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Vasu Narayan

Vasu Narayan

Digital Marketing Leader
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Performance-driven Growth & Paid Media Strategist with 4+ years of experience scaling user acquisition, building MarTech and stitching data across digital channels in B2B and B2C Industries & 5+ years of Key Accounts Management with a knack in Stakeholder Management. Expertise in building and optimizing multi-channel media strategies across Search, Social, and Programmatic along with DSPs & Affiliate Channels with a data-first approach. Particularly skilled in martech implementation, creative strategy & cross-functional team leadership that connects performance to broader business objectives.

Overview

5
5

+ Years of professional experience

10
10

+ Million Dollars of Yearly Ad Spends Managed

40
40

+ Brands Grown & Serviced

20
20

+ Sectors in B2B & D2C

Timeline

Media Lead

Insane Marketers
11.2024 - 02.2025

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (M.B.A.) - BUSINESS ANALYTICS

BITS Pilani
01.2022 - 01.2024

Client Success Manager

ET Medialabs
11.2020 - 10.2024

Digital Marketing Strategist and Analyst Intern

Basket N
06.2020 - 09.2025

Technical Support Analyst

Teleperformance (Adobe)
03.2019 - 03.2020

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
08.2014 - 06.2018

Accomplishments

1. Sports & Activewear

  • Under Armour (Professional Sportswear Brand)

2. Renewable Energy

  • SunEdison (Global Solar Panel Installation Brand)

3. Skincare, Haircare & Wellness

  • Dermalogica (Premium Skincare Brand)
  • Mamaearth (Skincare & Haircare Brand)
  • Forest Essentials (Premium Skin and Hair Care Brand)
  • Kama Ayurveda (Premium Skin and Hair Care Brand)
  • Soultree (Ayurvedic Luxury Skin & Hair Care)
  • AcneSquad (Skincare Brand)
  • Indulgeo Essentials (Skin and Hair Care)
  • Berkowits (Skin and Hair Clinic)
  • Brillare (Premium Skin & hair Care Brand)
  • The Derma Co. (Clinically proven Skincare Brand)

4. Home & Office Services

  • Urban Company (Home/Office Services)

5. Eyewear

  • Lenskart/John Jacobs (Eyewear Brand)

6. Healthcare & Hospitals

  • Manipal Hospitals
  • Fitterfly (Diabetes-focused Healthcare)
  • Valeo Wellbeing (Body Diagnosis, Lab tests)
  • EVYA (Health Monitoring Device)

7. Gaming & Entertainment

  • Ludo King (Mobile Gaming)
  • Indian Vehicle Simulator 3D (Mobile Gaming)

8. Food & Beverage

  • Licious (Fresh Meat Delivery)
  • The Whole Truth (Clean Label Foods)
  • Third Wave Coffee (Retail & App-Based Coffee Brand)
  • Slurrp Farm (Baby Foods)
  • Doko Natural (Tea Brand)
  • Frubon (Website & QuickCommerce IceCream Brand)
  • WickedGud (Healthy Noodles Qucikcommerce)

9. Astrology & Numerology

  • Astro Arun Pandit (Astrology and Numerology)
  • Gempundit
  • Gemsmantra
  • Occult Gurukul

10. Logistics & Delivery

  • Delhivery (Delivery & Shipping Solutions)
  • Porter UAE

11. Business Coaching & Training

  • Success Gyan (Business Coaches)
  • Dr. Ameet Parekh (Business Coach)
  • Manas Arora (Twitter Trading Coach)

12. Home & Lifestyle

  • Good Earth (Premium Home Decor and Apparel)
  • Nicobar (Premium Fashion and Home Decor)
  • Kompanero (Luxury Bags)
  • Flo Mattress (Indian Mattress Brand)

13. Education & Skill Development

  • Edureka (Online Courses & Certifications)
  • Physics Wallah (Online academy for Competition preparation)
  • Virohan (Paramedical Courses & Certification)
  • SkillCircle (Digital Marketing Skill Development Institute)
  • LIT School (GenZ School of Creators and Marketers)
  • Cyboard - Online School
  • AEC Consultants (Foreign Education Consultants)
  • Freadom (Kids Learning App)
  • Extramarks (Learning App)

