AVP – Marketing

About AppMaker (by StarApps)

We don’t just build apps; we build massive revenue channels for the world's most exciting brands.

AppMaker is a top-tier, zero-code mobile app builder for Shopify merchants. We empower brands to create stunning, high-performance native iOS and Android apps that drive real growth. We are the trusted engine behind the mobile commerce success of industry leaders and iconic global and Indian brands, including Levi’s, Jockey, XYXX, Rare Rabbit, Supertails, Kalki, and many more.

The Opportunity

The mobile app market is growing at an unprecedented pace, and with $1M ARR, AppMaker is positioned extremely well as a proven leader in this category. We are now looking for a creative, data-obsessed, and AI-native marketer to help us scale our demand generation, expand our global footprint, and elevate our brand presence to the next level.

If you love the intersection of SaaS, e-commerce, and cutting-edge tech, this is your playground.

What You’ll Drive

A. Business Growth & Global Expansion

• Drive International Demand: Execute targeted campaigns to systematically increase demos and pipeline velocity in the North American market.
• Foundation SEO & Ads: Take ownership of our digital foundation by focusing heavily on high-intent SEO and paid ad strategies to drive consistent inbound growth.
• Multi-Channel Execution: Design and optimize high-converting campaigns across email, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and newsletters.

B. Brand & Community Curation

• Curate Events for B2C Brands: Design, organize, and execute high-impact experiential events tailored for leading B2C and D2C brands.
• Curate Podcasts: Host and curate insightful podcast properties that bring together industry leaders, innovators, and thinkers.
• Curate Social Media Strategy: Build and execute a comprehensive, high-engagement social media strategy to position Appmaker as a thought leader.

Who You Are

• Experienced in the Space: You have 1–4 years of marketing experience, ideally in SaaS.
• AI-Native: You actively use AI tools to multiply your output and optimize your marketing workflows.
• An Experimenter at Heart: You aren't afraid to test new channels, scale what works, and pivot fast based on data.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Deep knowledge or prior experience within the Shopify ecosystem.
• Experience building highly automated AI outbound workflows.

Why Join Us?

At AppMaker, you will be at the forefront of the mobile commerce revolution, working from our Pune office with a fast-moving, innovative team. You’ll get the creative freedom to test bold ideas, the resources to capture the global market, and the opportunity to grow your career alongside a rapidly scaling global SaaS product.

Ready to build the future of mobile commerce? Apply now.

Develop and execute marketing strategies aligned with business objectives.

Plan and manage digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels.

Manage SEO, SEM, social media, email marketing, and content marketing activities.

Develop strategies to increase website traffic, leads, and conversions.

Manage social media presence across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and other relevant platforms.

Coordinate the creation of marketing content, advertisements, landing pages, and promotional materials.

Conduct market and competitor research to identify trends and opportunities.

Plan and execute lead-generation campaigns.

Monitor campaign performance and optimize marketing activities based on data.

Track key metrics including website traffic, leads, conversion rates, engagement, CAC, and ROI.

Collaborate with sales, product, design, and other teams.

Manage marketing budgets and ensure effective allocation of resources.

Build and maintain brand consistency across marketing channels.

Prepare regular marketing performance reports for management.

About Starbond

Starbond is a growing direct-to-consumer brand focused on delivering high-quality products and an excellent customer experience. We are looking for a hands-on Marketing Manager who can turn data, customer insights, and strong execution into profitable growth.

About the Role

The Marketing Manager will own Starbond’s direct-to-consumer growth engine across paid acquisition, retention, lifecycle marketing, content, SEO, answer engine optimization (AEO), social media, conversion optimization, and agency performance. This role requires a strong command of unit economics—including customer lifetime value (LTV), customer acquisition cost (CAC), CAC payback period, gross margin, and contribution margin—and the ability to convert these metrics into sound growth decisions.

You will directly manage marketing agencies across Meta, Google, email, and AEO while leading the internal Marketing team, setting clear performance standards, and giving the CEO timely visibility into results, risks, and recommended actions.

Key Responsibilities

DTC Growth and Customer Acquisition

• Develop and lead the DTC acquisition strategy across Meta Ads, Google Ads, Shopify, email, SEO, social media, Amazon alignment, and other relevant channels.
• Manage marketing for profitable growth—not revenue or ROAS alone—by incorporating product margin, contribution margin, retention, and customer quality into decisions.
• Establish acceptable CAC thresholds by product, customer segment, campaign, and channel, and recommend when to scale, restructure, reduce, or discontinue investment.
• Align advertising, creative, landing pages, offers, product positioning, inventory availability, and operational readiness.

