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Dhaval Shah

Product Executive | I Build Businesses | Marketplaces • Enterprise Platforms • Ex-Amazonian

About Me

I'm a Product and Growth executive with 19+ years of experience, most recently at Copart (a $3B automotive auction platform) and Amazon. My core expertise spans automotive retail and recommerce, marketplace strategy, AI-enabled product development, and international market expansion. At Copart, I identified a $22B market opportunity from scratch, an auto-parts marketplace, wrote the business case, secured C-suite funding, and built it to 256K SKUs in UAT with a signed 500,000-unit commercial agreement from a major UK distributor. I also built a production AI system that diagnosed a $45M operational cost and delivered $10M in annual savings. At Amazon, I scaled a vendor marketing program from 3 to 10 international markets in 13 months, and launched Amazon Renewed (Amazon's refurbished-goods marketplace) from zero in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Earlier in my career, I spent 13 years in commercial and distribution leadership across major CPG companies in India. I can speak to automotive marketplaces and recommerce, refurbished/secondhand goods platforms, AI product development, international market entry, vendor and channel partnership strategy, and marketplace operations.

Jurisdiction

United States | India

Notable Employer

  • Director of Product at Copart
  • Sr. Product Manager at Amazon

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience15-20 years
Current StatusActive
Director of ProductNotableCopart
2024 - 2026

Director-equivalent scope | 3 product lines | $3B+ GMV, 17M-member platform | 5 direct reports • Owned the end-to-end development of a new auto-parts marketplace, conceptualizing the $22B TAM opportunity, building the product, and presenting the business case (PRFAQ, 3-year plan, operations doc) to the C-suite, which secured approval. Directed UI/UX design, third-party integrations, and seller acquisition, and delivered 256 K SKUs in UAT, positioning the launch to achieve $5-6 M revenue in the first year for the Auto-Parts Marketplace • Optimized the Customer Service organization delivery by identifying a $45M hidden cost, strategizing and executing a phased product roadmap (customer interaction workflow routing, ticketing platform, AI-Enabled RAG based CS Copilot) that moved CSAT from 3.7 to 4.8, $10M Operational Savings, AHT -46%. • Built and Led a team of 8 Product Managers and mentored 12 more from the ground-up. Established Product Governance and 1st Principal Thinking as a bedrock of Product Department. Instilled PRFAQ, Operational Plan and PRD skill-sets discipline amongst the team to elevate team performance

Founder and BuilderKinship
2026 - Present

AI agent app for relationship intelligence | Claude Code, React Native, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Claude API • Built Kinship (www.kinshipapps.com) from scratch with Claude Code, integrating Gmail, Slack, iMessage, and WhatsApp to classify relationship context and generate emotionally calibrated replies via the Claude API, delivering rapid AI integration and accelerating product launch. Live in production with 300+ users across 12 countries

Sr. Product ManagerNotableAmazon
2023 - 2024

GM-equivalent scope | Vendor brand management, GTM, and operational transformation | ~$20M GMV portfolio • Led the launch of Amazon Renewed in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, built an OCR-based automation system that cut seller onboarding time by 67%, resolved pre-launch legal issues, and recovered $7.5M GMV; the onboarding process was later adopted in five markets, unlocking over $750M in total value • Revitalized a $20M GMV vendor portfolio by restructuring PPC campaigns, rebuilding the product catalog, and using data analysis to develop a demand-signal model for more accurate inventory forecasting; translated customer and performance insights into prioritization decisions that drove growth from flat to 14%, or 1.5X the category average.

Sr. Program ManagerAmazon
2019 - 2023

Unified Vendor Marketing across 10 global markets | Amazon Go Grocery first-ever store launch | Checkout Category innovation • Drove the execution of a change management international marketing program across 10 countries (EMEA, EU, NA) by influencing Country Heads and finance VPs, leveraging data to get category buy-in and restructuring KPIs resulting in $29M incremental vendor investment with +37% ROAS improvement. Fastest ever expansion of program, 10 countries in 1.3 years vs 3 countries in previous 2 years. • Led the creation and launch of Amazon Go Grocery’s first store supply chain from the ground up, built vendor schedules, accurate catalogs, and out-of-stock processes; coordinated Store Operations, Category Management, and planogram teams, delivering 99.7% in-stock at launch and enabling seven new stores to open 30 days faster. • Resolved expiring seasonal gift card losses by leading the launch of an automation-driven on-demand kiosk printing solution with a vendor, resulting in a 128% surge in checkout category sales within two months.

Education

Masters of Business ManagementNarsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
2004 - 2006

Certification

Total Certifications1

PMP

PMI

2023

Skills

Core skills10
Interests5
Languages2

Skills

Product Management
Product Strategy
Project Management
AI Strategy
International Expansion
E-Commerce Strategy
C-Suite Management
Team Development
Customer Service Strategy
Retail Strategy

Interests

AI Development
Product Management
International Expansion
New Business Development
Program Management

Languages

English
Hindi