2023 - 01.2025
- Defined 3 year vision to coach sellers, carrier partners and Amazon operations to reduce cost of supply chain operations by $480M per year
- Built seller facing proactive notification engine to reduce inbound supply chain defects by $30M in 2024
- Launched internal defect capture tool to allow Amazon operations to gather defect evidences to coach sellers and reduced defect cost by $44M in 2024
- Developed inbound supply chain defect forecasting model and achieved 31% defect reduction in 2024
Principal Product Manager -Pricing
Amazon.com
Seattle
09.2021 - 09.2023
- Defined 3 year vision to enable Brand Owners to price their products on Amazon.com by leveraging price elasticity models to generate incremental revenue of $3B per year
- Launched seller pricing APIs to enable sellers on Amazon to benchmark their product prices with competitors on and off Amazon to set up competitive prices
- Launched regional pricing API to help sellers distinguish between local and national offers, achieving incremental revenue of $0.5B per year
- Built similar product price comparison dashboard for sellers to benchmark their product prices with similar products and decide their pricing strategy
Senior Product Manager - Payments
Amazon
Bangalore
04.2017 - 09.2020
- Launched Amazon pay balance product in India and acquired new customers @ 0.1MM per day
- Collaborated with Indian payment regulators to establish remote customer identification solutions and leveraged video based verification to achieve 0.3M verifications per month
- Drove alignment with multiple private and public banks in India to leverage Amazon customer identification details by taking customer consent and provided single click onboarding experience
- Launched paperless in person verification product to upgrade customer accounts at a cost that is 50% lower than industry benchmark
Associate Director - Pricing
Snapdeal
Gurgaon
06.2015 - 04.2017
- Built internal pricing strategy tools to benchmark competitors and define rules to set competitive prices to either increase revenue or profits
- Saved approximately $5M annually by automating entire pricing strategy and reduced manual effort in benchmarking prices by 80%
- Built promotions system to help business team to run campaigns during high traffic events and achieved incremental revenue of $10M per year
Senior Product Manager - Payments
Paytm
Delhi
04.2014 - 06.2015
- Built fraud control management system by leveraging customer segmentation to set up velocity limits to reduce fraud loss by $1M per year
- Launched digital wallet product to help customers to purchase goods on partner merchants with one click, improving the payment sucess rate by 2000 bps
- Acquired 20M customers within 1 year of launching digital wallet services by partnering with +200 merchants in India
Product manager
FINO PayTech Ltd.
Delhi
04.2009 - 03.2014
- Collaborated with department of health, India, to launch digital insurance product in rural villages in India to provide micro health insurance to 100M customers
- Launched digital Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) scheme in Jharkhand to provide food grains via smart cards, reducing $10M worth of fraudulent distribution
- Managed smart card health customer acquisition project to deliver health insurance to 10M customers in 3 states in India
Software Engineer
Infosys
Pune
08.2005 - 07.2007
- Designed and implemented email gateway platform for AT&T client
- Automated the email generation template to save $0.5M every year
Education
MBA - Marketing
Institute of Management Technology
Ghaziabad, India04-2009
Engineering - Metallurgy
Punjab Engineering College
Chandigarh, India07-2005
Skills
Product vision
Product analytics
Strategic thinking
Design thinking
Roadmap planning
Product marketing
Pricing strategy
Customer segmentation
Go-to-market strategy
Strategic planning
Competitive analysis
Accomplishments
- Saved $30M annually by coaching third party sellers.
- Drove $3B incremental revenue by launching pricing models for sellers.
- Built lowest cost customer identification solution by leveraging face recognition technology.
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Timeline
Principal product manager - Supply chain defect reduction
Amazon.com
10.2023 - 01.2025
Principal Product Manager -Pricing
Amazon.com
09.2021 - 09.2023
Senior Product Manager - Payments
Amazon
04.2017 - 09.2020
Associate Director - Pricing
Snapdeal
06.2015 - 04.2017
Senior Product Manager - Payments
Paytm
04.2014 - 06.2015
Product manager
FINO PayTech Ltd.
04.2009 - 03.2014
Software Engineer
Infosys
08.2005 - 07.2007
MBA - Marketing
Institute of Management Technology
Engineering - Metallurgy
Punjab Engineering College