LTV, Retention, and Lifecycle Marketing

• Maintain a clear and consistent LTV methodology using customer revenue, purchase frequency, retention, gross margin or contribution margin, and cohort data.
• Analyze LTV and retention by acquisition source, product, cohort, and customer segment, and use the findings to improve channel and offer decisions.
• Lead strategies that improve repeat purchase rate, purchase frequency, average order value, cross-sell, replenishment, retention, and win-back performance.
• Oversee email and lifecycle marketing quality, segmentation, deliverability, revenue contribution, and customer communication accuracy.

Paid Advertising and Conversion

• Oversee paid media strategy, budget pacing, campaign structure, audience strategy, creative testing, attribution, and landing-page performance.
• Establish clear testing, scaling, optimization, and stop-loss rules, and require decisions to be supported by sufficient data and financial context.
• Review performance at the channel, campaign, audience, creative, product, and cohort levels.
• Partner with the Web Developer on Shopify priorities, site performance, conversion rate optimization, tracking, and quality assurance.

Agency and Vendor Management

• Directly manage marketing agencies across Meta, Google, email, and AEO, including scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, communication standards, SLAs, KPIs, reporting, ownership, and escalation procedures.
• Use agency scorecards and recurring performance reviews to track KPI attainment, SLA compliance, output quality, timeliness, efficiency, and business results.
• Require root-cause analysis and time-bound corrective action plans for missed targets, SLA breaches, quality issues, reporting gaps, or inefficient spend.
• Independently validate agency recommendations and recommend contract expansion, renegotiation, reduction, replacement, or termination when appropriate.
• Ensure Starbond retains access to and ownership of advertising accounts, data, dashboards, creative files, documentation, and intellectual property.

Content, Creative, and Brand

• Maintain an active content and creative pipeline supported by clear briefs, owners, deadlines, QA standards, and success metrics.
• Ensure reliable content-production support is available when external resources are required.
• Create a structured process for testing creative concepts, hooks, formats, messages, offers, and calls to action.
• Protect product positioning and perceived value by avoiding excessive reliance on discounting and ensuring marketing claims are accurate and supportable.
• Ensure approved assets are properly named, organized, and stored in company-owned systems.

Team Leadership, Process, and Reporting

• Lead the internal Marketing team by setting clear responsibilities, deadlines, quality standards, KPIs, communication expectations, and individual performance targets.
• Conduct regular coaching, one-on-ones, performance reviews, and accountability conversations; identify skill gaps and coordinate development or corrective action with HR.
• Make timely recommendations regarding training, role clarity, workload changes, reassignment, or other performance actions when standards are not met.
• Create and maintain marketing processes, approval flows, reporting definitions, campaign documentation, and quality-control systems.
• Maintain a weekly marketing scorecard that distinguishes leading and lagging indicators and explains what changed, why it changed, and what action is required.
• Proactively escalate material risks and present concise, financially grounded recommendations to the CEO.

What Success Looks Like

• Marketing data, forecasts, campaign reports, creative briefs, and recommendations are accurate, validated, and financially grounded.
• Campaigns, agency deliverables, reports, corrective actions, and launches are completed on time, with blockers escalated early.CAC, LTV, LTV:CAC, MER, ROAS, contribution margin, retention, and cohort performance are consistently defined and used to guide decisions.
• Marketing investment produces profitable customer growth, stronger retention, faster learning, higher-quality execution, and stronger brand protection.
• The Marketing team and external agencies operate with clear ownership, measurable standards, and consistent accountability.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading DTC or e-commerce marketing across paid acquisition, retention, lifecycle marketing, content, and conversion optimization.
• Strong working knowledge of CAC, LTV, LTV:CAC, MER, ROAS, contribution margin, retention, cohort analysis, and marketing attribution.
• Experience managing Meta Ads, Google Ads, email marketing, SEO, AEO, Shopify, and agency partners.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and make channel decisions based on profitability and customer quality.
• Experience leading and developing marketing team members, setting KPIs, and managing performance.
• Strong analytical judgment with the ability to challenge assumptions, validate agency recommendations, and translate data into clear actions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a proactive and concise reporting style.
• Highly organized, accountable, and comfortable working in a remote, fast-moving environment.

Growth Marketing Manager — Enterprise

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are an enterprise AI company selling to large, regulated businesses with long sales cycles and multi-person buying committees. Marketing here runs on named accounts rather than broad campaigns, and every claim we make carries a number behind it.

