What I'm bout.

years old · Mumbai, India

Jay Karia

Where I'm from

Born and raised in Mumbai. Grew up in a Gujarati household where every conversation eventually circles back to food, business, or both. My parents wanted me to be an engineer. I studied IT at Jai Hind College, looked at engineering, and thought — nah. Took a hard left into international business at SDA Bocconi instead. Somewhere between case studies and spreadsheets, I figured out I wanted to build things, not just analyze them.

How I got here

My career has been shaped by inflection points, not titles.

During my MBA at Bocconi, I chased every live project I could get my hands on. Built my LinkedIn presence from scratch, figured out how to get into rooms I had no business being in, and learned the stuff no syllabus teaches — how to market, how to hold your own when everyone's older than you, and how to make people care about what you're saying.

Then I joined Fynd in 2021 and never left. Started on GoFynd — a B2C fashion marketplace — figuring out how to get Gen Z to care about a new way to shop. Built the growth engine from scratch: social, CRM, paid media. That's where I learned how growth actually works — how budgets behave under pressure, how teams respond when outcomes matter.

The real shift came when I moved closer to product. I took GlamAR — Fynd's AI-powered immersive commerce platform — from an internal ML experiment to a revenue-generating B2B product. Built the pricing from scratch, wrote the GTM playbook, ran the sales motion, and stayed close enough to engineering to solution the product in client conversations.

I sit at an intersection most people don't: technical enough to earn trust in a room full of engineers, commercial enough to close enterprise deals. That's the part I like most.

What I do now

Director of Growth at Fynd. Most AI products don't fail because the technology is weak — they fail because no one could commercialize them. That's the problem I solve. I build the commercial layer around deep tech: pricing, positioning, GTM, enterprise sales.

Work

Fynd

Director of Growth

2026–▒▒▒▒

Fynd

Growth Manager

2022–2026

Fynd

Assistant Growth Manager

2021–2022

SDA Bocconi Asia Center

International Master in International Business

2019–2021

Jai Hind College, Mumbai

B.Sc., Information Technology

2014–2017

Outside of all that

🏋️ Lifting

4 days a week. I track every set like someone's going to audit me. Non-negotiable part of the day.

🍽️ Eating

Ask me where to eat in any city I've been to — I'll have an answer. Restaurants, bars, karaoke spots, the works. I don't just eat through a city, I map it.

✈️ Planning trips

Every trip starts as a Notion doc with an embarrassing number of tabs. I don't wing it. Ever.

🎬 Watching

Thrillers. Crime. The kind of shows that ruin your sleep and make you text your friends "you HAVE to watch this."

Elsewhere