Pritesh Malde
VP / HEAD OF PRODUCT
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About
Product leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS and consumer platforms across India, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Proven track record of driving product-led growth, owning P&L, and scaling products from 0→1 and 1→10 (6500+ customers, 370k+ daily transactions, 93% retention). Led global product organizations of 15 to 20 members, delivering measurable business outcomes across marketplaces, fintech, logistics and ecommerce.
Experience
Head of Product at Sleek.com (2024-02 – 2026-01)
Global Fin-tech SaaS platform
- Rebuilt billing and invoicing systems, increasing renewal revenue by 38% and up-sell revenue by 42%
- Automated accounting workflows using AI, improved operational efficiency through UX and workflow redesign reducing manual effort by 75%
- Restructured product organization with business metrics and P&L ownership across product teams
- Led cross-functional team of 15+ product, design, and analytics members
VP of Product at FoodMarketHub (2022-01 – 2024-01)
SaaS based Procurement Platform in Southeast Asia
- Built and scaled SaaS platform across 8 countries, driving rapid adoption through product led growth and onboarding optimization
- Grew customer base from <500 to 6500+ businesses in 9 months via product led growth
- Improved retention to 93% and NPS to 41 through product stability and UX improvements
- Built and led global product organization of 18 members
Head of Product at Sugarbox (2019-10 – 2022-01)
Hyper-local content delivery network
- Scaled platform to 1M+ MAU in low-connectivity environments through offline first product and content delivery optimization
- Built and led product org of 16 members across 6 pods
- Increased infrastructure deployment from 10 to 230 servers/week through supply chain product innovation
Director of Product at OYO (2019-03 – 2019-10)
- Led product charter for Weddingz marketplace
- Generated 3000+ organic leads/month with zero marketing spend
- Launched content platform reaching 120k MAU with 4.5 rating
Head of Product at Obino-Roundglass (2017-08 – 2019-03)
Online Health App & Habit building platform
- Built and scaled habit-building platform used by 220+ companies and 350k+ users
- Achieved 76% retention through engagement driven product design
Product Lead, DMart Ecommerce at DMart (2015-01 – 2017-07)
Online Grocery
- Built and launched DMart ecommerce platform (Android, iOS, Web)
- Scaled to 18k orders/day with 87% retention rate
- Achieved 75k users in 4 months with CAC ₹36 and no online spend
GM Product at Ola (2012-04 – 2014-07)
Ride Hailing
- Led launch of digital products like consumer Apps (Android & iOS), Driver App etc. which laid the foundation of Ola journey and increased the rides served, from 91 a day to 3,70,000 a day
- Built the corporate Ola vertical owning the product, operations and P/L which in 3 months time had 350+ corporates and contributing to 17% of overall Ola's booking
Product Manager at Redbus.in (2011-01 – 2012-04)
Bus Ticketing
- Built and scaled B2B platform from 6k to 173k bookings/month
- Built and launched 'Seat Seller' product for redBus which was first GDS for bus Industry still active after 15 years of launch
Business/Program Analyst at Infosys Technologies Ltd (2005-02 – 2009-08)
IT services, Client British Telecom
Education
Master of Business Administration in Business Administration – Asian Institute of Management (2009-08 – 2010-12)
Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering – University of Mumbai (2000-07 – 2004-07)
