JioHotstar strengthens product and engineering team

JioHotstar has announced that it is strengthening its product leadership and engineering for accelerating AI-led product capabilities. The company now aims to build the foundation for the next phase of intelligent, personalised streaming at scale, and as part of this effort, its has hired senior leaders from leading global technology companies, including from Flipkart, Google, CRED, Razorpay and Myntra. These include Shrinivas SG (Discovery & Personalisation), Naveen Prashanth (Consumer Marketing), Abhishek Sharan (Engineering – Viewer Experience), Abhishek Varshney (AdTech), Chandru (Product Management), along with Chandramauli Singh and Nishant Paliwal, collectively strengthening the platform’s discovery, engagement, monetisation and engineering systems.Shrinivas SG brings expertise in building large-scale search and discovery platforms. He was previously with Flipkart, where he worked across search, catalog and trends. He was a key in developing GenAI-powered conversational commerce.Naveen Prashanth is tasked to strengthen consumer growth and engagement. He joins from Google, where he led YouTube Shorts, Creator and Artist Marketing in India, driving brand, performance and monetisation initiatives at scale. On the engineering front, Abhishek Sharan joins from Flipkart Group and has worked in Myntra, working on platforms spanning search, recommendations, applications, advertising systems and trust & safety. Most recently, he served as Head of Engineering at SuperMoney.Further strengthening advertising and monetisation technology, Abhishek Varshney joins from CRED, where he spent nearly five years building products and capabilities across payments, ordering and financial engineering. Chandramauli Singh and Nishant Paliwal from ShareChat and Cleartrip, respectively will strengthen the product and engineering leadership bench. They have prior experience in building recommendation systems, scalable platform architectures and user engagement frameworks for large-scale consumer products.Previously, David Zakkam joined JioHotstar to lead the analytics and data strategy charter, driving data-led decision-making across the platform. The JioStar Group also recently announced the appointment of Stephen Bugaj as Senior Vice President – GenAI Content & Technology, to focus on intelligent content pipelines.