About

Rahul Koul is a seasoned product manager with over 13 years of relevant experience. Currently working as a Group Product Manager at booking.com, he is responsible for leading a major NPD product aimed at improving reservation management workflows for accommodation partners. With a team of 16+ members and 3 PMs, Rahul has successfully launched the alpha version of the product in December 2019. Prior to this, Rahul was a Product Lead for the iCal product at booking.com, which is a tool used by half a million properties to sync availability across OTAs. During his one-year tenure, he achieved remarkable results such as 0.89X guest overbookings, 5X active users, 3X new user funnel conversion, and 3.5X two-sided syncs. He also improved product reliability and organic growth and partnered closely with Airbnb to enhance the product quality for both sides. Before joining booking.com, Rahul was a Senior Product Owner at the 'Booking Suite' division of booking.com, where he led the NPD product called Digital Diary. He achieved strong early signals of product-market fit and healthy end-to-end funnel, with a signup rate of XX%, 80% retention rate, and NPS score of 75%. He also accelerated the beta shipping date by 5 months and introduced new practices such as 'User-Fridays', 'Sprint Demos', and 'Monthly updates'. Rahul has also worked as a Senior Product Manager for mobile apps at Flipkart, where he led the consumer-facing android and iOS apps. He conceptualized, led, and launched the first version of a seminal project in Flipkart called 'Category Specific Shopping Experiences', which was the first of its kind in the industry. He also redesigned the end-to-end large appliances shopping experience, resulting in a XX% increase in category unit sales, and launched product page improvements which led to a XX% increase in overall unit sales. Rahul was recognized as the No. 1 Free app in both Play Store and App Store, consistently No. 1 shopping app in India with highest ratings (4.5+), Top Developer on Android Play Store, and rated 'Exceeds Expectations' for most performance review cycles. Rahul holds an MBA in Marketing from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology from Kle Technological University. He also attended Montfort School, Delhi. Rahul has a strong