# Arvind Vaitheeswaran **Member of Strategy & Operations Staff** — Seattle, WA, United States > Strategy and operations leader with experience scaling businesses at OpenAI, Statsig, McKinsey, Amazon, and Uber across product, commercialization, and go-to-market challenges. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Navigator** (HS-DG) — One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arvindvaithee ## Experience ### Member of Strategy & Operations Staff, OpenAI (2025-12 – present) Seattle, Washington, United States · 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. ### Strategy & Business Operations Lead, Statsig (2025-04 – 2025-12) Seattle, Washington, United States · 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%. ### Strategy Consulting, McKinsey & Company (2021-08 – 2025-02) Chicago, Illinois, United States · 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. ### Senior Product Manager, Amazon (2020-06 – 2020-08) Luxembourg · 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. ### Fellow (ODF4), On Deck (2020-01 – 2020-01) Founders Fellowship - learnt various aspects of starting up and company building with an incredible community ### BizOps, Strategy and Product, Uber (2015-06 – 2019-08) Bangalore, India / Colombo, Sri Lanka / San Francisco, USA · 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. ### Research, Indian Institute of Science (2014-01 – 2015-01) Bangalore, India · Conducted research as part of a team building a portable water filtration and purification tech startup ## Education ### Master of Business Administration - MBA, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (2019-09 – 2021-06) Community Service Award, Student Leadership Award, Kellogg Scholarship, Mahindra Scholarship, multiple case competition wins ### Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, B. M. S. College of Engineering (2011-09 – 2015-06) First Class with Distinction; 4x winner of India's largest university-level quiz and trivia competition on science and technology ### High School in Science, Indian School Certificate, The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore Activities and societies: Leadership roles - Quiz Club, Literary Club ## Projects ### Study of Fractal Growth in a Microchannel Worked at the Flexible Electronics Laboratory, Dept. of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. ## Skills Interpersonal Skills, Business Insights, Teamwork, SQL, Microsoft Excel, Leadership, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, C, C++, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Matlab, Java, Quiz, Presentations, Research, Social Media, Customer Service, Chemical Engineering, R, Python, Stata, Tableau, Looker, strategy, product management, go-to-market, operations, business case development, pricing, organizational design, competitive intelligence, A/B testing, marketplace optimization, regulatory compliance, commercial diagnostics ## Credentials - **INSEAD Product Games Case Competition** — INSEAD, Singapore (issued 2019-11) - **KC Mahindra Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies Abroad** — KC Mahindra Education Trust (issued 2019-08) - **Asia Innovation & Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme** — National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University - Beijing, Indian School of Business (issued 2016-07) - **Best Project Award** — Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) (issued 2015-05) - **Young India Fellowship** — Ashoka University (issued 2015-05) - **Young Leaders Program** — Indian School of Business (issued 2014-11) - **Outstanding Contribution to Quizzing** — The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore - **Quizzes** - **TAPMI Quiz on the Beach - International Champion** — TA Pai Management Institute - **TCS Tech Bytes** — Tata Consultancy Services, and Board of IT Education Standards, Govt of Karnataka --- Source: https://saywise.com/member2802 (last modified 2026-10-05T21:30:59.558Z)