Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos

• Independent Product and Marketing advisor helping startup founders, tech SMBs, and solopreneurs with product management practices, innovation, international expansion, GTM, and services business growth. I use all the depth and breadth of my work experience to help startup founders and business leaders unlock new growth opportunities through product and people practices I've learned working across the spectrum from 0 to 1 to high-stakes global setups. I also help mid-career product managers and aspiring technology leaders navigate career growth and define their own path for progress.

Jun 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• As the lead for the highly cross-functional Product team in India ("Product Discovery and Promotion"), I was responsible for globally launching India's biggest Netflix Original projects such as The Great Indian Kapil Show, Heeramandi, The Indrani Mukerjea Story, Maharaj, The Railway Men, Jaane Jaan, Chamkila, The Archies, Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, Kaala Paani, and many more.
• At the intersection of Tech and Content, I worked with Content Executives, Industry Partners, Marketing teams, Content Strategy and Analysis, Global Engineering Teams, and vertical Product teams (eg. Product Creative Strategy, Globalisation, Product Editorial, Metadata and Ratings, etc.) to design and execute the Product experience for Netflix's Indian Original shows and films, tailoring the on-service promotion, choosing, and streaming experience for Netflix subscribers across the world to each title's creative intent, marketing campaign, content strategy, regulatory requirements, and more.
• With "The Great Indian Kapil Show", I was responsible for innovating and leading the implementation of the Product playbook that achieved the first-of-its-kind TV weekly talk show format on Netflix/OTT, as well as the "World of Kapil" Product experience.

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr · India

• Led Product Strategy for SMB and App Platform as part of co-sell deal assessments and strategy, and worked with the CPO to revamp the company's annual Product planning and roadmapping for the 70+ Product org.

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos · India

• As Product-Lead for the “Job Intelligence Engine” - Eightfold's core AI platform - took the product from MVP to PMF with key early customers such McKinsey, DSG, Ericsson, Bayer, American Express etc., driving MM$ revenue outcomes.

Oct 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• First hire in the country-level Creative Production (Product) team. Launched all Indian Original Films globally on Netflix, working closely with content executives and filmmakers to take these films from post-production to delightful streaming-experiences across the world.

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Promoted to lead a large portfolio of live-service games, having started as a PM on one game. I delivered $MM in yearly revenues, significantly higher than targets, aside from performing statistical analysis and rigorous data-analysis to discover new player-monetisation hypotheses, reducing D60 churn, increasing Daily Average Revenue Per User (DARPU), increasing Ad Monetisation, increasing the lifecycle of mature products, implementing ethical AI via Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) model, sunsetting a game at the end of its license with record-high revenues and lots of brand love, managing junior PMs/analysts, using game economy balancing and financial forecast models to set ambitious goals for the team (which we consistently achieved), leading a game teardown group at the studio, conducting bi-weekly and quarterly business reviews with studio and company leadership (VP and GM), and working on special projects.

Mar 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led Simplilearn's Android and iOS mobile apps and the web LMS (Learning Management System), delivering double-digit growth in learner engagement metrics (course start and completion) and monetisation, as well as mobile app installs.

Aug 2015 – Mar 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked with the founders of this seed-stage startup, driving growth outcomes in India as well as the product's first international expansion, growing the Product team, and navigating business needs during an acquisition.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• As part of Oracle's Server-tech team, built Infra tools to improve cloud maintenance, ported the 12C BI suite across operating systems, and squashed hundreds of bugs for global teams.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Spent the summer with IIM-A's startup accelerator, building their social marketing from the ground-up and founder outreach for the upcoming cohort.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 · 5 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

• The publication was one of the earliest popular digital content platforms in India. It produced satire on everyday life, contemporary politics, social issues, youth affairs, the media and popular culture. The work was featured in almost all major English dailies in India (http://newsthatmattersnot.com/ntmn-in-the-media).
• Won Manthan South Asia Award (awarded by Digital Empowerment Foundation), 2011; World Summit Youth Award (awarded by International Center for New Media), 2012.
• We built a community of ~400 volunteering contributors, published 200-300 authors, and reached ~100k monthly readers with an Alexa global rank of <100k at its peak.