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Director of Employer Relationship | Founder-operator | IIM I, Ex Redseer, Asian Paints

About

Obsessed with helping students get answers to their careers questions in a way better than Quora / Chat GPT that's personalized to their requirements and based on the career stories of Top 1% professionals. Before launching AcadSpace, I gained valuable experience and insights as a Senior Management Consultant at RedSeer, where I worked on research and advisory projects in various Internet Commerce segments, such as EdTech, SaaS, CareerTech, Logistics, and Shortform Content delivery ~$25 Bn market cap, and valuation expansion for all my clients. I also led a breakthrough portfolio of $100Mn as a Senior Brand Manager at Asian Paints, achieving a massive 33% YOY growth. I hold a MBA degree from IIM Indore and a B.Tech. degree from NIT Durgapur. I have multiple certifications in Google Analytics, Six Sigma, and Inbound Marketing. I am passionate about strategic thinking, communication, and strategy, and I have been an active student counselor and mentor for many years.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

claude code

elevenlabs

gemini

lovable

minimax

Work experience

Director of Corporate Relationships at xcelerator, Aug 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bangalore

Associate Director - Growth & Partnerships at Scaler, Dec 2025 - Jul 2026 · 8 mos, On-site, Lead a 4-member team scaling the pan-India offline partnerships and outreach network for Scaler School of Technology.

Engagement Manager at Redseer Strategy Consultants, Jun 2025 - Dec 2025 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Served India’s leading EV 2-wheeler OEM unicorn in unlocking growth & operational efficiency in front end business actions. Enabled a North American growth investment firm understand the market depth of Quick Commerce in India & sustain investment position in a leading India QCom player's captable. Winner of Spot Award & Mountain Mover for my projects, appreciated by the CEO. Totally enjoyed enabling outcomes for a challenging implementation piece with the EV org. Key achievements are below: • Unlocked ~100 additional units/day (INR 300 Cr annualized run-rate) by diagnosing and fixing qualification-to-conversion drop-offs across the funnel. • Owned INR 4 Cr/month performance-marketing budget; set strategy and directed agency execution; rebuilt targeting, creatives, and server-side conversion tracking (Meta Conversion API and Google Enhanced Conversions). • Achieved 2× daily leads, +30% qualified-lead rate, and +20% walk-ins & sales in the first quarter of the transformation. • Built a single source of truth and executive dashboards spanning marketing, CRM, call center, and 4,000+ stores; enabled weekly C-suite governance and ROMI/payback reviews. • Established a Transformation Office/PMO with owner charters and milestone trackers; synchronized media operations, retail funnel, and inside-sales across the revenue value chain. • Professionalized inside-sales at scale (scripts, QA, SLAs) across ~400 agents; increased contactability and reduced TAT from first touch to closure. • Led micromarket area mapping, festive demand planning, lead-qualification design, e-commerce initiatives, and lead-management tech deployment to remove throughput bottlenecks. • Orchestrated a multi-party coalition (Founder-CEO, two CXOs, seven core client leaders, six agency heads, ~400 agents); ran weekly reviews and drove action closure.

Founder and CEO at AcadSpace Technologies, May 2022 - Jul 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Building AcadSpace AI that can answer any career question of students, in a personalized manner by learning about their personality, capabilities, family background, and career aspirations, and matchmaking with the career success stories of top 1% professionals from their vicinity. Update: We've launched an AI admission agent to facilitate personalized university recommendations and end to end admissions for students.

Senior Consultant at Redseer Strategy Consultants, Oct 2021 - May 2022 · 8 mos, India

Consultant at Redseer Strategy Consultants, Aug 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Roles & Responsibilities: • Owning multiple engagement streams across EdTech, Content and SaaS with a KRA of delivering on-time & high impact outputs • Managing a lean team of 3 analysts and 15 researchers in the downstream, maintaining operational effectiveness • Key consulting engagements include market & consumer assessment across Internet, Education, SaaS, D2C and Logistics clients Achievements: • Received the “Rising Star” and "Always Creating Excellence" award in the first year of employment • Rated 4/5 on ~80% of my completed projects for overall performance; Appreciated on record by the leadership team for effective work output

Brand Manager, SmartCare at Asian Paints, Apr 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Roles & Responsibilities: - Managing 15 Product Lines in SmartCare division contributing Rs 560cr+ revenue (75% of SmartCare business) - Designing & Implementing 360° campaigns across India to create excitement in retail & institutional networks - Working closely with Ops, R&T, Legal, Media & Sales team for production, planning, stocks & making creative - Collaborating with 20+ Global vendors (Ogilvy, Madison, etc) to implement pan-India initiatives & activations - Creating marketing briefs for agencies using FAB methodology, Identifying & driving KPIs for campaigns - Overseeing & improving SmartCare helpline by mapping competition best practices & streamlining our system - Responsible for budgeting Incentive Commission of 54 Sn. Sales Officers & enabling them to achieve the same Achievements: - Responsible to increase monthly sales of a new product by “10x” by participating in client meetings on site - Enabled the campaign of “Money Back Challenge” for our TV Commercial by training our in-house PTPR & APHS team on application - Streamlined procurement mechanism of overseeing products reflecting a direct increase of net margin by 2% - Proposed to create a new category of “Insulation” products utilizing NASA technology scaled up in the retail channel - Implemented 5 new product launches/relaunches across key markets in India in the break-through timelines - Strategised WhatsApp enabled consultation sessions for secondary customers & integration with helpline IVR - Improved Helpline processes & conducted disposition-wise training improving C-SAT score by 3% Management Training Learnings: - B2C retail sales | Learnt scheme designing, managing inputs, targets & experienced hands-on billing of $10,000 - Warehouse & Plant | Comprehensive understanding of AP’s production, commercial & distribution system - Services | Received hands-on training & understanding of all service offerings by AP – from APHS, PTPR to 4pics

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management, Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Public links

naviksha.co.in: https://www.naviksha.co.in/