Sohum Sen

About Sohum Sen

I’m an AI-native Product Manager building video experiences that keep sports fans engaged longer. Also keeping up with the latest in GenAI while at it through hands on learning and lurking on Twitter/X.Currently Senior PM in Fubo’s India office; previously shaped gaming and cross-device experiences at Microsoft.Here\'s some of what I have been up to in the past: • Shipped Team Channels, an AI powered feature for the US market, scaled from zero to hundreds of thousands of users, and bumped up CSAT by 30% with iterative changes, with the product earning a call out from the CEO during its con-call • Built custom AI/ML pipelines powering NFL/MLB/NBA content for Fubo • Owned evals, defined KPIs, built internal tooling, and operationalized a 50+ evaluator workflow • Delivered the Xbox Game Pass Widget on Windows with ~200M reach and #2 CTR on the Store after 50+ gamer interviews and competitive research on the gaming industry which panned out to be spot on. • Unblocked adoption for Windows 365 Frontline login, enabling on-time GA and revenue impact • Worked on Copilot plugin authoring & UWP to WinAppSDK transitions as PM in the Windows Developer Platforms areaBeyond work, I co-created IIMInterview.com, I’m building VerbalBoost for CAT VARC guidance, and I run THEOMI, a free mentorship community for MBA interview prep with 5K+ members and 2K+ admits across India’s top B-schools. I am also a lifelong Arsenal fan, reader, and occasional writer. I love swapping notes on anything from VC, tech, philosophy, society, books and and consider myself dialectic-and I’m always happy to mentor aspiring PMs or CAT aspirants. Feel free to DM me on LinkedIn. If I\'m reaching out to you, it is probably to talk to you and learn about your experiences or just to let you know I found something you did to be interesting. Look forward to connecting!I write sometimes about CAT, observations on tech, and life in general at https://thearsenaloptimist.home.blog/

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager - Sports & Media Tech

   Fubo

   Sep 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Working on the India team at Fubo, figuring out ways to better engage and thus retain the sports fan audience served in US, Canada, etc. building delightful, useful experiences for subscribers.Core skills I use in this role • AI product strategy & roadmapping: problem framing, hypothesis design, metric selection (engagement, retention, CTR), experiment plans and phased rollouts. • GenAI & prompt engineering: system/chain prompts with Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT; output schemas/formatting; guardrails; drift monitoring. • ML pipeline/productization: requirements for ingestion, labeling, model interfaces, and orchestration powering consumer-facing video features (US/Canada). • Evaluation & measurement: offline evals and online A/Bs; rubrics, sampling plans, and dashboards; run a 50+ person human-in-the-loop workflow. • Rapid prototyping & no-code automation: end-to-end flow prototypes and demos in Figma + Make to de-risk before engineering investment. • UX & research for video surfaces: stakeholder interviews and usability reviews; translate findings into PRDs, flows, and crisp acceptance criteria. • Cross-functional delivery: tight handoffs to engineering, design, and content ops; spec writing, triage, and release management. • Reliability & safety: stability SLAs, drift detection, incident playbooks, canarying/feature flags, and rollback strategies. • Communication & stakeholder management: exec-ready storytelling, clear status, and decision logs that keep teams aligned.Tools: Gemini, Claude (Claude Code), ChatGPT, Figma Make; internal eval/annotation and dashboarding stacks.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2020 — 2022

• Haldia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering

  2014 — 2018

• St. Lawrence High School Kolkata

  Higher Secondary, Science

  2012 — 2014