Xiaomi, the popular Chinese smartphone maker has hired former-Google employee Jai Mani as lead product manager in India.The announcement was made by Hugo Barra, Vice President of International Operations for Xiaomi on his Google+ account.
Mani has relocated from San Francisco to Bangalore to lead the product management team for Mi India and is working alongside Rohit Ghalsasi, assistant product operations manager, Xiaomi India. The announcement comes exactly a year after Barra himself joined Xiaomi from Google.
Prior to this, Mani was working with Google from 2009 to 2013 in various areas including Google Play Strategy, Analytics Associate and so on. Barrs said in the announcement that Jai Mani was involved in on-stage demo performances at Google I/O and Nexus launches. He also started a start-up after leaving Google whose name is not known. At present Manu Kumar Jain heads Xiaomi’s Indian operations.
Xiaomi has been successful in creating a buzz in the Indian smartphone market with its smartphones.
via:Google+