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Manu Thiyyas

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led Netflix India partnerships to accelerate subscriber growth.
  • Launched India's first large scale 360 3D VR experience.
  • Co-founded an AI-powered household assistant startup.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C SaaS product leader with extensive experience in partnerships and user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipGo-to-market StrategyBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Partnerships

Other Skills

PartnershipsBuilding Business PartnershipsStart-up LeadershipOpen Source ModelArtificial Intelligence (AI)AnalyticsAgile MethodologiesRequirements GatheringRequirements AnalysisMobile ApplicationsProject PlanningProduct DevelopmentDistributed SystemsProject ManagementSoftware Design

About

Co-founder / CEO at TaskGenie Private limited, an early stage startup. We are building Robin, an AI-powered household assistant that transforms daily lives for urban working families, helping them get time and peace of mind back in their lives, every day. I have over 15 years of experience in launching and scaling technology products across consumer and enterprise domains, with a focus on product management, partnerships, growth, and user experience. Previously, I was the head of partnerships for Netflix India, where I led and launched strategic acquisition and distribution deals with leading telcos, broadband providers, and pay-TV operators, such as Jio, Airtel, ACT, and TataPlay. I also worked at Microsoft and Disney+Hotstar, where I developed and delivered innovative mobile applications and software solutions for various platforms and markets. My career choices are guided by opportunities that can offer accelerated personal learning and create enormous impact. I am passionate about building products that solve real problems and delight users, and I enjoy collaborating with diverse and talented teams. Personal values that I aspire to live by: curiosity, compassion, and courage.

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

Robin: your household ai assistant

Co-Founder, CEO

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Socialcirkel inc.

Co-Founder, CEO

Mar 2024May 2024 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

LeadershipGo-to-Market Strategy

Netflix

2 roles

Head of Partnerships, India

Promoted

Dec 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • + As head of India Partnerships accelerating growth of Netflix India members by making it easy for new
  • subscribers to access and pay for Netflix through partnerships with telcos, broadband
  • service providers, and PayTV operators
  • + Led and launched acquisition and distribution partnerships with Jio, Airtel, ACT, TataPlay among
  • others.
  • + Launched Netflix’s first prepaid bundle of its kind worldwide in India with Jio, and subsequently
  • with Airtel
LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsPartnershipsGo-to-Market StrategyBuilding Business Partnerships

Head of Partner Engagement @ Netflix India

Jan 2019Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Leadership

Hotstar – novi digital entertainment private limited

Director Product Management

Feb 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • + Lead product for subscriptions, partnerships and living room experiences
  • + Launched partnerships with Jio, TataSky and Flipkart that helped expand the subscription business in India
  • + Launched India's first large scale 360 3D stereoscopic VR experience for 2016 Kabaddi World Cup
  • + Launched Hotstar internationally in US and Canada as a subscription service
  • + Launched Hotstar apps on Roku, Fire TV, and Android TV for Living Room
LeadershipGo-to-Market Strategy

Housing.com

Product Management Lead

Oct 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

  • + Led conceptualization, design, execution and delivery of the most delightful online property buying experience. Responsibilities across the spectrum from hiring, setting & reviewing product roadmap with leadership team and execution using agile practices
  • + Launched unified listings platform (unification of what once existed as two separate services “buy/resale" and "New Projects”)
  • + Launched industry-first “quick view” experience to make the process of checking out a particular property more seamless, which lead to significant improvements (double digit % growth) in conversions
  • + Launched curated property collections to facilitate property discovery
  • + Lead a process of continuous experimentation to understand and inform product iterations.
  • + Involved in recruitment and growing the product team at Housing, having conducted >100 interviews across junior and senior product positions
Leadership

Microsoft

3 roles

Program Manager

Feb 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • + Launched in-game experience for Major League Baseball with Bing Sports application on Windows 8.1
  • + Designed and executed on content strategies to drive up engagement metrics for Bing Sports application on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
  • + Launched streamlined process for covering topical sporting events of interest in a market through dedicated news cluster driven by an in-house global sporting calendar
  • + Partnered with Microsoft Research to automate sports entity extraction from a news story to scale content programming algorithmically

Program Manager

Feb 2011Feb 2013 · 2 yrs

  • + Launched safe and seamless virtualization experience for Active Directory Domain Controllers with Windows Server 8
  • + Led cross team collaboration to frame the necessary operational semantics
  • + Led discussions with virtualization partners in the industry such as VMWare, Citrix, etc to ensure consistent semantics across all hypervisors
  • + Launched uniquely powerful deployment capability called cloning for virtual domain controllers in Windows Server 8 to enable rapid provisioning in time-critical scenarios such as disaster recovery.

Software Design Engineer

Mar 2007Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • + Led development of Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.1 and 3.2 (C, C++, COM)
  • + Developed migration support for Managed Service Accounts (MSAs), a feature released with Windows Server 2008 R2, to facilitate adoption of MSAs over legacy service accounts
  • + Collaborated across teams to evaluate and implement migration support for additional features introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2

Lehman brothers

Software Developer Internship

Jun 2005Aug 2005 · 2 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Education

University at Buffalo

Master of Science — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Technology

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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