Ravi Mishra
Product Director at Indeed.com
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2025 - Current
Author
2023
I wrote a book! It's called "Vow of Alivness: Saying Yes to the Mess and Magic of a True Life", and it's about my almost two decade journey training in Zen Buddhism. Get it on Amazon today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1966956002/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1
Founder
2018
Product consulting and coaching/teaching. Typical engagements take the form of interim (6-9 months) Head of Product roles at early stage startups (5-50 employees) to set product direction, establish customer-first product culture, and hit relevant milestones to unlock the startup’s next fundraising goals. These engagements are described in detail below. I also serve as a Lead Instructor for Product Management courses at Product School.
Product Director
2022 - 2024
Starting new things as part of Indeed's Product Incubator.
Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Union Square Ventures, The New York Times and Allen & Company.
Senior Product Manager
2021 - 2022
Head of Product (interim)
2020 - 2020
Helped improve conversion by focusing on initial user experience, as well as iterated on overall product focus, hitting key targets to help Journey get to their next round of fundraising.
Journey provides mental health solution.
Head of Product (interim)
2019 - 2019
Led deep study of customer behavior and shipped product improvements based on learnings, in addition to instilling product culture throughout the org.
PayPerks is a web-based financial services company for consumers with low and middle levels of income.
Founder & CEO
2016 - 2019
In response to the 2016 election, Awaken was a meditation app offering practices on self-care, relationships, and social change. Recruited team, conceived and led Product, created and produced content, and scaled to ~10k downloads. The project is now being continued in a podcast and in a text message service called KindredText, offering text message conversation, creative, and reflection prompts with similar themes.
Product Lead, New Verticals (interim)
2018 - 2018
Resident Home is a family of D2C bedroom furniture brands (primarily mattresses). I was hired to break ground on new verticals outside the bedroom - served as full stack GM from research and discovery through launch.
Head of Product
2016 - 2018
Led digital product and ecommerce strategy, experimenting with pricing, acquisition, and marketing to drive topline sales growth. Also led projects across the company to revamp packaging and production. I’m an investor in the company and continue to serve as a general strategy advisor.
Sudden Coffee is an online site that sells vials of custom instant coffee for their many customers.
Raised $5,020,000.00 from Bar 9 Ventrues, Entrée Capital, Y Combinator, Founder Collective, Lifeline Ventures, CRV and Caterina Fake.
Education
BSE
2004 - 2008