Head - Marketing & Communications

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

New Delhi












Bachelor's Degree, Animation and Multimedia
BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell
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When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative.’ I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.
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Head of Marketing & Communications (India & Dubai) at Montran, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Currently building the entire marketing function from scratch for Montran India. • Driving end-to-end marketing for Montran's mission-critical payment and banking solutions across banks, financial institutions, and government bodies. • Strengthening Montran's brand as the leading provider of backend banking and payments infrastructure solutions in India. • Developing Montran’s EVP and building internal/external campaigns to attract top tech, product, and domain talent. • Spearheading industry events, closed-door roundtables, and thought leadership summits to build CXO engagement and demand generation. • Overseeing LinkedIn-led content strategy, targeted ad campaigns, SEO/SEM, and performance marketing aligned with global goals. • Collaborating with Montran’s global leadership and India’s functional heads to drive marketing that supports business outcomes. • Leading development of technical marketing collaterals including solution decks, whitepapers, use cases, and customer stories. • Partnering with Product, Sales, HR, and Delivery teams to align marketing efforts with organizational priorities.
Assistant General Manager - Marketing at Paytm, Aug 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leading a team of strategists, copywriters, designers and growth manager for UPI, lending, merchant and business, • Defining customer proposition for insurance & UPI usage across all insurance and UPI use cases – Send, scan and merchants including rewards /incentive design • Mapping customers journey and tapping him with different services at different intervals • Creating GTM plan to acquire, retain and increase depth of usage across agreed customer cohorts, across UPI use cases, lending and merchants • Delivering the GTM plan across touchpoints – Onsite, offsite, on merchants, offline, in retail – Including marketing touch points • Acting as an advocate and leader in strategic communication/design process of projects • Prioritizing customer facing UPI feature definition and development with product team – responsible for adoption across touch points • Responsible for designing, planning, executing, and measuring the effectiveness of Paytm’s App-based and social media campaigns • Serving as a trusted social media advisors to C-Level Executives • Leading and developing a communications team that is continuously innovating and delivering innovative communication products • Advising Paytm’s leadership on how to effectively use communications to make an impact with audiences
Senior Manger - Content & Social Media at Rapido, Aug 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Lead a team of content writers, designers and social media to deliver app based & social media content for better engagement and traffic • Managed a team of content writers, strategists, designers and social media • Acted as an advocate and leader in strategic communication/design process of projects, owning the overall customer experience/ digital strategy and execution. • Lead the development of customer personals, journey maps, and roadmaps as part of the brand strategy • Established brand voice over social media, growth and affiliate channels • Owned all communication going out as a brand across all owned and earned platforms • Collaborated with product team to improve user experience • Tracked the performance of the process through multiple communication channels • Liaised with creative agencies and influencers • Devised growth strategy for app and social media • Optimized existing communication process flows for improved operational efficiencies • Social media handles saw 700% increase in traffic • Increased click-through-rate from 0.3% to 0.9%
Founder & Creative Director at Slingshot, Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Founded an ad-agency and worked extensively for Reliance Jio, Dentsu Aegis Network and Dubai based MNCs • Launched Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan campaign for Reliance Jio • Oversaw the daily content activity on several social media networks including, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others • Established brand voice over social media, and across all channels • Improved communications and processes necessary for optimum creative output • Strategized and executed 3600 campaigns for AJIO, Pride of Cows, Morphy Richards, and Polycabs • Partnered with Product managers to set product adoption goals and execution strategies • Owner of all communication going out as a brand across all owned and earned platforms • Tracked and analyzed performance, and drove adoption of our solutions • Prepared/delivered presentation representing the creative with in-depth knowledge of the category • Conceptualized the launch campaign of Daikin’s Air Purifier - Dubai • Dubai - Emami and Dabur social media engagement increased by 500% • Built brand identity and ensured right content on the right platform • Used technology as an intervention to give an edge to the campaigns • Shaped up digital strategies and crafted unique online user experiences
Associate Creative Director at Publicis Groupe, Dec 2019 - Jul 2020 · 8 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Lead a Cannes Award winning team of copywriters & creatives to execute campaigns for brands like Skoda, Bridgestone, ITC, Ferrero Rocher, Sprite, Abbott, and Diageo. • ITC’s experiential campaign saw 1000% rise in traffic • Conceptualized and executed ZEE5 digital campaigns and strategies • Diageo’s COVID-19 digital campaign saw a 300% rise in traffic
Senior Associate director at Republic World, Oct 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 y 1 mo, Mumbai
Brand Marketing Manager at R K SWAMY BBDO, Dec 2017 - Nov 2018 · 11 mo, Mumbai
Copywriter at SAPL Pvt, Ltd., Feb 2017 - Nov 2017 · 9 mo, Mumbai
Copywriter at Hats on advertising, Jun 2013 - Feb 2017 · 3 y 8 mo, Mumbai
Copywriter at National Geographic Channel - India, Apr 2011 - Jun 2013 · 2 y 2 mo, New Delhi
Bachelor's Degree, Animation and Multimedia, BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell