Varun Khera

Partnerships Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India7 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led partnerships with global tech giants.
Developed multilingual datasets for AI.
Spearheaded impactful digital skilling campaigns.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic partnerships leader in the AI and digital marketing sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Partnership ManagementBusiness StrategyData Analysis

Other Skills

Business AnalysisDigital MarketingInterpersonal SkillsLeadershipMarket ResearchMarketing StrategyMicrosoft OfficeProject ManagementPublic SpeakingSalesStakeholder EngagementTeachingTeam Management

About

I'm a strategic partnerships leader with over 7 years of experience driving high-impact collaborations at Josh Talks with global tech companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI. I joined the company as one of its earliest team members and now lead our largest revenue-generating B2B vertical. My work focuses on building scalable, tech-enabled solutions rooted in India’s cultural and linguistic diversity—whether that’s helping small businesses adopt digital tools, enabling partners to reach underserved communities, or creating multilingual datasets to power the next generation of AI. I thrive at the intersection of impact, innovation, and execution.

Experience

Josh talks

4 roles

Head of Partnerships

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

As a core member of the leadership team, I’ve helped shape the company’s strategic direction and expansion—from being an early team member to leading Josh Talks’ largest revenue-generating B2B vertical. My focus lies in building high-impact partnerships that sit at the intersection of technology, storytelling, and social change.
Lead a 14-member cross-functional team spanning partnerships, creative, and operations.
Manage end-to-end relationships with key B2B partners including Meta, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, WhatsApp, and multiple State Governments—owning the full partner lifecycle from pitch to execution, impact delivery, and renewal.
Oversee high-value contracts and drive long-term partner alignment by translating complex objectives into measurable outcomes and scalable programs.
Led India-focused dataset development initiatives—curating multilingual speech, STEM reasoning, and computer vision data across 12 Indic languages to power LLMs, ASR systems, and conversational AI models.
Spearheaded flagship digital skilling and business messaging campaigns with Meta, Amazon, and Google, enabling access to digital tools and economic opportunities for underserved communities and MSMEs.
Directed social impact collaborations with leading foundations including The Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, and Ford Foundation across sectors such as health, gender, and climate—designing campaigns that combine on-ground activations with digital storytelling to drive awareness, behavior change, and policy impact.

Team ManagementLeadershipBusiness StrategyPartnership ManagementData AnalysisDigital Marketing