Gaurav Joshi

Head of Design

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led design integration for Disney+Hotstar and JioCinema merger.
Drove UX strategy for multi-market platform HotstarX.
Built diverse design teams fostering innovation and leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Entertainment design leader with a strong focus on user experience and innovation.

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About

Design leader with 15 years of experience building two diverse world-class design teams, excelling in global consumer experiences at scale (300Mn+ MAU, 10+countries), focusing on innovation, design-led business impact, user research & culture. 1. Crafting innovative and industry-first experiences at scale by fostering creative leadership in the team. 2. Creating a mission-oriented design culture championing design-led business impact. 3. Nurturing design talent that has gone on to become design leaders across various companies. 4. Leading & building diverse teams that build global, multi-market experiences at scale. In my current role, I lead the design org comprising of product design, user research, design studio, and design operations teams at JioHotstar.

Experience

Jiohotstar

Head of Design & Research

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Appointed to lead the design org for one of the largest mergers: Disney+Hotstar & JioCinema.
Successfully integrated product experience and user base across both products into a single rebranded product - JioHotstar.

Disney+ hotstar

2 roles

Head of Design, Research & Co-Lead of Product

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Elevated to Co-Lead of Product in 2024, driving cross-functional UX strategy for design-led growth.
Consistently ↑ WatchTime YOY through UX innovations, leading cross-functional teams.
Delivered ad revenue uplift via new formats while improving user sentinement via ux frameworks.
Directly increased subs revenue with throughout the subscription funnel across user cohorts.
UX Strategy: Directed UX for HotstarX platform working with org leaders to enable
market scaleable UX across Disney+hotstar, India; Disney+ SE Asia, Middle-East, Israel & South Africa.
Improved home-screen conversion with AI/ML based Artwork personalization.

Head Of Design & Research

Sep 2018 – Nov 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Drove Design & UX transformation of a media company entering the consumer technology space helping it establish as India's finest media consumer experience.
Led experience for the launch of HotstarX, a multi-market UX platform.
Enabled cross team collaboration to achieve world’s first vertical live stream of cricket.
Patents filed on 4 design projects.
Authored multiple programs to foster design culture. UX Champs, Internships, XR.
Introduced Design Systems for increased efficiency multi-fold on engineering and design YOY.
Enabled new projects funding with 120+ workshops, 80+ consumer behaviour reports.

Housing.com

3 roles

Head of Design

Promoted

Sep 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Built and Led a team of over 30 Designers and Researchers building various industry first User Experiences for real estate market across various segments of buying, selling, home loans etc.

AVP, Product Design

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Sep 2015 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Design Direction, Team Building, Product Design.
Leading New Projects & Buy Sections.

UI/UX Design Lead

Apr 2014 – Jan 2015 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Delhivery

Product Design, Front-End Developement

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

Independently designed the customer facing experience of tracking deliveries and the interface for logistics and operations. Contributed with Front-End Developement using JS to build the Delhivery website.

244degrees

Entrepreneurship & Consultancy

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo · New Delhi Area, India

Bootstrapped a startup 244 degrees - designing and building a travel platform for extreme sports in a bid to organize the sector and bring forth safety as a value for consumers which failed to scale post launching.

Applied mobile labs

Product Design, Front-End Developement

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

Designed and contributed with Front-End Developement to multiple products for Applied Mobile Labs most notably an English Learning program for the masses based in Northern India over a mobile website and IVR services.

Zomato

Product Design

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · Gurgaon, India

Started in the field of Product Design as an intern (then dubbed as UI Design) with Zomato designing their restaurant dashboard and Desktop Web Experience.