Snapdeal appoints Adobe veteran Rajiv Mangla as Chief Technology Officer

Rajiv brings over 20 years’ of experience in Engineering and leading high calibre product tech teams

Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace, today announced the appointment of Rajiv Mangla for the role of Chief Technology Officer. In his new role, Rajiv will establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of the company’s technological development.

Prior to his appointment at Snapdeal, Rajiv spent about 10 years at Adobe Systems where he most recently served as VP Engineering, Digital Marketing. He has been instrumental in Adobe’s foray into Enterprise and Digital Marketing businesses and managed global teams across all solutions of Adobe Marketing Cloud. His responsibilities at Adobe included foundational big data, content and personalization technologies. Prior to joining Adobe, Rajiv had been an entrepreneur for 10 years and founded couple of companies. Rajiv enjoys leveraging technological advances for disruptive business innovation and believes a lot of traditional businesses will continue to be disrupted in near future by software and technology.

Rajiv holds a BTech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Speaking about his appointment, Rajiv said, “I have been yearning to get back to the thriving startup ecosystem in the country and what better opportunity than Snapdeal which has created a platform that touches hundreds of millions of people across the country. Snapdeal’s digital commerce ecosystem provides innumerable opportunities for high tech innovations at internet speed & scale, which makes it an irresistible challenge. I would like to make technology work hard to create a trusted and easy-to-use marketplace. I am buckled up for a fast paced journey with Snapdeal which is both socially as well as intellectually rewarding!”

Rohit Bansal, Co-founder Snapdeal said “Our vision is to build the most impactful digital commerce ecosystem in the country. We are building the strongest technology team at Snapdeal to create future ready and innovative technology infrastructure. At Snapdeal, we believe that our business exists to serve our users and strongly feel that creating a frictionless buying and selling experience is key to our success. We are delighted to have Rajiv onboard and wish him a great journey ahead with Snapdeal family.

The technology team at Snapdeal is currently 1000 people strong and the company looks at doubling it by the end of this year. The company has significantly ramped up its technology leadership team and has hired senior leaders from across the globe. Anand Chandrasekaran ex-CPO Bharti Airtel, Gaurav Gupta, formerly the India Head of Scalearc – a Bay area start-up, Amitava Ghosh ex CTO Taxi for Sure and Viraj Chatterjee ex Director Engineering, Adobe Systems have all joined the Snapdeal family as core members of the technology team.