Canada

Generalist Product Management

Platform Product Management

Community Management

Project Management

Ameya Bongale

Product Manager

Communication

Problem-solving

Leadership

Project management

Community management

Postman

Python

Figma

Working on AI-powered product search and discovery for enterprise commerce. 

Focused on improving shopper experiences through search personalization, product relevancy and generative AI answering.

Enabled Shopify merchants and app developers to sell products through subscriptions, pre-orders and try before you buy.  Worked on platform API development, shipping new features and enabling eature unification across the platform. 

Some key achievements include:

- Enabling activation of new subscription merchants by building a data migration tool for Shopify’s subscription app by conducting user interviews, project scoping, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and creating go-to-market documentation.

- Championing the launch of faster shipping speeds at checkout for subscription products by crafting the product requirements, aligning multiple stakeholders, managing risk and overseeing deployment.

- Partnering with the risk management team to extend fraud protection functionality for subscription products within a quick timeline, resulting in safeguards against fraud for subscription merchants.

- Executing launch of automatic discount functionality for subscriptions in a 6-week timeline, through problem discovery and validation, cross-team collaboration and testing resulting in 20% improved feature adoption

- Being promoted to full-time role by graduating Shopify’s apprentice product program earlier than the cohort

∙Managed initiatives to analyze data and reduce excess packaging inventory and optimize inventory levels
∙ Responsible for optimizing Shopify Logistics network through forecasting, sales and operations planning
∙ Reduced backorders by 84% and leading initiatives to optimize inventory levels across multiple warehouses.

Leading product support operations and knowledge management projects to enable customer acquisition and retention for SaaS based Ecommerce ERP product.

Part of a core team that built a property management system to serve the backpacker hostel industry.

Drove improvements in productivity, safety, and retention, leading a team of 80 associates to achieve over 30% productivity gains, zero safety incidents for 2+ months, and a reduction in monthly attrition from 5% to 2%

Part of Small Company Innovation Program/Technology Commercialization Assistance (SCIP/TCA)
Conducting market research for startups to assess feasibility of products and creating action plans

Improved internal work scheduling by implementing solutions that increased planning accuracy by 13% and execution ready work by 9%, resulting in $500K expected savings across 6 locations.

• Worked in the Analytics and Research team with a focus on improving sales and distribution strategy for the firm through analysis of retail & customer demographic data
• Analyzed retail sales data to establish optimal retail distribution volumes resulting in reduction of unsold copies by 30%
• Collaborated with Consumer Insights and Marketing teams to develop a segmentation model used to identify marketing promotions that resulted in 10% increase in magazine sales

• Utilized forecasting and trend analysis techniques to establish re-order levels across SKU's; reduced stock outs from 15% to 3% consistently month-on-month	          
• Implemented kaizens to improve on-time availability of material from 90% to 98% within 6 months	          
• Collaborated with international teams to implement a Hub-&-Spoke replenishment model to improve reliability levels by 20%	          
• Developed dashboards with quantified Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for analyzing process performance 
• Analyzed production stock-outs using a Root-Cause analysis; automated report generation for information transparency across teams	          
• Collaborated with internal teams for contingency planning and capacity overhauling projects; ensured accurate production capacity transfer and optimized lot sizes for shipments

Successfully carried out Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) for the assembly line and established the results on the production floor.

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