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PRATEEK SENGAR

Creating Impact
Tower B-1, Flat 1205,Cherry County, Noida Extension

Summary

Seasoned, proactive, and highly organized professional with 10+ years of experience in the space of Ed-Tech, Learner Success, Community management, Client Relations, Engagement, Retention, Advising, and Career Counseling.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Learner Services Specialist

Coursera
Gurugram
09.2021 - Current
  • An integral part of the Learner Success team at Coursera, helping universities/colleges across the globe to develop and implement robust learner experiences and provide affordable learning at scale
  • Leading Coursera Certification’s portfolio in India from the Student Success team and closely working with the top institutions i.e. IIT Roorkee, ISB, IIT Guwahati and IIM Kozhikode
  • Spearheading the Student Success implementation of the first online Bachelor's Degree from BITS Pilani(B.Sc CS) and the first executive MBA degree for Coursera(IITR EMBA) set for launch in November 202
  • Connecting with the leadership of top Indian institutions and helping them transition the offline student success model to Online through Coursera and deliver optimal & quality learning outcomes to learners at scale
  • Responsible for designing onboarding courses, grading policies, live session cadence, and conducting student success kick-off calls for top institutes across India to enable them to provide exceptional learning outcomes through online delivery
  • Devising the right structure and bifurcating learner queries for an effective response mechanism with minimalistic bandwidth utilization using Salesforce and Looker.

Program Manager

Great Learning Pvt Ltd.
Gurugram
09.2019 - 07.2021
  • Enabling Top executives across Globe to learn successfully in the Data Science & Business Analytics program offered by University of Texas at Austin & Great Learning
  • Leading a team of Program Managers to ensure seamless program operations & delivery to over 350+ Global mid/top level executive learners on a monthly basis
  • Successfully ensured that the program completion rate is maintained at 95% with deferral rate at 10% considering diverse international geography
  • Achieved 3.4(out of 4) End Program Feedback for 3 cohorts of an average size of 100+ learners
  • Enabled 80% learners in each cohort without any prior programming experience to successfully complete and make career transition to Data science domain from diverse backgrounds like Medical, Oil & Gas, finance industry etc
  • First program manager to handle Data Science cohort of more than 150 learners and also first program manager to handle DSBA in Python cohort for Great Learning
  • Successfully ensured minimum 15% referral is generated from the International DSBA cohorts by ensuring top of the class delivery.
  • Maintained Average Mentor session ratings at 4.65(out of 5) across 217 sessions
  • 25% of the learners from each cohort shared testimonial highlighting overall program experience and Program Manager support throughout with some of inspiring and diverse stories as mentioned below :

- Sarah (Iraq) - Learner successfully completing DSBA program amidst constant political unrest and internet shutdowns in Iraq by using office internet

- Luiz & Lucas : Father son duo completing DSBA program in same cohort

Manager

Shiksha.com, InfoEdge India Pvt Ltd
Noida
07.2015 - 08.2019
  • Managing the Shiksha Ask & Answer Community (largest online education Q&A platform in India) by connecting users with the right set of domain experts and helping them in making informed career decisions.
  • Responsible for Acquiring, Engaging, and retaining experts across all domains and encouraging them to contribute towards making Shiksha.com a One Stop Solution for all career-related advice.
  • Managing Shiksha Top clients and ensuring a minimum of 70% client renewals by constantly providing high-quality leads through the QnA platform.
  • Increased Shiksha user base by 30% by generating HQ responses through experts and maintaining 9+ rating in the user feedback section.
  • Responsible for achieving and exceeding monthly engagement targets for Answer rates, percentage of active experts, answers/expert, MOM retention, etc.
  • Handling 45% of the overall traffic on the platform with over 10000 questions/month.
  • Managing 200+ domain experts, ranging from retired wing commanders, working professionals to deans/visiting faculties of premier institutes across India.
  • Designed Tag Architecture for Shiksha Ask & Answer App, mobile website to increase search efficiency and user activity. Also, worked on an Auto Answering project to provide an automated answer to leaner queries through the Shiksha information database


  • Achievements:
  • Received Performer of the Quarter award twice.
  • Highest Expert retention rate in the team of 57% (month on month basis).
  • Able to achieve the highest numbers of answers through experts (11000+ answers/month).
  • Engaged experts to achieve Top 3 to 4 positions consistently in every contest (April Acharya, NGO activity, Answering Affair, Selfiksha, Seeding, etc.).

Senior Counselor

Extramarks Education Private Limited
Noida
02.2013 - 06.2015
  • Responsible for driving student enrollments for our career counseling and online test preparation packages through institutional tie-ups and marketing lead conversions.
  • Actively conducting regular outreach efforts including workshops and presentations to students.
  • Promotion of CAP(career counseling product) and SAT packages online and through offline mode.
  • Competency Mapping – Identifying the individual competency level of candidates and suggesting them the right direction, appropriate techniques which they can leverage to enhance their skills and pursue their dreams.

Executive International Sales

Naukri.com
Noida
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • To promote Naukri products in the US, Europe, and the Middle East region.
  • To assist companies based in the US, Europe, and the middle east, who are hiring in India with our recruitment solutions i.e.
  • Job postings, resume database, E-apps and mobility solutions(instahire services), etc.

Education

IMT CDL

Skills

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Timeline

Learner Services Specialist

Coursera
09.2021 - Current

Program Manager

Great Learning Pvt Ltd.
09.2019 - 07.2021

Manager

Shiksha.com, InfoEdge India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 08.2019

Senior Counselor

Extramarks Education Private Limited
02.2013 - 06.2015

Executive International Sales

Naukri.com
01.2012 - 01.2013

IMT CDL
PRATEEK SENGARCreating Impact