Housing appoints former Amazon executive as Chief Product and Technology Officer

Real estate search portal Housing.com announced the appointment of Vivek Jain as Chief Product and Technology Officer.

"As part of his role, he will focus on strengthening the product and engineering aspects of the business to help steer Housing.com towards its goal of becoming a full-service transaction player," the company said in a release.

Vivek has over 14 years of experience in the technology and digital domains in India and the US. At Amazon, Vivek was the Bandwidth Product/Business Head for the cloud division (Amazon Web Services) where he helped define the value proposition, differentiation strategy, pricing, the company's release said.

Vivek returned to India in 2014 to join Jio (subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited) as Vice President where he was part of Chairman's leadership team and was charged with building the company's digital media business and the core leadership team.

Jason Kothari, Chief Executive Officer, Housing.com while commenting on Jain's appointment said, "Vivek comes with best-in-class product and technology leadership experience, global exposure and an entrepreneurial mind-set, which is a unique mix, and one that blends seamlessly with the thinking and culture at Housing.com.  I believe Vivek's addition to our senior team will greatly benefit us in realizing our vision for the company."