AI Strategy Playbook For Product & Engineering Leaders

Working with Pranav at MakeMyTrip was a masterclass in product leadership. He taught me how to think beyond features - to connect product decisions to business outcomes, lead through ambiguity, and build teams that deliver at scale. His frameworks around customer-first thinking and structured delegation are things I still use daily, now leading products at Meta. Pranav doesn't just teach strategy - he lives it.

I worked with Pranav for years and observed first-hand how he led large organizations through AI transformations. He’s an expert at creating simple frameworks that help teams make the right prioritization decisions for their customers, and then guiding them to use AI to accelerate delivery.

Working with Pranav was genuinely one of the most formative experiences in my career. His ability to cut through ambiguity and reframe problems strategically - while keeping the customer at the center - shaped how I think about product development to this day. Beyond his sharp analytical mind, Pranav has a rare quality of making complex work feel energizing and even fun, which brings out the best in the people around him.

I worked closely with Pranav during our time at MakeMyTrip, when the company was transitioning from a desktop-first world to mobile-first. He played a key role in building the mobile product foundations and some of the early rails for data science and data-driven decision making.

What stands out for me about pranav is how connected he is to consumer insights, cutting edge tech in depth and the practical aspects of how to commercially apply these in different phases of evolution of a megatrend. He has the unique advantage of being a core engineer turned product manager who is as curious about human psychology as he is about the latest tech developments.

I had the privilege of working with Pranav when he was my manager at MakeMyTrip — in what was also my first role as a Product Manager.

We were building the mobile application from the ground up at a time when mobile commerce in India was still in its infancy. There were no playbooks to copy, no established best practices to borrow from. We had to think from first principles and that is something Pranav drilled into me early on. Beyond product thinking, he shaped how I view leadership.

If there’s one thing Pranav builds consistently, it’s strategic thinkers - people who don’t just ship features, but understand why they exist. Anyone looking to deepen their thinking around product, UX, and leadership would benefit immensely from working with him.