This role owns the execution engine underneath that: demand generation, the marketing technology stack, performance marketing, search and answer-engine visibility, developer and customer marketing, and the reporting that proves any of it worked. It is a hands-on role in a small team — you build these systems yourself.

WHAT YOU WILL DO?

• Demand generation inside account plays. Build and ship the landing pages, sequences, personalised outreach and targeted social that account-based plays require, against a single list shared with sales.
• Own the martech stack end to end. CMS and hosting, GA4 and Tag Manager, CRM and marketing automation, attribution, SEO tooling and dashboards — selection, configuration, integration, access and cost.
• Website operations and technical SEO. Site and landing page builds, architecture, structured data, redirects, page speed, indexation.
• SEO and AEO. Own organic visibility, and build the tracking for how often we appear in AI-generated answers to buyer questions. This part has no established playbook.
• Performance marketing. Paid social to named buying-committee roles, retargeting and paid search — small budgets, tight tests, honest reporting.
• Developer marketing. Run the developer-facing surface with engineering — documentation and sandbox operations, sample repositories, technical content programming, developer events and hackathon presence, and adoption measurement.
• Customer marketing. Own the reference programme with sales — case studies, verified reviews on marketplaces andreview platforms, logo permissions, advocacy and reference calls.
• Events and community. Executive dinners, conferences, sponsorships and an invitation-only practitioner circle — logistics, follow-up and attributed pipeline.
• Reporting. One dashboard, one source of truth, reported weekly on pipeline influenced and accounts moved rather than lead volume.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

• 3–4 years in growth marketing, demand generation or marketing operations. Early-stage startup experience strongly preferred someone who has built a function, not inherited one that already ran.
• Hands-on across a modern martech stack — you have configured analytics and tag management, built automation workflows and shipped CMS pages yourself. We care that you have wired tools together, not which brands you used.
• Real technical SEO ability — audits, structured data, internal linking, redirect strategy, and confident use of crawl and keyword tools.
• Performance marketing you ran personally, with a view on what small B2B budgets can and cannot buy.
• Strong with spreadsheets, dashboards and light no-code automation. SQL is a bonus, not a filter.
• Comfortable with technical audiences and with customers — you can brief engineers on developer content, and ask a live customer for a case study or a review without flinching.
• Clear written English, and the judgement to start from context rather than a brief.
• Willing to be measured on pipeline influenced.

BONUS POINTS

• B2B enterprise or regulated-industry experience
• Account-based marketing
• Developer marketing or technical community work
• An informed opinion on how large language models surface brands
• Enough HTML and CSS to unblock yourself
• Exposure to both Indian and international markets.
• Apply with a page you shipped end to end, a dashboard you built, and one campaign that did not work and what you changed because of it.

We are looking for a B2B Growth & Digital Marketing Executive to help build Surpluss into a global B2B brand and marketplace.

This is a hands-on growth role, not a traditional social media marketing position. You will be responsible for generating qualified B2B leads, building acquisition channels, running digital campaigns, developing content, improving SEO and inbound traffic, and working closely with Sales and Procurement to convert marketing activity into business opportunities.

What you'll own

• B2B lead generation and demand generation
• LinkedIn growth and lead generation
• Google, Meta and LinkedIn advertising
• SEO and inbound acquisition
• Email marketing and lead nurturing
• Content and thought leadership
• Landing pages and conversion optimisation
• CRM and marketing automation
• Campaign analytics and reporting
• Global market and competitor research
• AI-powered marketing and automation

Who we're looking for

We are looking for someone who is commercially minded, analytical and hands-on.

You should be comfortable taking a campaign from idea → execution → lead generation → measurement → optimisation.

Candidates with experience in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, technology, industrial, supply-chain, logistics, procurement or other B2B businesses will be preferred.

Experience generating qualified leads, rather than simply increasing social-media engagement or followers, is highly valued.

About the Role

We are looking for a creative and result-oriented Marketing Manager to lead brand-building initiatives and execute marketing campaigns that drive customer engagement and business growth. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across both offline and digital marketing while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and strengthen the brand across retail and digital channels.
• Plan and execute marketing campaigns to increase brand awareness and customer engagement.
• Create cost-effective marketing initiatives that deliver measurable results.
• Drive marketing activities that contribute to retail sales growth.
• Manage the brand's social media and digital presence, including content planning and campaign execution.
• Track campaign performance, analyze ROI, and optimize marketing efforts.
• Coordinate with sales, retail, and design teams to ensure successful campaign execution.
• Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and customer preferences to identify new opportunities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2–5 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, or a related field.
• Experience in retail, fashion, or consumer brands is preferred.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing and social media platforms.
• Ability to plan and execute campaigns within budget.
• Analytical mindset with experience measuring campaign performance.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and project management skills.
• Self-motivated, creative, and proactive approach to problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Graduate or Postgraduate in Marketing, Business Administration, Mass Communication, or a related field.

