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Product leader with a track record of building 0 to 1 products and scaling established businesses at Meta and Amazon. Led products for cross-functional 50+ member teams spanning engineering, data science, and design. Shipped products across fintech, subscriptions, marketplaces, and AI platforms. Took complex ambiguous problems and launched or rebuilt for scale using data, technology and AI/ML.

Meta | Product Lead, User Research and Insights for Apps & Devices worldwide

Nov 2024 – Present

  • Strategy: Redefined platform strategy to focus on scalability and reuse of user research insights vs tooling development, thus enabling researchers to discover and build upon past findings instead of running duplicate surveys.
  • Execution: Resolved critical compliance issues and securing cross-functional resources (data science, methodology expertise) to accelerate quality initiatives, without impacting any team deliverables.
  • Quality: Built research quality framework and launched it across all Meta apps and devices; standardized research questions through an analysis of 11K+ questions, adopted as the basis for eliminating redundant research across the platform.

Amazon | Principal Product Manager, Candidate Evaluations for 1M+ candidates per year worldwide

Aug 2022 – Feb 2024

  • Reduced cost by 20%+ by automating interview management, cutting effort for recruiters, schedulers, and interviewers.
  • Improved recruiter efficiency by 10% through candidate self-service interview scheduling.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 30%+ and increased feature launch velocity by migrating from legacy hosting to cloud.

Meta | Product Lead, Facebook Marketplace Growth and Monetization

Apr 2021 – Jul 2022

  • Improved buyer satisfaction by 20% by unifying B2C, C2C, and category experiences into a single marketplace, driving alignment across design, engineering, and business teams with competing priorities.
  • Established experiment governance framework unifying fragmented A/B tests into a coherent buyer journey experience.

Amazon | Manager, Product Management for Seller Lending, Prime, Alexa Smart Home, Amazon India

Jan 2012 – Mar 2021

  • Seller Lending (0-to-1): Partnered with Goldman Sachs to launch third-party lending on a multi-billion dollar portfolio, driving 20%+ growth in book size. Merged first-party and third-party products to reduce balance sheet risk.
  • Prime: Grew paid members by 100% over 2 years for Amazon’s flagship subscription program; launched referral and event channels, added Prime Video benefit, increased student sign-ups from 4% to 8% of visitors via ML-based verification.
  • Alexa Smart Home (0-to-1): Launched Alexa-enabled home appliances business incl. 1P devices and 3P integration APIs.
  • India Marketplace: Drove 10X growth in site traffic by increasing product review coverage from 5% to ~50% in 18 months, by building a content creator community.

Logitech, OnMobile, Infosys | Product Manager and Software Engineer

Jul 2003 – Dec 2011

  • Logitech: Launched universal remote that doubled daily active usage and cut setup time from 10+ min to 5 min.
  • OnMobile: Launched Voice Music Search, increasing download rate from 10% to 16%.
  • Infosys: Built check processing system for a major American bank.

Side Projects Leveraging GenAI

I work with generative AI to understand its product implications firsthand. See the Projects page for details. I have built…

  • An autonomous Content Agent: Multi-step agent that creates product management content and publishes to X with human-in-the-loop approval.
  • An Interview Feedback Agent: Built and deployed to Meta’s internal agent system for structured interview feedback writing.

Community Leadership

I volunteer with Akshaya Patra’s Food for Education initiative. Through event organization and donor outreach, I helped grow annual fundraising from $100K to $400K+ over five years (2018–2023), a 4X increase in program funding.

Education

  • Certificate: Google Advanced Data Analytics with Machine Learning, Feb–Aug 2024
  • MBA: Indian School of Business (ISB), 2007
  • B.E.: Electronics Engineering, M. S. University, India, 2003

Ankur Aggarwal