Pradhyum Chaudhary
Global Strategy & Product leader with 6+ years of experience driving growth across digital streaming, subscriptions, healthcare, and technology. Leverage marketing strategy, analytics, experimentation and customer insights to shape business decisions, influence executives, and lead cross-functional teams globally, delivering measurable impact for products serving 100M+ consumers
Work Experience:
6.5 Years
Industry:
Consulting | Media | Technology
Function:
Consulting & Strategy | Data Science & Analytics | Marketing
Tata Play (Only non-MBA in 6-member core team leading Tata Play Binge - India’s largest OTT aggregator (10Mn+ users); handpicked from 400+ for ownership) | Mumbai
Senior Manager- Subscriber Marketing
- Spearheaded TataPlay Binge’s first-ever A/B testing framework, evaluating Google’s AI-powered search API; collaborated with product, data and engineering teams, engaged Google’s US-based Search Team and TataPlay’s Product CXO to present findings, driving a decision that avoided ~$420K in annualized API costs, influencing roadmap direction and establishing a scalable experimentation practice
- Strategic Communication & Stakeholder Alignment: Launched and led TataPlay Binge’s Weekly Content Digest, aligning 5+ internal teams and 32+ partner OTTs on content performance trends; became a key CXO-level input for product and marketing decisions, contributing to an 11.2% reduction in customer acquisition cost across ~$3M+ in quarterly content marketing spends.
- Product Innovation: Led cross-functional teams to launch mood-based content discovery; collaborated with product, AI, and UX teams to design emotion-driven recommendations, driving $100k/month revenue gains across a 2.5M+ user base.
Disney+ Hotstar (Part of team that scaled Hotstar from 20Mn to 85Mn subscribers - India’s largest streaming platform (400M+ downloads), acquired by Jio) | Mumbai
Senior Product Analyst
- Youngest Product Analyst at Hotstar to lead a high-impact initiative in partnership with 13 engineers from the Beijing team; drove implementation of personalized in-app experiences to address start lag, reducing user drop-offs from 35% to 10% -contributing to an additional quarterly ad revenue of ~$1.2M; earning recognition from product leadership
- Led analytics for MaxView, Hotstar's mobile-first vertical video experience; designed experimentation framework, quantified watch-time impact, and presented business case directly to the CEO and Product Head, driving a 4.3% increase in watch time per user
- Led multiple A/B testing initiatives, from drafting experimentation documentation and ramp-up plans to creating dashboards for performance analysis and delivering executive-level summaries of outcomes.
Senior Marketing Analyst
- Built a unified performance marketing dashboard tracking title-level ROI and acquisition metrics, reducing ad-hoc analytics requests by 60% and improving decision-making efficiency across marketing teams
- Negotiated with marketing and product stakeholders across India, Singapore, and UAE to optimize third-party acquisition spend, reducing campaign costs by 30% (~$25K per campaign) while maintaining subscriber acquisition targets.
ZS Associates (Worked on firm’s largest client at a global healthcare consulting firm with presence in 25+ countries) | Gurugram
Business Operations Associate
- Coordinated with cross-border teams in the US and EU to lead delivery of a high-priority Customer 360 initiative for a Fortune 500 pharma client
- Managed a dedicated analytics pod, introduced agile planning routines, and created stakeholder feedback loops to ensure continuous delivery.
- Built executive dashboards for client’s global patient support program—streamlining leadership visibility across North America, Europe, and APAC, and driving ~25% improvement in program efficiency.
Yaantra (Gadgetwood Services) (Recommerce company specializing in the repair, refurbishment, and resale of smartphones and consumer electronics) | New Delhi
Product Management Associate
- Led design-to-launch of WhatsApp-based support bot, automating key customer service workflows previously handled by a small call centre team, unlocking ~$20K+ in quarterly cost savings and improving user response time.
- Analysed end-to-end product flows, identified drop-offs, and benchmarked re-commerce journeys enabling UX and product teams to implement improvements that boosted conversions by 12% for refurbished phone purchases
- Badminton: National-level badminton player; placed 3rd at All India Tata Tournament, won several state and district tournaments
- Sports Secretary – 62nd Student Activity Council, IIM Ahmedabad: Lead 52 culturally diverse students across age groups, driving sports and engagement for entire IIMA campus.
- (Present)
- TataPlay Recognition: Awarded Debutant of Quarter Award for exemplary performance (2025-2026)
- Hotstar Recognition: Awarded recognition trophy for contributions that helped Hotstar reach 50Mn+ subscribers (2022–2024)
- ZS Associates Recognition: Recognized twice by leadership with the Impact Recognition Award for high-impact client contributions and the Star Learner Award for demonstrating exceptional learning agility (2020–2022)
- College: Led 64-member college dance team as President; won multiple national college competitions. Won All India K-Pop Contest, organized by Korean Cultural Centre; invited to visit Korea. (2016–2019)
- B.Tech (Computer Science), Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, New Delhi
- A Modern Guide to Strategy Implementation – LinkedIn Learning
- Environmental Volunteering: Volunteer with Project Mumbai (UN-recognized NGO); participated in 12 beach clean-up drives across Mumbai, inspired by passion for surfing and ocean conservation. (2024–present)
- Surfing: Completed 15-day surfing certification in Mulki, Karnataka. (2024)
- Child Welfare & Mentorship: Volunteered with Tata Group at St. Jude India for children undergoing cancer treatment; previously mentored underprivileged school child with weekly calls focused on education & career guidance. (Ongoing)
- International Exposure: Selected performer at Commonwealth Games 2010 Opening & Closing Ceremony, Delhi (2010)