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title: "Harsh Jawharkar - CMO / Growth Advisor in San Francisco | Tal"
description: "Meet Harsh Jawharkar, GTM & Marketing Leader / AI Systems Builder (Atlassian, Slack, Zendesk) based in San Francisco."
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# Harsh Jawharkar on Tal

## Headline

GTM & Marketing Leader / AI Systems Builder \(Atlassian, Slack, Zendesk\)

## About

Growth and marketing leader \- partnering with investors, founders, and builders to ship products and accelerate growth across all stages\. Ambidextrous across Product\-led Growth \(PLG\) and Sales\-led GTM motions \- built and scaled a diverse array of high\-performance organizations at category\-defining SaaS companies like Atlassian, Slack, Narvar, and Zendesk\. Began my career in product development, combining his background in engineering and design to ship large\-scale cloud products at companies like PayPal and Sapient\.

## Location

San Francisco

## Work experience

CMO / Growth Advisor at Jawharkar Advisory, Oct 2021 \- Present · 4 yrs 9 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Intercom, Dropbox, Culture Amp, Sauce Labs, Astronomer, Featureform, Sedai, Hoop, Clockwise, Drip, MKT1, Norwest, Openview, Signalfire

Mentor / Advisor at StartX, Sep 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, Supporting Stanford founders with mentorship and resources to build companies

Investor at Perplexity, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Investor at GC AI, Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Investor at Redis, Feb 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Featureform acquired by Redis

## Education

MBA, Finance, Marketing, Strategy, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

CSPD, Strategic Pricing for SaaS Products, Stanford University

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