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Forbes Contributor | Ex-Amazon, Peloton, Aurora, Cruise | VP, AI Strategy & Operations @ Ensemble Health Partners.","location":{"city":"San Francisco, CA, United States"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"pradeepreddiar","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/pradeepreddiar"}]},"meta":{"canonical":"https://saywise.com/pradeep","version":"v1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-10-06T03:34:37.588Z"},"x_saywise":{"handle":"pradeep","pronouns":null,"availability":null,"oneLiner":"Builder-operator who's scaled AI, software, and technology platforms from zero to hyper-growth across Amazon, Peloton, Aurora, Cruise, and Mendel.ai → Ensemble Health Partners. I specialize in building the operating systems that turn ambitious vision into disciplined execution: planning frameworks, performance systems, global team structures, and the cross-functional connective tissue that keeps fast-moving orgs accountable. From negotiating a $250M cloud contract at Aurora to scaling a 150-person global AI team at Mendel, I operate at the intersection of strategy, people, and execution. Forbes Contributor | Ex-Amazon, Peloton, Aurora, Cruise | VP, AI Strategy & Operations @ Ensemble Health Partners.","profileUrl":"https://saywise.com/pradeep","markdownUrl":"https://saywise.com/pradeep/profile.md","pdfUrl":"https://saywise.com/pradeep/resume.pdf","archetype":{"code":"HE-DG","name":"Junction Navigator","url":"https://saywise.com/sca/f5420da35c28","rarity":"One of the first Junction Navigators on Saywise"},"aiStack":[{"name":"Claude","description":null,"url":"https://claude.ai","storyCount":0},{"name":"ChatGPT","description":null,"url":"https://chatgpt.com","storyCount":0},{"name":"xAI Grok","description":null,"url":null,"storyCount":0}]},"work":[{"name":"Ensemble Health Partners","position":"VP, Operations & Strategy","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://ensemblehp.com","startDate":"2025-07-01","summary":"✨ Operational and strategic partner to the Chief AI Officer, serving as the COO of Ensemble's Global AI Innovation Center across the U.S., Egypt, and India — driving end-to-end strategy, operations, and execution to accelerate Ensemble's AI-driven transformation. 🔄 Led post-acquisition integration of Mendel's talent, data infrastructure, and AI assets into Ensemble, accelerating innovation and revenue growth. 🔗 Serve as the primary interface between Ensemble's AI Innovation Center and core enterprise functions — HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Security, and Vendor Management — ensuring seamless global operations across the US, Egypt, and India with strong fiscal discipline and regulatory compliance. 🤖 Drive strategic planning and execution for deploying AI solutions across Ensemble's business units, aligning global research and engineering efforts to enterprise priorities and operational goals. 🚀 Serve as the Operational General Manager for Mendel Egypt, overseeing 100+ professionals in AI data labeling, clinical informatics, and knowledge graph development to build high-quality data assets powering enterprise AI models. 🌍 Designed and implemented a global talent model positioning Egypt as a cost-effective, high-quality AI data hub. ⚙️ Deployed AI agents and computer-use automations across recruiting, program management, and operational workflows — reducing candidate outreach costs from $55+/hr to $0.07/contact, achieving 93–96% cost savings and becoming the basis of a published Forbes article."},{"name":"Mendel.ai","position":"VP, Operations & Strategy (Acquired)","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://mendel.ai","startDate":"2022-12-01","endDate":"2025-07-01","summary":"🏗️ Designed and institutionalized the Mendel Operating System — defining meeting cadences, executive dashboards, decision frameworks, and cross-functional review structures that became the operational backbone for 150+ employees. 🎯 Created the Qualume Score framework (featured in Forbes) — a performance measurement system balancing quality and volume that improved team productivity from <30% to >100% and boosted retention by 20%. 📈 Implemented OKiR and OKR frameworks (featured in Forbes), increasing goal attainment by 30% and establishing quarterly planning rituals aligned to annual and long-range milestones. 💰 Led headcount allocation and workforce planning across global teams; negotiated $2.5M in procurement savings through financial modeling and vendor optimization. 🌍 Scaled the global AI Innovation Center across the US & Egypt— growing the organization from 61 to 150+ employees while maintaining <3% turnover and improving employee satisfaction by 13%. 🔐 Drove SOC 2 Type 2 certification and led post-acquisition integration of Mendel into Ensemble, spanning HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and Security."},{"name":"Peloton Interactive","position":"Director, Operations, Strategy & Planning","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","startDate":"2021-09-01","endDate":"2022-11-01","summary":"🚴 Served as Chief of Staff to the CTO, providing operational and strategic support to an 800+ person Technology organization with a $300M+ annual budget. 📊 Built rhythm-of-business processes, annual planning cadences, and organizational review structures for the CTO's office — directly improving 2022 Engagement Survey scores by 11% (from 68% to 79%). 💰 Led cross-functional headcount and budget initiatives as part of Peloton's restructuring committee, delivering $50M in cost savings while maintaining team alignment during a critical company transition. 