Udayan Walvekar

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded a successful community for growth leaders.
Achieved 7X organic traffic growth in 9 months.
Launched over 100 lifecycle communication milestones.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Growth Marketing Expert with a strong focus on community building and product growth strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProduct ManagementCommunity BuildingProduct MarketingGrowth StrategiesGrowth MarketingSeoCro

Other Skills

B2B MarketingCSSConversion OptimizationEmail MarketingHTML5JSMarketing StrategyProject ManagementPython (Programming Language)SEO/ASOSQL

About

Founder @ GrowthX. A social learning platform for growth leaders Product @ Razorpay First Growth hire. Built the product growth team there. Growth @ Sokrati First Growth hire at Sokrati (Acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network) Growth consulting in the Bay Area Various startups in San Francisco on product growth & product marketing. DM me- superdm.me/udayan --------------- About Me --------------- At the age of 24 I cycled to the Highest Motorable road in the world at 5,602m (18,379ft) above sea level. Not metaphorically speaking, I literally cycled 2700 kilometers (1680 Miles) to the highest motorable road in the world. While I was cycling, I thought about quitting approximately 1,000 times. (And that’s a lowball estimate) But despite the extreme weather, low oxygen, mental and physical fatigue, I kept going. I’m that person. Once I say I’ll do something, it will happen. Now, I put that perseverance to work as a founder. I don’t have to climb any mountains…but I do have to move them.

Experience

Growthx

2 roles

Founder & CEO

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building the best membership club for professionals. GrowthX exists to give people who take their craft seriously the ecosystem they deserve.
But GrowthX isn’t for everyone. It’s not a course. Not a Slack group. And definitely not another “networking” platform. It’s a private club of 4,000+ operators who lead product, marketing, and growth at companies like Razorpay, Jio, Swiggy, Zerodha, and Freshworks. Founders, VPs, ICs—all united by one obsession: compounding their career and company’s growth.
What they get is an unfair edge. Live learning programs taught by people who’ve actually scaled. Access to a private community that doesn’t tolerate fluff—just sharp questions and sharper answers. Tools to grow into leadership roles, break into new ones, or scale from $0 to $10M if you’re a founder. And yes, they meet offline too. Every month. Roundtables, mixers, deep-dive sessions—held across 7 major Indian cities.

LeadershipProject ManagementMarketing StrategyProduct MarketingProduct Management

GrowthX Community

May 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We started GrowthX community as a side hustle to solve our own paint point.
More contexy 👇
All communities that existed were primarily made for folks to help them crack their first job. However, being in mid-senior roles, Udayan at Razorpay and Abhishek at CRED, they wanted a close nit community of operators & founders who they can learn from. They wanted to soundboard, brainstorm & ideate on growth problems.
We realised that as we grew in our careers, the journey became more and more lonely. To solve this, we started our own community called GrowthX. But we didn’t like the way current communities were setup. We felt they were too superficial. We did not want to connect with 100s of folks and talk about random things.
So we created a different kind of a community– a learning community. The insight was that we truly bond with people who we problem solve with. So, every week we selected 6-8 people, these folks would look at their own company's problem statement and solve it using a Harvard case study format.
Over the 2 years, we built a super strong community of 300 folks. We never wanted to become a large community just for the sake of a vanity number. Our community is characterized by people who keep in touch, who solve problems together, and who form lasting connections.
Over those 2 years, our community asked for longer, more structured version of our meetups- so we launched a 5 week program that teaches folks everything from acquisition, onboarding, engagement, retention & monetization.
We got sold out in 23 hours. And the rest is history.

LeadershipProject ManagementMarketing StrategyProduct MarketingCommunity Building

Razorpay

3 roles

Product Lead - Growth

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Central growth team working across all business lines of Razorpay. (Payments, Capital & Banking)

Product ManagementGrowth Strategies

Product

Oct 2019 – Apr 2020 · 6 mos

I transitioned to the Product function to setup the first product growth team at Razorpay. The team built product capabilities that drove growth. from segmentation services, campaign api, to product led sales.

Product ManagementGrowth Strategies

Product Marketing Manager 2

Feb 2019 – Oct 2019 · 8 mos

First product marketing manager for platform product.

