Vikas Sabnani

Co-Founder

2024 - Current

Building something new and exciting with an awesome team!

Product & Startup Advisor

2024

Advising talented founders and early stage startups in digital health on product strategy, pitch decks, company building, etc.

Investing

2012

Lucky to be an investor in a number of great founders and exciting startups

Founding Member

2023

Head of Product

2020 - 2024

Transcarent is a consumer digital health company that puts people in charge of their health and care experiences. Transcarent empowers consumers with unbiased information, trusted guidance and access to high-value care that leads to better care and better outcomes.

Consulting / Advising

2019 - 2020

Consulting with startups on product, data science and marketplace optimization

VP, Product

2012 - 2019

In 2018, Glassdoor was acquired by Recruit holdings for $1.2B. I joined when the company had ~150 employees and helped grow it to ~900 people. During my time, I wore multiple hats. VP Product While Glassdoor started off as a reviews and salaries site, Jobs and Recruiting was its economic engine. I ran our jobs business as VP of Product for Jobs. Key accomplishments include - - Built out our jobs engine to become the #2 most popular site in the US (~2.5x growth in 2 years) and a thriving monetization engine (~4x growth in partner value) - Ran our front end consumer experience (Mobile, Engagement channels, Jobs and Apply UX and Growth teams) and backend teams (Search, Discovery, Recommendations, Jobs Aggregation and Partner Integrations) - Launched a number of industry firsts (Salary Estimates on Jobs, UGC within Jobs, 2-pane UX on Desktop, Jobs Discovery on Email and Web) - Built new Growth function leading to >2x increase in velocity of Glassdoor members in less than a year - Led our strategy and design for next generation recruiting product VP of Data Science & Analytics I first started off as Head of Data Science at Glassdoor reporting into the CEO. Key accomplishments include - - Built out the Data Science and Business Analytics function and team at Glassdoor. - Launched a number of innovations for our product (such as Salary Estimates on Jobs, Know Your Worth, Auto-moderation for Reviews, Learn to Rank engine), platforms (e.g. Occupation Classification Engine) and processes (e.g. Sales Leads and Renewal Prioritization) - Partnered with all functions across the company to bring improved business analytics and decision making through data

Sr Director, Revenue Optimization Product, Strategy and Analytics

2009 - 2012

I was part of an extremely talented team responsible for Expedia Group’s supply strategy. I initially joined Expedia as a consultant to help revamp the Hotel Search Product and then joined full time to head up their newly created Revenue Optimization team. * Helped build Expedia Group’s lodging headquarters office from the grounds up in Geneva, Switzerland. Hired my team there * Revamped Expedia and Hotel.com’s search product to a Learn to Rank engine yielding ~4% increases in top line revenue. Revamped Package Pricing product to a dynamic pricing engine * Develop supply strategy of hotel and inventory acquisition across all markets globally and operationalized through a home-grown decision support system that optimized marketplace dynamics * Managed merchant hotel pricing in APAC

Founder & CEO

2007 - 2009

FirstPhera was a wedding startup for Indian wedding couples to plan their weddings, with a mission to organize the Indian wedding industry online. As CEO, I was jack of all trades - leading product, design and lots of biz dev

Director of Product, Revenue Management & Analytics

2003 - 2007

- Led an industry leading Revenue Management and Analytics Organization at Hotwire. The group was responsible for 15% in top-line growth through dynamic price and product presentation optimization. - Launched real-time merchandizing technology - Product lead for TripStarter, a new planning product for travelers to find the best time of year to travel - Drove Product planning, budgeting and business analytics