About

Mini Manakame is a seasoned leader with 25 years of work experience across multiple organizations and geographies. As the Head of Product at Amazon India Advertisement, she has been responsible for owning the end-to-end product roadmap for Hardlines Customers of Amazon India and has managed product teams building large products for various customers worldwide. Mini's key skills include engineering management and delivery, people management, program management, process definition and establishment, operations, P&L ownership, BU set up, initialization and sustenance, stakeholder management, sales, account management, offering build, diversity, and inspirational speaking. During her career, Mini has managed engineering teams for ~20 years, setting them up from scratch based on the requirements and delivering. She has managed products/programs from ideation to launch to sunset and has owned large-scale programs with significant complexity and business impact, involving large sets of geographically dispersed stakeholders at executive leadership levels. Mini has also been responsible for setting processes and taking organizations through large-scale transformation, getting them ready for M&A. She has handled large-scale operations teams and was responsible for setting them up from scratch. Additionally, she has owned end-to-end P&L as a business unit leader and was responsible for running profitable businesses. Mini has set up various business units ground up, established them, and monetized them. She has worked directly with CXOs of various organizations and has owned hunting (sales) and farming (account management) as a part of previous organizations. She has also owned large-scale diversity charters for organizations, reporting to CEO. Mini has presented at various events, including the 3rd edition Women leaders in India organized by iiGlobal, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and Women’s Leadership organized by SiliconIndia. Mini holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication from Mahatma Gandhi University. Currently, she is a Project Manager at Aditi Technologies, having previously worked as a Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation and Vice President - Engineering Excellence at Aditi Technologies.