About

Ram Sevak is a hands-on product management professional with over 14 years of experience in building and managing consumer internet products across different organizational sizes, industries, and business models. He is currently the Director of Product Management at Flipkart, where he leads large cross-functional PM teams and develops capabilities, hires, promotes, and nurtures excellence in the PM function. Ram has multi-year experience in building product strategy, creating and aligning organizations on product roadmaps, and executing and iterating on the roadmap. He has delivered results while building for user growth, customer acquisition, e-commerce transactional path platforms, and content-focused products. He is a believer in data-informed decision making, translating business KPIs into product deliverables, and is inherently biased towards execution and rapid experimentation. Ram is interested in influencing and studying mass-scale consumer internet behavior. His industries of expertise include e-commerce and online retail, on-demand streaming - audio and video content businesses, and internet classifieds. Aside from his professional pursuits, Ram has a keen interest in psychology, decision making, product management, and growth consulting. He is currently the President of Vice at ProductSummaries.com, a site focused on helping product managers and product leaders remain updated with the latest in their craft. The site is free for everyone to access and read. In his previous role as Director of Product Management at Flipkart, Ram led and grew the "Offices & Institutions" biz line by 150%+ in one year. He also conceptualized, built, launched and led Flipkart Ideas - the content-led commerce product from Flipkart, which saw 0 to XXX '000 Daily Active Users. Ram has also led time-critical product initiatives to raise funds towards Covid relief efforts in India, raising around 2M USD with purely product levers. Prior to Flipkart, Ram was the Head of Product - Growth at Gaana - India's favorite music app, where he owned mobile website and desktop products, scaled them to be the largest sites for enjoying music in India, and grew V/UV by 30% and MAUs by 4X in a year through organic growth levers. He also owned traffic monetization and mWeb --> app download funnel optimization at massive scale (35M+ MAU) and mentored product managers. Ram holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from IIM in Marketing, Economics, and Finance and an Engineer’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from