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Applied AI & SEO Agentic Automation @ ACKO | GrowthX Fellow

About

Deputy GM @ ACKO [2023-Present] → India's largest D2C insurtech. Currently leading its organic growth. Scaled organic revenue from $1.18Mn to $2.8Mn in <2 years; and honoured with 6 Gold & 1 Silver industry awards for SEO excellence. → Now building ACKO's AI-native growth engine - agentic systems that automate content & SEO, and drive visibility across AI search. Sr. Growth PM @ BrightChamps [2021-2023] → First SEO PM hire. Scaled organic traffic from 0->1Mn. Head of Growth @ Inspiria [2014-2021] → Built and led a 10+ member growth team. Grew the brand from scratch and helped shape the early startup ecosystem in Eastern India.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

lovable

openai

Work experience

Deputy General Manager - SEO at Acko, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, → Own ACKO’s main product, Auto Insurance, generating $3Mn in annual organic revenue. → Grew car & bike insurance Quotes by 79% YoY in FY 2024-2025. → Launched & scaled multiple VAS on web, driving 1M+ monthly sessions, 2.7M+ leads/year, and half a million app installs. 🏆 7x Gold & 1x Silver award winner for SEO and LLM SEO optimization. Featured in Search Engine Journal - top global SEO news platform.

Senior Manager (SEO) at Acko, Apr 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, → Led SEO & content team, managing 2.5M+ monthly organic sessions. → Improved highly competitive auto insurance keywords from Page 2 to Top 3 position on major search engines, boosting YoY traffic by 40%.

Sr. Growth Product Manager at BrightCHAMPS, Oct 2022 - Apr 2023 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Part of the core growth & product team that: 1. Defined the company’s growth plan 2. Coordinated and executed growth programs 3. Optimized the revenue funnel

Sr. Growth Manager (Marketing) at BrightCHAMPS, Jan 2022 - Oct 2022 · 10 mos, Remote, As a growth manager, at BrightChamps I lead 2 initiatives: 1. Organic Growth (SEO, Content Marketing) 2. Performance Marketing (Google Ads) Apart from these two core responsibilities, my KRA also involved identifying growth levers at BrightChamps, constructing a hypothesis, devising experiments, working with engineers/designers to implement them, analyzing results & iterate quickly.

Growth & Marketing at Inspiria Knowledge Campus, May 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Siliguri, West Bengal, India, As Head of Growth, I led a targeted internet marketing campaign in a tier 3 city, driving 60% of FY20 enrollments and exceeding our goal by 25%. By 2020, I helped the institute launch various IPs that had a direct impact on the organization's brand reputation and revenue.

Head Of Digital Marketing at Inspiria Knowledge Campus, May 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs, Siliguri, West Bengal, India, Built a 10+ member team across marketing, design, and tech. Drove brand from 0 to 1 through impactful online campaigns, digital marketing, brand partnerships, and on-ground activations to boost B2B and B2C traffic.

Front End Developer at Inspiria Knowledge Campus, Mar 2014 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Education

Advanced Growth Strategy, GX29, GrowthX®

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal formerly WBUT

Public links

github: https://github.com/alokesharma

alokesharma.com: https://www.alokesharma.com/