14. Fintech

  • Avail Finance (Lending App)

15. Fashion & Apparel

  • 143 East
  • Zariin Jewellery
  • Utsav Fashion
  • Panash India
  • LittleTags Luxury (Premium Kids Apparel)
  • Fur Jaden
  • Basanti Kapde aur Koffee
  • Tjori

16. Internet & Tech

  • Excitel (Internet/Broadband)
  • Railyatri (Ticket Booking Platform)
  • Happyfares (Airlines ticket booking platform)

17. Yoga & Wellness

  • Sarva (Yoga & Wellness Studio and Workshops)

18. Nutrition & Supplements

  • Kapiva (Ayurvedic/Natural Health Supplements Brand)
  • HyugaLife (Marketplace for Nutrition & Supplements)
  • Genetic Nutrition (Nutrition & Supplement Brand)
  • Life Aveda (Ayurvedic Supplements)

19. Pet Care

  • Kanine (Pet Apparel and Accessories Brand & Marketplace)

20 Hyper-local Delivery

  • Pluckk (Hyperlocal Delivery – Farm to Home)
  • DeepRooted (Hyperlocal Fruits & Vegetables)
  • Gyan Dairy

22. Social Cause

  • CRY Foundation (NGO for Children)
  • Impact Guru (Fundraiser/Donation Platform)

23. SaaS/Online Services

  • Easyinsights (attribution & conversion tracking
  • ET Medialabs (inhouse marketing for prospecting leads)

And others...

Work History

Media Lead

Insane Marketers
Bengaluru
11.2024 - 02.2025
  • Was managing Business Coaches and D2C Personal Brands to help scale their Business ROI or reduce acquisition costs
  • Go To Market Strategy for all funnels: Lead Gen or Direct Sales
  • Media Planning and campaigns structuring
  • Creative and LP design and ideology with industry benchmark conversion rates and CPAs
  • Notable client during my freelancing tenure were Astro Arun Pandit (Numerology & Astrology Webinar and Direct Sales Funnel), LIT School, Success Gyan, etc
  • Was able to scale Astro Arun Pandit's Webinar by 3x (1000 to 3000 registrations per week) in a month with Creative and LP testing and double downing on the best performers
  • Scaled Multiple Success Gyan Coaches from 0-30 lakhs per month spends with ROI positivity and industry benchmark CACs
  • Introduced UGC and Influencer marketing for the brands
  • Opened Affiliate and Native channels for the brands to increase brand visibility across the targeted locations
  • Coordinated events such as product launches or promotional activities designed to engage customers
  • Provided ongoing support for existing campaigns by monitoring results and making necessary adjustments accordingly
  • Built Detailed Monthly Roadmaps aligning with yearly goals for the brands
  • Analyzed customer feedback data (ran Surveys) to provide strategic decisions and drive further optimization efforts
  • Produced performance reports that tracked KPIs such as website visits, Conversions and Conversion rates, traffic patterns, and social media engagement rates in order measure campaign successes

PS - Parted ways since my skills did not match the role requirement and apparently KRAs weren't growth friendly as per my future plans

Client Success Manager

ET Medialabs
Noida
11.2020 - 10.2024

Strategic Leadership & Team Management

  • Spearheaded cross-functional teams of 15+ professionals while managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple verticals, delivering comprehensive omnichannel marketing solutions
  • Orchestrated CXO-level strategic planning sessions and stakeholder management, resulting in the successful deployment and optimization of an 80Cr+ annual media budget
  • Cultivated and Scaled 40+ client relationships across 20+ industries, ensuring brand safety and maintaining categorical exclusivity while driving measurable business outcomes

Performance Marketing & Brand Strategy

  • Architected data-driven performance marketing frameworks for D2C brands, resulting in significant CAC reduction and enhanced brand equity across digital touchpoints
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive creative strategy playbooks, optimizing content-market fit while maintaining brand consistency across channels
  • Pioneered innovative campaign architecture leveraging multivariate testing methodologies, enabling scalable growth across diverse digital ecosystems

