Portrait of Megha Jain

Megha Jain

Product Leader | Builder

My professional work and what I’m building with AI, inspired by problems in my own life.

Seattle, Washington

About

I’m a product leader who builds consumer products people use every day, and the platforms and intelligence that make them possible.

I’ve spent my career taking ideas from zero to one and scaling them. Hailing a ride with Uber. Starting an online business with Shopify. Building a business as a creator with LTK. Finding what to watch with Hulu.

My work sits at the intersection of consumer experiences, marketplaces, and complex systems. I’ve built recommendations at Hulu, matching for Uber’s $3B+ Hailables business, commerce and payments infrastructure at Shopify, including launching Facebook and Instagram Shops, and creator-led, video-first shopping for LTK’s $5B GMV marketplace. My foundation is deeply technical. I started at Microsoft working on DirectX, the graphics and GPU infrastructure behind Windows and Xbox.

If you’re building with frontier technologies across consumer, commerce or marketplaces, hit me up. Especially if you’re in Seattle 🙂

Product StrategyZero-to-OneAI Systems & AgentsScale & Org LeadershipRecommendation SystemsMarketplacesCommerce & ShoppingDeveloper PlatformsAngel & Advisory

Experience

Aug 2024 — Present

Sabbatical

Seattle, Washington

Product & AI

After 15+ years of building products and teams, I took an intentional sabbatical after the birth of my second child to focus on family, travel, and life outside of work. 2026 has been transformational. I’ve been building and learning with GenAI, exploring new products and ideas, and sharing some of that work on GitHub. Personal assistants and commerce have been particularly interesting. I’d love to connect with people building frontier technology, or using it to rethink consumer products, commerce and marketplaces. I’m also increasingly curious about how AI is reshaping the physical world and the products being built around it.

2022 — 2024

LTK

Seattle, Washington

Vice President of Product Management

Led creator and consumer product at LTK, a $5B GMV creator commerce marketplace with 300K+ creators. Repositioned the company's growth engine around creator quality, incentives, and behavior: built the lifecycle, community engagement loops, and AI/ML intelligence systems that bring shoppers to LTK for the creators they love. AI bets included full-screen video infrastructure and For You feed, and commerce-grade product tagging and discovery.

2020 — 2022

Shopify

Director of Product Management

Led the Marketplaces group at Shopify, the commerce platform layer extending merchant distribution into social, creator, and third-party ecosystems. Opened access for 2M+ merchants to sell beyond their own storefronts: built the platform capabilities (Commerce Kit and third-party payments) that cut ecosystem partner integration from 1-2 years to a few weeks and made Shopify the backend for commerce everywhere. First launch partner across Facebook Shops and TikTok Shop and scaled to 200+ partners across AI/ML powered discovery, orders, checkout, and payments.

2017 — 2020

Uber

Head of Product, Worldwide Hailable & Mobility Business

Built Uber's global Hailable business from zero, taxis, autos, and motos, and scaled it to over $1B in revenue across 18 countries. Unlocked a new supply class by shipping three bets the core Uber platform needed to serve it: rebuilt the matching algorithm for dispatch-based supply, shipped fleet operator tools for partner-owned supply at scale, and extended the product stack into custom hardware to unlock Japan. Went on to lead Premium and Mobility: black car, scheduled rides, hourly, and interstate.

2015-2017

Hulu

Senior Manager of Product Management

Led discovery, ranking and recommendations for 50M+ viewers; shipped the first multi-profile product including safe viewing for kids. Shaped the ranking models for content catalog and viewer personalization. Bootstrapped Hulu VR as a 20% bet; shipped across Daydream, Rift, PSVR, and GearVR.

2008-2014

Microsoft

Senior Program Manager

Led developer platform work on DirectX: APIs, SDKs, and GPU certification across Windows, Windows Mobile, and Xbox. Shipped the platform layer that games and graphics applications across the Microsoft ecosystem ran on.

Education

2006 — 2008

M.S Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

2002 — 2006

B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Lab

Kavi

An always-on, text-first chief of staff that spots what your family needs, nudges the right parent, and closes the loop on its own.

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