Siddharth Mantri

CEO

United States17 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 18+ years of product leadership experience.
  • Scaled businesses to over $300 million in revenue.
  • Expert in product-led growth and customer loyalty.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in the Streaming and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business Analysis Planning & MonitoringBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningCloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipCross-team CollaborationCustomer AcquisitionCustomer ExperienceCustomer RetentionCustomer SatisfactionDigital StrategyEnterprise Software

About

18+ years building products loved by 100s of millions of worldwide customers - across D2C (OTT, SuperApps, AdTech, Subscriptions) & enterprise SaaS, in Silicon Valley, South East Asia and India. Strong track record of scaling businesses into 300Mn+ USD revenues via product-led-growth, award-winning innovation, hyperlocal experiences and AI powered personalization - that earns customer love, trust and loyalty. Cultivated & scaled a high performance culture across globally distributed teams of 10-300 spanning Product Management, Product Marketing, Analytics, Product Ops, UX Design & Research, Engineering and Business Strategy, PnL management – across early stage, late stage startups (MX, Grab) and MNCs (Microsoft, Disney). Key Strengths: 1. “Earning” Customer Love Consistently outperforming customer needs with experiences that delight & surprise to earn customer trust, love and hence loyalty. 2. “Unifying” Product & Biz Strategy Create compelling, durable & differentiated customer value proposition, identify & exploit unfair advantages/right to win, iteratively keep raising competitive moats, deliver business outcomes via customer outcomes. 3. “Amplify” Org Throughput & Impact Increase talent density, right-size org strength, structure & disciplines to keep in-sync with Strategy. 4. “Build” High Performance Culture Create mission-driven teams motivated, equipped and empowered to deliver the most impactful work of their lives unified by values (Hunger, Hustle, Humility, Honesty, Humor) and product leadership principles. Product Leadership Principles: 1. Unrelenting Customer Obsession (that delivers unexpected delight) 2. Go Big (or Go Home) 3. Innovate, Disrupt & Simplify 4. Take Immense Pride in your Craft 5. Data Trumps (and/or validates) Opinions 6. Bias for Action 7. Collaborate via Win-Wins 8. Disagree Respectfully, Commit Wholeheartedly Internal Values (5Hs) 1. Hunger 2. Humility 3. Hustle 4. Honesty 5. Humor

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

The walt disney company

Chief Product Officer | Disney+ Developing Markets (Acquired by Jio)

Jan 2022Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Singapore, Seattle

  • Responsible for scaling Disney+/Hotstar in India and 50+ worldwide markets. Ran Product Management, Biz Strategy, Design, Analytics/Data Science, Customer Support for Disney+/Hotstar across India, Israel, Africa, Middle East and South East Asia.
Business StrategyProduct Led GrowthGo-to-Market StrategyUX DesignCross-team CollaborationProduct Launch+3

Mx player (acquired by amazon)

Chief Product & Growth Officer

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Singapore

  • Ran Product Management, Design, Analytics, Growth, Performance Marketing, Content Operations & Programming and tech for the world's largest entertainment platform (1+ billion installs) - across OTT Video, Music, Gaming, Short Form Video (MX Takatak) and more.

Grab

Head of Product | SuperApp Services and Consumer Experience

Jan 2019Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Singapore

Microsoft

7 roles

Senior Director Product Management

Jan 2016Jan 2019 · 3 yrs

  • Enterprise & Security, Enterprise Management Experiences
  • Revolutionizing the modern workplace with magical experiences that IT trusts & users love.
  • ● Reduced IT deployment costs for Windows devices by XX% with cloud powered, imageless & zero touch deployment & management service aka Windows Autopilot
  • ● Conceived & realized the vision for the world’s 1st fully autonomous self-deploying computer (PC equivalent of a self-driving car)
  • ● Simplified Windows’ Out of Box Experience (OOBE) from 15 clicks to 2 clicks (user-driven) to NO clicks (self-deploying)
  • ● Driven strategy to integrate entire device supply chain (from manufacturing to distributors to resellers) into the Autopilot cloud despite of an unfavorable & challenging ecosystem
  • ● Expanded fully autonomous zero-touch experience from new device deployment to entire device lifecycle including powerwash, reset, breakfix & retirement, end of life of corp owned devices

Senior Director Product Management

Jan 2014Jan 2019 · 5 yrs

  • Commercial Business Innovation
  • Leading growth & modernization of the $ XX B/year commercial Windows business through innovation in pricing, packaging, SKU differentiation and expanding sales channels & geos through strategic partnerships.
  • ● Increased device revenue by $XXX M/year despite of declining units through pricing innovation of royalty based on hardware value
  • ● Enabled $XXX M/year additional revenue by transforming Windows Enterprise business model from "software" to “cloud subscription” & packaging/bundling with other cloud services
  • ● Got Windows 10 approved into the China Govt’s procurement list enabling $XXX M/year & modernization of Chinese enterprise PC install base
  • ● Led MSFT’s JV (Joint Venture) with the Chinese Govt to land alignment on strategy, technical roadmap, business model, pricing & operational capabilities

Director Product Management

Promoted

Sep 2011Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • XBOX Security
  • Chief technical architect for XBOX ONE’s digital content protection & security technology that protects billions of $s worth of assets across Microsoft & external studios and secures the integrity of the XBOX ecosystem.
  • ● Digitalized XBOX’s business model from physical discs to cloud licensing and digital marketplace delivering $ XXX M/year
  • ● Secured cryptographic assets protecting XBOX digital content using hardware security end to end from developer creation, CDN publishing to real-time decryption during execution on the console
  • ● XBOX digital content protection security has NEVER been compromised to-date; HBI cryptographic assets are never exposed to general purpose software

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Oct 2010Sep 2011 · 11 mos

  • PlayReady, Digital Rights Management
  • Delivered integration of Playready DRM technology for video encryption & secured playback across browser & mobile clients, endorsement by Hollywood studios & adoption by major online video services like Netflix.
  • ● Delivered DRM support for (then) futuristic business models including rentals, offline playback, concurrent streaming restrictions
  • ● Got Hollywood studios to endorse PlayReady technology through technical and strategic negotiations on DRM standards that catapulted PlayReady as the top DRM technology

Product Manager

Sep 2009Oct 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Windows Live Mesh (now Onedrive)
  • Led the roadmap and execution for unifying Live Mesh, Onedrive and Foldershare (MSFT acquisition) using the best of both products - Foldershare UX and Mesh p2p file sync technology - hooking into the Onedrive cloud storage service.

Product Manager

Feb 2007Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Media Center Extender
  • Led partnerships with Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, D-Link and others that delivered Media Center Extender SDK integration into consumer devices (TVs, Set Top Boxes) for streaming of live TV, DVR video, music and photos over home network

Product Manager Intern

May 2006Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Redmond

  • Media Center Extender
  • Enabled consumer device manufacturers to integrate Media Center Extender SDK (porting kit) into consumer electronic devices (e.g. DVD players, TVs, Set Top Boxes). Product managed an outsourced dev vendor to create a network performance profiling tool that simulated typical home WiFi networking & video streaming loads.

University of michigan

Research Associate

Jan 2005Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Ann Arbor, MI

  • Applied research associate for control, diagnostics, safety & network performance evaluation in manufacturing automation.

Education

University of Michigan

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Engineering - Networks and Signal Processing

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