Operational Excellence & Analytics

  • Engineered proprietary BI dashboards integrating cross-channel marketing metrics, enabling real-time optimization and granular performance analysis
  • Devised Wastage Monitoring and Creative Monitoring Frameworks which helped reduce waste and scale accounts rapidly
  • Established automated reporting infrastructure at both organizational and departmental levels, significantly improving operational efficiency and data-driven decision making
  • Implemented vendor optimization strategies across affiliate and native advertising channels, achieving 60-70% cost reduction while maintaining performance metrics

Team Development & Process innovation

  • Designed and executed comprehensive training programs for marketing executives, focusing on strategic planning, analytical thinking, and campaign optimization
  • Formalized standard operating procedures for campaign management and performance optimization, ensuring consistency and scalability across client portfolios
  • Fostered strategic partnerships with key industry vendors and platforms, creating sustainable competitive advantages for client organizations

Notable Success

Beauty Personal Care (Forest Essentials, Dermalogica):

  • Increased e-commerce conversion rate from 0.3% to 2% through strategic funneling campaigns
  • Drove 50% incremental revenue through Midnight Flash Sales using the device usage pattern of existing users
  • Increased Brand Recall and Search Volume by 250% by tactfully placing the brand ads across YT & Meta along with Programmatic Channels

Health & Wellness (Kapiva, HyugaLife):

  • Achieved 30% growth in Revenue Month-on-Month while maintaining 4-5 ROI (CM3 positive) through performance marketing
  • Segregated SKUs and Sub Brands basis CM3 Margins and scaled them separately with different ROAS Targets successfully
  • Reduced CAC by 40% while maintaining 200% ROAS for new Product Launch in Kapiva
  • 33% jump in Brand Awareness, 840% Search lift for the Brand, Product revenue contribution increased by 2X

Food & Beverage (Slurrp Farm, The Whole Truth, Licious):

  • Website Revenue for Slurrp Farm was increased by 140%, 85% scale in Spending while being ROI Positive, 200% Increase in Brand Search Volume
  • 3X Increase in Acquisitions, 4X Increase in App Installs & CAC reduced by 45% in a span of 1 year for Licious
  • For TWT, drove 3X Brand penetration on Amazon and D2C, 50% increase in Revenue, 60% increase in ROAS

Eyewear & Fashion (Lenskart, Under Armour, Nicobar):

  • For Lenskart we were able scale their premium Brand John Jacobs by 2X in Yearly Revenue Revenue
  • Led Under Armour's Digital Launch from 0-1, Scaled the accounts to 1Cr Ad Spends/month in a quarter while generating a ROAS of 400%
  • Improved store footfall by 40% through Hyperlocal Programmatic initiatives while also utilizing Brand Ads at zipcode level in Lenskart and Under Armour Both
  • Indirect Impact on Retail Revenue helped increase overall business Revenue by 30%-40% MoM
  • Increased YT Subscribers and engagement by 100% leading to Brand Recall uplift by 32%

Services (Urban Company, Edureka, Virohan):

  • 2X scale with 45% optimized CAC on Urban Company App Acquisitions
  • Grew Salon, Cleaning and AC Categories by 50-100% in terms of Acquisition using Performance Branding at Scale
  • Reduced Marketing Spends in Locations where incremental Revenue wasn't profitable - using Mix Marketing Model at City Level
  • Achieved 30% growth in online course enrollments in Edureka, while helping them resolve attribution problem, stitched end-to-end user journey for tracking & personalization of remarketing funnel for existing user funnel using first and last click data both
  • Virohan, saw 40% reduced CPQL with our media buying efforts at scale with high Creative Testing and end-to-end Vernacular Communication scaling for different regions

