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Shashank Gupta

Head of Growth

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Successfully scaled Nom to international markets.
  • Led growth strategies for fintech products with 50M+ users.
  • Expert in product management and growth marketing.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS entrepreneur with strong expertise in growth marketing and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth MarketingGo-to-market StrategyB2b MarketingProduct ManagementEntrepreneurshipProduct StrategyWeb3Customer AcquisitionInfluencer MarketingProject Management

Other Skills

A/B TestingAccelerated GrowthAnalytical SkillsB2B Marketing StrategyBlockchainBrand StrategyBusiness DevelopmentBusiness GrowthBusiness Growth StrategiesBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyCompetitive AnalysisCustomer RequirementsCustomer ResearchCustomer Service

About

My DNA is of an entrepreneur. I like to take complete ownership, lead the team, be a resilient problem solver, a courageous experimenter, and be ever-hungry. I am a self-driven and motivated Entrepreneur with a proven track record of success and extraordinary achievements in building a company from a simple idea to a stellar business. Started Nom with the primary objective of solving the adoption of sustainable solutions across the world. Took on single-use plastics in the form of cutlery and replaced them with value-add products such as edible cutleries. Replaced over 5Mn+ plastic cutlery with our edible straws, spoons, and cups across 10+ countries and did our contribution to saving the environment too. Building the international business was difficult with zero experience however after 2+ years, we were successful in taking Nom international. Based on our learning, we created structures and processes to launch a cross-border Saas helping Indian D2C brands go international via our platform - LaunchX. I love human interactions and thus would have spoken to 2500+ users across products for user research purposes. Business growth, operations, technology, product marketing, and leadership comes naturally to me. Remember, my DNA is of an entrepreneur. Btw, I come from a 'baniya'(business) family which might explain the DNA. Made and lost a lot of $$ in crypto. In order to make it back, go deep into web3. Fun fact - Ran a 'friends and family' crypto mutual fund where we'd trade on total sum and make money. Had over $100K+ as AUM. All this led to observing a problem, validating the opportunity, and working on Cotry as a side hustle. I hit the gym 4 times a week and remaining 3 days, I eat junk food. In the last 5 years, I've hit rock bottoms so many times but somehow survived and kept on walking. My favorite quote and my WA status for the last 6 years - Dream big, Execute small.

Experience

Fpl technologies

Head of Growth

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Latest: Exploring and Building Agentic AI use-cases on the Growth Marketing side with custom agents and fine-tuned LLMs with internal data.
  • BAU: Driving end-to-end growth for India’s leading consumer fintech ecosystem across Credit Cards, Credit Score management, savings, and investments – OneCard, OneScore, and Wizely – with a combined reach of 50 M+ users.
  • Navigating Growth within a regulated fintech space and ensuring RBI compliance norms, however, here are a few of the hard problems we are solving,
  • 1. Attribution modelling across Paid, Owned, and Earned media.
  • 2. Scaling Monetization from one of the biggest B2C Credit Fintech apps, i.e., OneScore
  • 3. Scaling organic user acquisition with an in-house content production machine.
  • 4. Reactivating low-intent and older users, i.e., winning users back.
  • 5. Acquiring users at scale with the lower CAC
  • At present, I lead,
  • Entire Go to market (GTM) strategy for OneCard(Credit card app), OneScore(Credit score app) and Wizley(Savings and Investement app).
  • New users acquisition at scale via paid media(performance marketing such as Google and Meta, Partnership media such as Amazon and Affiliate & OEMs) with ₹Cr+ Media Spends.
  • Monthly and Annual Growth plan with budget allocation, channel mix, CAC targets, and campaign-level KPIs.
  • End-to-end MMP(Adjust and Appsflyer) integration and events architecture implementation across Firebase, GTM, Meta/Google SDKs, and backend events for cohort analysis, segmentation, and conversion tracking.
  • ASO strategy across 3 apps - on-page ASO, keyword optimization, custom store listings, and Play Store content distribution strategy.
  • In-house content production for performance copy/creatives and video ads for faster execution and optimization.
  • Full funnel remarketing across owned channels - Email, Push, SMS/RCS, and WhatsApp. Personalized journey-based campaigns for onboarding, activation, and engagement.
Business Growth StrategiesDigital Marketingproduct growthRevenue & Profit GrowthBusiness GrowthMonetization+13

