Vinu Srivatsan

Teaches at Product School

For over 15 years, Vinu Srivatsan has been using strategy and analytics to fulfill customers' needs. Currently, she is a Principal PM at LinkedIn, helping build for LinkedIn Learning Search and Recommendation AI. She previously worked as a Lead PM at Shopify. Before that, she spent seven years working on product at Apple. She started off as a Group PM for Marketing & Sales Cloud and Enterprise Engineering. After five years in that role, she moved up to work as a Staff Product Manager for Search and Personalization ML within Apple News. She also has experience working in Product Management at companies across the San Francisco Area including Cisco and Juniper Networks.

Vinu attended the University of Madras for her Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Accounting, and Finance. Since graduating, she has gone on to earn two Master's degrees. The first was an MBA from T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal. The second, an MS in Journalism and Communications from San Jose State University. She is also a certified ScrumMaster and Adobe Analytics Architect.

According to those that have worked alongside Vinu, she is curious and compassionate which makes her excellent at understanding her customers' needs and translating them into features. She is also a remarkable leader who makes sure that everyone on the team is moving forward to a common goal and delivering value.