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Karthik HEGDE

Karthik HEGDE

Senior Technical Product Manager
Berlin

Summary

Dynamic and results-driven Technical Product Manager with extensive experience in product innovation, development, and lifecycle management. Expertise in agile methodologies, user-centered design, and leading cross-functional teams to achieve strategic objectives. Strong emphasis on collaboration and problem-solving ensures delivery of impactful results aligned with business goals. Recognized for adaptability and reliability in fast-paced environments, consistently driving projects to successful completion.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Senior Technical Product Manager

Amazon
07.2025 - Current


  • Global Expansion Strategy: Created a 3-year product and technical roadmap, influencing VPs in the EU5 and the US to expand GFG beyond Germany; secured SDE headcount and funding for execution.
  • FBA Integration: Enhanced BRD to include Fulfilled By Amazon third-party seller inventory for donations, delivering a stable, WW-compatible solution.
  • Scalable API Framework: Led the design and deployment of an API to identify donation inventory, manage listings, and automate removals, achieving 99% reliability and enabling global scalability.
  • Serverless Delivery: Built and launched a high-impact feature using AWS Lambda and native AWS tools without SDE resources, accelerating time to market.
  • AI Innovation: Deployed an AI tool to detect erroneous product listings, improving accuracy and reducing partner escalations.
    Developed AI-based fraud detection for donations, automating ticket creation and notifications to speed resolution.

Technical Product Manager

Amazon
05.2022 - 06.2025
  • Launched “Goods for Good” (GFG) donation e-commerce platform in Germany from concept to live, driving €12M YoY donations, reducing Amazon.de waste by 2.5%, and delivering €2.5M incremental revenue in year one.
  • Early API Development: Partnered with tech teams to create API functionality to identify, list, and remove donated inventory with high reliability.
  • Operational Efficiency: Built dashboards to automate KPI tracking, weekly business reviews, and partner reporting, eliminating manual work, and saving 5+ hours/week.
  • Requirements Leadership: Authored BRDs for multiple technical features, collaborating with teams across the EU5, and NA ensure delivery quality and timelines.
  • Public Launch Leadership: Collaborated with Public Policy and PR for launch communications, ensuring compliance, brand alignment, and positive media coverage.
  • Documentation Excellence: Created clear, accessible documentation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, improving adoption, and long-term maintainability.
  • Stakeholder Management: Applied Amazon’s Working Backwards methodology to create PR/FAQs and secure buy-in from senior stakeholders.

Product Manager - Machine Learning

Lendingkart Finance Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 11.2020
  • Company Overview: Non-banking financial startup that provides loans to SMEs in India, 4.6 billion INR turnover
  • Designed and implemented A/B experiment for machine learning product and integrated it to main product to improve lead conversion by 12%
  • Led customer analytics team of 2 people to build data visualizations for product KPIs resulting in reduction of manual reporting work by 5 hours weekly
  • Conducted analysis of business requirements in marketing re-engagement channel, and constructed a comprehensive product road map of new product resulting in 4% decrease of spending without affecting throughput
  • Coordinated with C-suite stakeholders to develop Covid-19 market strategy, product road-map and product launch
  • Streamlined dataflow into database from multiple data-points resulting in reduction of effort to collect data by 5 hours weekly
  • Promoted within 12 months of joining due to strong performance & organizational impact

Data Scientist

Lendingkart Finance Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Built machine learning leads prioritization model, which led to 10% conversion lift and 20% reduction in customer Turn Around Time(TAT)
  • Achieved 12% reduction in cost of customer acquisition by developing delivery optimizer as a strategic guidance tool to maximize case transfers in funnel
  • Collaborated closely with a team of five other members to improve performance of credit underwriting model
  • Devised end to end machine learning credit underwriting model prototype using alternative data of customers.

Software Engineer

Mitel Communications
07.2016 - 12.2018
  • Company Overview: Telecommunications company that mainly focuses on VoIP phones and related mobile/PC applications, 1.3 billion USD
  • Enhanced regression cycle from 3 weeks to 2 weeks by developing a centralized dashboard for analysis of bugs resulting from scripts running on 30+ platforms
  • Conducted internal training for over 200 employees, including all senior executives, to adopt new software across company
  • Integrated more than 100 robust automation scripts for web application and was a single point of contact from India to work with the USA software development team
  • Developed and maintained test automation framework, dashboard for tracking test results and building statistics and reports using Python
  • Designed and developed a product bug related data-driven visual dashboard for company, increasing visibility to all teams by 70%

Education

Master of Business Administration - Strategy and Leadership

ESMT Berlin
02.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications

JSS Science and Technology University
06.2016

Skills

PM Tools : JIRA, MS Azure DevOps, Trello

Analytics : R, Python, Microsoft Suite, Google Analytics

Database: MySQL, AWS Redshift, PostgreSQL

Product roadmapping

Product documentation

Product launches

Data-driven decision making

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Certification

Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals by University of Virginia - Coursera

Timeline

Senior Technical Product Manager

Amazon
07.2025 - Current

Technical Product Manager

Amazon
05.2022 - 06.2025

Product Manager - Machine Learning

Lendingkart Finance Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 11.2020

Data Scientist

Lendingkart Finance Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 01.2020

Software Engineer

Mitel Communications
07.2016 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications

JSS Science and Technology University

Master of Business Administration - Strategy and Leadership

ESMT Berlin

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