Anurag Gupta

VP of Engineering

India8 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Increased user retention by 10% through targeted journeys.
  • Developed forecasting models that reduced costs significantly.
  • Achieved 30% sales increase with recommendation systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Analytics Expert in E-Commerce and Gaming sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business AnalyticsData Analysis

Other Skills

A/B TestingAnalyticsBudget ManagementBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Intelligence (BI)C++Capital EfficiencyCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Churn ManagementCohort AnalysisCore JavaCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer RetentionCustomer SuccessDashboards

About

As a seasoned Data professional, I bring a wealth of experience and a proven track record of delivering impactful results. Understanding user behavior and marrying that with business objectives to drive growth, revenue, Loyalty programs, feature adoption, and category penetration. I have built and led multiple rockstar teams serving cross-functional capabilities I am a big believer in conducting 100s of experiments to learn about user behavior and how to monetize the learnings to achieve business growth. Serial startup guy always looking to help build for the next big thing sustainably My areas of interest lie in User behavior, Machine Learning, and Geography I'm always open to new connections so please feel free to send me an invite

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Zepto

Head of Loyalty and Business Analytics

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · On-site

  • Effective Churn Management: Identified the main reasons for customer churn; Increased the reactivation and Retention for the churned users by 10% and 300 bps respectively vs control group by creating custom journeys (Finding the optimal Incentives constructs; Churn reason redressal callouts via CRM)
  • Reduced CAC by 10% and improved 90-day LTV/CAC by 15%
  • 1. Defining targeted audiences for acquisition based on geolocation and device type
  • 2. Maximise registered to First Purchase conversion via the right Incentive & Comms Onboarding Journey
  • Profitability Enhancement through Pricing Optimization: Increase EBITDA by 4% by reducing Product discounts on SKUs with minimal impact on conversion by identifying Customer-SKU-Geo combination where there is no sensitivity of Pricing with Home page -> Added to Cart Conversion
  • Increase the Weekly Retention by 10% by increasing Category Penetration of perishable (Fruits and Vegetables; Dairy, Bread, and Eggs) which has typically low replenishment cycles by identifying optimal constructs and driving impression to hooks (High-affinity Products for each customer for which they come on to the platform
  • Reduced the delivery cost while maintaining the service level by developing a forecasting module (MAPE < 15%) to predict weekly Transactions and Revenue at a store level. In addition to Rider planning it is also used to plan inventory procurement and helped reduce wastage of perishables by ~7%
Churn ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Pricing OptimizationForecastingData AnalysisBusiness Analytics

Dream11

3 roles

Senior Manager Analytics

Jul 2021Feb 2022 · 7 mos

  • Developed a Demand Forecasting model for Dream11 to predict the 5 yearly weekly trends of Revenue, Users, Retention, ARPU, Sensitivity to Promotional spend, Marketing CAC, and Paybacks. This helped the Dream11's co-founders, CXOs, Product, and Marketing teams in the following ways:
  • 1. User lifecycle management decisions were taken to optimize the promotions by understanding the promotions sensitivity across different user segments thereby maximizing long-term ARPU
  • 2. Better planning of different products/contest thereby reducing the overlays and refunds across different matches
  • 3. Optimise and allocate the marketing spends across different channels thereby maximising their CACs and LTVs; improving capital efficiency
  • 4. Understand the health of different cohorts especially Power User by their predicted Payback, ARPU
  • This served as the Annual Operating Plan for Dream11
  • ARPU Expansion and User Engagement: Increase ARPU (Average Revenue per User) by 5% by upselling the higher-value product by developing a recommendation system. Achieved product adoption of 90% (driving 78% of the Revenue) and Model Recall of 92%
Demand ForecastingUser EngagementRecommendation SystemsMarketing AnalyticsBusiness AnalyticsData Analysis

Analytics Manager

Promoted

Jul 2020Jul 2021 · 1 yr

  • Developed User Segmentation Framework (Using Inapp behavior & User Affluence) which helped us achieve the following:
  • 1. Decide differential incentive constructs and cool-off periods for different segments to maximize (Incremental revenue / Incremental Promotional spends)
  • 2. Measure the Graduation trends (especially for newly acquired Users)
  • This will also help the Product and Marketing team to target promotions and retargeting campaigns
  • Helped the Customer Success Team in their staffing activity by projecting the queries and optimizing their query selection by categorizing them into different buckets to help them reduce their first response time
  • Help the management team drive the business plan for Fancode by helping them build a projection framework for the FanCode team, predicting their Traffic and Revenue for the next 2 years. This helped them in the following ways:
  • 1. Forecasting the lifetime values helped the marketing understand the CACs we need to operate with
  • 2. Retention and ARPU impact of different content forms which helps them decide on the content acquisition and creation strategy
  • The accuracy of the projections is more than 95% for Traffic and 85% for Revenue
User SegmentationCustomer SuccessProjection FrameworkBusiness AnalyticsData Analysis

Associate Manager

Feb 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Helped the product team revamp the chat feature in Dream11. Identified potential user segments and created user journeys to increase readoption for the chat feature leading to an increase in the Week 1 retention of cohorts by 10%
  • Improved Capital efficiency by optimizing money kept aside in the Escrow Fund. Reduced the average amount kept by 50% by training a linear model to quantify the daily wallet withdrawal trends and predict system liquidity. Achieved a MAPE of less than 5%
Product ManagementCapital EfficiencyBusiness Analytics

Mu sigma inc.

Trainee Decision Scientist

Aug 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Increase Sales by 30% by increasing Sales Force effectiveness: Built a recommendation system for that was consumed by medical representatives to pitch the right factor (deliver the most effective message) for each doctor (HCP) which is important for them when they are prescribing a drug to their patients
  • We achieved a 30% increase in sales of cardiovascular drugs for the doctors for which the custom message attribute was delivered compared to the group for which this recommendation was not used
  • Creating a framework and automation of the data collection process has been done thereby reducing the project execution time by 70%
  • Worked on a project for a computer technology client to showcase the dispatched trends. We did an RCA and classified the most vulnerable products. This helped the clients to reduce the number of dispatches by 10%
Recommendation SystemsData Collection AutomationBusiness Analytics

Indian institute of management, calcutta

Summer Research Intern(Management Information Systems)

Jun 2016Jul 2016 · 1 mo · Kolkata

Cnvrgd

Cloud Infrastructure Intern

Dec 2014Jan 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Education

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

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