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Hoshank Ailani

Product Manager

Bangalore, India · hoshankailani@gmail.com · +91-9650733702 · LinkedIn · Blog

Experience

InMobi Group

Sept 2025 – Present

Product Manager, Central Data Repository

  • Led InMobi's Central Data Repository as the mission-critical data platform, owning its vision, strategy, and roadmap while managing a cross-functional team of 18 engineers, 4 Associate PMs, and 1 designer, and driving alignment with Ad Exchange, Finance, and GTM teams to process billions of daily events across 200M+ devices globally.
  • Enhanced data reliability by introducing monitoring dashboards and automated anomaly detection pipelines, raising SLA compliance from 95% → 99.9% and strengthening trust in outbound API reporting and downstream finance systems.
  • Streamlined month-end revenue recognition by redesigning ingestion and reconciliation workflows, improving accuracy and reducing manual interventions by 90% (cut reconciliation time from 5 days → 12 hours).
  • Defined standardized data governance models (access policies, tagging frameworks, lineage tracking), enabling faster onboarding of new datasets and reducing duplication/conflicts across teams.
  • Improved stakeholder experience by building self-serve query/reporting chatbot, empowering business users to serve 3k+ queries/day.
  • Mentored analysts and APM on storytelling with data, product discovery, and technical documentation — building a scalable product culture within the data organization.

Pixis

May 2022 – Present

Senior Product Manager, R&D and New Initiatives

Jan 2025 – Present
  • Led a 20-member cross-functional team to scale an AI-powered static and motion creative generation platform for performance marketers, growing from $0 to $10M ARR in 5 months.
  • Drove rapid revenue growth by onboarding four automotive and consumer-tech brands in the first quarter, generating $800K ARR within 2 months through 2-week onboarding sprints and real-time performance recommendations.
  • Launched the AdRoom Editor, a Canva-style interface with creative tools enabling marketers to manage projects, edit layers, and collaborate — accelerating brand compliant creative iteration and reducing graphic designer workload by 80% and eliminating manual QA.

Senior Product Manager – Prism (Pixis Advance)

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
  • Launched a marketing AI co-pilot, Prism, leading a 15-member team to deliver natural-language and voice-chat interfaces for data queries, creative generation, executive reporting, and one-click campaign actions — raising user autonomy and satisfaction.
  • Aligned product positioning, building interactive demo environments, and training GTM teams on messaging, features, and success playbooks to reduce new-customer onboarding time by 40%.
  • Optimized the sales funnel, introducing interactive demo accounts, an ROI savings calculator, walkthrough videos, and FAQs — improving trial-to-paid conversion by 25% and streamlining support via JIRA-based feedback.
  • Conducted 15+ voice-of-customer interviews, translating core pain points into five high-impact roadmap features — accelerating time-to-value and guiding backlog prioritization.

Technical Product Manager, Platform

April 2022 – Jan 2024
  • Led a 12-person cross-functional pod (7 developers, 2 engineering managers, 2 QA) to design, build, and scale Pixis' Data Platform & Execution Engine.
  • Owned the product strategy and execution, supporting SQL-backed and distributed data systems powering analytics, optimization, and activation workflows for processing 1M+ keywords/day for 400+ enterprise customers.
  • Defined and delivered a multi-quarter platform roadmap focused on data reliability, availability, and scalability, achieving 99.6% end-to-end data-sync reliability across ingestion, processing, and activation layers.
  • Partnered closely with infrastructure and engineering teams to design fault-tolerant ingestion and processing pipelines, reducing data availability delays from 4 hours → < 15 mins.
  • Led initiatives to reduce operational risk and manual recovery effort by automating data validation, monitoring, and failure detection.
  • Designed and shipped real-time and batch data flows across multiple data sources and destinations (Google Ads, Meta, Amazon, GA, AppsFlyer), ensuring consistent data durability and correctness guarantees for revenue-critical workloads.
  • Introduced platform-level SLAs and reliability metrics in collaboration with engineering, enabling data-driven prioritization of resilience improvements and investment decisions.
  • Worked cross-functionally with AI research, GTM, and customer success teams to balance performance, cost, and reliability tradeoffs while scaling platform usage across high-spend enterprise clients.

Dell Technologies

June 2017 – March 2022

Senior Associate / Product Lead

Jan 2021 – March 2022
  • Led the product development of Dell's subscription-based billing and entitlement platform, integrating with legacy order management systems (OMS) and finance systems across NA, EMEA, and APAC regions.
  • Defined platform requirements for data correctness, availability, and recovery, supporting real-time financial reporting and automated revenue recognition for multi-billion-dollar revenue lines.
  • Partnered with engineering, finance, and legal teams to ensure system reliability during peak billing and close cycles, reducing manual reconciliation effort by 85% and minimizing downtime risk for finance operations.
  • Enabled scalable onboarding of 40+ subscription products, balancing platform stability, extensibility, and operational risk in a complex, matrix enterprise environment.

Software Engineer 2

Aug 2018 – Jan 2021
  • Automated root cause analysis using AI, spanning 5 continents, 5K+ SKUs, and 100K+ parts — saving $30M+ in prevented shortages within 6 months.
  • Enabled 20+ teams to adopt eXtreme Programming + DevOps by automating pipelines, prioritizing ~$10M in software value delivery across global supply chain platforms.
  • Integrated Agile into daily operations, reducing delivery cycle time from months to weeks and significantly boosting roadmap throughput and feature velocity.

Software Engineer 1

June 2017 – Aug 2018
  • Selected for Dell's flagship Global Ops innovation team (13 members), securing $80M budget to modernize the global supply chain platform.
  • Co-Scaled the innovation team from 13 to 100+ members, aligning engineering, ops, and product to deliver on modernization strategy.
  • Designed cross-functional digital systems in supply chain and finance ops — driving operational scalability and laying the groundwork for Dell's internal platform transformation.

Education

Institute of Management Technology

Jan 2024 – Feb 2025

Advanced General Management Program (AGMP)

GPA: 8.86 / 10

Shiv Nadar University

Aug 2013 – May 2017

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (B.Tech)

GPA: 8.14 / 10

  • Awarded full scholarship for tuition across the entire program.
  • Secretary and Founding member of ACM chapter at the university (2014–2015).
  • Organized hackathons and workshops on competitive programming and web development.

Skills, Tools & Technologies

Programming Languages

Python (Advanced), JavaScript & TypeScript, Java

Cloud & Infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker & Kubernetes, Cloud Native Architecture, SQL (MySQL, Postgres, Amazon RDS)

Software

Jira, Figma, Miro, Asana, Excel, Survey Monkey, Google Ads, Mixpanel, Tableau, Power BI