Ashish Bhatia
Director of Product Management · Audible (Amazon) · Boston, MA
ashbhatia@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/ashbhatia
Product leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling AI-powered platforms across enterprise and consumer markets. At Audible, driving conversational content discovery and personalization — audiobook search and exploration that fuels ~40% of Audible's revenue. At Microsoft, led integration of OpenAI models into Power Platform, enabling 300K+ monthly active makers and 150M predictions monthly. Holds two patents in AI-based emissions detection and sensor optimization.
Generative AI · Conversational Discovery · Personalization · Search & Recommendation Systems · Prompt Engineering · Evaluation Frameworks · AI Governance · Safe Deployment of AI · Platform & Product Strategy · B2B & B2C Product Leadership · Large Language Models · Agentic AI · RAG · NLP · A/B Testing · Cross-Functional Leadership
Director, Product Management
Driving conversational content discovery and personalization for the world's leading audiobook platform.
- Lead GenAI-powered conversational discovery — the first AI-powered audiobook search at scale — enabling millions of listeners to naturally explore Audible's catalog.
- Launched "Easy Buy" within conversational search, generating $500K in annualized revenue.
- Drive innovation in Audible's search & personalization platform (~40% of company revenue) by evolving user journeys from traditional search to interactive, multi-turn exploration.
- Built end-to-end evaluation framework for conversational search, cutting exhaustive regression testing from 3–4 days to 4–6 hours — an 85%+ reduction in QA cycle time.
Principal Product Manager, AI Tools
Enabled citizen developers to build intelligent agents by integrating generative AI into Microsoft's no-code ecosystem.
- Launched Prompt Builder reaching 300K+ MAU, 150M+ monthly predictions, and 75B+ tokens generated with 20% MoM growth.
- Integrated OpenAI models into Power Platform making state-of-the-art AI accessible to all.
- Delivered capabilities showcased in Satya Nadella's Build '25 keynote — bring-your-own-model and code interpreter.
- Led responsible AI assessment and deployment reviews in compliance with Microsoft's Responsible AI standards.
Principal PM, Cloud for Energy & Sustainability
AI innovation in Microsoft Cloud for Energy and Sustainability — delivered AI-powered solutions at the intersection of energy and environment.
- Delivered industry-first AI capabilities for methane detection and emissions monitoring.
- Filed two patents on sensor placement optimization and source attribution for methane emissions.
- Established strategic partnerships with Chevron, SLB, Equinor, and Shell.
- Represented Microsoft in Project Astra, a leading industry consortium on collaborative methane mitigation.
Senior Data Science Program Manager
Drove AI adoption across manufacturing, retail, and energy through strategic engagements with Fortune 500 customers.
- Founded and scaled the AI Lab Program — Microsoft's best-practice model for customer co-innovation.
- Worked with Jabil to reduce rework by 17% using predictive analytics.
- Built the AI Customer Engagement Program, introducing triage workflows and metrics-driven governance.
Product Manager, Identity and Analytics
Launched and scaled Nokia Identity Services to 300M+ users globally. Owned data ingestion and analytics for the smartphone fleet.
Product Lead, Mobile Applications
Navigation, telephony, and music for Nokia Car Kit. Symbian expert and product tester at Nokia Tampere.
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