Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

• Promoted myself to this role without a formal interview process. No one else applied.
• Responsibilities include school runs, dog walks, nap time negotiations, and managing a toddler who has stronger opinions about his lunch than most CEOs I've worked with. Also responsible for snack procurement, emotional support, and maintaining the fiction that vegetables are delicious.
• Key achievement: kept a small human alive and occasionally happy. No performance review required. No performance review survived.
• Skills acquired: patience (still in beta), emotional regulation (his, not mine), and the ability to function on three hours of sleep — a skill that, it turns out, transfers remarkably well to content leadership.

Oct 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurugram

• I was the guy behind those messages asking you to buy or sell your car. The blogs about HSRP number plates you never knew you needed. The CTAs on the app you couldn't help clicking. Social media posts. All of it — that was my team. Built a content team from scratch. Hired and managed writers and editors, moved all production in-house, wrote the style guide that finally settled the serial comma debate, and led UI content across app, mobile site, and desktop. Also introduced processes that actually improved turnaround times. Anyone who has worked in content knows this is less a professional achievement and more a minor miracle.

May 2022 – Oct 2022 · 5 mos · Delhi, India

• ABPP Papers needed someone to make sustainable paper sound exciting on LinkedIn. Devised the #BreakUpWithPlastic campaign in July 2022 and somehow made people care about packaging the way they care about their morning coffee. B2B content and creative direction for an audience that needed convincing that paper could have a personality.
• Turns out it can.

May 2022 – Oct 2022 · 5 mos · Delhi, India

• B2C Instagram content for a brand that needed personality as much as product. Delivered both. No complaints.

Nov 2021 – Mar 2022 · 4 mos

• Joined as Lead Editor. Got promoted to Lead Content. Ended up overseeing everything, as these things tend to go when you're the person who can't stop fixing things that aren't technically your problem.
• Led writers and videographers producing research-led wellbeing content. Planned calendars, oversaw shoots, produced the annual survey report, and kept the content machine running without it catching fire. Mostly.

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Mar 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• First editor on the SneakPeek team. Helped build the product from zero. It became the fastest-growing vertical at Zomato (at the time), which I mention casually but am actually quite proud of. Led writers across Delhi, Dubai, Australia, Indonesia, and Beirut. Launched in eight countries. Worked with 200+ restaurant partners. Did everything except the cooking, which everyone agreed was for the best.
• Then COVID happened.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Ran the production of an entire magazine with a small team. Subbed stories, commissioned freelancers, proofed pages, worked with designers, and wrote about football and motorsport.
• Also where I developed the midnight ritual — print the pages, mark corrections in pen, make sense of your own scribbles the next morning, and hope past-you had been coherent. Grew the digital presence significantly. Past-me was usually coherent enough.
• Still buddies with the Managing Editor at the time. Fun guy after a few drinks.

Nov 2016 – Jan 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Brought the print journalism discipline to a digital team. This mostly meant being the person who caught errors before they went live and occasionally reminded everyone that a website could have a point of view.
• Short stint. Left having made the content better than I found it. Same policy I apply everywhere.

Apr 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Started as an intern. Stayed because they kept giving me football to write about.
• Covered football, Formula One, and everything in between. Including the occasional cricket story, unfortunately. Wrote, subbed, designed pages, suggested layouts, and learned what a real deadline feels like — the kind where a newspaper actually has to print and there is no "we'll fix it tomorrow." We made corrections with seconds to go. That's where the eye for detail was built. Not in a course. Not in a workshop. Just the very real consequence of getting it wrong in ink.

Aug 2013 – Mar 2014 · 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• The Editor at the time thought I was high (I wasn't) when he first met me. Said I had a decent head on my shoulders after interviewing me but needed a haircut (didn't get one). Got paid enough to pay for my commute and beverages.