Creating and strengthening a community of Queer music industry professionals.

Increased subscribers by xx%, net margin by xx%, launched "Get Heard" (value prop directly attributable to subs growth), launched SC store and break artists like Laila!- Continue to head the Product Management org - GM of the distribution business (streaming royalties) - XXX M ARR- GM of the commerce business (new)- Content Operations - Exec sponsor for Queerclouders (SoundCloud's LGBTQIA+ community)

- Manage SoundCloud's Global Product Division- Lead the creation of artist commerce business, enabling artists to generate supplementary income.- Expand SoundCloud's value proposition by fostering partnerships and early access programs.- Experiment with and validate cutting-edge music technologies, including Gen AI and Web3 (with a focus on community and NFT applications)- Exec sponsor for Queerclouders (SoundCloud's LGBTQIA+ community)

- Help led SoundCloud get to profitability for the first time in 16 years- Strengthened Creator SaaS business revenue by increasing subs, improving margins and reducing churnSoundCloud is a next-generation music entertainment company powered by an ecosystem of artists, fans, and thriving communities. As one of the world’s most influential cultural platforms, SoundCloud holds a singular market position as both a music-streaming service with the largest catalogue of music, and an artist services and distribution business to help artists grow long-term, successful careers.I support product, product marketing, design, UX and analysts in pursuit of our mission to help artists with their creations and their career.

Advising the team on personalized digital wellbeing using AI.

Help start-up founders with anything they need from my experience - ideas of testing a hypothesis to GTM strategies. I help founder zoom into specifics of execution.

Speak mostly about #early-stage #zerotoone #0to1 #growth #productmanagement etc.Product School is a global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals. As a featured speaker, I help inspire the next generation of Product Managers to create innovative products and apply best practices in their work

Helped the CEO and the product team with strategy. Acquired by Babylist.

Improved engagement by 20% driven by longer feed sessions, more dwell time on posts and more engagement actions such as save/share/comment/reblogging.Led multiple teams focussed on making relevant, engaging, serendipitous and exciting content/blogs available and discoverable to users through unique user experiences. Led all community based features including Trust & Safety.I manage multiple functions in this organization that includes product management, product engineering, data science and machine learning to continue this important work and make Tumblr the best place "where your interests connect you with your people" (our mission).Tumblr is a part of an amazing company - Automattic - read more about Automattic here - https://automattic.com/about/

Figuring where should CNN go beyond news to build 3 additional new business and revenue streams (areas of exploration - health/wellness, travel/activities & edtech). We have an outsized advantage of content creation and supply, global scale, subject matter experts and even bigger motivation to create new products/businesses. Wanna know more? ping me.

1. Rider App (App as a Platform & Request Flow)2. Airports Business3. High Value Modes - Extra Seats, Luxury4. Use Cases - special rides for every occasion5. Membership (Subscription) - Lyft Pink - helping riders get more value out of Lyft

Scaling Headspace from 1 to ∞- Voice (Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana)- Sleep- Wearables (Apple Watch)- Internal tools and customer experience- Personalization/Search/Recommendations - Partnerships and Platforms- Technology InfrastructureThe story so far in Headspace: - Founder of four teams in Headspace - Connected Experiences/Emerging Products (Voice and Wearables), Conversion, Partnerships and Infrastructure and Tools. - Launched 13 skills on Alexa and a few Google Assistant Actions (including Sleep and Sleepcasts on these platforms)- Introduced IaaS vs. a service desk model for DevOps and Infrastructure team (which includes tools and process for Operational Excellence, DB Operations, Deployments and Provisioning)- Published a white-paper on Headspace Security and Compliance - Launched Customer Service tools/processes that helped us engage with our members and reduce costs in operations- Launched various experiments on personalization "Just For You" category on Library and recommendations on Voice- Launched various promos and experiments on checkout flows leading to increasing # of subscribers and conversion rate.

- Conversion & Growth

Part time Instructor on Tue and Thur evenings in NYC.

Where Notifications, Personalization and Growth meets. Product area lead: worked on notifications (email, in-app, push notifications) and growth tools using applied ML and complex backend infrastructure (XX billion song events/day). Some examples of user facing launches from my teams:- life cycle notifications and reminders such as registration, on-boarding, purchase completion, discover weekly, new releases etc. - concert notifications- release radar playlist- promos, intro offers- year in review ...... to name a few ...

