Journey
Work history, most recent first
Bazaarvoice
2023 – 2026Senior Manager, Product · Creator Marketing
Joined through the Affable acquisition and led the Creator Marketing product team on Vibe, Bazaarvoice's sampling, creator marketing, and social commerce platform: two PMs, four designers, and four engineering teams. Drove the team's AI-native transition while shipping the portfolio.
- Built Bazaarvoice's first Payments platform, establishing the company as a money-mover; it addressed 28% of previously lost Affable deals
- Architected Integrated Sampling, unifying consumer, ambassador, and creator supply into a single enterprise offering
- Led Creator Search, the natural-language creator discovery engine used across every enterprise client, and built the evaluation framework behind its quality: demographic model accuracy from 72% to 93%, latency down 68%
- Shipped a creator brand-safety score on the GARM framework, reading image, video, and caption to flag risk at the point of discovery
Affable.ai
2021 – 2023Associate Director, Product · First product hire
Built the product function from scratch and owned strategy and roadmap from early-stage SaaS through acquisition by Bazaarvoice in September 2023. Affable now powers creator sourcing inside Bazaarvoice Vibe.
- Built the AI-driven creator discovery and campaigns platform that defined the company: semantic, visual, and lookalike search across a 6M+ creator index, end-to-end campaigns, and a commerce attribution stack
- Expanded the product from creator discovery to end-to-end creator management: creator CRM, native email outreach, and Shopify and Magento integrations
- Grew the business roughly 2.5x through to acquisition
- Hired and coached the product team of seven, PMs and designers
BookMyShow
2019 – 2021Product Manager, BMS Stream
Led product for BMS Stream, BookMyShow's bet on transactional video on demand, launched during the pandemic and scaled into a primary revenue driver for the company. Owned content discovery, checkout, and the streaming experience across web, mobile, and TV apps.
Earlier
2014 – 2017Incent Social (co-founder) · Testbook · ZoomRx
Co-founded Incent Social, a shoppable-UGC SaaS, IIT Gandhinagar–incubated and seed-funded. Before that, product manager at Testbook and associate at ZoomRx, a healthcare consulting firm.
IIT Gandhinagar
2010 – 2014B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
Open to product leadership roles. Email me, or download the resume (PDF). Also on LinkedIn and GitHub.
— in Mumbai, India