What We're Looking For

• A creative thinker with fresh ideas.
• Someone who can balance brand-building with business objectives.
• A collaborative professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.

Experience: 2–5 Years

Schedule: Monday to Friday (5 Days Working)

Employment Type: Full-time

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is a leading AI-native mobile application security platform trusted by enterprises around the world. Recognized by Gartner and G2, Appknox helps organizations secure mobile applications throughout their lifecycle through automated security testing, continuous monitoring, and actionable intelligence.

Headquartered in Singapore with engineering based in Bengaluru, Appknox serves customers across North America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Japan, and India. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, governments, financial institutions, and digital-first enterprises that rely on Appknox to secure their mobile ecosystem.

We are a profitable, fast-growing B2B SaaS company with a highly collaborative culture and ambitious plans to shape the future of application security in the AI era.

About The Role

Application security is undergoing a fundamental shift. AI is changing how software gets built, how vulnerabilities emerge, how security teams investigate and prioritise risk, and how enterprise buyers discover and evaluate security platforms.

Appknox has spent more than a decade building deep expertise in mobile application security. Our next chapter requires us to evolve both what Appknox stands for and how effectively we take that story to market.

We are looking for a hands-on Lead for GTM Marketing to translate Appknox’s product, positioning and business priorities into integrated go-to-market programmes that create awareness, engagement and pipeline.

You will lead the GTM marketing team and own demand generation, campaigns, ABM, website and conversion, organic discovery, content activation, field marketing and events. You will work as a peer to Product Marketing, partnering closely with Sales, Product and leadership to connect market strategy with disciplined execution.

This is not a role for someone who only manages agencies, runs isolated campaigns or waits to receive briefs. You will help determine where marketing should focus, challenge assumptions, build the operating plan, develop the team and remain close enough to execution to maintain a high quality bar.

What You Will Own

1. GTM strategy 

Translate Appknox’s product, positioning and revenue priorities into a focused GTM strategy, operating plan and measurable goals.

For each significant opportunity, help answer:

Who are we trying to influence? What problem matters to them? What do we want them to believe? What should we take to market? Through which channels? What commercial outcome should it create?

You will:

• Lead and develop the GTM marketing team, creating clarity around priorities, ownership, quality and performance.
• Build quarterly and annual GTM plans aligned with company, product and regional revenue priorities.
• Prioritise across markets, audiences, channels and opportunities rather than allowing every request to become a campaign.
• Manage relevant budgets, agencies and specialist partners.
• Establish clear operating rhythms across GTM Marketing, Product Marketing, Sales and Product.

2. Demand Generation and Integrated Campaigns

Build integrated programmes that create qualified demand and contribute meaningfully to pipeline.

You will:

• Own marketing-sourced and marketing-influenced pipeline targets, measurement and review rhythms.
• Design programmes across inbound, paid, organic, content, webinars, retargeting and emerging acquisition channels.
• Connect campaigns to defined audiences, customer problems, offers, conversion paths and commercial outcomes.
• Diagnose funnel performance and work with Sales and revenue operations to improve conversion.
• Identify successful GTM plays that can be repeated and scaled.

Success will be measured through qualified engagement, opportunity creation and progression, pipeline contribution and conversion-not campaign activity alone.

3. Account-Based and Segment GTM

Partner with Sales and Product Marketing to build focused programmes for priority accounts, industries, personas and regions.

You will:

• Identify segments and accounts where focused marketing can create disproportionate impact.
• Understand buying committees, account-level triggers and market-specific context.
• Work with Product Marketing to develop relevant narratives by segment and buyer.
• Design integrated ABM programmes, offers, landing experiences and content.
• Coordinate marketing engagement with SDR and sales outreach.
• Track account engagement, opportunity creation and progression.

At Appknox, ABM should combine account insight, buying committee, customer problem, narrative, offer and sales motion-not simply apply advertising to an account list.

4. Website, Organic Discovery and Conversion

Transform Appknox.com into an active GTM and experimentation engine.

