Soham Saha

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Senior Lead, Commercial Excellence at Agoda in Bangkok, with a remit as Product Owner for Supply GenAI. 11+ years’ experience, 8+ of them at Amazon.

Experience, 2014 to present

  1. August 2026 to present

    Senior Lead, Commercial Excellence

    Agoda (Booking Holdings), Bangkok, Thailand

    Remit: Product Owner, Supply GenAI. Supply organisation, all markets.

    • Own priority, PRDs, acceptance criteria and UAT for the Supply GenAI Scrum team. Engineering owns the build.
  2. May 2021 to January 2026

    Senior Program Manager, Commercial Excellence

    Amazon, Bengaluru, India

    Promoted July 2022. 6 regions, 3 direct reports.

    • Program partner to a Director-level strategy board; built its weekly, monthly and quarterly review routines.
    • Led the GenAI productivity charter and the 6-region operating model.
  3. November 2019 to May 2021

    Brand Specialist, Operations & Commercial Strategy

    Amazon, Munich, Germany

    $120M annual P&L across DE, UK, FR, ES, IT. Team of 15.

    • Closed $16M+ in long-term agreements (Reckitt $10M, J&J $6M).
    • Led the J&J Germany turnaround, the offshore partner-operations unit and the peak-season campaigns shown on the work page.
  4. October 2017 to October 2019

    Product Management & Analytics, Amazon Pantry EU

    Amazon, Munich, Germany

    Working Student

    • Shipped a buyability algorithm into Amazon’s retail platform: +16% conversion, +19% SKU availability across the EU, adopted as the EU Pantry standard. Grew Pantry Spain selection 35% and revenue 20.8% YoY.
  5. 2014 to 2017

    Earlier

    Cognizant and Projectaccess.co

    • Director of Product, Projectaccess.co (Munich): product and go-to-market for a tech-enabled non-profit.
    • Programmer Analyst & Technical Consultant, Cognizant: IBM Certified Solution Implementer; a process white paper saved a client $1.2M.

What I bring

Product & AI delivery

  • Product ownership & problem framing
  • PRDs, prioritisation & outcome definition
  • Scrum, acceptance criteria & UAT
  • AI workflow design
  • Agentic AI & grounded retrieval (RAG)
  • Prompt engineering & LLM evaluation
  • Test-case design & safety guardrails
  • Cite-or-escalate & human-in-the-loop operations
  • GenAI delivery in production (Amazon)

Hands-on with Claude and Codex in my own prototypes and daily work. At Agoda, engineering builds and owns the production systems.

Commercial & operating models

  • Marketplace & supply operations
  • Commercial strategy & partner operations
  • Unit economics
  • Business cases & ROI / P&L modelling
  • Governance, SOPs & risk management
  • Multi-market playbooks (Pan-EU)
  • Zero-to-one business build-outs

Leadership & execution

  • Cross-functional delivery (Eng, Product, Data, Finance, Legal)
  • Senior stakeholder alignment (Director / VP)
  • Portfolio & backlog management
  • People leadership & capability building
  • Problem definition to delivery and measurement

Tools & tech

Product delivery: Jira, PRDs, Scrum, UAT.

AI & agents: Anthropic Claude, Codex, agent skills, agentic workflows, grounded RAG, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, deterministic LLM programming, Cursor.

Data: SQL, Python, Tableau, QuickSight, advanced Excel & financial modelling.

Languages

English (fluent, C2), Hindi (fluent), Bengali (native), German (A1).

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science (First-Class Honours), West Bengal University of Technology, 2010 to 2014.

Informatics coursework, TU Munich, 2016 to 2019.

Recognition & certifications

Great Contributions Award, Amazon (DE CL2).

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations, Anthropic, 2025.

Cursor AI for Beginners, Great Learning, 2026.

Let’s talk.

If you’re building AI products in marketplaces, or hiring for that kind of work, I’m happy to talk. Email is fastest.