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Gauri Khotele

@gaurikhotele

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MBA-trained product manager with analytics-driven product discovery and recommendation expertise.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a product role where I can drive data-led discovery and recommendation improvements, collaborate cross-functionally, and lead experiments that increase engagement and revenue.

I am an MBA professional specializing in product management and category strategy, with hands-on experience improving product discovery, search relevancy, and recommendation systems to drive user engagement and conversions. I deliver measurable results by blending data-driven experimentation, semantic search techniques, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and data teams.

I have led initiatives that reduced search abandonment, cut irrelevant queries, improved CTR, and accelerated feature parity at scale, while also managing QA and validation to reduce pre-deployment rework. I bring leadership from founding campus initiatives to captaining a national sports team and hold a Certified Scrum Product Owner credential.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Summer Intern, Category Mgmt

Jumbotail Technologies

May 2025 - Aug 2025 (3 months)

Led end-to-end revamp of product discovery, reducing search abandonment by 28% and decreasing zero-result queries by 40% via semantic search and phonetic matching; improved autosuggestion latency from 500ms to 100ms and increased search CTR by 25%.

Product Discovery Elasticsearch A B Testing Recommendation Systems Performance Tuning

Assistant Manager, Service Validation

Jio Platforms Ltd.

Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 (6 months)

Drove service validation for JioTranslate achieving 95% feature parity and 50,000 downloads with a 4.2-star rating in two months; reduced pre-deployment rework by 32% and lowered critical production bugs by 15% through rigorous QA and requirements gathering.

Validation & QA Agile Testing Requirements Gathering Benchmarking