Sales Manager

Jatin Shah

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Summary

Product management professional with strong technical background & experience in internet & advertising industry.

Launched SMS GupShup, India's largest micro blogging platform serving more than 20m users and its advertising

platform delivering 400m+ ad impressions a month. Advanced graduate & research experience in algorithms,

distributed computing, machine learning & data mining. Excels at product strategy/planning & leveraging

technology to build innovative products. Thrives in entrepreneurial environments.

Relevant Experience

10/08-Present Yahoo! Sunnyvale, California

Product Manager

Managed product-life cycle for advertiser optimization & recommendations platform within Yahoo!

Analytics products. Directed a team of 6 engineers & 3 scientists.

• Directed engineering & science team to build collaborative filtering models for advertiser

recommendations based on market requirements.

• Managed a major product release of the optimization & recommendation platform through

requirements gathering, specification, user testing & release deployment.

• Developed roadmap for optimization & recommendations platform based on inputs from product

marketing, engineering, science & executive team. Increased visibility & improved coordination

between the teams.

• Led several focus groups & interviews with customers and provided all stakeholders with key

insights & observations.

Webaroo, Inc. Santa Clara, California

Co-founded by Rakesh Mathur (founder Junglee – AMZN) & Beerud Sheth (founder Elance).

Funded by Helion Ventures & Charles River Ventures

06/06-09/08 Senior Product Manager

Managed product-life cycle for SMS GupShup, India’s largest microblogging service & its

advertising products from conception. Directed a team of 30+ engineers.

• Launched SMS GupShup & provided strategic product vision through competitive analysis, user

studies, & usage analytics. Prepared & presented product strategy on topics like monetization.

• Designed SMS GupShup’s advertising system that is delivering ads on SMS GupShup’s 400m+

ad inventory.

• Prepared product requirements document, website wire-frames for multiple releases of SMS

GupShup’s core service, website & ad system. Managed entire product release process.

• Developed marketing & sales collateral for ad sales & business development teams. Led to more

effective pitches & shorter sales cycles.

• Took on additional responsibilities to conceptualize & execute several sales & business

development partnerships.

Education

Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) in Computer Science, 2006

• Graduate research in algorithms, machine learning, distributed computing & formal systems.

• Developed automated reasoning systems for computing running time of functional language

programs (PhD Dissertation).

• Published several papers in distributed computing and programming languages at prestigious

Computer Science conferences (Available upon request).

Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science), 2000.

• Ranked 22nd at All-India level among more than 150,000 participants for admission to the

Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) in 1996.

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