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FILONI KKANANI

FILONI KKANANI

Mumbai/Bengaluru

Summary

GTM | Brand Strategy | Content Marketing | Podcasting


I am a marketer with 10+ years of work experience, having a proven track record in brand building and content marketing.


As a 0 to 1 specialist, I am usually the first marketer that a founder hires, and I own the complete marketing journey- from conceptualization to completion.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Content & Marketing Lead (AVP)

360 ONE Wealth (India's Leading Wealth Managers)
3 2023 - Current
  • Orchestrated the brand architecture and positioning based on outcomes of Consumer Research for 360 ONE Wealth’s new business proposition for HNIs
  • Led the content function including behavioral-sceince based app content, content marketing, customer lifecycle communication (CLCM) and social media strategy
  • Crafted their integrated go-to-market plan (ATL and BTL) for launch covering- digital lead generation (email marketing and performance marketing) campaigns, print and OOH, PR, website and sales enablement (sales and marketing collaterals for RMs)
  • Managed budgets of ~Rs. 20 Crores for launch + sustenance
  • Managed a team along with work of the agencies (brand/creative, digital and social media)

Marketing Consultant

Arkam Ventures (a Pre-seed And Seed Fund)
07.2022 - 03.2023
  • Key projects: website (content and design), content marketing (social media, PR, newsletters for LPs) and their 1st LP meet planning and execution
  • Scaled their social media 3x: from 3k followers to 10k followers on LinkedIn and 3 Twitter threads that went viral
  • Helped Arkam raise $180M for their 2nd fund as opposed to their 1st fund of $108M by building a favorable brand story for them

Marketing Lead

Smartstaff (Blue-collar Workforce Recruitment Co.)
07.2021 - 05.2022
  • As a founding team member, I setup their Marketing & HR functions
  • Built and scaled their worker-lead gen framework from scratch to get ~500+ organic, inbound blue-collar worker leads daily

Head of Marketing Communications

Mastree (English Courses For K12-an Unacademy Co.)
07.2020 - 02.2021
  • Wrote an ad copy that went viral & changed the course of the Business
  • Increased trial class attendance rate from 24% to 45% with a product marketing campaign
  • Managed budgets of ~Rs. 1cr and a 15-member team including content, social media, ORM, sales and marketing collaterals & ad creatives

Campaign Specialist- APMEA (Contract Job)

SHL
7 2018 - 7 2019
  • Owned the communications calendar; Increased newsletter open rate from global benchmark of 0.05% to 3.5% for the region | Tools: Salesforce & Eloqua

Social Media Manager

89.1 Radio4 (Dubai's #1 Bollywood Radio Station)
01.2017 - 12.2017
  • Increased their Instagram followers from 800 to 10k+ in 3 months & Facebook engagement by 300%

Freelance Copywriter

Self-employeed
10.2015 - 10.2016

Worked with a men's wear brand- Deezeno

Content Analyst

CouponDunia (Times Internet's Coupon Website)
08.2014 - 09.2015

Education

M.Com -

Mumbai University

Full-time Executive MBA in Marketing & Finance -

NMIMS

Skills

Lead Generation Marketing Collaterals Team Management Ad Copywriting Performance Marketing Email Marketing Digital Content Creation Social Media Management Digital Marketing Omni-channel Marketing Luxury Brand Marketing Content Strategy

Timeline

Marketing Consultant

Arkam Ventures (a Pre-seed And Seed Fund)
07.2022 - 03.2023

Marketing Lead

Smartstaff (Blue-collar Workforce Recruitment Co.)
07.2021 - 05.2022

Head of Marketing Communications

Mastree (English Courses For K12-an Unacademy Co.)
07.2020 - 02.2021

Social Media Manager

89.1 Radio4 (Dubai's #1 Bollywood Radio Station)
01.2017 - 12.2017

Freelance Copywriter

Self-employeed
10.2015 - 10.2016

Content Analyst

CouponDunia (Times Internet's Coupon Website)
08.2014 - 09.2015

Content & Marketing Lead (AVP)

360 ONE Wealth (India's Leading Wealth Managers)
3 2023 - Current

Campaign Specialist- APMEA (Contract Job)

SHL
7 2018 - 7 2019

M.Com -

Mumbai University

Full-time Executive MBA in Marketing & Finance -

NMIMS
FILONI KKANANI