Nikhil Nilakantan

General Manager, Product & Engineering Exec at Amazon.

Role
Gm, Amazon Advertising at Amazon
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Nikhil Nilakantan

Seasoned product management, engineering, and business executive with extensive strategic and operating experience (including P&L management) ranging from Fortune 100 to startups. Passionate about using technology to delight customers while growing users and revenue. Love to solve complex, ambiguous problems on behalf of my customers and business. Proven track record of building large, multi-function, high performance teams and scaling high growth businesses.

Experience

  1. Gm, Amazon Advertising

    Amazon

    May 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

    At Amazon Ads, we are focused on launching ad products and programs that delight our shoppers and advertisers. As a GM in the Ads business, I own the P&L, and am the end to end leader (Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Program Management) for multiple business lines. I currently lead multiple high growth Amazon Device, Entertainment, and Stores business lines – Fire TV, Prime Video, Alexa, Fire Tablet, IMDb, Audio Ads, and Grocery (in-store and online). Previously led display ad supply & monetization for Amazon.com/Amazon mobile apps, and vertical ad programs for Books Ads, Pharma & Healthcare, Amazon Business and Local Ads. Responsible for all aspects of the business including multi-Billion $ P&L growing at high double-digit CAGR, and demand growth (5x active advertisers in 4 years). Own the vision, product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of all advertising product lines in each area – search advertising, brand shopping, and display advertising across web, mobile, devices, video, audio etc. This includes all advertiser and consumer facing features WW, and all GTM and demand generation activities.

Education

  • Florida Institue of Technology

    BS, Computer Science

    1997 — 2000

  • SMU Cox School of Business

    MBA, Marketing, Strategy

    2003 — 2005

Skills

  • Team Management
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Start-Ups
  • Software Development
  • Sem
  • Analytics
  • Sales
  • Email Marketing
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Executive Management
  • Business Planning
  • Business Development
  • Facebook
  • Online Marketing
  • Strategy
  • E-Commerce
  • Networking
  • Product Marketing
  • Product Innovation
  • Digital Strategy
  • Digital Marketing
  • Social Networking
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Web 2.0
  • Web Marketing
  • Saas
  • User Experience
  • Marketing
  • Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Management
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Applications
  • Ppc
  • Lead Generation
  • Consulting
  • Web Analytics
  • Venture Capital
  • Social Media
  • Online Advertising
  • Mobile Marketing

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