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Apurv Narang

Bangalore

Summary

Core expertise in Brand Marketing, & User Growth, with an experience of handling aligned functions like Product, Analytics & Design to plan & execute initiatives for Business Growth.


Awarded ‘Best Leader’ within Jupiter’s senior leadership of 20 members.

Selected for the exclusive 'Leaders Development Program' at Paytm based on exceptional performance in first 3 years.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Head: Brand Marketing & User Growth

Jupiter Money
08.2021 - Current

Responsible for crafting and executing marketing strategy for the brand and the product that aligns with our mission of enabling financial wellness for millions of Indians.

Key Achievements:

  • ~2.5 Million Savings A/Cs users, at lowest industry CAC, ~1.2 Million MTU, with cross sell rates of 20%+ for products like Investments & Loans
  • Improved M0 activation by 150% & M3 retention by 100% in last 1 year, with better cross sell rates to reduce the payback period by 4X
  • Conceptualised & launched the 3-in-1 Switch RuPay Credit Card, with 30K cards issued in first 2 months

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Crafting & bringing it to life the Brand strategy (purpose, mission, vision, positioning, promise, personality, TOV) for Jupiter, in alignment with the business objective to drive value for all stakeholders
  • Building & steering all 4 verticals: Brand Marketing, Product Marketing, User Acquisition & Product Growth, for the business

Head: Growth & Marketing

Paytm Money
4 2019 - 07.2021

Custodian of Go-to-market strategy, Key User Growth Metrics, Brand & Social Media Strategy for all product offerings - Stock Trading, Mutual Funds & Digital Gold.

Key Achievements:

  • Scaled Paytm Money to a 8 Million User Base Platform, with ~2 Million KYCed Accounts for Investing in Mutual Funds & Stocks.
  • Paytm Money started contributing to ~ 45% of all SIPs in Direct MF route and to ~14% of all SIPs registered in the Mutual Fund industry every month, with in 15 months of launch.
  • Market share of 4% in IPO Applications, and 30% in New Funds Applications of ETFs in the industry, with in 6 Months of launch
  • 40% Share in Digital Gold Monthly Sales, with an all time user base of 75 Mn

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for developing and executing comprehensive marketing strategy to increase product awareness, drive user acquisition and retention, and grow revenue
  • Work closely with Product, UX & Engineering to enable Growth & Marketing initiatives & drive bottom-line conversion
  • Crafting & Executing Content Marketing Plan for the brand across channels, including PR & Social Media

Lead: Growth & Marketing

Paytm
07.2016 - 03.2019

Leading User Growth & Marketing for Offline Payments Business

Key Achievements:

  • DTU grew from less than 10K to ~10 Million with in a span of 24 months
  • Set Up & Scaled Offline Merchant Monitoring Network for 500+ cities
  • Set up Cashback Gamification on Paytm (first in India) while executing 300+ brand partnerships, as part of the portfolio, to drive user growth

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for setting the category-specific Marketing and Acquisition Strategy, including planning, budgeting, reporting, and execution across multiple channels (owned & paid)
  • Conceptualized campaigns, crafted messaging & built workflows by segmenting users to identify opportunity areas in the user lifecycle and by leveraging data to understand transaction behavior
  • Owned User Lifecycle management for Paytm App. Helped integrate analytics attribution & develop an in house CLM tool with goals & event tracking to measure campaign effectiveness & do effective traffic management for the App

Management Associate

Citibank N.A.
06.2014 - 07.2016
  • Redesign Credit Cards Account Fulfillment Process aimed at TAT reduction from 8 to 3 days: Built Instant Decision Module with Bureau Pull of the Customer at POS (first in India)
  • Executing Sales Planning & Strategy for Retail Banking basis new parameters like Sales Value Add & Effort Based Revenue for all the 45 branches of Citi in India
  • Driving Channel Sales for Citi’s Retail Mortgages in North India: Scaling up Priority Sector Lending contribution in the total business

Education

MBA - Marketing

Faculty of Management Studies
Delhi
04.2001 -

Timeline

Head: Brand Marketing & User Growth

Jupiter Money
08.2021 - Current

Lead: Growth & Marketing

Paytm
07.2016 - 03.2019

Management Associate

Citibank N.A.
06.2014 - 07.2016

MBA - Marketing

Faculty of Management Studies
04.2001 -

Head: Growth & Marketing

Paytm Money
4 2019 - 07.2021
Apurv Narang