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Pavan Shandilya

Growth Marketing Strategist | Marketing Engines for Education & Wellness Companies | 12 Ads Running 1+ Year

Bengaluru

14+ years of work experience

Jul 20215 y 1 moPresent

Bangalore

I make the creative that sells Potencia's courses, and I build the systems that produce it. Potencia Education is a personal-development education platform with 100+ courses across Mind (personal development, NLP, productivity), Body (fitness, nutrition, health) and Spirit (breathwork). Instructors include founder Bogdan Juncewicz, Dan Brule (breathwork, 53+ years), Tom Broadwell (health & fitness) and Martin Messier (NLP). Distributed team across Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East. Creative and strategy: • Built the creative strategy behind video-led Meta campaigns running in the US, Australia, New Zealand and the EU • Scripted and edited 185 of the company's 670 deployed ad videos. 12 of mine are still running after more than a year • Co-wrote and edited 8 VSL (Video Sales Letters) between 2021-2024, still running and converting • Edited 450+ videos across the full course library • Trained webinar presenters on delivery, upsell technique and deck design Systems I built that the whole team now runs on: • An automated audio cleanup pipeline that turns a raw voice recording into an editor-ready file in about 30 seconds, replacing roughly 4 minutes of manual work per file in Adobe Audition. Calibrated against approved manual edits, so the output matches the sound we had already signed off on • A detection stage built on top of it that flags every click, tap, mouth noise and repetition for the editor, with timestamps. Reviewing and refining a guided audio used to take one person 25-30 minutes each. It now runs 12 audios in 30 minutes, and a 5-minute guided audio has gone from roughly 3.25 hours of total team time to about 1 hour • A breathing-animation system where one codebase renders 9 different breathing practices from a config file, replacing a single-purpose build that produced only one I build these with AI tools, because the manual versions were costing the team many hours every week.
Quantum Leap
Feb 20192 yrs 6 mosJul 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

Joined as the first marketing hire. - Led YouTube growth from 2K to 25K subscribers - Led Instagram growth from 1K to 20K followers - Directed 300+ educational videos - Established production workflows
Mar 20154 yrsFeb 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Video production studio. 45+ clients across corporate, education, and media. Transitioned to growth marketing in 2019.
Tech Mahindra
Mar 20141 yr 1 moMar 2015

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Harsha Engineering
May 20122 yrs 8 mosDec 2014

Bangalore

Pavan’s AI Stack

elevenlabs
elevenlabs
gemini
gemini
notion
notion
obsidian
obsidian
claudecode
claudecode
Kling AI
Kling AI

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering

Rajarajeshwari college of engineering

20074 yrs2011

Jyothi Kendriya Vidyalaya

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Headline

Growth Marketing Strategist | Marketing Engines for Education & Wellness Companies | 12 Ads Running 1+ Year

About

I build marketing engines for education and wellness companies. Not "run your ads." Not "write your copy." The whole engine - from audience research to production-ready creative to campaign architecture to testing systems. At Potencia Education (a multi-instructor personal development platform, 60+ courses), I'm the Growth & Video Lead. Five years and counting. What I've built: • Created 65 ad videos. 12 still running after 1+ year. • Co-wrote 8 VSL scripts that are still converting today. • Led webinar funnel strategy and video-led Meta campaigns across global markets. Before Potencia, I was the first marketing hire at Quantum Leap Learning Solutions - led YouTube growth from 2K to 25K subscribers and Instagram from 1K to 20K. What I do: 1. Market research & audience psychology 2. Production-ready ad copy, video scripts, VSL scripts 3. Creative direction and campaign architecture 4. Campaign management and optimization 5. AI-powered execution at team-level output

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

elevenlabs

gemini

notion

obsidian

claudecode

Kling AI

Work experience

Senior Creative Strategist at Potencia Education, Jul 2021 - Present · 5 y 1 mo, Bangalore, I make the creative that sells Potencia's courses, and I build the systems that produce it. Potencia Education is a personal-development education platform with 100+ courses across Mind (personal development, NLP, productivity), Body (fitness, nutrition, health) and Spirit (breathwork). Instructors include founder Bogdan Juncewicz, Dan Brule (breathwork, 53+ years), Tom Broadwell (health & fitness) and Martin Messier (NLP). Distributed team across Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East. Creative and strategy: • Built the creative strategy behind video-led Meta campaigns running in the US, Australia, New Zealand and the EU • Scripted and edited 185 of the company's 670 deployed ad videos. 12 of mine are still running after more than a year • Co-wrote and edited 8 VSL (Video Sales Letters) between 2021-2024, still running and converting • Edited 450+ videos across the full course library • Trained webinar presenters on delivery, upsell technique and deck design Systems I built that the whole team now runs on: • An automated audio cleanup pipeline that turns a raw voice recording into an editor-ready file in about 30 seconds, replacing roughly 4 minutes of manual work per file in Adobe Audition. Calibrated against approved manual edits, so the output matches the sound we had already signed off on • A detection stage built on top of it that flags every click, tap, mouth noise and repetition for the editor, with timestamps. Reviewing and refining a guided audio used to take one person 25-30 minutes each. It now runs 12 audios in 30 minutes, and a 5-minute guided audio has gone from roughly 3.25 hours of total team time to about 1 hour • A breathing-animation system where one codebase renders 9 different breathing practices from a config file, replacing a single-purpose build that produced only one I build these with AI tools, because the manual versions were costing the team many hours every week.

Marketing Media Manager | Quantum Leap Learning Solutions (Rajiv Talreja) | 2019 - 2021 at Quantum Leap, Feb 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Joined as the first marketing hire. - Led YouTube growth from 2K to 25K subscribers - Led Instagram growth from 1K to 20K followers - Directed 300+ educational videos - Established production workflows

CEO & Founder | Shandilya Productions | 2015 - 2019 at SHANDILYA PRODUCTIONS, Mar 2015 - Feb 2019 · 4 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Video production studio. 45+ clients across corporate, education, and media. Transitioned to growth marketing in 2019.

Business Analyst at Tech Mahindra, Mar 2014 - Mar 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Design & Development Engineer at Harsha Engineering, May 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering, Rajarajeshwari college of engineering

Jyothi Kendriya Vidyalaya

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