Chintan Radia

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led global data strategy initiatives at Thoughtworks.
Founder of a life-saving initiative during the pandemic.
Passionate about improving financial literacy in India.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on data strategy and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data GovernanceBusiness TransformationIt StrategyProduct StrategyProduct ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodolgyAgile MethodologiesAgile ModelingAgile Project ManagementBusiness AnalysisBusiness PlanningBusiness Process MappingBusiness StrategyCRMCXO level engagementClient RelationsCommunicationConsultingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Data Analytics

About

Chintan is the Global Head of Data Strategy at Thoughtworks, where he drives transformative initiatives to build innovative data products that deliver strategic value to Thoughtworks and its clients worldwide. He has a strong track record of leading large, distributed teams across North America, Europe, APAC, and India, consistently delivering high-impact solutions at scale. Beyond his passion for technology and data, Chintan is a finance enthusiast, a mutual fund advisor, and a research analyst. His vision is to improve financial literacy in India and empower people to achieve financial independence by making their money work for them. Chintan is also the founder of www.fightagainstcovid.org, an initiative under Radia Foundation that helped save thousands of lives during the pandemic by mobilising critical resources and facilitating blood donations for those in need. This initiative was acknowledged by various media houses in India and outside of India.

Experience

Thoughtworks

5 roles

Global Head of Data Strategy (Vice President)

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Chintan and his team are responsible to form and operationalize the data strategy for Thoughtworks. He is responsible to ensure that we are able to get maximum value from the data platform investment and empower TWers to make faster and better decisions. He is also leading various change initiatives such as enterprise data governance, empowering the teams to build better and scalable data products, automated access management at scale, etc.
He is accountable for a large portfolio of data products built by 10+ data-focused teams across the globe. He is also an advisor to senior executives from finance, demand, supply, marketing, operations, and talent functions to help them shape their data strategy.

CXO level engagementBusiness TransformationData GovernanceData AnalyticsData Strategies

Client Partner

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

As a Client Partner, Chintan was responsible to work with Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Information Officer, and leaders from many other teams to help them shape their technology strategy to empower the nonlinear growth of their functions. He also led transformation for Internal IT, Demand, and Marketing teams to have joined up a roadmap to achieve business outcomes at all levels.

IT StrategyCXO level engagementBusiness TransformationClient RelationsSenior Stakeholder Management

Head Of Digital Business

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Chintan is responsible for building product strategy, goto market strategy, and overall delivery of a portfolio of 15+ products at ThoughtWorks. He works closely with the team of product managers and C-level executives to plan the spending on products and how best to deliver maximum value and optimize the operational cost and increase efficiency.

Product Strategy

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos

As a Principal Product Manager, he has hands-on experience of leading multiple product teams from various domains such as Recruitment, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance and Workspaces. He is responsible for building product strategy, go-to-market strategy and overall delivery of the suite of products.
Some of the key products/initiatives he has led over these years are:
Data Platform: This initiative is to enable ThoughtWorks to leverage data available across various systems in the best possible ways to provide a holistic view and help leadership teams with the right insights at the right time to make big bets and investments.
GoFigure: Reporting application that provides visibility to everyone in ThoughtWorks about the health of the business across all key metrics such as headcount, revenue, account information, utilization, cash balance, Client Margin, etc.
GoHire: Recruitment product built on top of Greenhouse (ATS tool) to provide better visibility on key success metrics for recruitment teams such as time to hire, pipeline view, conversions, etc.
SalesFunnel: Account / Opportunity management product built on top of the Salesforce platform for use of sales and marketing teams.

Product StrategyProcess ImprovementProduct ManagementProduct DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementProgramme Delivery

Senior Business Analyst

Nov 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Fight against covid - a mission to save lives

Founder

Apr 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · India

Fight Against Covid is a group of 300+ volunteers from various companies, NGOs, schools, colleges across India who are working round the clock to provide relief to people in need. Our mission is to save lives! We help people with blood donation and verified COVID19 resources. So far we have managed to save over 1000 lives.
For more details, check our website www.fightagainstcovid.org