Sameer Kolhekar

CEO

United Kingdom15 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Inventor of Prime Video's analytics tool used by 3000+ people.
  • Led teams to drive innovation in analytics and data engineering.
  • Managed analytics for content investments worth $1B annually.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Analytics and Engineering Leader in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product AnalyticsData EngineeringBusiness IntelligenceAnalytics

Other Skills

E-CommerceExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Data ModelingPeople ManagementData ScienceAmazon Web Services (AWS)Process AutomationSenior Stakeholder ManagementStatistical ModelingAmazon RedshiftFinancial PlanningPython (Programming Language)TableauData VisualizationMicrosoft Excel

About

Influential Analytics leader with 12 years of experience in applying business intelligence, analytics, machine learning, and data engineering techniques to complex business problems and influencing decisions at senior leadership level. Currently working as the Head of Product Analytics and Experimentation at Sky's Global Streaming Product organization. 7+ years of experience in line managing highly skilled analysts, and data & analytics engineers. Inventor of Prime Video’s in-house content & marketing analytics tool that manages launch and asset readiness, marketing workflows and merchandising automation for Amazon Prime Video's global content Portfolio. The tool was used by 3000+ people across 8+ Amazon teams and revolutionized Prime Video’s launch analytics and planning process by saving more than 500 hours per month. Experienced in DTC business, Entertainment, FMCG and Pharmaceutical industry.

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
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Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Data Engineering and Analytics Org Leader - Cross Platform Integrity

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Sky

Head of Product Analytics and Experimentation

Aug 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Lead and manage a team of analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and technical program managers to drive innovation and deliver results through analytics engineering and Experimentation.
  • Manage the Experimentation and product analytics program for NOW TV (Sky Global OTT)
  • Provide thought leadership and data strategy to deliver efficient data insights, measurement, and data engineering functions for Sky’s OTT organization.
  • Partner with business leaders to create a strategic vision for measuring Product, Merchandising, and Content success. Translate business goals to actionable KPIs and insights to track and ensure that business goals are met.
E-CommerceExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Data ModelingProduct AnalyticsData Engineering

Prime video & amazon studios

Head of Content Analytics and Global Automated Tooling

Oct 2018Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Scaled up, hired the best and grew the business intelligence and engineering team at PV
  • Created and hired for the BI Engineering, Data Engineering and Software Engineering verticals in my team to deliver global analytics tooling, core data engineering and BI solutions for the global Prime organization.
  • Led the development of in-house planning and performance tracking tool and deployed automated marketing & targeting for 100M+ Prime Customers. The automation helped Amazon Prime Video scale responsibly.
  • Used data science and analytics models to drive content strategy and investments for Global Pay movies, Amazon Originals and Exclusives by creating frameworks to measure ROI, Value drivers.
  • Led the team that developed a global Content Acquisition Model to predict profitability on investments in 3P content assets and Amazon originals, impacting content investments worth $1B annually.
  • As senior leader at Amazon Prime Video, spearheaded implementation of comprehensive content launch and efficiency metrics program, driving global impact. Oversaw end-to-end execution of data pipelines, BI engineers, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning to optimize customer engagement and content performance.
  • Led global BI and Data Engineering development programs, driving stakeholder requests, and overseeing end-to-end delivery and resolution of tickets. Implemented agile processes to ensure efficient project execution and fostered a culture of continuous improvements.
  • Partnered and built relationships with senior leaders in Technology, Marketing, Merchandizing, Programming Strategy and Finance to translate complex business requirements into KPIs, Insights, Data Science Models, and automated tooling.
  • Leveraged Native AWS technology, Python, R and SQL to automate supply chain, marketing, personalization, and performance forecast for content launches across 100+ countries for PV
People ManagementAnalyticsData ScienceAmazon Web Services (AWS)Process AutomationSenior Stakeholder Management+6

Amazon

Analytics and Data Engineering lead- Amazon Devices and Digital Services

Aug 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

  • Manage a team of data engineers, and BI engineers to report business metrics, and create models and automated ETL pipelines
  • Manage and develop analytics solutions and insights to automate capacity planning for Amazon Customer service receiving 500M calls annually to optimize cost and improve SLAs.
  • Work with business teams to define strategy for capacity planning and translate that into clear and actionable goals that are defined by data.
  • Partner with senior leaders in multiple departments to build upon long term analytics roadmap.
  • Provide support for senior leaders to understand gaps between forecasts and actuals and created automated metrics to course correct.
  • Train and deploy forecast models in R and Python to forecast site level customer calls to optimize for communication SLAs across different channels.
  • Run weekly and monthly business reviews meetings with senior leaders in multiple departments, track KPIs that link to organizational goals and strategy and facilitate what-if analyses
Amazon RedshiftFinancial PlanningPython (Programming Language)TableauData VisualizationE-Commerce+4

Optymyze

2 roles

Senior Consultant, Analytics and Data Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2016Jul 2017 · 10 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Managed and mentored 5 analytics consultants and associates to deliver data driven tooling and insights to improve sales force effectiveness, incentive compensation strategy for Fortune 500 FMCG and Pharmaceutical clients.
  • Developed an effective sales force strategy for clients to enter the market in a new therapeutic area.
  • o Translated the strategy into a statistical model to that led to a 23% increase in client’s annual profit.
  • o Scaled the model to productize it for multiple clients. The SaaS version of this model later brought in $3M revenue in 2017 for Optymyze
  • Identified organizational challenges that led to low margins and attrition and created bespoke internal initiatives and leadership training to focus on solving the problem. The company margins improved by 15% because of the 3-month training.
Statistical ModelingData ModelingAnalyticsData Engineering

Consultant

Jan 2016Aug 2016 · 7 mos · Pune Area, India

Data Modeling

Zs associates

3 roles

Analytics Consultant

Jun 2015Jan 2016 · 7 mos

  • Managed teams of 10+ associates to deliver enterprise scale Business Intelligence and Analytics projects for Fortune 500 Pharma clients to measure Sales Force Effectiveness, C-suite KPIs, Sales Forecasts and attainment, and market penetration.
  • Worked on Managed Care Analytics and BI Reporting solution for a big pharmaceutical firm (1-1.5-year project) that increased the overall sales and market penetration of a stable market by 5%
  • Owned and executed monthly and quarterly business review presentations with executives and C-level management for pharmaceutical clients.
  • Contributed to business development by selling an excel-based reporting tool that I created for a client. The tool was sold to 5 clients which brought in additional revenue worth $300K.
  • Organized recruitment drives in universities to inspire and recruit new talent to fuel company’s growth.
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)Data Modeling

Associate Consultant - - Data Technology

Promoted

Jan 2013Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Conceptualized and implemented Managed HealthCare Analytics and Analytics Strategy for a
  • big Pharmaceutical firm that increased the overall sales and market penetration of a stable market by 5%. Owned and executed monthly and quarterly business review presentations with executives and C-level management
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)Data Modeling

Associate - Data Technology

Sep 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)Data Modeling

Education

EPFL

Research Trainee — Human Computer Interaction

Jan 2010Jan 2010

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Information Technology

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Birkbeck, University of London

Master of Science - MS (paused after 1 year) — Advanced Computing Technology and Machine Learning

Oct 2021Aug 2025

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