A complete immersion in a virtual world (behind those Head Mounted Displays) requires 'tricking'​ one's brain into believing what it is sensing. Sight can be as limiting as the field of view. Sound adds to what sight can't grasp - a bull charging from behind, a rattlesnake below on the right or even a whisper moving from the left ear behind the head to the right ear. With Dolby Atmos for Virtual Reality technology and tools, we aim to help content creators create object-based sound on a 3 dimensional space and encode their creation such that they are decoded and rendered binaurally (headphones) with precision and efficiency when an end user listens to the content. The artistic intent and creative integrity is maintained and preserved from the content creation to consumption thereby ensuring a full immersion into the virtual world.Responsible for Dolby Atmos Cinematic VR content creation workflow and tools, content packaging and distribution (codec) and rendering solutions.1. Launched Dolby Atmos VR Production Suite and Dolby Atmos for Virtual Reality Applications - end to end ecosystem from content creation, codec and rendering sound over headphones and even speakers which are used by the leading VR sound mixers in the world such as Skywalker Sound. It's a widely adopted sound format - Jaunt - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dolby-laboratories-jaunt-launch-world-130000365.htmlLittlstar - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dolby-laboratories-littlstar-announce-next-130000572.html2. Worked on two VR movies that were a part of official Sundance 2016 and Tribeca 2016 lineup - Collisions and Perspectives 2

Product: Trending Now and Trending Queries- Launched 100% algorithmic Trending Now (trending searches) experience in Yahoo driving higher click-through to Yahoo Search- Launched Trending Summary - Using trending signals from search queries and corpus of content Yahoo has, Trending Summary present a short snippet of information for the trending query so that users remain abreast of not just what's trending but also why they are trending.- Launched Top Holiday Searches in US- Responsible for the Trending Now Search Results Page experience- Responsible for Query Understanding- Responsible for the distribution of Trending Now - on/off network globally- Responsible for search traffic and revenueProduct : Search Applications - Launched various applications that gives direct, engaging and interactive results to users for a given queryProduct: Smart TV - Manage the entire software stack - OS, Backend and Frontend for a couple of TV OEM companies- Developed specialized apps (Smart Guide - Personalized Program Guide - see link attached) and interactive ad experiences on top.- Managed the entire program of Smart TV portfolio of products. - CES 2014 Coverage: - http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-smart-tv-save-or-kill-television-2014-1 - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/07/yahoo-brings-connected-tv-platform-smart-tvs-content-recommendations-related-updates/#!rGeW5

Notifications and GamificationCreated a large scale real time platform for notifications and growth and at the same time developed ML models to understand user's better in context such as activation, retention, content creation, loyalty etc. We also developed a gamification platform in-house to gamify experiences for user engagement (activation & retention).User Segmentation and ReputationClustering users using ML techniques on various dimensions such as engagement, loyalty, monetary value etc.

AOL Health and Thatsfit.com (AOL/HuffingtonPost Healthy Living), ShelterPop, Aol Parenting & KitchenDaily1. Completed an exhaustive study to bring in parity and beyond-parity features to AOL Health.2. Managed day to day product related operations with ad tech, sales and editorial team to bring in additional revenue.3. Evaluated and analyzed partnerships for Health and co-ordinate with business development for diligence, pricing and deal terms4. Managed other products such as ShelterPop.com, KitchenDaily, Parenting etc.Additional responsibilities -1) Completed product strategy for mobile and communication, location based services, paid services etc.2) Done various due-diligence and research for new products3) Due diligence of companies and research for AOL Ventures

Product Manager, Winamp and Music Usage Database (AOL Music) - Global audience1. Managed Winamp Product(s) across all geographies 2. Managed AOL Music's Platform Services - large scale usage data of all users across the world - used for tracking, charting and personalization of individual's music - Music Database which contains all artists' content that powers all AOL Music Network properties3. Worked with the community manager to engage one of the largest communities in this category4. Wrote on the Winamp blog (http://blog.winamp.com)

Headed product and marketing for CompareIndia.com, Tech2.com and StoreGuru.com.1) Launched StoreGuru.com which is shop.in.com now.2) Prepared business plans/roadmaps/marketing plans/creative briefs/promotion plans for CompareIndia.com, Tech2.com and StoreGuru.com.3) Managed 2 customers acquisition and support executives for CompareIndia.com.4) Co-ordinated roadshows, events and contests for Tech2.com5) Worked with varied teams - CNBC TV18, In.com, Moneycontrol, Mobile team (52622), Bookmyshow.com& JobStreet.6) Worked closely with ad networks, online media planners and creative agencies.7) Worked on a project involving structured data.

Joined as a management trainee for the HT Media Ltd. group and worked on various assignments including the launch of Fever 104 FM (in association with Virgin Radio) and Mint (in association with the Wall Street Journal). Responsibilities as a product manager for Hindustan Times includes marketing strategy, creating product road map and business plans as well as co-ordinating efforts for sales, advertisement sales, operations, events, activation, marketing & communications which includes media planning and business development.Published three articles in Hindustan Times newspaper (Bombay Edition), 2007