Unstudio.ai

Product and Growth

Sep 2023Feb 2024 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Setting up the entire marketing stack for building MQLs.
  • Graduating MQLs to SQLs and Building Sales pipeline.
  • Overall B2B sales and marketing strategy.
Sales ProcessesCustomer ResearchProduct DesignBusiness Growth StrategiesSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Software Product Management+16

Cotry

Founder and Product owner

May 2022May 2023 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • User engagement in consumer internet products is broken.
  • Acquisition-Activation & monetization is a solved problems, however, engagement (company to user or user to the user) remains unsolved.
  • Cotry is a no-code SDK for businesses to effortlessly integrate engagement features(web3 and web2)
  • 1st SDK - Launch NFTs marketplace inside your app. Instantly NFT-fy your physical product, mint/buy/sell NFTs, rewards/utilities to NFT holders, and more to engage users.
  • Built and led a team of 6 web3 developers and UI/UX engineers to build and ship the products.
  • User research with 150+ user interviews to understand pain points, built PRDs, and shipped iterative solutions.
  • Lifecycle of the product (NFT marketplace with utilities) starting from user/persona segmentation, feature identification, PRDs, OKRs, and product development to shipping the product.
  • Identified and implemented product-led growth loops, enabling Cotry to grow its user base and meet business objectives.
  • Paused this, couldn't raise the seed round.
  • Find more about Cotry at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/my-drive
EntrepreneurshipUser JourneysCustomer ResearchProduct DesignBusiness Growth StrategiesSoftware as a Service (SaaS)+24

Nomcompany

Co-founder & CEO

Aug 2018Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • Founded Nom, a sustainable solution to fight and replace single-use plastics.
  • Acquired international customers using on-page SEO, conversion rate optimization(CRO) for the lead-capturing homepage, lead-generation platforms, and e-mail marketing.
  • Scaled cross-border business across 10+ countries in SEA, NA, EU, and Gulf regions.
  • Global distribution of 250+ transacting B2B partners across 10+ countries with 15+ brands launched using Nom as the sole supplier.
  • Used agile product-building approach leading to the launch of 6+ products.
  • Funnel optimization across the stages of the user with tailored Go-to-market strategies for the international market.
  • Built a team of 30+ with MRR $45K+, annualized revenue of > $0.5Mn
  • Raised $250K+ from Godiva chocolate, angels, and Indian government grants
  • Experimented with LaunchX, a cross-border SaaS platform to launch and accelerate D2C brands going international.
  • Launched 4+ D2C brands, end-to-end solutions from international market discovery to instant sampling to orders to warehousing/logistics and payment solutions (*Had to shut down due to funding crunch)
RetentionBusiness DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipUser JourneysSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Sales Processes+29

Shop101

Product Management

May 2016Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hiranandani Gardens, Mumbai · On-site

  • Witnessed business growth from 150 to 1500 daily active merchants through outbound sales, customer relationship management, and digital ads optimization.
  • Worked closely on retention through a strong feedback engine, automation of operations, UI/UX polishing, and addition of various features.
  • Managed the entire lifecycle of the product across Android, iOS, and the Web starting from user segmentation, pain points, feature identification, frameworks for feature prioritization, OKRs, Product roadmap, and launch.
  • Ideated, built, and shipped various product-led growth features such as referral for user acquisition, and UGC content features for engagement and retention.
  • Strategized and executed GTM for features launched to drive the adoption and gather feedback.
  • Ran experiments using A/B testing and monitored impact via data analysis (quantitative and qualitative)
  • Participate in setting and scaling up the ops team for handling daily order capacity
RetentionBusiness DevelopmentUser JourneysSales ProcessesCustomer ResearchProduct Design+22

Blinge

Growth Product Manager

Nov 2015May 2016 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Marketing Manager at Blinge (Nov 2015 – May 2016)
  • Blinge is an online fashion rental startup wherein my responsibilities involved conceptualization and execution of marketing strategies aimed at brand recognition and brand building.
  • Communication strategy: Led the design and content teams to create marketing communication assets.Established a strong brand identity across all digital channels (social media, mailers, blogs and app notifications.)
  • Community building: Identified and leveraged influencers to build a community. Fostered strong relations to engage the community through offline events and online campaigns which led to organic growth via word of mouth.
  • Cross marketing: Strategically partnered with close-knit niche business after thorough market research. Ensured precise product placement which resulted in business growth and increased sales.
  • Influencer marketing: Drove GTMs, onboarded 250+ influencers GTMs, managed the complete plan from campaign ideation to planning to execution, and success metric analysis.
  • Analysis and insights: Worked on analytics platforms of Google, Facebook, and Instagram to generate insights about user behavior and engagement. Devised campaigns strategically based on the analyzed data.
  • Accomplishments: Built a community of 25K+ followers across all Social Media channels and improved SEO using growth strategy. Achieved 30% increased website traffic and 38% increased revenue.
Business DevelopmentUser JourneysSales ProcessesProject ManagementInfluencer MarketingBusiness Growth Strategies+8

