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title: "Sudha Thota - Digital Marketing Director | Creator of Lexora, an Ad Spend Optimization Accelerator in Hyderabad | Tal"
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# Sudha Thota on Tal

## Headline

Director \- Digital Marketing at CriticalRiver Inc\.

## About

Every year, digital marketing gets a new playbook and a new guru with new Gyaan\. The fundamentals stay the same: right message, right people, right moment, and proof that it moved the business\. I’m a Director of Digital Marketing with 15\+ years across B2C and B2B\. I started by driving high\-volume lead generation and customer acquisition for a consumer brand, and today I lead account\-based programs that build enterprise pipeline\. Different buyers, same filter for every decision: does this create revenue conversations? Core strengths: ABM · Demand Generation · B2B amp; B2C Marketing · SEO · PPC · Marketing Analytics · Team Leadership

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

grok

lovable

meta

notebooklm

openai

## Work experience

Digital Marketing Director \| Creator of Lexora, an Ad Spend Optimization Accelerator at CriticalRiver Inc\., Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, On\-site, I lead digital marketing strategy and execution that drives brand visibility, audience engagement, and measurable revenue growth\. I head the digital marketing department and partner with sales, product, and creative teams to build integrated programs across multiple business verticals, and I build the tools that make marketing spend work harder\. Featured: Lexora Ad Spend Optimizer I led the development of Lexora, an accelerator that identifies and plugs budget leakage across ad channels and campaigns, reallocating spend to what performs\. Result: 30% savings in wasted ad spend\. What I deliver: ▪️ Ad spend efficiency and performance marketing: Data\-driven budget optimization, powered by Lexora, that cuts budget leakage and improves return on ad spend\. ▪️ Demand generation and pipeline: Targeted lead generation and account\-based marketing programs aligned directly with sales pipeline and revenue goals\. ▪️ Search and answer engine optimization \(SEO \+ AEO\): Technical audits, keyword and competitor research, and link\-building, paired with AEO to get content surfaced and cited in AI answers and featured snippets\. ▪️ Integrated campaigns: High\-impact, multi\-channel campaigns from planning through execution\. ▪️ Marketing automation and analytics: Marketing Hub for lead nurturing, funnel tracking, and performance reporting\. ▪️ Department leadership: Heading the marketing function and connecting leadership, practice, delivery, brand, content, and design teams so strategy turns into aligned execution\. Core strengths: Digital Marketing Strategy · Ad Spend Optimization · Budget Leakage Reduction · Performance Marketing · Account\-Based Marketing · Demand Generation · SEO · AEO · Marketing Automation · HubSpot · Department Leadership · Cross\-Functional Leadership

Digital Marketing Specialist at CriticalRiver Inc\., Feb 2021 \- Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos, India,  Manage company's digital assets  Handle complete SEO \- On\-page and Off\-page strategies, Competitor Analysis, Keyword Analysis, Traffic Analysis, Quality link building, Writing Meta tags and XML Sitemaps, website testing for errors/changes and suggestions to development team  Develop, Implement and manage marketing campaigns that promote company products and/or services  Work with the business stakeholders to plan growth of each business segment assigned  Work on lead generation campaigns  Collaborate with internal stakeholders and brand teams on integrated media planning\. Liaise with product and business teams to support their business objectives and deliver results  Work closely with cross\-functional teams – creative team and content writers

Assistant General Manager \- Growth Strategist \| Digital Marketing at Karvy Growth Hub, Apr 2018 \- Mar 2021 · 3 yrs, Hyderabad Area, India,  Responsible for the group’s digital assets  Developing, Implementing and managing marketing campaigns that promote company products and/or services\.  Work with the business stakeholders to plan growth of each business segment assigned  Enhancing brand awareness within the digital space as well as driving website traffic and acquiring leads/customers\.  Identifies and evaluates new digital technologies for generating leads/customers\.  Oversight and management of onsite and offsite SEO resources  Strong proficiency with website analytics software \(e\.g\. Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Insights, social listening tools, etc\.\)  Interacting with business stakeholders and other internal team members to define the business needs \(success criteria\) and requirements; providing assistance in developing solutions that solve these business needs\.  Demonstrated success in consulting with clients \(Internal businesses\) to understand/refine business objectives, and create/deploy an integrated, multichannel marketing campaign to address  Collaborate with sales team to understand customer goals and provide recommendations to achieve those goals  Monitoring tracking & reporting website/social asset performance\.  Curating the existing database and helping corporate communications team to make out TG based communication\.  Utilize social listening tools to generate actionable insights  Help onboard, train and guide other team members as needed  Managing Online Reputation on major compliant sites  Partner with publishers/affiliate marketers on strategic client acquisitions

Sr\. Manager \- Digital Marketing at Karvy Growth Hub, Apr 2017 \- Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Hyderabad Area, India,  Monitoring tracking & reporting website/social asset performance\.  Responsible for the group’s digital assets  Enhance brand awareness within the digital space as well as driving website traffic and acquiring leads/customers\.  Curating the existing database and helping corporate communications team to make out TG based communication\.  Utilize social listening tools to generate actionable insights  Manage responses on major compliant sites  Manage the day\-to\-day social and digital marketing campaigns and reporting  Plan, implement, analyse and optimize all social and digital marketing activities

Manager \- Digital Marketing at Karvy Growth Hub, Apr 2016 \- Feb 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Hyderabad Area, India,  Responsible for improving Group website's organic search results\.  Improve group sites' keyword rankings  Create and launch SEO campaigns  Identify areas of improvement  Work along with Social media teams  Run PPC campaign  Manage responses on major complaint sites i\.e Online Reputation Management

SEO Consultant at Independent Payroll Services, Nov 2014 \- Mar 2015 · 5 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Responsible for improving company's organic search results\. Create and launch SEO campaigns, identify areas of improvement, run PPC campaign, and attempt to improve the clients'​ sites' rankings in major search engines\.

Digital Marketing Head at Imarks Digital Marketing Solutions, Aug 2013 \- Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos, Hyderabad Area, India,  Research and strategic planning for paid and organic search campaigns  Staying abreast of \(and sharing\) changes in search engine signals  Communication to clients, team, and management on strategy/project development, timelines, and results  Collaborate on client strategy and goal definition for success  Perform keyword research in coordination with client business objectives to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities  Help to create and support marketing content to socialize and use for social media purposes \(e\.g\. customer videos briefs, customer case studies, blog posts, posts from analysts and customers\)  Research and administer social media tools in support of clients’ social media strategy  Attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi\-task in a deadline driven atmosphere  Excellent analytical, organizational, project management and time management skills  Demonstrated success in consulting with clients to understand/refine business objectives, and create/deploy an integrated, multichannel marketing campaign to address

Manager \- SEO, Web\-desinging and Development at Prominere Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, Sep 2009 \- Aug 2013 · 4 yrs,  Responsible for business development, Improve website traffic, develop brand strategy  Building and managing relationships with existing and potential clients\.  Coordinate with sales and operations team while executing the strategy  Brainstorming new concepts for campaigns and products  In to international client service  To maintain the client relationship in the project delivery and develop new add\-on project opportunities\.  Looking beyond the day\-to\-day needs of an account to ensure the long\-term stability and growth of the relationship and revenue\.  Actively work to lead and support project team by facilitating constant communication in weekly updates to keep the team focused on delivering results; facilitate coordination of project milestones with global and cross\-functional marketing team inputs\.  Resolve any issues and solve problems throughout project life cycle\.  Solutions include but not limited to the assigned task that matches the project, enhancing usability and accessibility of the technology and found innovative ways to meet deliverables\.

## Education

Kakatiya University

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