You will own or drive:

• Information architecture and messaging activation.
• Product, use-case, industry, persona, regional and competitive pages.
• Campaign landing experiences and conversion paths.
• Website experimentation and performance measurement.
• SEO and evolving AI-led discovery across platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

You will develop a measurement system connecting discoverability, relevance, engagement, conversion and pipeline. Traffic, rankings and AI mentions alone are not success.

5. Product Launches and Market Activation

Partner with Product Marketing and Product to take new capabilities and products to market.

Product Marketing will lead customer insight, ICP definition, positioning, competitive differentiation and product narrative. You will lead GTM planning and activation across campaigns, website, content, distribution, organic discovery, sales activation, field programmes and amplification.

This is not a downstream handoff. You will participate in launch strategy, contribute market and performance insight, and help test whether the positioning works when exposed to buyers.

6. Content and Thought Leadership

Lead the GTM content agenda and the team responsible for bringing it to life.

You will:

• Determine what Appknox should talk about based on customer problems, market shifts, buyer demand and the company’s strategic point of view.
• Guide the development of category narratives, research-led content, technical thought leadership, competitive content, executive communications and campaign assets.
• Build content distribution into every major initiative rather than treating publication as the finish line.
• Maintain a consistently high standard of clarity, substance and differentiation.

Every significant content investment should answer: Who are we trying to influence? What belief are we trying to change? What should happen after they consume it?

7. Field Marketing and Events

Own the GTM strategy and marketing execution for priority industry events, executive programmes, regional activations and field initiatives.

You will:

• Select and prioritise events based on target audiences, market objectives and commercial potential.
• Build pre-event, onsite and post-event motions with Sales.
• Develop programmes that create meetings, progress target accounts and deepen customer and partner relationships.
• Establish consistent measurement for event-sourced and event-influenced pipeline.
• Balance global consistency with the realities of different regions and sales motions.

8. Market Intelligence and Experimentation

Work with Product Marketing to continuously monitor competitor positioning, market narratives, buyer behaviour, campaign signals, organic discovery and emerging security themes.

Product Marketing will lead the strategic implications for positioning and product. You will ensure relevant market and performance signals translate rapidly into GTM action.

Work Expectations

First 60 days

• Understand Appknox’s market, customers, product portfolio, team, current GTM programmes, website funnel, organic presence and competitive landscape.
• Establish performance baselines and clarify team ownership and operating rhythms.
• Identify the three to five highest-leverage GTM opportunities or leaks.
• Build the initial GTM and experimentation roadmap.

Within 90 days

• Ship meaningful website, campaign or conversion improvements.
• Launch the first focused account or segment programmes with Sales.
• Improve the speed at which narratives, campaigns and landing experiences reach the market.
• Establish practical measurement connecting marketing programmes to qualified engagement, opportunities and pipeline.
• Create clearer briefs, priorities and performance expectations for the GTM marketing team.

Within 6 months

• Stronger market association between Appknox and the strategic application-security themes it chooses to own.
• Improved qualified organic engagement and conversion.
• One or two repeatable account, segment or regional GTM plays.
• Faster and more disciplined website and campaign experimentation.
• Better coordination across GTM Marketing, Product Marketing, Sales and Product.
• Clearer visibility into which channels, narratives and programmes influence pipeline.
• A repeatable system for taking new products and market narratives to market.

Personality Traits We Admire

• Strategic thinker with strong execution skills.
• Curious, commercially minded, and customer obsessed.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-moving environments.
• Strong collaborator who can influence cross-functional teams.
• Excited by AI and emerging technologies.
• Eager to build and grow with the company over the long term.

What We Are Looking For

• 7–10 years of B2B SaaS marketing experience, ideally within technical SaaS, cybersecurity or enterprise software.
• Experience leading or managing a marketing team, with the ability to set direction, develop people and maintain a strong execution bar.
• Demonstrated ownership of integrated GTM programmes and measurable pipeline outcomes.
• Strong understanding of product positioning and messaging, with the ability to turn strategy into market-facing activation.
• Experience working closely with Sales on demand generation, ABM, field marketing or regional programmes.
• Strong digital and website fundamentals, including conversion optimisation and organic discovery. Familiarity with AEO and GEO is valuable, but deep SEO specialisation is not required.
• Ability to understand technically complex products and simplify them without losing substance.
• Strong analytical capability and a desire to understand why a metric moved—not simply report that it did.
• Excellent writing, storytelling and communication skills.
• Ability to move between strategic thinking, team leadership and hands-on execution.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, making trade-offs and building systems where none currently exist.
• Low ego, high ownership and the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.

