University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Google

Director of Product Management

Product lead for the Customer Platform @ Google Maps Platform.
Revolutionizing how customers leverage geospatial to power their businesses  - just tell us your objectives and we will take you there!

Group Product Manager

Sr. Product Manager, Google Maps Platform

Product Manager, Google Maps Platform

- Payment: Defined and launched a new payment processing solution that is fast, secure (consumer) and seamless (zero overhead for merchants).

- Point of Sale Integration: Drove team to integrate Google solution to leading point of sale providers at a record time to expedite consumer experience and store's operation

- Hardware: Drove definition and operation to produce a custom device and deploy it in stores to enable Hands Free Payment

PM for Hands Free Payment

- Drove expanding Wallet app beyond payment to enhance consumer value and boost usage 2x
- Defined and launched a simple way for users to harvest their offers / loyalty from third party site or app (recently renamed to Save2AndroidPay)
- Drove offers distribution experiments with Google ads network (search, display, Gmail) to lower offers subscription costs 10x

PM for Offers, Loyalty and Gift Cards (beyond payment)

- Built 18 people team in US+EMEA  to enable shopping experiences on Google
- Drove integration interfaces and  data delivery protocols at scale to boost shopping inventory data (store and sku level) from large and small online retailers
- Impact: data coverage and accuracy boosted usage and set the stage for new shopping based products (ie Google Express)

Partner Technology Manager, Google Shopping

- Lead 20+ AdSense engineers responsible for implementing and optimizing ads syndications that drive $xB with Google's top partners
- Fostered teams’ innovation and collaborate with top search ads partners to grow revenue 10%-20% yearly and direct optimization uplift of $xxM / year

AdSense Lead and Manager

- Lead Partner Start Page (PSP) syndication program that drove substential revenue ($XXXm) and set the foundations for Apps for domain
- Drove syndication readiness and the first deals to syndicate Local APIs, Gmail hosting, Custom Search engine, each matured overtime to a $xxxM+ business

AdSense Technical Account Manager

Noosh is a software company that helps Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies to streamline print procurement from bidding to product definition and project management.

Took a leading role in defining and implementing Noosh strategic integration with large print houses as well as with its top customers.

Noosh, Inc

Integration Manager

digiGroups was a start-up company that developed application solutions for real-time customer engagement.  Noosh acquired digiGroups in 10/01.

I joined as an early engineer (while operating from a garage) and helped to build the team and define the product direction. After a year, I took a leading roll in engineering to drive a product rewrite to develop a communication platform (file sharing, inbox, page builder etc.) with interactive interface via a web application. The product leveraged digiGroups proprietary technology preempting later internet technologies such as AJAX and JSON

digiGroup

Architect and Engineering lead

NetDynamics pioneered in providing a Java platform to simplify the development of web applications. Sun acquired NetDynamics in late 1998.
 
Consulted development teams at Fortune500 (US), banks (Asia) and manufacturing (EU) how to migrate their legacy internal systems (purchasing, supply chain, accounting) to the web leveraging NetDynamics.

NetDynamics (Sun)

Consultant

Prototyped and developed web applications (before any web application standards) for IBM internal project management  to improve tracking, reporting and quality of deliverables.

Amit Litsur