Apr 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Provided Strategic, Organizational and Product Guidance as BYJU'S navigated evolving product lines across multiple geographies and target segments. Hired the next set of leadership to build on the initial years of growth.

Jun 2015 – Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Lead the Product Vision, Growth and Strategy at Byju's, World's largest Education Technology (EdTech) company on its mission to disrupt education and learning globally. Helped scale BYJU'S from $100M to over $20B in value in just over 6 years by building products, org, strategy and driving execution.
• The mission at BYJU'S is to democratize and disrupt education globally, and bring about truly personalized adaptive learning powered by technology and varied content formats, on a platform which will serve the entire World's learning needs.
• Built World class teams in tech/product, media production and educators to synergize and truly bring about genuine change and help the world learn better.
• Driving Overall Product Leadership, Management and Strategy across all Product lines, delivered on Mobile/ Tablets and other forms.

Jul 2014 – Jun 2015 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Heading Product on the Hike Messenger Platform, the largest Indian Messenger with over 100 Million Users across India.
• Conceptualizing and building out the platform to bring India online, by bringing the mobile internet to the user's fingertips via Hike. Built the platform for microapps across a range of services within the Messenger.

Mar 2014 – Jul 2014 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Headed Product and Operations at HOPPR - a SOLOMO (Social Location Mobile) product aspiring to connect brands and merchants to consumers through loyalty, coupons and intelligent recommendations.
• Hoppr was built in partnership with Bharti SoftBank, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Japan's SoftBank Corp.
• Hoppr was integrated with Hike Messenger in July, 2014.

Apr 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos · India

• A means to giving back to the Startups ecosystem in India by encouraging promising individuals and companies that are looking to build products and cause disruption

Dec 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Directed Product Management on some of Zynga's key global Social games across Web and Mobile platforms.
• Head of Product - on Hidden Shadows, Hidden Chronicles and Yoville with over 100 million users.
• Managed the conceptualization, design, go to market, launch and live operations of Hidden Shadows - Zynga's leading game in the Hidden objects Genre. Lead and mentored a team of Product Managers (10+) across all the 3 Products and delivered a topline revenue of tens of millions of $, with a reach of over millions of daily users.
• Was the acting GM, managing all cross functional teams - engineering, design, product management, UI/UX and Art. I was responsible for P&L management for all 3 Products.

Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 · 8 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on new IP development on Casino games- from conceptualizing, pitching to design phase.
• Head of Product on Hidden Chronicles - Zynga's most successful game in the Hidden object genre. Led a team of Product Managers on the live operations, and implemented features and mechanics that led to millions of $ revenue in each Quarter.
• Played a central role in recruiting, training and mentoring a large group of Product Managers.

Feb 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Lead Product management on Zynga's highly popular Virtual World game - Yoville - one of the most successful games on Facebook from the early days.
• Played a central role in developing new mechanics, strategies that solidified the game's topline and also delighted millions of Users globally.
• Feature design, optimization of monetization levers and techniques were ably supported with analytics and A/B experimentation methodology. Mentored and guided new Product managers as they picked up pace.

Aug 2010 – Jan 2011 · 5 mos

• Product management, development, road-mapping and strategy on July's leading offerings in the Mobile multimedia space.
• July's Mi Platform powers the mobile sites and apps of some of the world's biggest entertainment brands such as CBS, Turner, Discovery, NDTV etc

Jul 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Product & Program Management on the award winning product FiOS TV. Handled Interactive portals, Sports Widgets (MLB, NBA) and Game Apps (Casual) and bridged the gap between the Internet and the interactive TV.
• Built apps for the FiOS Store - Interactive Portals and Game Apps for the US audience.
• Worked with a number of cross functional teams ranging from Marketing, Legal to Technology, Usability etc to successfully deliver highly rated online consumer products to the market.

Jun 2004 – Jun 2006 · 2 yrs

• Module lead for a module of the Cash management Software 'DBDirect6.x', used by Deutsche Bank and its Clients
• Awarded the "Achiever's Award 2005" for outstanding contributions made in developing a Banking application