Reliance

Graduate Engineering trainee

Jul 2015Nov 2015 · 4 mos · Hazira, Surat

  • Reliance Industries Ltd. is India's largest private-sector company, generating revenues of $70.05 billion, or more than 3 percent of India's total gross domestic product.Reliance is the most profitable company in India, the second-largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization and the second largest company in India as measured by revenue after the government-controlled Indian Oil Corporation.The company is ranked 114th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations, as of 2014. RIL contributes approximately 20% of India's total exports.
  • Some key learnings so far-
  • Discipline specific class room training, which included understanding of basic equipment of a chemical plant.
  • Cross discipline training from Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation departments.
  • In-depth training to PE plant operations as field executive and panel officer, taking care of routine operations.
  • Management system in the areas of HSEF- Process safety management having detailed exposure of management of change, emergency response and control, MIQA, Risk assessment, Work permit system.

Fluidyn

Summer intern on Verification of VOF method and safety parameters for bund in oil refinery.

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Banglore

  • Verification of volume of fraction method or finite volume method and comparison of mathematical and simulated data.
  • The effect of splashing oil waves in an event of failure of oil tank which hits the bund(wall) of the oil refinery.
  • Walls of different height,shape,material was chosen and also the oil tank was simulated under failure ranging from sudden tank failure to leakage.
  • The simulation was done on the basis of H.S.E report produced on oil tank failure.
  • The same case was experimented and simulated by Schlumberger earlier and the date was compared later.

Numaligarh refinery limited

Summer Trainee

May 2013Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Assam

  • In first half, i.e First Three weeks involved detailed study of all the processing units such as CDU (Crude distillation unit), VDU(Vaccum distillation unit), CCU(Coke calcination unit) and various other components such as pumps,furnace etc.
  • In later half, study was specifically oriented to a CCU unit. Starting from various chemical reactions involved in the process,to designing suitable atmosphere for the reaction to take place.
  • It also included the study of designing of Heat exchanger and cooling towers, to recover the heat and make the process more economical.

Alcheringa , i.i.t guwahati

Corporate relations and Marketing Executive

Feb 2013Feb 2014 · 1 yr · Guwahati Area, India

  • 1.Helped in Devising marketing strategy and was involved in communicating and negotiating
  • with various corporate houses to explore marketing possibilities for the festival.
  • 2.City representative of Udaan, a social initiative of I.I.T Guwahati to help the underprivileged children.
  • 3.Part of decision making body for planning and handling the branding avenues for more than 150+ corporate houses from all around the world and managing the festival having an average footfalls of 60K+ over the span of four days.
  • 4. Part of a team consisting 30 Senior Executives and 70 Junior Executives and mentoring them for corporate sponsorship for the fest and also across various aspects of marketing.
  • 5.Been a member of marketing team in Alcheringa '12 and 13,

Technothlon, iit guwahati

City representative of Technothlon (International school competition for classes 9-12)

Jul 2012Jul 2012 · 0 mo · Varanasi Area, India

  • Technothlon is an International competition for school students from class 9-12 being conducted in more than 200 cities all around the country and varanasi being one of them .
  • Since it was being conducted for the first time in varanasi, it did not have an outreach to many students thus had to contact various media agencies and radio stations for spreading the word.
  • Went over to 60 schools all around the city for giving presentations to students about the exam and convincing them to write the same.
  • Conducted the exam with the help of some teachers from different schools and managed over 800 students from different parts of the city and efficiently conducted the exam.

I.i.t guwahati

Student

Jul 2011May 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Guwahati

Education

I.I.T guwahati

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Chemical Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

sunbeam school

AISSCE

Jan 2008Jan 2010

GrowthX®

Product and Growth leader — Business

Feb 2020Present

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