GupshupSenior Vice President - Growth (Conversational Messaging
Oct. 2013MumbaiCurrent Responsibility - Vice President, Growth Responsible for creating a global partner ecosystem for the company with over 3000 partners and 92000 businesses, who are enabled with messaging products and experiences like Bot studio, marketing tools, Agent assist, agentic AI at a platform level to connect to channels like WhatsAPP, Google RCS, Instagram, Facebook, SMS etc - Leading independent P&L for the entire initiative and reporting directly to the exec committee
Leading the product, engineering and AI team to set up the new AI product line for the company
- Setting up of AI team , data sourcing, data analysis, manual data tagging and Ontology iterations to ensure data modelling is accurate
- Productizing the AI offering for consumption by developers, enterprises and OEMs (Visualization of SMSs to ensure user delight and monetization opportunities
- Co-ordinate across functions to ensure agile development, unblocking of issues and prompt delivery of promised payloads
- Responsible for setting up developer ecosystem and evangelism activities/ PR
Product lead to create an omni channel Bot builder platform. - Exploring different bot use cases to enable adoption and user on-boarding - Worked on NLP and machine learning flows to build powerful bot use cases - Servicing enterprises to brainstorm on possible use cases for bot on-boarding Worked on Teamchat - a 'Whatsapp like mobile messenger for enterprises' - Product conceptualization, scoping, wire framing, iteration - Firming UI/UX - design (latest iOS and material design) and flow inputs - Product - market fitment analysis - Creating a market place for Teamchat API's and SDKs - Creating the first Online Bot Store - Product marketing - SEO/ SCM/ SMM and content marketing (website/blog) - Events - Int. and domestic - Mobile World Congress etc - Developer Evangelism: Meet ups, Hackathons dom/Int. - Analytics dashboard for rigorous product monitoring/ sanity testing