Digital Marketing Strategist and Analyst Intern

Basket N
Remote
06.2020 - 09.2025
  • Handling Digital Marketing and Business Analytics(Social Media and Analytics)At BasketN (Intially a delivery app for grocery layter converted to retail cart automation) using Google Analytics and preparing SEO , SEM, Marketing Strategy and Data representation for the Business.
  • Led UX to redesign app pages, diversify strategies and revitalize social media presence.
  • Monitored online trends, conversations and innovations to grow social handles
  • Conducted user interviews, user testing and analyzed existing applications analytics to determine gaps in features and usability of the App
  • Drawing Insights from Google Analytics, Excel & Keyword Planner
  • Data Collection and Visualization using Google Forms and Tableau respectively

Technical Support Analyst

Teleperformance (Adobe)
Gurgaon
03.2019 - 03.2020
  • Conducted training sessions for customers on new technologies or products they purchased from us
  • Resolved escalated tickets from other team members in order to meet SLA commitments
  • Helped maintain B2B and B2C relationships for Adobe
  • Handled Technical Support Analytics for Enterprise accounts
  • Escalating and Resolving Tech-related Issues
  • Collaborating with the Software Development Team of each product
  • Monitoring and Quality checking the Technical Support Team on Enterprise Accounts

Education

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (M.B.A.) - BUSINESS ANALYTICS

BITS Pilani
Hyderabad
01.2022 - 01.2024

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Lucknow
08.2014 - 06.2018

Skills

  • Branding
  • Performance Marketing
  • Creative Strategy
  • Influencer marketing
  • Retention Marketing
  • User Acquisition
  • Marketplace Advertising
  • Data Analytics & Visualization
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • Affiliate marketing
  • DSPs/Native Ads
  • Team Leadership
  • People Skills
  • Team collaboration
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Business Intelligence
  • Media Buying
  • Presentation Skills
  • Crisis Management
  • Web analytics
  • P&L management
  • Social Media Marketing
  • MarTech Tools Management (GTM, GMC, GA, MMPs & CRMs)
  • Go-to-market Strategy Development
  • Brand-building strategies
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross Functional Team Collaboration
  • Web/App Analysis (Firebase, Appsflyer, Branch, Singular, GA, Clarity, Hotjar etc)
  • Landing Page Optimization
  • Cross Channel Marketing
  • Product Management
  • Problem Solving Attitude
  • Out of the Box Thinker
  • Deep thoughts & Insights

Software

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Snapchat Ads

Twitter Ads

LinkedIn Ads

Quora Ads

Bing Ads

Apple Search Ads

Google Analytics

Moengage

Clevertap

Google Tag Manager

Google Merchant Centre

Appsflyer

Branch

Adjust

Zoho

Hotjar

Clarity

Tableau

Looker Studio

Amplitude

WebEngage

Trello

Slack

AI Tools

Vercel

Wordpress

Mailchimp

Hubspot

Canva

Notion

WhatsApp Business

Quick Commerce Ads

Amazon Ads

Spreadsheets

Singular

Mixpanel

Programmatic Ads

Criteo

Taboola

Telegram Ads

Supermetrics

Easyinsights

Microsoft Teams

Google Search Console

Hootsuite

Zapier

Spotify Ads

MyGate Ads

Gpay, PhonePe & PayTm Ads

OEMs (Inmobi, Glance)

DSPs (Affle, RevX, Personaly, Icubes, MediaMath etc)

Certification

  • AI Powered Performance Ads Certification - Google
  • Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) - Google
  • Advanced Google Analytics- Google.
  • Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification– Tableau
  • Snapchat Advertising Core Competencies Certification – Snapchat Ad Manager.
  • Twitter Flight School Badge – Twitter Flight School
  • Bing Ads Accredited Professional - Microsoft
  • LinkedIn Advertising Core Certification – LinkedIn Learning
  • 410-101 : Meta Certified Media Buying & Planning Professional
  • Google Ads Certification for all Campaign Types
  • Generative AI for Educators - Google

Languages

  • Hindi, Native
  • English, Fluent

Interests

Spirituality

New Innovations in Science & Tech

Exploring Nature

Psychology

Food

Gaming

Sports

Movies & Documentaries

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Company CultureCareer advancementWork-life balance

Quote

"I don’t just think outside the box—I build a new one"
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Vasu NarayanDigital Marketing Leader