Interview Process

Round 1: Hiring Manager

Round 2: Functional Case Study

Round 3: Marketing + Sales Panel

Round 4: Co-founder Discussion

Round 5: HR Discussion

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation and ESOP opportunities.
• Flexible work environment.
• Comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families.
• Opportunity to work with global customers and cutting-edge AI and cybersecurity technologies.

Why Join Appknox?

Ownership and Impact

Shape how a global cybersecurity company is positioned in the market and influence strategic decisions across the business.

Growth Opportunity

This role offers a clear path toward building and leading the product marketing function as Appknox scales.

High Visibility

Work closely with company leadership and collaborate across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success.

Continuous Learning

We believe in experimentation, curiosity, and helping people grow beyond their current role.

CraftMyPlate is a Hyderabad-based platform for micro-events: house parties, birthdays, office celebrations, and small gatherings. One thing hasn't changed since day one. Every order comes from someone making a specific, personal decision: this occasion, this many people, this budget, this date. We win by understanding that decision better than anyone else does.

We are now investing in the systems (data, growth, and eventually AI-driven automation) that let us make that same quality of decision at scale, without needing to grow headcount just to keep up. That investment is partly backed by funding we recently brought in, but the funding is not the story. It simply means we can now hire someone senior enough to own this problem properly, instead of solving it in pieces.

If you join now, you are not joining a company that has already figured everything out and just needs someone to run the machine. You are joining at the point where the machine is still being designed. What you build in the next year will still be the foundation two years from now.

About the Role

We are hiring a Growth Lead to own two things at once: how many people know about us, and how much revenue that awareness turns into. Not one or the other. Both, as a single connected number.

Here is what makes this role different from most growth roles you have seen: the infrastructure is already built. Tracking, attribution, and engagement systems are already in place and working. Our content and performance teams already execute well within the current playbook. You are not being hired to set any of that up. You are being hired to direct it and extract return from it.

That means your job is judgment, not motion. You decide which channels get more budget and which get cut. You decide what message goes to which segment. You decide what "working" means, and you prove it with numbers, not activity. The team executes. You are accountable for the return.

We need someone who has done this before, at a company where marketing spend had to answer to revenue, not just to reach. Someone who can point to a previous role and say plainly: this is what we spent, this is what we made back, and this is what I specifically changed to move that number.

What "Good" Looks Like (Market Standard)

This is not a vague "be strategic" ask. In most growth-stage consumer companies, a Growth Lead's performance is judged against a small set of hard numbers. We expect the same here:

• Return on ad spend (ROAS) or marketing efficiency ratio (MER) improving quarter over quarter across paid channels, not just held flat
• CAC to LTV ratio healthy enough to support scaling spend, not just acquiring volume (a commonly cited industry bar is a ratio meaningfully above 1:3, CAC to LTV)
• CAC payback period short enough that growth doesn't starve cash flow
• Blended revenue attributable to marketing-led channels, tracked and defended, not assumed
• A steady pace of new channel or approach tests per quarter, with a clear kill or scale decision made on each one, not experiments left to run forever without a verdict

If these terms are unfamiliar to you or you have never been held to them, this is probably not the right role yet. If you already think in these terms by habit, this role gives you the platform to prove it at a larger scale.

What You'll Own

• Awareness and reach across channels: Grow how many of the right people know about us, across paid, organic, and content channels, without confusing reach for revenue
• Revenue and ROI: Own the return on every rupee spent across channels. You inherit working tracking systems (CleverTap, AppsFlyer, Mixpanel); your job is to use them to make better spend decisions, not to build or maintain them
• Segmentation strategy: Build and keep refining how we segment customers by occasion type, guest count, budget band, and lead time to event. Turn that into distinct messaging and targeting for each segment, not one-size-fits-all campaigns
• Growth and channel scaling: Identify, test, and scale marketing channels and approaches beyond what we currently run, with a clear view of what each one returns
• Team direction: Directly lead our content and performance marketing team. You set the direction and the bar. They execute against it. You are not doing their job for them, and you are not letting them run without direction either
• Reporting: Give the founders and CMO clear, ROI-level visibility. What is working, what isn't, what you are cutting, and what you are doubling down on, and why

