Utkarsh Rai

CEO

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands11 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 9 years of experience in B2B SaaS and product marketing.
  • Successfully shaped and scaled marketing functions from scratch.
  • Achieved significant revenue growth through strategic partnerships.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing expert with a strong focus on product engagement and growth strategies.

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A/B TestingBusiness StrategyCo-marketingCompetitive AnalysisCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Data AnalysisDemand GenerationDigital MarketingElectronicsGo-to-Market StrategyGoogle AnalyticsHTMLInbound MarketingMarket ResearchMarketing Strategy

About

Solution-focused professional with 9 years of successful experience in B2B SaaS and product marketing. Currently, working as a Go-To-Market - Program Manager at Booking.com in the Digital Partner Experience Team, where I develop launch strategies, improve product lifecycle and improve Booking experience of our accommodation (Hotels, BnBs, Homes etc) partners. My focus is to deliver actionable insights to our partners that helps them manage their business on Booking and drive commercial value, throughout the year. My last stint was as Lead - Product Marketing Manager at Airmeet, where I operated at the intersection of sales, product, and marketing teams to: a) Strongly positioned our events platform in competitive international markets b) Effectively improved product and customer engagement c) Creatively built up-sell and cross-sell opportunities to drive revenue growth d) Confidently planned and launched new products to market Before Airmeet, I led two functions - customer marketing and co-marketing at VWO (Wingify), where I got the opportunity to shape both these functions from scratch. In customer marketing, we:- Built and executed playbooks on customer onboarding, training, retention, and resurrection to minimize the impact of churn on our monthly recurring revenue. Worked to define automated triggers to keep customers on a high engagement trajectory While leading the co-marketing team, we: Forged marketing partnerships with emerging SaaS businesses like HubSpot, AdRoll, GetResponse, etc. to build thought leadership and drive leads for our business. Scaled VWO's affiliate marketing program with end-to-end planning and strategy to boost our revenue through affiliates and referrals. Before moving to Wingify, I jumpstarted my marketing career at Mettl, where I acquired hands-on skills in SEO/SEM, conversion optimization, email, influencer, and event marketing. Key endeavors in my experience so far: - Shaped two marketing functions from scratch and scaled them to boost topline revenue. - Wrote customer engagement playbooks which optimized the entire customer lifecycle by 30% - Templatized go-to-market for new products drove their adoption. Some products/features saw a 6x increase in adoption rates for existing customers. - Led partnerships with brands like HubSpot, Adroll, CXL, etc., and acquired 10000+ leads/yr. • Built & scaled Mettl's thought leadership webinar & event series to host HR business leaders across industries. We built an engaged community of 7000+ HR professionals.

Experience

Booking.com

2 roles

Lead - Digital Go-To-Market

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Program Manager - Go-To-Market

Sep 2022Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Growth signals

Podcaster

Apr 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Remote

  • How's the growth signals podcast different?
  • It is a show to help startup founders and marketers get curious about doing things scale. We'll talk about ideas and questions to ask yourself when struggling to grow.
  • This podcast is to help you think about marketing the right way.
  • We'll cover strategies, learnings, and experiments that didn't scale. Things which I learned the hard way during my time at Mettl, VWO, and Airmeet.

That culture thing

Strategic Advisor

Nov 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

Airmeet

Lead - Product Marketing Manager

Aug 2020Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

  • Operated at the intersection of sales, product, and marketing teams to:
  • a) Package and position our platform in competitive international markets
  • b) Improve product and customer engagement to impact customer churn.
  • c) Build up-sell and cross-sell opportunities to drive revenue growth
  • d) Plan and execute our go-to-market strategy to launch new products
  • e) Become customers' voice and help the product team plan their roadmap effectively.

Product-led growth hub | world's 1st plg academy

Skills Trainer

Apr 2020Nov 2020 · 7 mos · Remote

Vwo

2 roles

Product Marketing Manager

Nov 2018Aug 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Work to drive product-led growth for the business.
  • Responsible to plan and execute go-to-market plans for new products and features and own its adoption metric along with the product team.
  • Educate and nurture our existing customers through podcasts, webinars, guides, and one-on-one consultation sessions to deliver value with VWO.
  • Use tools like Intercom, Appcues, and Marketo to build value-led up-sell and cross-sell opportunities for our business. Gather and analyze data-points like product usage, industry use-cases, personas, and more to personalize our marketing outreach.

Co-Marketing Manager

Sep 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Led growth marketing initiatives at VWO. Built synergies with emerging SaaS businesses, industry behemoths, and think-tanks to add value to our audience SaaS/MarTech community.
  • Organized & presented webinars, industry reports, ebooks etc. for building thought leadership and strengthing our demand generation engines.
  • Strived at building a channel of trust and constructive feedback for the business by conducting customer interviews (using Jobs-to-be-done framework) and deploying innovative ideas to motivate customers to write/share their experience with VWO across online review and reputation platforms like G2 and at other forums.
  • Nurtured our customers about new and upcoming innovations at VWO through for product marketing newsletter and email drip campaigns.
  • Led affiliate marketing at VWO to turn it into an effective contributor to our revenue stream.
  • Built and executed every component of our end-to-end affiliate marketing strategy, right from affiliate recruitment to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with them.

Mettl

3 roles

Digital Marketing Associate

Promoted

Jun 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • 1. Conceptualized and scaled Mettl's thought leadership initiative, where we hosted HR Business Leaders to discuss game-changing HR strategies around talent measurement and planning. Focusing on adding value to the HR fraternity.
  • 2. Handled day-to-day SEO & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) activities including campaign planning, building international websites(CCTLD) and its implementation, budget management, performance review, and optimization of paid search campaigns. Ran in-depth analysis to evaluate the performance of keywords, ad copies, bounce rates, etc.
  • 3. Created and scaled lead generation campaigns for event-based promotions, email marketing, co-marketing collaterals, and paid marketing.
  • 4. Built and executed audience engagement plan from our social media handles, weekly/monthly newsletters and on-page promotions to increase our web presence and enhanced brand awareness.

Associate - Product Operations

Jul 2014Jun 2015 · 11 mos

  • Provided support to clients about Product usage and optimization.
  • Prepared and delivered MIS reports and analysis on data for process improvement within their SLAs.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams for multi-party projects.
  • Mitigated risks, resolved issues and dependencies from 3rd party agencies on client requests.
  • Provided operational cover for absent Operation Manager.

Intern

Jun 2014Jul 2014 · 1 mo

  • Product research intern under Product Strategy Department .
  • Roles & responsibilities:
  • Proposed study, designed data collection and its analysis in a structured form.
  • Integrating & interpreting data from several sources.

Su-kam power systems limited

College Intern

Jun 2013Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, Haryana

  • Submitted my assignment on R&D on power back-up systems and upcoming innovations.
  • Worked closely with the Quality Assurance team and ensured optimum calibration of electronics instruments to ensure precision at all times.
  • Was also assigned the responsibility of testing the electronics quality from the supplier at the production line.

Haryana power generation. corporation

College Intern

May 2012Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Panipat, Haryana

  • Prepared a comprehensive report on Thermal Plant and its operations.
  • Studied functioning of various power & electronic components at the facility.

Education

Institute Of Technology And Management

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Bal Vikas School

Higher Secondary Level — Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

Jan 1998Jan 2010

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