Senior Vice President – Business Strategy & Growth

About the role
This role will drive business growth across JioStar’s Entertainment portfolio comprising of General Entertainment, Movies, Kids, Youth, International and Star Studio 18 across linear & streaming , operating at the intersection of strategy, monetization, and execution.

The mandate is to:

• Solve high-impact business problems across content, distribution, and monetization

• Build new revenue streams and scale existing ones

• Drive cross-screen thinking (TV + Streaming + CTV) across decision-making

• While AI and emerging capabilities are anchored separately today, this role is expected to actively translate these into business impact, with the potential to take on a broader Growth & Innovation mandate over time.

What You Will Own

1. Own Business Strategy with Execution Accountability

• Lead high-impact problem statements across the entertainment business

• Translate strategy into clear plans, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes

• Work directly with business heads to drive implementation and closure

Expectation: You own outcomes, not just recommendations

2. Build and Scale Monetization

• Own growth across core revenue streams (Ads + Subscriptions), working with business teams to unlock incremental value

• Build and scale new revenue engines beyond ads/subscriptions (e.g., consumer monetization, partnerships, new business models)

Expectation: Deliver material revenue impact across both existing and new streams

3. Drive Cross-Screen Business Thinking

• Help unify decision-making across linear TV, streaming, and CTV

• Influence content and investment decisions through integrated performance frameworks

Expectation: You think in terms of consumer behavior, not platforms

4. Lead Strategic Initiatives & Whitespaces

• Identify and build new opportunities across:

• Content formats (especially scalable, high-frequency formats like non-fiction)

• Partnerships and ecosystem plays

• New business models

• Support development and scaling of high-potential IPs and formats

Expectation: You can take ideas from concept → execution → scale

6. Operate as an Enterprise Leader

• Work across content, marketing, product, ad sales, finance, and distribution

• Align senior stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and execution

• Step in to drive closure on critical initiatives

Expectation: You can drive outcomes in a complex, matrixed organization

Success Metrics

• Ability to independently run large business charters end-to-end

• Incremental impact on revenue, viewership and margins

• Number and scale of new revenue streams built

Candidate Profile

• We are not prioritizing traditional media backgrounds.

We are looking for leaders who:

• Have 12–18 years of experience in consulting, start ups having scaled something from 0 to 1, consumer tech, platforms, or scaled consumer businesses

• Have built or scaled businesses, products, or new verticals

• Are comfortable owning P&L-linked outcomes

• Have strong first-principles thinking and problem-solving ability

• Can operate in ambiguity with speed and clarity

Why This Role Matters

• This role sits at the center of how the entertainment business evolves over the next phase.

It is designed to:

• Drive immediate, measurable business impact

• Build enterprise-wide context across functions

• Enable progression into broader business and growth leadership roles over time, including areas like AI and cross-screen transformation.