Praveen Krishnan

Group Product Manager, AI Assistants in Automotive

2022

My team and I are building the next generation of AI powered experiences for people in their cars. Leveraging the power of Google, Gemini and Google Assistant, we want to give people the ability to be safe, productive and engaged while they are on the go. As one of the product leads for Google Assistant, my team and I developed proactive experiences for Google Assistant in mobile, smart display and a wide variety of other surfaces reaching over 100M users daily. The Proactive Assistant is available on every Android and Pixel phone in the world.

Lead Product Manager, Google Ads

2020 - 2022

I led the product team building Google Ads to help small and medium businesses succeed, responsible for $xB in ARR. Advertising can be complicated and challenging for small businesses to manage. Our mission is to craft a product and experience that allows small businesses to leverage the power of advertising to succeed. As Lead Product Manager for Conversion Measurement & Google Tag Manager, I led teams that enabled robust conversion measurement and launched conversion unification across all of Google's marketing products: Ads, Analytics, Display Video 360 and CM.

Head of Product, Google Optimize

2018 - 2020

I led the product team for Google Optimize, which quickly became the #1 A/B testing and web personalization tool in the market.

Co-Founder & CEO

2015 - 2018

At NoApp.io, we blended conversational AI and messaging to solve customer service challenges facing businesses, at scale.

Founder, Principal

2015 - 2015

At Steady Green Labs, we build useful consumer and business products. We also help startups with product strategy and execution. - Developed a Banking ‘AI’ customer agent: Personalized banking experiences for a top 5 US bank. - Developed the ‘Simple receipts’ app (https://myreceipts.co): The simplest app in the world to capture business receipts, annotate and save them in the cloud. - Developed a Compensation Evaluation Application called OpenComp: A product built for a boutique executive recruiting firm. - Designed and developed Bobo and Jabba (http://bobojabba.com): A children’s book series that conveys basic scientific ideas in a fun and entertaining story.

Vice President, Product Management

2013 - 2015

Replicon is a enterprise saas workforce management suite that helps businesses pay their employees accurately & bill their clients among other things. Replicon's stellar and dedicated team made a great many things possible for me to execute on. - Delivered and ran Replicon's flagship Time & Attendance product suite and helped to 3x revenues overall. We ramped up our customer base and established Replicon as a leading SaaS time & attendance vendor. - Delivered and ran Replicon's entire mobile application suite and platform. We built the whole mobile product suite from scratch with a globally distributed development team. - Responsible for pushing boundaries with Replicon's next generation technologies. One of the products I brought to market, Replicon CloudClock, helped us open a new market and drive growth. We went from 0 to 200 enterprise customers in two years. - Helped build a strong and talented product and design team at Replicon. We were able to execute rapidly and at scale (weekly releases) with a globally distributed development team. - Actively involved in acquiring and securing large & influential customers. http://www.replicon.com/time-tracking-software

Senior Director of Product Management

2010 - 2013

Lead Product for Replicon Time & Attendance suite

Co-founder

2010 - 2011

JobMob was a web application that made hiring talent more efficient for businesses. Through JobMob, recruiters could incentivize not just their employees but also friends and contacts of their employees through their networks in order to find the best talent. People could refer jobs to their friends and make money through referrals. - Developed requirements, designs and led development for the product. - Hired a fantastic engineering team and managed execution.

Director, Product Management

2009 - 2010

DemandTec's application suite brought the power of data science, econometrics and price optimization to retailers. DemandTec's applications processed huge amounts of retail consumer transactions, competitive pricing info and other raw data to produce predictive models for pricing and promotions. - Built and managed DemandTec OpenLink: Enabled users to integrate and manage high volume consumer data in a highly performant and scalable way. - Built and delivered Connect Network: Social Platform that connected retailers and manufacturers - Built and managed DemandTec Core Platform / Infrastructure: Capabilities around user management and security for users in DemandTec's SaaS application suite.

Senior Product Manager

2007 - 2009

Lead Engineer

2005 - 2006

Lead engineer in the Science group and worked on the high performance data streaming framework for DemandTec's core science platform.

Lead Engineer

2001 - 2005

- Lead engineering teams in various aspect of product development - Design and development of service oriented platform for building custom CRM applications (Java, BPM, BPEL) - Designed and developed Integration applications (Java, TIBCO, webMethods) - Designed and developed CRM applications (C++)

Software Engineer

1999 - 2001

Research Assistant

1997 - 1999

- Research and development in real-time distributed systems - Developed a testbed for path based distributed real time systems - Developed a fault tolerant communication library for real-time distributed systems.

Research Intern

1998 - 1998

- Research and protoyping of SmartCard technology for network authentication (Java, RSA)