Ankur Kapoor

Head of Product for Catalog Intelligence at Meta — managing a team of 10+ product managers and partnering with 100+ engineers to build AI/ML systems that drive how products and content are understood across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. • Product Recognition: Building state-of-the-art computer vision and multimodal AI capabilities that automatically identify, classify, and enrich product information at scale — enabling more relevant shopping and advertising experiences across Meta's commerce surfaces. • Knowledge Graph: Developing and scaling Meta's product knowledge graph — connecting entities, attributes, and relationships to create deep semantic understanding of products and content, powering downstream applications in ads targeting, recommendations, and discovery. • Generative AI for Video: Leading product strategy for AI-generated video capabilities applied to Reels monetization — leveraging generative models to create new formats that drive creator and advertiser value. • Defining the multi-year product vision and roadmap for Catalog Intelligence, aligning with Meta's broader AI strategy and partnering with Ads, Commerce, Feed Ranking, and Integrity teams. • Building and developing a high-performing PM organization — hiring, mentoring, and promoting product leaders across London and global offices.

Conceptualized, piloted, and scaled Amazon's Same Day Delivery network (4-hour delivery) across 50 cities in India as Single Threaded Leader, building a new business line from zero to nationwide scale. • Led a cross-functional organization of Senior Managers, Product Managers, Program Managers, Category and Marketing Managers, and Business & Data Engineers — owning the full P&L and end-to-end customer experience. • Designed seamless UX and backend tech integration of hyperlocal business into the main Amazon app, enabling 4-hour delivery without changing how customers shop. • Built ML-powered solutions for selection planning, supply chain optimization, and demand management during weather and peak events — ensuring reliable customer experience in a hyperlocal business with naturally fluctuating demand.

Delivered multiple S-team (SVP-level) goals building products that were critical enablers for Prime Free One Day delivery and helped grow Prime membership significantly. • Led innovations in Amazon's delivery engine — Search, Buy Box ranking, and Recommendations — delivering significant incremental sales impact (measured via A/B testing) by building customer location, inventory, and delivery speed awareness into the shopping experience. • Launched 'Buy More Save More' — a predictive ML capability identifying items that can ship in the same box across Amazon's complex fulfillment network — driving meaningful improvement in shipping cost per unit while improving customer value. • Served as Technical Advisor (Observer) to Amazon India's SVP & Country Head, providing product and technical input on strategic business decisions. • Built and developed a high-performing PM organization — promoted multiple PMs to Principal PM and Senior Manager levels. Received Cowboy Award for exceptional ownership and impact. • Bar Raiser — Amazon's most selective interviewer designation — upholding the hiring bar across Amazon India.

• Led partnership product strategy for online targeting and data-driven consulting, working with Airlines, Hotels, Retail & E-commerce clients across Europe and Asia-Pacific.

• Built machine learning product features for MATLAB's Statistics Toolbox, Bioinformatics Toolbox, and SimBiology — developing algorithms used by researchers and engineers worldwide. • Contributed to product design, implementation, and testing of statistical and ML capabilities, building deep technical foundations in applied ML that inform product leadership today.

- Focus area: Probability & Stochastic Processes - Awarded Benton Fellowship (Merit Scholarship - $55,000)

- Citi Scholar at ISB - award and scholarship for leadership by Citigroup - Merit List, ISB Scholarship & Torch Bearer Award - Director, Academic Affairs Council on the Graduate Student Board (GSB)