SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Feb. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Realtor.com®, a leading online real estate
destination, today announced the appointment of Deepak Thakral to senior vice president of
product development and Steve Grove
to vice president of user experience design. Thakral and Grove both
report to realtor.com® Chief Product Officer Chung Meng Cheong.
"We are pleased to welcome Deepak and Steve to the team," said
Cheong. "Deepak's rich product and engineering background and
Steve's marketplace expertise are critical in helping realtor.com®
create a seamless, cross-platform experience informed by consumer
needs that will enable them to move confidently through every step
of their home journey."
Deepak Thakral
Thakral is responsible for leading the professional experience
for agents and brokers on realtor.com®, encompassing listing search
results and display features, advertising, branding and lead
generation, profiles for agents, brokers and teams as well as
dashboard management. He also drives the company's media
advertising experience across mobile, web and desktop platforms,
including realtor.com®'s integration with the News Corp global
advertising network as well as site-specific advertising.
"Realtor.com® has a unique set of audiences with a wide range of
interests and needs, from buying, selling, owning and remodeling a
home to securing a mortgage and home insurance," said Thakral. "I
am excited to explore ways of optimizing that ecosystem and helping
our customers deliver to our consumers the resources they need at
their specific juncture of the home journey."
For real estate professionals, Thakral's team helps to ensure
that the world-class experience on realtor.com® delivers
unparalleled branding, advertising and lead solutions to market
themselves and their listings to the more than 50 million users who
visit realtor.com® on average each month, and helps empower
professionals to manage their presence on realtor.com® easily and
efficiently.
Thakral's experience in both product and engineering roles
brings deep expertise in the engineering stack as well as across
advertising technology, lead generation and mobile monetization. He
spent the past four years in Silicon Valley startups including
Chartboost, a monetization platform for mobile game apps powering
more than 300,000 apps. Prior to Chartboost, Thakral spent six
years product management and ad platforms at local marketing
solutions provider YP. Thakral holds an MBA from the University of California - Los Angeles Anderson
School of Management, a Masters of Science (MS) in Software
Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Mechanical Engineering from
R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Steve Grove
Grove leads the realtor.com® user experience design team,
working to connect consumers with real estate professionals by
creating a cohesive, cross-device experience spanning the full home
lifecycle. Grove's role focuses on accelerating the development of
product designs and the company's end-user experiences.
"I see a lot of opportunity in improving the online home-buying
experience," said Grove. "After spending much of my career
developing marketplaces and connecting different types of people
together through software, I am looking forward to creating an even
better realtor.com® user experience for home buyers, agents and
brokers."
Grove brings not only strong user experience and marketplace
expertise but also product and business prowess, informed by his
experience as one of eBay's first designers and as part of the
design team at Oracle. Most recently, he led user-centered product
and design teams for GoPro, Alibaba as well as the marketplace
startup, Plastic Jungle. Grove holds a BA from San Jose
State.
About realtor.com®
Realtor.com® is the trusted resource for home buyers, sellers
and dreamers, offering the most comprehensive source of for-sale
properties, among competing national sites, and the information,
tools and professional expertise to help people move confidently
through every step of their home journey. It pioneered the world of
digital real estate 20 years ago, and today helps make all things
home simple, efficient and enjoyable. Realtor.com® is operated by
News Corp [NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move,
Inc. under a perpetual license from the National Association of
REALTORS®.
Contact: Tammy Lee,
tammy.lee@realtor.com
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