Darpan Saxena

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India10 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded Creadom to empower MBA students.
Over 8 years in marketing and product management.
Led successful product launches in EdTech.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in EdTech, specializing in entrepreneurship and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipCoaching & MentoringStrategic Brand ConsultingMarketing StrategyProduct StrategyProduct DevelopmentMarket Research

Other Skills

Brand ManagementCareer Development CoachingFundamentals of RMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeNew Business DevelopmentPresentation SkillsProduct LaunchProduct Lifecycle ManagementProduct ResearchSmall Business ConsultingSolopreneurTeachingTeam Management

About

Building Creadom to help MBA students get the best career outcomes by becoming solopreneurs. I am to help 100,000 students become solopreneurs by helping them productize their knowledge and skills. I am an Engineer and an MBA by qualification and a digital entrepreneur and Edtech consultant by profession. Have 8+ years of marketing and product management experience in full-time roles in the ed-tech industry as well as in long-term and short-term consulting assignments with brands around the world.

Experience

Career launcher

2 roles

Principal Consultant - Strategic Projects and Initiatives

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Responsible for ideating and executing all 'Zero-to-One' projects
Focused on improving the UI/UX of web experience across CL properties
Strategy development for an increase in non-student revenues through asset monetization

Strategic Brand ConsultingMarketing StrategyTeam Management

Product Head - MBA Test Prep

Mar 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr

Product Head of MBA Plus (MBA + Artifical Intelligence, Digital Marketing)
Responsible for conceptualizing the product, the pilot, the GTM and post sales servicing

Product Lifecycle ManagementProduct LaunchProduct DevelopmentProduct Strategy

Abbott

Consultant

Aug 2018 – Oct 2018 · 2 mos · Singapore · On-site

Responsible for creating a sales attribution strategy for the Women’s Health and Gastro teams
Creation of a sales strategy for Abbott to get doctors and hospitals, in Singapore, on-board
Suggested implementatble ways to increase the propensity to stock Abbott products by the doctors

Market ResearchStrategic Brand Consulting

Genpact

MBA Summer Intern

Apr 2018 – Jun 2018 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked at Genpact Digital in the Marketing and Artificial Intelligence domain on Pharmacovigilance projects. Clients included the top pharmaceutical companies of the US.
Successfully did a proof of concept of storing adverse drug reaction (ADR) big data using Hadoop
Performed an in-depth market analysis of the pharmacovigilance AI solutions domain
Did a product research on Oracle Argus software, used by top pharmacies of the world

Market ResearchProduct ResearchMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Excel

Creadom

Founder

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Helping MBA students get the best career outcomes through solopreneurship.
Best career outcomes from college, be it the best placements or opportunities beyond the placements, come by focusing on knowledge and digital skills and their application in the real world. This is what Creadom and its Creadom Club membership help students achieve.
Started the venture from my hostel room back at IIM Udaipur. Consistent efforts led to the blog getting well-recognized across the top B-schools in India within a year.

EntrepreneurshipSolopreneurCoaching & MentoringCareer Development CoachingStrategic Brand ConsultingSmall Business Consulting+4

Career launcher

Marketing Executive

May 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

Had a leadership role at CL Educate Ltd. where I oversaw the complete life-cycle of all the MBA Products - right from their conceptualization and development to product delivery, marketing campaigns and after-sale servicing.
Ideated 3 new online products in association with the Chief Digital Officer and the Chief Academic Officer; generated over INR 2 Crore
Headed marketing campaigns, both online and offline, from a product perspective
Led the technical team for creating new products and user-end platforms
Achieved a 154.61% increase in unique visitors on the website by implementing buyer persona
Aided a 196% growth in revenue from the web by implementing the above
I was also spearheading the academic initiatives in our industry-academia integration pursuits that goes by the name TAAF Services (Testing, Assessment, Analytics and Filtering)
Remodeled and redeveloped CL’s College Network (CCN) website – the online form-filling portal
Developed a model to match the criteria of partner colleges with database of 90,000+ CL students
Instrumental in bagging deals worth over INR 4 crore with various prestigious organizations