Nimish Kulshrestha Chief Business Officer at IIMJobs, Hirist & NaukriGulf

When Info Edge needed someone to unify three distinct brands under a single commercial vision, the brief landed on Nimish’s desk. As Chief Business Officer, he now owns strategy, revenue, and market expansion across the full premium hiring portfolio. IIMJobs serves as the flagship for senior management and leadership talent. Hirist anchors the technology vertical, connecting top-tier engineers and architects with roles that match their ambition. NaukriGulf extends Info Edge’s footprint into international markets across the Middle East. Tying these threads together requires more than operational oversight—it demands a leader who can think in platforms while speaking the language of each distinct talent community.

Nimish joined Naukri.com in 2017 as Vice President of Product Development with a deceptively narrow brief: grow the paid candidate services business. He doubled mobile revenue inside a year—and in the process revealed something the leadership team hadn’t fully reckoned with. The platform’s underlying architecture was holding back far more ambitious plays. What followed was a rare corporate arc: three promotions in four years, each one unlocked by the results of the last, making him the youngest Executive Vice President the company had ever appointed. In the EVP seat, Nimish tore open the hood. He led a ground-up rebuild of Naukri’s jobseeker experience—taxonomy, discovery, UX, monetisation—and evangelised what he called a recruitment “lingua franca”: a living knowledge graph weaving together millions of skills, titles, companies, and entity relationships. That data backbone became the launchpad for Naukri’s leap into generative AI, including Naukri 360 (a GenAI career-services vertical) and AI Rex, the company’s first autonomous recruiter agent. Along the way, he shepherded a team of 130-plus product professionals and oversaw Naukri’s first brand identity refresh in twenty-five years.

Snapdeal promoted Nimish to Director of Product faster than any peer in his cohort—and then promptly handed him its most consequential system. Uniware was the warehouse-management backbone that processed the bulk of Snapdeal’s order volume, but it also moonlighted as a multi-channel SaaS platform trusted by external brands like Myntra and Lenskart to handle millions of shipments every month. Running both identities in parallel was already a high-wire act. Then the Indian government announced GST. Overnight, thousands of merchants needed their invoicing, taxation, and compliance workflows rewritten. Nimish marshalled his team through a round-the-clock migration sprint, delivering a seamless switchover that kept the platform’s uptime intact while the rest of the industry scrambled.

Nimish arrived at Unicommerce as a Senior Product Manager and left as Associate Director, but the title change only hints at the ground covered. Uniware—the SaaS platform that let sellers orchestrate inventory, orders, and shipping across thirty-plus marketplaces in real time—needed a wider funnel. Nimish designed a freemium “Lite” tier that slashed onboarding friction for smaller merchants and unlocked a wave of new sign-ups. He also built the lane-prioritisation engine behind Snapdeal Gold’s next-day delivery promise, a system that hit 99% SLA compliance across eighty cities. Perhaps most telling was a quieter experiment: a four-hour hyperlocal delivery pilot in Gurgaon called SD Instant. Quick commerce was still a phrase nobody used. Nimish was already testing its plumbing.

Few product careers begin with an invitation to help design a service that will eventually touch half a billion users. Nimish’s did. As one of the earliest members of Jio’s product team, he started by working alongside Frog Design to map customer personas and blueprint the user experience for what would become India’s most disruptive telecom launch. He then moved into hands-on product management, shipping features that the broader industry wouldn’t adopt for years: multi-profile OTT streaming (before Netflix offered the same), unified cross-network data bundles (a forerunner of what Airtel later branded as Airtel Black), and Jio’s Rich Communication Services platform. He was in the room when leadership debated offering free voice calling as a market wedge—an audacious bet that reshaped Indian telecom overnight. It was here that Nimish developed his signature conviction: if you wait for the market to validate your idea, you’ve already lost the first-mover advantage.