Required Skills & Background

• A proven, quantifiable track record of improving marketing ROI at a previous company, across more than one channel, not just optimizing a single ad account. Able to state clearly what the return was before, what it became, and what they specifically did to move it.
• 5 to 8 years in marketing, with real time spent owning revenue and channel-level ROI, not just campaign execution
• Experience running and defending a multi-channel budget: knowing when to shift spend between awareness and performance channels based on what the numbers say
• Strong quantitative fluency. Comfortable reading cohort, retention, and attribution data (from tools like CleverTap, AppsFlyer, and Mixpanel) and turning it into a spend or strategy decision, without needing to build the pipelines themselves
• Demonstrated experience building segmentation-led marketing strategy. Able to show, concretely, how they tailored messaging to distinct customer segments in a past role
• Experience managing a team (content and/or performance). This role leads people, not just plans
• Tier-1 educational background (top B-school, or a top engineering institute with demonstrated growth ownership). Exceptions made for candidates with a clearly exceptional track record
• Consumer internet, D2C, e-commerce, or marketplace background strongly preferred. Extra credit for a business with real customer-segment diversity, not a single-SKU product

Good to Have

• Experience marketing a business where the customer's decision changes a lot by occasion, timing, or budget (events, travel, gifting, weddings)
• Experience balancing brand/awareness spend against direct-response spend, and defending that split with numbers
• Prior experience at an early-stage startup where they built the growth function rather than inheriting one
• Hands-on comfort reviewing ad creative and content briefs, even if they are not writing them personally

What We Offer

• Direct ownership of the marketing function, reporting to the founders and CMO
• Working infrastructure from day one: tracking, attribution, and engagement systems are already built, so you spend your time on strategy and ROI, not setup
• Competitive pay, with ESOP and ownership options so your upside grows with the company's
• A team that already executes well. Your job is to point it in the right direction, not build it from zero
• Real accountability: revenue and ROI, not vanity metrics
• Fast growth and more scope as the company scales

Location: Pune 

Work Mode: Work from Office 

Experience: 2-3 Years 

Working Days: Monday to Friday 

Industry: IT Services & Consulting 

About Baxture 

Baxture is an IT consulting and technology services company helping businesses build, modernize, and scale digital products and software solutions. Our capabilities span Custom Software Development, Product Engineering, UI/UX, QA, DevOps, Cloud, AI-powered solutions, and Software Support & Maintenance. 

We work across multiple industries and combine technology, engineering expertise, and business understanding to solve real-world challenges. 

About the Role 

We are looking for a self-driven Marketing Associate who can combine digital marketing, content creation, SEO, and sales enablement to strengthen Baxture’s digital presence. 

This role is ideal for someone who understands the IT services industry, enjoys creating content around technology and business, and can independently take ownership of marketing initiatives from planning and creation to execution and performance analysis. 

What You’ll Do 

SEO & Website Growth 

• Conduct keyword research and identify opportunities to improve Google search visibility. 
• Create and optimize website pages, landing pages, blogs, and SEO-focused content. 
• Use Google Analytics and search performance insights to understand traffic and improve website visibility. 
• Identify content gaps and opportunities for organic growth. 

Content & Social Media 

• Research and write blogs, thought leadership content, website copy, and technology-focused content. 
• Create engaging content for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X. 
• Repurpose blogs and long-form content into social posts, carousels, newsletters, and other formats. 
• Build and own the marketing and social media content calendar. 

Sales Enablement & Campaigns 

• Create white papers, newsletters, brochures, flyers, sales decks, pitches, one-pagers, conference announcements, and reusable marketing templates. 
• Plan and execute email marketing campaigns using Brevo. 
• Work with sales teams to create content that supports business development. 

Stakeholder Collaboration 

• Work directly with founders, leadership, sales, project managers, designers, and technical teams. 
• Understand business objectives and translate them into actionable marketing plans. 
• Work with internal subject matter experts to turn technical knowledge and project insights into compelling content. 

AI & Creative Tools 

• Use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Gamma, and Genspark for research, ideation, content creation, and presentations. 
• Evaluate, fact-check, and refine AI-generated content rather than relying on raw outputs. 
• Have basic proficiency in Figma and a good understanding of visual communication. 
• Create visual concepts and AI-generated references that can be effectively communicated to designers. 

What We’re Looking For 

• 2–3 years of experience in digital marketing, content marketing, or a similar role. 
• Previous experience in IT services, IT consulting, software development, SaaS, or product engineering. 
• Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company is preferred. 
• Experience creating content for the US market or US-focused businesses is preferred. 
• Good understanding of IT services such as Software Development, Product Engineering, UI/UX, QA, DevOps, Cloud, AI, and Automation. 
• Hands-on understanding of SEO, keyword research, content marketing, social media, email marketing, and analytics. 
• Strong writing, research, communication, and storytelling skills. 
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and work independently. 
• Portfolio or work samples are required. Please include a portfolio link in your CV or attach samples of blogs, website content, social media campaigns, newsletters, sales collateral, or other relevant marketing work when applying. 

