Dec 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• As the Director of Fly Homes, I ensure that students traveling abroad for higher education secure affordable, safe, and reliable housing. I oversee the entire process, from identifying trusted accommodation providers to ensuring a seamless experience for students.
• This year, Fly Homes has supported nearly 5,000 students in securing housing, with 90% heading to the UK. I collaborate with universities, property providers, and local agencies to build a network of trusted housing solutions. My responsibilities include fostering partnerships, maintaining transparency in pricing, and prioritizing student safety and comfort.
• Working across both B2B and B2C models, I lead initiatives to address students' diverse needs, ensuring our services remain accessible and impactful. By streamlining processes and leveraging technology, we strive to remove the stress of finding accommodation, allowing students to focus on their academic goals.
• Ultimately, my mission is to ensure that every student has access to reliable housing, which will contribute to their well-being and success during their study-abroad journey.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• World's largest consumer-tech platform for student housing, Unilodgers is an insurgent brand in the $500Bn student housing industry that helps students find & book off-campus accommodation, disrupting archaic, broken and traditional forms of finding student apartments across USA, UK, Australia & Ireland majorly but also sprinkled over Chile, Colombia, South Korea & New Zealand. We're a profitable business, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners & Lumis Partners.

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Building community at Pesto!
• Pesto Tech is a technology education company.
• Pesto trains and invests in India's top software engineering talent. Pesto is not a learn-to-code Bootcamp. Our typical student has a CS degree and several years of relevant work experience prior to joining Pesto.
• We test and recruit the most promising programmers from all over India. We put them through our intense training program which includes Design Thinking, Product, Architecture, and Business Logic. We complete the paperwork and the taxation/employee benefits part, for you. Think of us as a fast track performance building accelerator, training the best and weeding out the rest.

Oct 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Community Manager of Wework BlueOne Square, Gurgaon. Oversaw end to end building operations & customer experience
• Accountable for the P&L of a 96,000 Sq Ft asset; achieved 4% EBIDTA margin within 6-months of launch
• Launched new measures to enhance revenue and reduce costs such as upselling credit packages and robust audit mechanisms to control consumption
• Ensured an average occupancy rate of 75% over 15-months. Renewed 65% of contracts.
• Drove a 4-person community team and 30-person facilities team to earn a 50+ Net Promoter Score
• Led performance management and career development for 4 members. Responsible for setting their KPIs and working towards their individual growth
• Through 6+ interventions launched, fostered a culture that can anticipate and accommodate the varying needs of a 800+ member community to continuously improve customer experience

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Spearheading strategic and targeted acquisition efforts to drive 7x growth in the no of listings in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, taking an otherwise considered low penetrated area(less than 200 listings) to the 4th largest market (over 1500 listings) in a span of 1.5 years
• Hired, trained and supervised operations of a team of 4 Host Acquisition Specialists to grow the supply/host community in over 6 focussed vacation rental markets of North India
• Formulated end to end strategy and execution of introducing GST to the Airbnb host community by liaising with multiple stakeholders including tax consultants, Airbnb legal and accounting teams, product team. Succeeded in rolling out multiple in-platform features to over 10,000 hosts in India seamlessly transitioning them to GST
• Launched and managed 2 key special project initiatives for India market - co hosting for Airbnb India and the volume hosting project
• Organized multiple market activation meet-ups to introduce Airbnb to different communities in order to grow the host network across focus markets

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• The InstaLively platform helps broadcast any event LIVE in just a single click, and directly link it up to your Youtube Channel. Our focus is on Instant Video/ Audio digitization on low 3G bandwidths using just a Mobile app - Making it as simple and cost-effective as possible for the everyday enterprise to create/ broadcast content from any location, thereby democratizing Online Video.
• Charted out the curated content calendar for the product with phased approach to gain maximum visibility
• Partnered with 40+ content creators and brand influencers across industries to deliver engaging content on app
• Executed a zero cost Campus Ambassador Program. Recruited 3 batches of 50 interns each from DU colleges to run market surveys & focus group discussions and to gain understanding of Indian Internet users aged 13-25
• Worked closely with the founders on strategic planning for both long term and short term objectives

Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Now acquired by Aspiring minds, Letsintern is India’s leading platform to find career opportunities such as internships, live projects and fresher jobs.
• Conceptualized & implemented creative and comprehensive brand activation WoM & digital marketing campaigns for 16 corporate clients that included Pepsi, Micromax, HUL, QS, JBL, OLX. Efforts included curating nationwide campus ambassador programs for the clients
• Led a team of two Business Development Strategists and two Marketing Managers to manage acquisition pipelines and co-design marketing campaign strategies
• Proactively collaborated and brainstormed with the product teams to introduce strategic developments around UX and creatives to make sales operations more efficient

Jun 2014 – May 2015 · 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• WoM, Digital and Youth Marketing specialist.
• In the past year, I've designed and executed, unique/ out of the box, WoM Marketing campaigns for more than 10+ global brands such as Pepsi, adidas, JBL by Harman, OLX, Reckitt Benckiser, Luxottica, Philips and many more.

May 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs · Greater Delhi Area

• SkillKindle is Delhi NCR & Mumbai’s largest marketplace for lifestyle-related classes (3000+ experts, 225K+ users). It won the ET Power of Ideas 2012 (from ~75,000 startups) & was voted the Coolest Startup of 2012 by HT Mint
• Developing, executing & managing sales and marketing for SkillKindle.com – Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore
• Trained new hires on processes and tools (Keyword Planner, Google Analytics, FB Advert, Excel)
• Acquired renowned trainers and city-based club/associations & managing relationship with them- over 300+ partners personally on-boarded
• Heading SkillKindle Pro - the corporate workshops vertical, responsible for planning & conducting workshops in various corporate companies like Microsoft, HUL, Godrej, HDFC, IKEA etc

Jul 2011 – Jun 2012 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Managed the National Board of Advisors; including B. Muthuraman, VP - Tata Steel, Ronnie Screwvala, CEO - UTV, Adi Godrej, Chairman - Godrej Industries, Atul Singh, Group President Asia - Coca-Cola
• Raised 95 Lakh INR for AIESEC Initiatives and Events
• Managed a team of 22 local business development managers spread across 22 cities
• Developed strategic partnerships to support core business operations & resources for for market capitalization
• Responsible for Customer Relationship Management
• Increased client base by 54% and exceeded revenue target by 57%
• Develop key sales & marketing tools and plan for the national office of AIESEC in India

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 · 11 mos

• Responsible for leading the local chapter of over 150+ members
• Managed and supervised a team of 10 Vice Presidents
• In charge of overall strategy and operations of the local chapter
• Achieved over 200% growth from previous year
• Won a national award for most progressive local chapter in the country

Jan 2009 – Dec 2009 · 11 mos

• As a leader of 20 member team , supervised projects on Emerging Markets, Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship
• Responsible for relations with 35 corporate clients and furnishing their international HR requirements