{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Arvind Vaitheeswaran","label":"Member of Strategy & Operations Staff","summary":"Strategy and operations leader with experience scaling businesses at OpenAI, Statsig, McKinsey, Amazon, and Uber across product, commercialization, and go-to-market challenges.","location":{"city":"Seattle, WA, United States"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"arvindvaithee","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/arvindvaithee"}]},"meta":{"canonical":"https://saywise.com/member2802","version":"v1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-10-05T21:30:59.558Z"},"x_saywise":{"handle":"member2802","pronouns":null,"availability":null,"oneLiner":"Strategy and operations leader with experience scaling businesses at OpenAI, Statsig, McKinsey, Amazon, and Uber across product, commercialization, and go-to-market challenges.","profileUrl":"https://saywise.com/member2802","markdownUrl":"https://saywise.com/member2802/profile.md","pdfUrl":"https://saywise.com/member2802/resume.pdf","archetype":{"code":"HS-DG","name":"Launchpad Navigator","url":"https://saywise.com/sca/c4935e6a8098","rarity":"One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise"}},"work":[{"name":"OpenAI","position":"Member of Strategy & Operations Staff","location":"Seattle, Washington, United States","url":"https://openai.com","startDate":"2025-12-01","summary":"Advising GTM leadership on growth and commercialization across cybersecurity, new products, international expansion and product packaging. Built and led OpenAI's BizOps, Strategy & Consulting Codex offerings, launching enterprise alphas and translating customer feedback into product requirements. Led strategic customer research for AI model development with major enterprises to study and improve knowledge work outcomes."},{"name":"Statsig","position":"Strategy & Business Operations Lead","location":"Seattle, Washington, United States","url":"https://statsig.com","startDate":"2025-04-01","endDate":"2025-12-01","summary":"Shifted company to usage-based billing, increasing new logo acquisition and product consumption. Led partnerships with major cloud platforms enabling co-sell efforts that resulted in 40% pipeline increase. Spearheaded international marketing initiatives, driving over 15% growth in lead generation while reducing costs by more than 25%."},{"name":"McKinsey & Company","position":"Strategy Consulting","location":"Chicago, Illinois, United States","url":"https://mckinsey.com","startDate":"2021-08-01","endDate":"2025-02-01","summary":"Delivered $100M margin improvement for F500 automotive client by redesigning assembly line and prioritizing sales channels. Built $5B business case and operationalized electric vehicle business launch covering strategy, operations, manufacturing, GTM, pricing, talent and fundraising. Led centralization of construction permit process at major US telco, achieving 40% improvement in approvals and enabling 50x project volume increase. Structured deal to commercialize battery technology reducing EV production costs by 5%. Conducted commercial diagnostics identifying $25M incremental EBITDA opportunities and revamped field force organization for F500 hardware company generating $15M gross margin impact. Authored research on AI evolution through 2028 and implications for corporate talent and organization."},{"name":"Amazon","position":"Senior Product Manager","location":"Luxembourg","url":"https://amazon.com","startDate":"2020-06-01","endDate":"2020-08-01","summary":"Led build and launch of tech platform enabling 100k+ global vendors and sellers to increase operational efficiency and revenue through enhanced visibility into operational defects and resolution insights."},{"name":"On Deck","position":"Fellow (ODF4)","startDate":"2020-01-01","endDate":"2020-01-01","summary":"Founders Fellowship - learnt various aspects of starting up and company building with an incredible community"},{"name":"Uber","position":"BizOps, Strategy and Product","location":"Bangalore, India / Colombo, Sri Lanka / San Francisco, USA","url":"https://uber.com","startDate":"2015-06-01","endDate":"2019-08-01","summary":"Identified and resolved 100+ operational gaps across APAC region, reducing regulatory and safety risk by over 50% through product and process improvements. Identified product risks in North America, preventing over $100M in potential fines. Launched business in 5 cities across 2 countries with over 50% monthly growth and #1 market position within 12 months. Developed business case for UberAuto, which became fastest-growing product segment globally generating over $1B revenue with over 100% YoY growth. Built and led competitive intelligence team developing processes to surface competitor insights, contributing to over $125M market share and profitability gains. Managed $x00M regional P&L with focus on growth and marketplace optimization, leading 500+ A/B tests that increased annual revenue by over $50M."},{"name":"Indian Institute of Science","position":"Research","location":"Bangalore, India","url":"https://iisc.ac.in","startDate":"2014-01-01","endDate":"2015-01-01","summary":"Conducted research as part of a team building a portable water filtration and purification tech startup"}],"education":[{"institution":"Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management","studyType":"Master of Business Administration - MBA","startDate":"2019-09-01","endDate":"2021-06-01"},{"institution":"B. M. S. College of Engineering","studyType":"Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering","startDate":"2011-09-01","endDate":"2015-06-01"},{"institution":"The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore","studyType":"High School in Science, Indian School Certificate"}],"projects":[{"name":"Study of Fractal Growth in a Microchannel","description":"Worked at the Flexible Electronics Laboratory, Dept. of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru."