Craig Saldanha

Chief Product Officer at Yelp

Craig Saldanha is the Chief Product Officer at Yelp. Craig was previously the Director of Product and Engineering at Prime Video International, a subsidiary of Amazon. At Prime Video International, Craig led product and engineering teams focused on making Prime Video a world class experience in all 200+ countries and territories where they operated. Prior to that, Craig was a Product Manager Intern at Kindle Direct Publishing, another subsidiary of Amazon. There, they developed a new program to improve content quality in the Kindle Owners Lending Library. Craig conducted a two-sided market analysis to understand author and reader requirements, developed a framework to assess financial impact and demonstrate short and long-term program viability, and created a go-to-market strategy and detailed implementation for new program which they successfully launched as a live pilot. Before their 11 year stint at Amazon, Craig was a Team Lead at Intel Corp from 2001 to 2011.

Craig Saldanha received their MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business with University Honors. Craig also holds a European Capstone from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Business Administration and Management, General. Craig's MS is in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their BS is in Electrical Engineering from Thadomal Shahani. Craig also has an HSC in Electronics Engineering from National College and attended High School at St Stanislaus (Bandra).

Their manager is Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-Founder & CEO. Kelly Kinch - VP, Product Design, Alon Shiran - VP, Product Management, and Rahul Hampole - VP, Product report to Craig Saldanha. Craig Saldanha works with Carmen Orr - Chief People Officer, Sam Eaton - CTO, and Aaron Schur - General Counsel.

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  • Chief Product Officer

    February, 2022 - present

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