Yogen V. Utturkar

About Yogen V. Utturkar

I’m a Technology and Innovation Leader with 15+ years of experience driving enterprise AI, robotics, R&D, and sustainability programs at Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon and GE, delivering measurable business and operational impact. I have architected production-grade AI and automation platforms, hyperscaled solutions across 100+ of sites, and led complex program deployments in regulated, high-stakes environments. I excel at shaping cross-enterprise research and technology strategies, integrating advanced digital tools into business operations, and translating innovation into measurable outcomes for the leadership and enterprise-wide adoption.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: AI & Technology Scale: Operationalized computer vision and drone safety initiatives across 100+ sites, delivering $100M+ in annual safety and risk impact. Cross-Functional Delivery: Led 20 – 50+ member multi-disciplinary teams across 6 – 10+ functions, managing $400M+ portfolios and standardizing execution from pilots to enterprise scale. Enterprise Strategy & Investment: Defined and executed multi-year AI and automation roadmaps across Amazon and GE, securing multi-million-dollar funding and influencing executive investment decisions. Governance & Risk Management: Established enterprise AI and robotics governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with legal, HR, and operational standards, mitigating safety, public relations, employee relations, and privacy risks.

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager - Safety Innovation

   Amazon

   Oct 2022 — Present · Schenectady, NY, US

   Enterprise Safety Innovation Product Lead driving 2 multi-million-dollar AI portfolios across 8 organizations, partnering with HR, Legal, ER, PR, Engineering, and Operations team with SVP and CEO visibility/sponsorship. Led Amazon’s “Big Tech / Big Bets” safety innovation agenda, delivering $100M+ in annual safety and risk impact by defining and executing two $20M product portfolios on big tech solutions to improve indoor and outdoor safety for 200K global associates. Defined the hyperscaling strategy to expand a big tech safety solution to 400 sites by 2026, creating an AI-enabled runbook leveraging automation, train-the-trainer models, and regional VP alignment to support an enterprise expansion (top 2026 CEO goal for safety). Championed a high-risk innovation solution for Amazon truck yards, achieving 95% audit accuracy through agile pilots and cross-org risk mitigation, positioning the initiative for $15M VP funding in follow-on investment to scale drone capabilities. Secured SVP-level alignment and executive funding from a clean slate, influencing investment decisions through data-driven business cases and multi-org consensus building, resulting in $20M approved investment for enterprise AI safety products. Established cross-enterprise governance and approval pathways across HR, Legal, Employee Relations, and PR, accelerating time-to-deployment by 30%, ensuring compliant, responsible rollout of AI-driven safety solutions at enterprise scale. Built and led a matrixed “team of teams” across 5 Amazon organizations, avoiding incremental headcount and delivering a big tech at-scale solution (beta) in the organization, followed by deployment to 40 sites. Directed and delivered the Amazon 2024 Safety Report, a CEO-visible, public-facing publication synthesizing enterprise safety performance and innovation outcomes, influencing executive and external stakeholder perception at Amazon scale.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  1995 — 1999

• University of Florida

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

  2002 — 2005

• University of Florida

  Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2000 — 2002

Skills

• People Management
• Electronics Thermal Management
• Aviation Thermal Management
• Systems Engineering