}],"skills":[{"name":"Interpersonal Skills"},{"name":"Business Insights"},{"name":"Teamwork"},{"name":"SQL"},{"name":"Microsoft Excel"},{"name":"Leadership"},{"name":"Public Speaking"},{"name":"Microsoft Office"},{"name":"C"},{"name":"C++"},{"name":"Microsoft Word"},{"name":"PowerPoint"},{"name":"Matlab"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":"Quiz"},{"name":"Presentations"},{"name":"Research"},{"name":"Social Media"},{"name":"Customer Service"},{"name":"Chemical Engineering"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Stata"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Looker"},{"name":"strategy"},{"name":"product management"},{"name":"go-to-market"},{"name":"operations"},{"name":"business case development"},{"name":"pricing"},{"name":"organizational design"},{"name":"competitive intelligence"},{"name":"A/B testing"},{"name":"marketplace optimization"},{"name":"regulatory compliance"},{"name":"commercial diagnostics"}],"awards":[{"title":"INSEAD Product Games Case Competition","date":"2019-11-01","awarder":"INSEAD, Singapore","summary":"Champion at INSEAD's global technology case competition for presenting farm-to-table fresh produce logistics concept. The competition was sponsored by Google, Amazon, Prodigy Finance and Accenture Strategy and received entries from 120+ teams, with the finals held at INSEAD's Singapore campus."},{"title":"KC Mahindra Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies Abroad","date":"2019-08-01","awarder":"KC Mahindra Education Trust","summary":"Cash scholarship awarded to top 5% of applicants from India pursuing graduate studies abroad. Awarded post an application process including personal panel interviews conducted by the Mahindra Group."},{"title":"Asia Innovation & Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme","date":"2016-07-01","awarder":"National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University - Beijing, Indian School of Business","summary":"Travelled through Singapore, China and India, experiencing the culture of startups and modern markets - and finding ways to explore them. Visited various startups and incubators, and interacted with multiple people involved in the startup ecosystems across the 3 countries to understand the challenges involved with starting up in these countries. In addition to experiential learning, also covered classroom modules on entrepreneurship, business models, business plans and customer development, starting up, and also challenges of emerging market innovation and intellectual property."},{"title":"Best Project Award","date":"2015-05-01","awarder":"Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)","summary":"A team of esteemed judges adjudged our project \"Study Of Fractal Growth In A Microchannel\" runner-up in the Best Project competition conducted by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers."},{"title":"Young India Fellowship","date":"2015-05-01","awarder":"Ashoka University","summary":"Was offered scholarship admit to the Young India Fellowship Programme (YIF), which is a postgraduate multi-disciplinary programme of Ashoka University, run in collaboration with Penn Engineering, King’s College London, University of Michigan and Sciences Po, Paris. The Young India Fellowship (YIF) seeks to groom young women and men who will lead India through the 21st century and brings together 100 emerging leaders from all over India in a one-year residential post-graduate programme."},{"title":"Young Leaders Program","date":"2014-11-01","awarder":"Indian School of Business","summary":"Part of an elite batch of undergraduate students from all over the world to have been offered a deferred admit to the prestigious Post Graduate Programme at the Indian School of Business, with a scholarship."},{"title":"Outstanding Contribution to Quizzing","awarder":"The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore","summary":"Was awarded 4 years in a row for Outstanding Contribution to Quizzing in the school, by successfully being a leading part of the quiz team, representing the school at various national level quiz competitions."},{"title":"Quizzes","summary":"Have participated in, and won or attained podium finishes at more than 500 national as well as international level quizzes, through school and college - leading/captaining the team in most of these."},{"title":"TAPMI Quiz on the Beach - International Champion","awarder":"TA Pai Management Institute","summary":"Won the Bangalore round, and then went on to win International final, which was held in a picturesque setting at Kaup Beach, Udupi. Won the grand prize of Rs. 6 lakh, beating teams from all over the world. Press coverage: 1) The Hindu - http://bit.ly/qotbhindu 2) Times of India - http://bit.ly/qotbtoi"},{"title":"TCS Tech Bytes","awarder":"Tata Consultancy Services, and Board of IT Education Standards, Govt of Karnataka","summary":"TCS Tech Bytes is the Karnataka government's flagship search for IT knowledge among engineering students in Karnataka. Won the Bangalore regional final thrice, going on to win the grand finale and clinch the State title twice, and finishing State runner-up once. Press coverage: 1) 2013 edition - http://bit.ly/techbytes13 2) 2014 edition - http://bit.ly/techbytes14 3) 2015 edition - http://bit.ly/techbytes15"}]}