
Karthik Vaidyanath
* 12+ years of product management experience across early-stage startups (2x entrepreneur w/ unicorn exit), mid-stage startups (Hike,... | London, England, United Kingdom
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Karthik Vaidyanath’s Expertise * 12+ years of product management experience across early-stage startups (2x entrepreneur w/ unicorn exit), mid-stage startups (Hike, GoJek), late-stage companies (Indeed) and big-tech (Meta) * 5+ years people leadership experience supporting/ coaching PMs, scaling and leading high-performance teams of 80+ * Built & scaled products across a broad range of domains: B2B (Commerce Ads, FinTech, Customer Experience), B2C (Jobs, Video-on-Demand, Stories, LiveStreaming) 🚀 Product Leadership Journey: Currently Product Lead at Facebook/ Meta: Leading a cross-functional team focused on enabling Commerce Merchants to run high-performing eCommerce Ads across the Meta Ads ecosystem. eCommerce Ads (with an annualised run-rate of 40B+) enables merchants to drive sales across Meta’s Family of Apps. Driving a portfolio of work across different stages of product maturity. Prior to Facebook/ Meta, I had the opportunity to build/ scale products, support/ coach strong PMs and lead large cross-functional teams across a broad range of domains and across product/ company maturity stages: * Early-stage: FinTech, Camera, Stories & LiveStreaming products across the 2 startups I had founded (Info Assembly, InstaLively/ Pulse). My last startup was acquired by a unicorn (Hike), as part of India’s largest social media acquisition at that time * Mid-stage: Subscription Video-on-Demand products at a mid-size unicorn startup (GoJek) * Late-stage: Search, Personalisation & Content Aggregation products at larger enterprises (Indeed) 👨‍💻 Responsibilities: * Work with stakeholders to drive end-to-end execution of the product right from product vision, strategy, roadmap to product development, executing go-to-market and driving product growth * Help set Product Strategy, Goals and OKRs for the business unit, and execute on the strategy effectively * Foster a culture of data-driven product development through quantitative data analysis & qualitative research * Coach the Product/ Tech teams and foster collaboration within/ across teams * Liaise and build sustained relationships to influence key internal and external stakeholders * Drive recruitment to build out high calibre teams and groom teams to establish a strong culture Love challenging problems and creating products with massive global impact. ✍️ My newsletter around Product Management insights: http://pmsummaries.substack.com
Karthik Vaidyanath’s Current Industry Meta
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Vaidyanath’s Prior Industry
O3 Capital
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Info Assembly
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Pulse
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Instalively
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Hike
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Gojek
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Indeed Com
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Various
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Meta
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Work Experience

Meta
Product Lead (Commerce + Ads)
Wed Mar 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Meta
Pillar Lead (Customer Experience)
Fri Apr 01 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Wed Mar 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Meta
Product Lead (Customer Experience)
Sat May 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Apr 01 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Various
Angel Investor & Advisor
Wed Jan 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Indeed Com
Director of Product Management
Fri Feb 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat May 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Gojek
Head of Product
Mon Jan 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Jan 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Hike
Director of Product Management (joined via Acquisition)
Sun Jan 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Mon Jan 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Pulse
CoFounder/ CEO & Head of Product
Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Jan 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Instalively
CoFounder/ CEO & Head of Product
Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Jan 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Info Assembly
Co Founder & Head of Product
Sun Jan 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
O3 Capital
Investment Banker
Sat Jan 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Jan 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)