Chaitanya Chai Balla
About
Chaitanya Chai Balla is from San Francisco Bay Area. Chaitanya works in the following industries: "Internet", and "Automotive". Chaitanya is currently Senior Product Manager, Electric Vehicles at Amazon. In Chaitanya's previous role as a Senior Product Manager, Delivery Experience at Amazon, Chaitanya worked in Greater Seattle Area until Aug 2019. Prior to joining Amazon, Chaitanya was a Product Strategy at Ford Motor Company and held the position of Product Strategy. Prior to that, Chaitanya was a Product Launch Engineer at Ford Motor Company, based in Valencia Area, Spain from Mar 2015 to Jan 2016. Chaitanya started working as Design and Release Engineer at Ford Motor Company in Apr 2013. From Mar 2012 to Apr 2013, Chaitanya was Design Engineer at Nissan Motor Corporation, based in Greater Detroit Area.
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Chaitanya Chai Balla's current jobs
Leading the product development of Amazon's Last Mile EV fleet
Chaitanya Chai Balla's past jobs
Developed go-to-market strategy for a shopping feature that resolves the 4th biggest customer pain point at Amazon, generating $150M+ in revenue
- Led cross-functional teams in establishing product strategy and implementation plan of white space vehicles by analyzing tradeoffs between marketability, modularity, cost and timing. - Translated customer insight data (UX, Market Research, Data Analytics) into product definition. - Partnered with top tier consulting firms to leverage their industry knowledge and process expertise to deliver unique and efficient products.
Led a 12 person cross functional team (manufacturing, durability testing, supplier quality and design) to launch a new SUV at Vehicle Assembly Plant Root-caused and resolved over 100 launch issues Trained onsite engineering team to analyze and mitigate future issues Built relations with suppliers and manufacturing teams to streamline future process and design changes
- Led and trained global teams in designing interior components by utilizing Ford requirements, DFMEAs and knowledge of regulatory, quality and manufacturing standards. - Resolved multiple critical production and "stop-ship" issues through innovative approaches, while leading cross-functional teams towards a common goal.
•Designed Vehicle Interior components for the Nissan Pathfinder while working with global cross-functional teams. •Created new interior safety verification technique and resolved a design problem by implementing a patent winning design.