Shweta Padmanaban

Head of Product, Consumer AI Applications @ Grab

Singapore

About

I'm a product leader with 13+ years experience in building and scaling consumer tech products and teams in Asia. I work at Grab, SEA's leading technology company. I have rich experience in driving product-led user growth, loyalty, user experience and marketplace management (ride-hailing, food delivery, grocery delivery). I’ve built and led teams of senior product leaders, with an overall org size >100+, across SEA, China and India. In my latest stint, I am leading the effort to explore the next generation of Grab's consumer app - reimagined with AI. I love to build useful things that solve meaningful customer problems, and to build teams that operate with high agency and clarity. I try to bring the Growth Mindset to my own work every day. I write about life, parenting, leadership and lessons I've learnt on shwetapadmanaban.com.

Experience

  • Grab (Singapore)
    • Head of Product, Consumer AI Applications
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

      Leading a 0-1 venture within Grab, building AI agents for Grab's users. Launching soon!

    • Head of Product, Consumer Experience and Comms Platforms
      Apr 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Team leader for the consumer experience app platform across business verticals. Responsible for growing Grab’s transacting user base; drove strategies across user growth, discovery, engagement and loyalty. Obsessed about platform user experience, growth loops, subscriber retention and app engagement. In Oct 2024, I added Comms Platforms to my portfolio and worked on AI-powered personalisation of push notifications sent to Grab's user base.

    • Head of Product / Senior Product Leader, Deliveries Commerce
      Feb 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Team leader managing the consumer experience product team for GrabFood (food delivery) and GrabMart (grocery delivery), serving >20M users. From Oct'21, I took on ownership of the entire Mart product experience.

  • Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore)
    • Product Manager
      Jul 2013 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Product management for a personal loan facility offered to mass market customers in Singapore. Implementation of regulatory projects affecting unsecured lending.

    • Banking Associate - Consumer Banking Fast Track Program
      Jul 2012 - Jun 2013 · 1 yr

      About SCB: http://www.standardchartered.com/en/about-us/index.html Part of a graduate program that is giving me an in-depth understanding of retail banking in SG. Rotations in -Product Management, Global Digital Banking. -Service Quality & Process Re-Engineering -Performance Management, New Business Sales Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council, SCB Singapore.

  • Marketing / Business Development Intern at Chalkboard Pte. Ltd.
    May 2011 - Jul 2011 · 3 mos

    -Helped develop the SME marketing strategy (copywriting, customising pitch decks) -Conceptualized and pitched a reseller program using students to increase sales. -Produced 6 video testimonials for the company website from scratch.

  • President at NUS Indian Dance
    May 2010 - Apr 2011 · 1 yr

    -Headed a 10 member committee to produce and sell out three ticketed dance productions at NUS. -Successfully launched a new Bollywood Dance group at NUS.

  • Research Intern at A-STAR
    May 2010 - Aug 2010 · 4 mos

    -Improved the energy efficiency of a wireless Solar Energy Harvestor. -Got an introduction to the R&D mindset.