Vaibhav Sambre
About Vaibhav Sambre
Vaibhav Sambre is a Principal Product Manager at Airtel, where he has worked since 2020. He has extensive experience in product management and analytics, having held various roles at companies such as InstaReM, Nazara Games, and Housing.com.
Current Role as Principal Product Manager
Vaibhav Sambre currently serves as Principal Product Manager at Airtel, a position he has held since 2020 in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. In this role, he manages a team of seven product managers and influences over 30 engineers. He participates in hiring processes and acts as a subject matter specialist for payments, assisting CXOs and legal teams. His responsibilities include incubating new businesses in-house and leading initiatives to enhance user experience.
Previous Experience at Airtel
Before his current role, Vaibhav worked at Airtel as a Senior Product Manager from 2019 to 2020. During this time, he led the re-architecture of Airtel's payment platform, transitioning it from a monolithic codebase to a micro-services suite, which resulted in a 7% increase in revenues. He briefly led the experience platform, establishing foundations for products like Virtual Assistant and Speech Analytics.
Career at InstaReM
Vaibhav Sambre held multiple positions at InstaReM, starting as a Product Manager in 2017 for nine months. He then advanced to Product Lead for Consumer Products from 2018 to 2019, where he focused on enhancing product offerings. Additionally, he served as Head of Data Science and Analytics from 2016 to 2017, contributing to data-driven decision-making processes.
Educational Background
Vaibhav completed his Master of Science (MSc) in Chemistry at IIT Bombay from 2008 to 2013. Prior to this, he attended Bhavan's B.P. Vidya Mandir, where he completed his primary, middle, high school, and junior college education from 1993 to 2008. He also gained international experience as a Summer Intern at Freie Universität Berlin in 2011.
Early Career Experience
Vaibhav began his professional journey as a Management Trainee at Olacabs.com from 2013 to 2014. He later worked at Housing.com as a Senior Business Intelligence Expert in 2015 and as a Business Intelligence Expert from 2014 to 2015. He also served as Head of Analytics at Nazara Games from 2015 to 2016, where he focused on data analysis and insights.