Kartikaya Purohit

About Kartikaya Purohit

Product executive with a proven track record of building and scaling 0-to-1 initiatives into multi-Billion-dollar business impact. Skilled at defining vision and strategy, driving hands-on execution, aligning stakeholders, and leading through ambiguity in complex, matrixed organizations. Expertise spans consumer and business products, with deep domain knowledge in Search, Performance marketing, ads/monetization, product-led growth, analytics, and developer APIs. Experience with establishing go-to-market strategies, and owning topline metrics, including revenue growth.

Experience

1. Sr Product Manager Technical

   Amazon

   Nov 2022 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

   Amazon Search Science & AI• Delivered $1.3B ARR through launch of Deep Learning based Final Stage Ranker model world wide for the top 250 product recommendations, processing 19B products within <50ms latency for 50k queries per second. Launch enabled multi-objective optimization that jointly optimizes relevance, diversity, shipping, revenue, and customer perceived duplicates.• Improved cold-start discovery through a reinforcement-learning based ranker that increased new product impressions by 13% and new product purchase rate by 11%.• Spearheaded launch of containerization of Search results to remove customer perceived duplicates that revamped customer experience, enabled visual delight and improved Irrelevant results rate by ~70bps• Crafted a 3-year cold start Search & Discovery strategy by defining vision, articulating guiding principles, developing user personas, competitive bench marking, analyzing customer feedback, measurement framework and data driven prioritization of features

Education

• Harvard Business School Online

  Core: Credential of Readiness

  2016 — 2016

• W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University

  Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics

  2017 — 2018

• National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2008 — 2012

• GMIS, Jakarta - Indonesia

  Science

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Business Intelligence
• Thought Leadership
• Sql
• Analytical Skills
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Business Analysis
• Business Analytics
• Data Mining
• Requirements Analysis
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Management Consulting
• Team Management
• Analysis
• Sas Programming
• Analytics
• Presentation Skills
• Microsoft Office
• Data Analysis
• Early-Stage Startups
• Management
• Strategy