Product MarketingGrowth Strategies

Onlinesales.ai

3 roles

Product Marketing Lead

Promoted

Mar 2018 – Feb 2019 · 11 mos

As a Product Marketing Manager at OnlineSales.ai (Formerly Sokrati), I'm responsible for creating successful GTM kits, product launch strategies, accelerating user growth, increasing daily active users, driving product engagement and feature adoption.
Key Highlights:
Launched over 100 lifecycle communication milestones in our first ever multi-channel communication framework which increased our daily active users by 30%. The various channels were dashboard comms, in-app messages, emails, in-app banners/pop-ups, etc. This was all built-inhouse.
Ideated and led successful Go-To-Marketing strategies for all our core products right from
acquisition, retention, price positioning, up-sell, and more.
Defined and streamlined communication triggers through the all stages of the user journey from Onboarding – Activation– Adoption–Engagement–Celebratory-Upsell–Retention etc.
Ideated and executed a 5 step unsubscribe flow which reduced our unsubscribe rate by 12% in just 45 days. This also generated valuable feedback which helped us improve our current UX.
Automated up-sells on OnlineSales.ai through smart communication frameworks and behavioral data targeting.

Product MarketingGrowth Strategies

Growth Marketing Manager

Promoted

Nov 2017 – Mar 2018 · 4 mos

During my time as a Growth Marketing Lead, I drove growth in 5 key areas i.e. SEO/ASO, Inbound Leads, Website CRO & Email Automation.
In 9 months I delivered 7X growth in organic traffic which completely restructured our acquisition source from outbound to inbound.
Pioneered and a Led a new website that boosted our conversion rate from 0.8% to 4.3%
Ideated and executed various optimization tactics to reduce our bounce rate from 65% to 15%
Led triple digit growth in blog subscribers from 82 to 10,000+
Drove 5.8X increase in total monthly users on the website.
Boosted time on website 1:54 seconds to 5:25 seconds.
ASO on Shopify and BigCommerce app stores directly resulting in a 6X growth in installs.
Ideated, developed & executed email marketing automations for all stages of the sales funnel resulting in 40% open rates & 12% CTR.

Growth StrategiesSEO/ASOEmail MarketingGrowth MarketingSEO

Growth Marketer

Mar 2017 – Nov 2017 · 8 mos

Merkle sokrati

Inbound Marketer

Mar 2017 – Nov 2017 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Josephine

Product Marketing Consult

Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

● Created an End-to-end referral program.
● Drove new user growth through local events from
● Help reduce friction & increase trust for the end users of Josephine

Youcaring

Growth Marketing Consult

Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Praiseworthy

Growth Marketing Consult

Oct 2016 – Dec 2016 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and Mapped the entire content marketing strategy across the funnel.
The strategy covered the following:
● Audience personas
● Audience needs
● Competitive research
● Content generation
● Distribution process
● Publication tracking process

Multple early stage companies

Freelance & Consulting - Digital Marketing

Oct 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Consulting companies on various aspects of digital marketing like SEO, web developement, Paid marketing, Social media marketing, Email marketing

Ocean lifecare pvt. ltd

2 roles

Assistant Marketing Manager

Mar 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

Key highlights of my job profile:
● My Job was to create and manage marketing strategies. Pharma market in India is highly competitive and consists a lot of indirect marketing techniques
● Creating unique openings to consultants using unconventional marketing techniques. For example for children's day, kids coming to the doctor would be engaged in fun group activities which would help improve their mood and in turn helping the doctor create a happy environment.
● Help sales team achieve their targets by coordinating and communicating on field problems into marketing solutions

Sales Representative

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

This is the summary of my job profile:
● Execute 10 calls per day to the top consultants in my given area
● Check product demand and current stock with pharmaceutical shops
● Market research about competitors products with pharmaceutical shops
● Keep track of key events about consultants such as their birthdays, anniversary's, first day at work etc and communicate to my marketing team to help make it special for them
● Take new orders from pharmaceutical shops and inform to my production team on a weekly basis
Ocean Lifecare is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of herbal medicines across different states of India; very recently it has also diversified into manufacture of allopathic medicines. It has a strength of about 100 employees. Ocean was awarded the, "Worldstar 2013 Awards for Packaging Excellence".