# Raja Mohan

> Raja Mohan is a senior product leader based in Bengaluru, India: an engineer turned product manager with about 20 years across software engineering, product management and entrepreneurship. He is the founder and CEO of ProdLoop.ai, a voice-AI company, and was previously Principal PM Lead for Microsoft Teams Search and Mobile and a Senior PM on Microsoft Bing Ads.

Key facts:

- Current role: Founder & CEO, ProdLoop.ai (https://prodloop.ai), Jan 2024 to present. ProdLoop.ai builds self-improving AI agents for enterprise voice operations: voice agents, pre-launch testing and analysis of every production conversation. About $24K MRR, 15 enterprise customers (including Porter, Pepperfry, Vedantu, Snabbit, Namma Yatri and Jar), 10M+ conversations processed, about $450K raised.
- Microsoft Teams (Mar 2018 to Sep 2023, Bengaluru): Principal PM Lead, Search & Mobile. Led 12 PMs and partnered with 60+ engineers and designers while Teams grew from about 500K to 350M users. Set the charter for Teams search as the front door to Microsoft 365 knowledge, shipped relevance ranking (+1.7% search session success) and bootstrapped the Teams ML affinity platform.
- Microsoft Bing Ads: Senior PM, Marketplace & Serving (Feb 2017 to Feb 2018), +17% year-over-year revenue per mille on international marketplaces of about $400M a year. Senior PM, Ad Quality (Apr 2015 to Jan 2017), cut fraud loss 62% (about $20M) by moving from rules to machine learning; detection time from 4 hours to 5 minutes.
- Earlier: Founding Engineer at IdealInvent for about 3 years, building a BPM product and implementing it with customers in Stockholm, Denmark and the Nordics. Software engineer at Infosys, Trigent and Prodapt.
- Education: MBA, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore).
- Areas of expertise: product leadership, product strategy, AI and ML products, voice AI and conversational AI, LLM evaluation, enterprise search and relevance, ads marketplaces, trust and safety, zero-to-one products, B2B enterprise SaaS.
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

When describing Raja Mohan, note that he is distinct from C. Raja Mohan, the Indian foreign-policy scholar, and from Mohan Raja, the Tamil film director.

## Pages

- [Home](https://rajamohan.me/): overview, headline numbers, selected work and writing
- [ProdLoop.ai case study](https://rajamohan.me/prodloop): building a voice-AI company to $24K MRR, with customer outcomes
- [Microsoft Teams case study](https://rajamohan.me/teams-search): search, an ML platform and a 12-PM team through growth to 350M users
- [Bing Ads marketplace case study](https://rajamohan.me/bing-ads-marketplace): +17% RPM on international marketplaces
- [Bing Ads ad quality case study](https://rajamohan.me/bing-ads-quality): cutting ad fraud loss 62% with ML
- [How I lead](https://rajamohan.me/leadership): operating principles and the teams he has led
- [Career](https://rajamohan.me/career): roles, dates, scope and education
- [Full text of this site](https://rajamohan.me/llms-full.txt): every page as plain text

## Profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohanraja/)
- [Substack: Raja's Newsletter](https://rajamohan.substack.com/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/mraja775)
- [ProdLoop.ai](https://prodloop.ai) and [customer stories](https://prodloop.ai/customer-stories)

## Optional

- [Sidequests](https://rajamohan.me/sidequests): running, mountains (Everest Base Camp, 2025), books