Ramesh Ramalingam Email & Phone Number

Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Advising several startups on strategy, product management, marketing and go-to-market strategy.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

New York, New York, Us

- Search GM: Managed user engagement, growth, monetization, and financials for Yahoo search products and partnerships generating $XB annual revenue by leading a team of 75 staff and a cross-functional team of 250 product managers, designers, engineers, data analysts, and business managers. Developed product vision, distribution strategy, and key milestones to reorganize the team to execute a new multi-year partnership with Microsoft.- Built (product vision, strategy, development) and launched OneSearch, a mobile-first privacy-focused search engine and application in Q1'20. OneSearch offers a cookie-less consumer search experience with advanced keyword encryption and self-destructing search results to protect user privacy.- Developed and managed a growth team to acquire users and to improve user engagement for search products. Improved UX with advanced query classification and auto completion, unique knowledge cards, content recommendation, and ranking.- Executive sponsor and product lead for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications. Advised and built a scalable platform to develop AR/VR enabled applications and ads within the Verizon Media ecosystem.- Developed and implemented new processes to manage supply quality, publisher policy compliance, fraud protection, onboarding and support for distribution partners that resulted in improved traffic quality of the entire network.- Negotiated a multi-year partnership contract with Microsoft and led the team to implement search exclusivity partnership and grew revenue within 3 months.- Managed ad quality review, brand safety and payment fraud prevention for Native and Search ads platform and improved ads review SLA by devising different processes by customer segments.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managed a portfolio of web search and search ads offerings from Yahoo, Bing and Google and delivered optimized user experience and yield optimization for Yahoo and its partners. Led a team of 8 product managers, 50+ engineers at Yahoo and a cross-functional partnership team with Yahoo Gemini, Microsoft Bing and Google.- Established a new product development group and built Search SSP, a first-of-its- kind machine learning system to optimize user experience and revenue by dynamically allocating traffic to the best search provider for each user query.- Improved user experience and monetization of shopping/commercial queries with related searches, search categories, product catalog, and product listing ads.- Developed product vision, strategy and key milestones to scale Google partnership, setup data-driven and generated sizable incremental revenue for Yahoo within 6 months.- Served as a key product expert on Google contract negotiation and on antitrust discussions with US, Canadian and European regulators.- Streamlined operations with Microsoft partnership and generated savings worth $XM/yr.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managed 2 product portfolios. First, by establishing and leading a team of 25 engineers, PMs & user experience designers across business units to grow search users, second, ad serving systems worth >$X B with 2 PMs and 20 engineers.-Audience Growth: Drove corporate-wide annual goal and grew search audience on Yahoo home page, mail, media verticals like news, sports, finance, and digital magazines. Developed innovative new products and a multi-dimensional experimentation platform to fast-track iterative testing and validation of product and user experience features. Increased search audience by 21% and generated incremental search queries with annual revenue of $X00M.- Generated incremental annual revenue of >$XM by launching new ad products for Yahoo-Bing ads marketplace.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Established Yahoo-Bing search ads marketplace in 29 markets and grew revenue by over 30%. Transitioned search ads for Yahoo Japan to Google platform, optimized Bing ads performance in North America.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Held multiple, expanding product portfolio leadership roles in search and display advertising systems worth over $3B revenue. Directed a team of 7 product managers and 100+ engineers.Global Product Alliance StrategyAwarded a leadership position for developing a joint global Yahoo-Microsoft search advertising marketplace. Directed a team of 5 product managers, 100+ engineers at Yahoo, and 200+ at Microsoft to establish a joint marketplace in the U.S.- Architected systems and processes for registering publishers. Assessed the readiness of Microsoft systems to handle large-scale volumes from Yahoo by developing various risk mitigation plans that included phases such as E2E integration, beta, scale tests, pre-volume, and volume migration.- Completed unprecedented supply migration of over 10K QPS generating $XB in annual revenue without any system-related bottlenecks or issues.Audience and Publisher Solutions- Formed & led “Audience and Publisher Solutions” to be “Voice of the Publisher” customer within the search ads executive team.- Enabled publisher-specific optimization for search ads by managing a team of 3 product managers, and 12 experimentation scientists and engineers and processes for registering publishers.Display and Search Advertising- Launched display ads product features by managing 6 PMs & directed a team of 100 engineers - Launched several Sponsored Search serving features on time when managing 4 PMs and directing a team of 20 Engineers in the E2E launch process, establishing an efficient process for managing backlog and roadmap.

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Fr

Managed P&L of desktop/enterprise products generating $25M annual revenue, available in 13+ languages in US, Europe, Asia & Emerging markets. Developed a new line of windows-native CAD integrated Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software for Structural Research & Analysis Corp (Acquired by Solidworks in 2002). Led development of product roadmap, feature prioritization, product requirements, product packaging, and pricing for 8 major releases of design analysis software for SolidWorks users.

Developed a finite element code to model chip formation process for machining with commercially available grooved tool inserts and to analyze the distributions of stresses, strain-rates, strains, and temperatures for machining with different geometries of the insert including chip-groove parameters, workpiece materials and cutting conditions.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering (Production)

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bsme, Production (Mechanical) Engg