Akshay Khunteta

Associate Partner

Delhi, India8 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led international expansion for Disney+ in MEA region.
  • Drove user growth and platform performance at JioHotstar.
  • Achieved significant cost savings through operational optimizations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a growth-focused professional in the Media & Entertainment industry with strong marketing and product strategy expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProblem SolvingProject ManagementMarketing

Other Skills

ManagementProduct ManagementProgram ManagementGrowth StrategiesStakeholder ManagementEntrepreneurshipGrowth MarketingProgrammingComputer ScienceMathematicsArtificial IntelligenceResearchCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)User Experience (UX)Strategy

About

Innovative problem-solver with a passion for design thinking, emerging technologies, and startups. Currently, serving as an Associate Director, Platform Marketing at JioHotstar, I am leading key growth and content initiatives for the MEA region - driving user growth and platform performance. Previously, I played a pivotal role in launching and scaling operations for OYO Hotels & Homes across the US, UK, and LatAm markets. I hold an MBA (PGDM) in Marketing & Strategy from MDI Gurgaon (2019) and a B.Tech. in Information Technology & Mathematical Innovations from Cluster Innovation Centre at University of Delhi (2016). I am committed to simplifying complexity and driving strategic growth in dynamic global markets.

Experience

Jiohotstar

2 roles

Associate Director - Platform Marketing, Digital

Promoted

Nov 2025Present · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

International Expansion Manager (Disney+)

Nov 2022Nov 2025 · 3 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Developed and executed strategies for customer engagement and retention for MEA, including suggesting key improvements across product and content strategy to increase users watching Long Running Series on the platform across South Africa, Middle East and Israel
  • Worked in collaboration with global cross-functional teams for running and executing growth experiments on the platform, including content callouts and homepage layout experiments
  • Optimised SMS and OTP delivery in collaboration with product to reduce yearly costs by $300k
  • Refined the homepage content merchandising strategy which led to improved CTRs and ECTRs
  • Worked on partnership strategy to improve activations of partner-led acquisition campaigns
  • Program managed multiple programs, including annual renewals for MEA markets
  • Collaborated across product, analytics and growth functions to streamline new initiative launches
Product StrategyProblem Solving

Oyo

Program Manager

Mar 2019Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Program Manager, Central Supply (Jun 2022 - Nov 2022)
  • Worked as a part of the Central Supply team for OYO International, with key focus on the OYO USA business.
  • Responsible for driving key initiatives to improve supply performance for the OYO USA business including lead generation, top of the funnel initiatives and leading programs like Each One Get One.
  • Chief of Staff, OYO USA (Jan 2022 - May 2022)
  • Led the CEOs office for OYO USA, with key responsibilities spread across driving revenue performance, improving growth funnel performance and increasing supply for the OYO USA portfolio.
  • PMO, OYO International (Apr 2021 - Dec 2021)
  • Responsible for driving key revenue and growth projects across the OYO International Portfolio.
  • Acquisitions, Global App (Feb 2020 - Mar 2021)
  • Responsible for managing new user acquisition programs across geographies to improve conversion with the help of product funnel optimization, tech changes, pricing and discounting frameworks, campaign management and understanding user behaviour.
  • Launched an improved referral program for OYO China which led to a 6x increase in daily URNs.
  • Actively researching new and more efficient offer constructs as well as growth strategies that can improve the number of new user transactions.
  • CRM, India (March 2019 - Jan 2020)
  • Responsible for planning and executing programs for the mobile app channel in India which led to an overall increase the app DAU (daily active users) to 2.5x with the help of communication changes and tech improvements.
  • Part of the team which planned and executed "OYO Innings Break" during ICC World Cup 2019 which won the Maddies award in 2019.
Project ManagementProduct StrategyProblem SolvingMarketingManagementProduct Management+1

Aditya birla fashion and retail ltd.

Management Intern

Apr 2018May 2018 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Title: Peter England RED Store Rollout Planning
  • Worked on Visual Merchandising Rollout Planning for PE RED Stores in Tier-3 and Tier-4 cities in India:
  • Executed Store Kit planning for franchises and vendors, suggested an improved rollout plan with short-term and long-term warehousing solutions, better vendor management practices, volume order projections for minimum quantity analysis and transportation solutions.
Marketing

Luxottica

Marketing Intern

Mar 2016Jun 2016 · 3 mos · India

  • Project Title: A Study of Consumers’ Perception about Oakley Sunglasses.
  • Responsibilities at Luxottica / Oakley included:
  • ● Market Research: Analysed the market and consumer, and studied about how the brand Oakley is perceived in the Indian market.
  • ● Consumer Psychographics: Conducted a consumer psychographic analysis for the brand's consumer.
Marketing

Topline print media

Business Development Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · India

  • Key Roles and Responsibilities:
  • ● Promoting and developing strategies for the promotion of genuine accessories for Honda Motorcycles,
  • ● Organizing and handling the Free Car Care Clinic Camp of Hyundai Motors across dealerships in India
  • Apart from working on these two projects, where the work involved strategizing about how Honda Motorcycles can promote genuine accessories, marketing and management of the dispatch for the FCCC Camps for Hyundai Motors, a better logistics system for Topline was developed which used assembly line techniques.

Dairy craft india pvt. ltd.

Intern - IT Analyst and Consultant

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos

  • The internship was a part of the DUCIC IT Maha Abhiyaan.
  • Key Roles and Responsibilities:
  • ● Led a team of 3.
  • ● Analysed and rated the technology used by the company and worked on the aspects of web design, data management and social media marketing.

Masterkube

Associate

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos

Defence research and development organisation

Intern

May 2013Jan 2014 · 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Associated with Scientific Analysis Group, DRDO
  • Key Roles and Responsibilities:
  • ● Research about data security schemes and study the various encryption / decryption schemes used for multimedia, particularly images
  • ● Design a new encryption scheme, which used Latin Squares and a new concept called "RGB Shuffling"​ to encrypt images. Tested the same on a large dataset.
  • ● Present the research at the "National Workshop on Cryptology 2013"

Education

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing and Strategy

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Delhi University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology and Mathematical Innovations

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Manav Sthali School

Jan 1998Jan 2012

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