Jun 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Goa, India · Remote

• Site-lead & Head of Product, India
• Started a 0 to 1 journey within a growth stage startup
• Built an enterprise SaaS from scratch hitting $XX M ARR in 12 months.
• Applied Moloco's awesome ML to solve monetisation problem statements for video streaming products and beyond 🚀

Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Product Lead: new and existing monetisation avenues for Disney+ Hotstar globally
• 1. Facilitating global subscriber growth to >40 Mn
• 2. Charting a path for 2x growth in subscriber ARPU
• 3. Shaping an ads product roadmap to generate $ YYY Mn in ads revenue
• 4. Conceptualising new monetisation avenues leveraging partnerships and Disney brand synergies

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos

• Switched sides and jumped into the deep end from Engagement to Monetisation. Immersed myself in yet another 0 to 10 journey.

Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 · 11 mos

• Led Hotstar's User Engagement mandate. My teams were responsible for:
• 1. Discovery (Personalisation & Recommendations - Home Page UX - Details and Decisioning)
• 2. Stickiness (Short form - Retention - User Comms)

Jan 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• My mandate is to provide oversight on:
• 1. Personalisation - Machine Learning driven Recommendations, Content Discovery
• 2. Growth, Marketing Product Innovations - Retention features, Notifications, User Acquisition
• 3. User Intelligence and Management - Identity, Profiles, Accounts, ML led User Insights
• 4. Data Platform - Analytics, Governance, Data Products
• Building a rockstar team of PMs, Engineers, Designers and Data Scientists that's 75 people strong and growing fast. 🚀

Feb 2019 – Jan 2020 · 11 mos

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Some of the leading partners for Google Assistant, like Hotstar, were invited by Google to be a part of the Top Partner Advisory Board in Mountain View, California
• Represented Hotstar from a partnerships and product strategy pov
• We ideated over the Assistant 2020 roadmap with Google engineering and product teams and debated partner priorities

Jun 2016 – Feb 2017 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• SLP works on a give-back policy where a few select Fellows get the privilege of leading the next cohort. As a part of the Program Leadership team, I was responsible for:
• 1. Marketing & Outreach:
• Attaining a record high number of applications and interviews for the 2016-17 cohort. Consequently, this led to the largest batch size SLP Mumbai has ever seen.
• 2. Curriculum & Session Planning
• Laying out the pedagogy and 6 month learning plan for 30 entrepreneurs
• 3. Alumni Networking
• Securing our first ever sponsored alumni networking event with Citibank.
• Conducting a one-of-its-kind mentor-matching session for the batch with SLP Mumbai Fellows.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai

• The Startup Leadership Program is an initiative to train startup CEOs who have demonstrated outstanding potential and achievement, in life sciences, tech, cleantech, consumer, fintech, social and other sectors. There are 1,300 Fellows in 21 cities in eleven countries who have started over 1,000 companies that have raised more than $450 million in funding.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

• echo is the coolest way to get your friends together for things you like to do. See who's up for 🍺⚽🎶🎬🎭🏃🍴🍕.
• Fun emoji combos for everything under the sun (or otherwise); fifa 🎮⚽, poker 🎴💰 & more.
• Broadcast your plans to other friends interested in the same thing; play football with your ⚽ circle or go shopping with your 🛍️ circle
• Highlights
• Led echo through early concept development to 4 major pivots i.e. 0 to 1, 4 times over
• Roped in full time experienced technology and design co-founders after initial intern experiments
• Executed early growth hacks acquired hundreds of users with zero marketing $$
• Developed 3 spin-off products as side projects; all of these made money
• Implementing data-driven-design practices; we measure everything!

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Mumbai, India

• Core team member at a content technology startup.
• Business Head:
• 1. Responsible for key growth drivers that include Business Development, Team Building and Project Management under the able guidance of Mitr's founders.
• 2. Rapidly expanded a 14 member team to a high of 80+ employees in one year.
• 3. Managed a team of graphic designers, programmers, instructional designers through a layer of project managers and project leads.
• 4. Forged strong professional relationships with clients based out of India, Singapore, UK, Ireland, Sweden and the US.
• 5. Executed sales plans for various e-learning conferences - email marketing campaigns, snail-mail campaigns, and more. Trained more than 5 sales executives over 2 years.
• Solutions Architect:
• 1. Led the technology team to create in-house productivity tools.
• 2. Conceptualized technology solutions for major clients.
• 3. All night backseat programmer and debugger when needed.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · India

• Worked with 3 schools and 1 college in Mumbai (apart from my alma mater)
• Developed a formal debate curriculum.
• Trained over 50 students in various debate formats.
• Focused on the essentials of argumentation, reasoning and logic.
• Worked with colleges in Delhi and Mumbai as a Chief Adjudicator to help organize and manage debate tournaments. Each tournament was attended by more than a 100 participants.

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos · Mumbai

• Joined as a Subject Matter Expert for one of Hurix's biggest clients in the education sector at the time.
• Soon became a solutions architect and was involved in client calls to redevelop concepts and enhance them further.
• Worked closely with programmers and designers to create Flash simulations.