🎯 Introduced micro P&Ls and OKR alignment across product groups, increasing accountability and measurable goal attainment across the Technology org. 🏆 Designed and launched the Technology Impact Awards and DEI programs, achieving 88% self-ID participation and 14% higher management engagement scores."},{"name":"Aurora","position":"Technology Operations","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","startDate":"2019-10-01","endDate":"2021-09-01","summary":"☁️ Negotiated a $250M, three-year cloud platform contract 55% below GCP list rates and led Aurora's full infrastructure migration from Google Cloud to AWS, delivering $50M+ in savings. 🚗 Managed quarterly OKRs for Technology Platform teams, improving key result attainment by 20% and delivering the Data & Machine Learning Platform powering Aurora's autonomous trucking systems. 📦 Drove data retention, BI platform, and data democratization policies — aligning infrastructure investments to evolving research and engineering priorities across a rapidly scaling org."},{"name":"Cruise","position":"Lead Technical Program Manager","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://getcruise.com","startDate":"2018-08-01","endDate":"2019-10-01","summary":"🤖 Managed a team of TPMs that led programs for large-scale autonomous vehicle data platforms handling petabytes of sensor and simulation data; directed OKRs for 150+ data engineers, improving delivery cycle times and ROI. 🧑‍💻 Co-founded the Cruise Mentorship Program, achieving 40% company-wide participation and a 90/100 satisfaction score; improved hiring funnel efficiency by cutting time-to-hire by 8 days and increasing offer acceptance by 20%."},{"name":"Coupang","position":"Principal Technical Program Manager","location":"Greater Seattle Area","startDate":"2017-01-01","endDate":"2018-08-01","summary":"🛒 Principal TPM at Coupang (2016–2018): Led a global technical program management team of 5 TPMs for South Korea's largest e-commerce platform during hypergrowth — overseeing delivery infrastructure programs at massive scale."},{"name":"Amazon","position":"Engineering & Technical Program Management Roles","location":"Greater Seattle Area","url":"https://amazon.com","startDate":"2009-10-01","endDate":"2016-12-01","summary":"☁️ Senior TPM, Amazon Wishlist (2014–2016) | TPM, Amazon Web Services (2012–2014) | Data Engineer, Amazon Kindle (2009–2012): Progressive technical and program leadership spanning cloud infrastructure, consumer products, and data engineering across Amazon's most critical platforms."}],"education":[{"institution":"Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy","studyType":"B.tech in Information Technology and Management","startDate":"2001-01-01","endDate":"2005-01-01"}],"skills":[{"name":"Change Management"},{"name":"AI/ML Strategy"},{"name":"Business Transformation"},{"name":"Business Process Management"},{"name":"Cross-functional Team Leadership"},{"name":"Organizational Design"},{"name":"P&L Management"},{"name":"Operations Management"},{"name":"Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)"},{"name":"Organizational Leadership"},{"name":"Business Analysis"},{"name":"Technical Program Management"},{"name":"Cloud Computing"},{"name":"Software Engineering"},{"name":"Agile Methodologies"},{"name":"Scalability"},{"name":"Requirements Analysis"},{"name":"Strategic Communications"},{"name":"Project Management Office (PMO)"},{"name":"Project Management"},{"name":"Business Strategy"},{"name":"Amazon Web Services (AWS)"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform (GCP)"},{"name":"Leadership"},{"name":"Management"},{"name":"Strategic Thinking"},{"name":"Talent Management"},{"name":"Accountability"},{"name":"Organizational Culture"},{"name":"Career Management"},{"name":"IT Leadership"},{"name":"Delegation"},{"name":"Executive Leadership"},{"name":"Influence Others"},{"name":"Business Innovation"},{"name":"Business Risk"},{"name":"Strategic Planning"}],"certificates":[{"name":"Balancing Innovation and Risk","date":"2020-09-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Building Accountability into Your Culture","date":"2020-09-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Jeff Dyer on Innovation","date":"2020-09-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture","date":"2020-08-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Creating a Product-Centric Organization","date":"2020-08-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Cultivating a Growth Mindset","date":"2020-08-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap","date":"2020-08-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Executive Leadership","date":"2020-07-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Influencing Others","date":"2020-07-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Strategic Thinking","date":"2020-07-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Talent Management","date":"2020-07-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Conflict Resolution Foundations","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Delegating Tasks","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Delivering Bad News Effectively","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"DevOps Foundations","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Goal Setting: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Leadership in Tech","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Managing Stress","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Project Portfolio Management Foundations","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"Setting Up a PMO","date":"2020-06-01","issuer":"LinkedIn"}]}