Core leadership team member for a ~$2bn mobile gaming startup

Enabled launch and scale of esports tournaments garnering viewerships of XXMM+ across own (MPL app streams) and social channels.

Revised profile avatar experience to improve player engagement, reduce platform level fraud perception. Ran experiments on tournament/player searches, peer-to-peer chat on platform. 

Setup foundational product mechanisms including sprints cycles, roadmap alignments, customer VOCs, retrospectives across 3 product teams comprising 30+ SDEs, UX, TPMs

Built and led a team of 6 PMs, strategy leads to devise 0 to 1 product strategy for esports & streaming

Product head for a moonshot initiative (first globally) in the on-demand video and connectivity space. Built full-stack technology products across hardware devices, networked systems, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent process automation. 

Led 8+ developers, ML engineers to build video recommender services that reduced content delivery costs over last-mile wireless networks.

Sole PM for wireless IoT devices, leading hardware engineers, industrial designers, power/reliability engineers, packaging leaders to develop localised Wi-Fi devices for Indian customers & conditions. Devised 3y strategic roadmap for wireless hardware & networking devices, aligned with exec leadership.

Single PM for in-house process automation platform (workflow management). Devised MVP, product strategy to build orchestrator workflows across internal services & users to reduce manpower costs, customer onboarding timelines.

Directly hired and managed a team of 2 Sr. PMs across two platform products

Launched Prime Now, the 2-hr ultra-fast grocery delivery service in India. Headed business strategy, customer experience for Mumbai city by leading key vendor acquisitions, retail assortment strategies, B2C pricing and product development decisions.

Worked directly with exec-level (Director+) leadership to deliver in stock, selection and sell-through quarterly goals across national level grocery programmes (2h Prime Now, Prime Pantry) for Amazon.

Built a $XXMM cost-saving strategy by streamlining currency management operations of a top-3 Indian private bank. Led and trained the retail operations team across India to pilot launch in 2 circles.

Product Manager working on growing a 0 to 1 automated trade execution platform supporting $XXMM+ structured FX products, multiple internal personas across trading, sales, legal, IT.

Structuring, pricing and risk analyses of cross-asset (interest rates, FX, equity) products for private banks and corporate clients across Asia and the UK.

Developed customised trade ideas for investment, hedging, cost reductions and yield enhancements based on macro-economic indicators and market trends.

Helped execute $XXM+ worth of asset swaps with securities firms in a first ever collaboration between the Korean equities and fixed-income sales teams.

Advait Alai

Consumer product leader & entrepreneur