Good to Have 

• Hands-on experience with paid digital marketing, including Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Meta Ads, or other performance marketing platforms. 
• Understanding of campaign targeting, lead generation, conversion tracking, and paid campaign performance metrics. 

What We Value 

We are looking for someone who owns the content, not just the task. 

You should be curious enough to identify opportunities, confident enough to ask questions, creative enough to develop new ideas, and self-driven enough to take them from concept to execution without waiting for the next task to be assigned. 

Why Join Baxture? 

• Work across multiple domains: Gain exposure to different industries, technologies, products, and business challenges. 
• Join a young, growing team: Work in an environment where new ideas are encouraged and individual contributions are visible. 
• Work closely with leadership: Collaborate directly with founders, senior leadership, sales, and technology teams. 
• Build technology marketing expertise: Create content around AI, software engineering, product development, QA, DevOps, cloud, and emerging technologies. 
• Work with modern AI tools: Make AI a practical part of your everyday marketing workflow. 
• Take real ownership: Develop ideas, build campaigns, experiment, measure results, and see the impact of your work. 

If you’re someone who doesn’t wait for the next task and enjoys turning technology, business insights, and ideas into meaningful marketing content, we’d like to hear from you. 

Job Description

Position Title: Assistant Digital Marketing Manager

Role Type: Full-time | Individual Contributor

Department: Marketing

Location

Ahmedabad, Gujarat|On-site

Job Overview

We are looking for a highly driven, analytical, and hands-on Assistant Digital Marketing Manager to lead and execute our multi-channel digital growth strategies. Operating as a core individual contributor, you will take full end-to-end ownership of lead generation, marketing campaigns, search engine & generative engine optimization (SEO/GEO), social media management and outreach initiatives.

If you are a self-starter who thrives in a data-driven environment and excels at driving marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) through impactful digital execution, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead Generation & MQL Pipeline

• Plan, execute, and optimize end-to-end multi-channel marketing campaigns focused on driving high-quality Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).
• Build and maintain lead conversion funnels, working continuously to improve lead quality, cost-per-acquisition (CPA), and pipeline conversion rates.
• Collaborate closely with sales/business development teams to align lead criteria, qualify MQLs, and refine lead-nurturing workflows.

2. Campaigns & Performance Marketing

• Directly design, set up, manage, and scale acquisition campaigns across channels (e.g., Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Meta Ads, etc.).
• Actively monitor daily campaign performance, budget utilization, and bid strategies to maximize return on ad spend (ROAS).
• Perform continuous A/B testing on ad copies, creatives, audiences, and landing page messaging to optimize click-through and conversion rates.

3. SEO & Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

• Manage on-page, off-page, and technical SEO strategies to drive sustainable organic traffic growth.
• Implement cutting-edge GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tactics to ensure brand visibility within AI-driven search environments (e.g., ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Search Generative Experience/AI Overviews).
• Perform key phrase research, content optimization, and link-building strategies.

4. Social Media Marketing & Outreach

• Own and manage organic social media channels, developing engaging visual and written content that reinforces brand authority.
• Execute targeted outbound outreach strategies (e.g., cold outreach campaigns, partnership co-marketing, and influencer/industry network connections) to broaden brand reach.
• Track engagement, reach, and conversion metrics across all social profiles.

5. Data-Driven Analytics & Reporting

• Utilize marketing analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics 4, CRM platforms, platform-native ads managers) to track and analyze campaign performance in real time.
• Build actionable weekly and monthly performance dashboards highlighting key metrics (MQL volume, CPA, CTR, ROAS, pipeline impact).
• Leverage data and performance insights to continually iterate and pivot strategies for maximum impact.

Key Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience: 3–5 years of hands-on experience in performance marketing, digital lead generation, and digital channel management.
• Hands-on Execution: Proven track record as a self-sufficient individual contributor capable of executing campaigns from scratch without agency reliance.
• Core Skills:
• Demonstrated capability in driving MQLs through paid and organic channels.
• Hands-on experience managing PPC/Paid Social campaign setups and budgeting.
• Solid understanding of traditional SEO combined with awareness/experience in GEO strategies.
• End-to-end webinar management and digital outreach experience.
• Advanced proficiency with Google Analytics (GA4), marketing automation/CRM systems (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce), and ad platforms.
• Mindset: Highly analytical, data-oriented, curious, and comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.