Digital Marketing Specialist · Senior · 10+ yrs
Meghna Raghunathan
Head of Growth / Marketing Lead
Professional summary
Growth and digital marketing leader with 11 years building multi-channel engines across SEO, SEM, Google Ads, Meta Ads, content marketing and lifecycle email. Sets marketing strategy, leads teams of 12–20, and owns multi-crore budgets tied directly to pipeline and revenue. Built data-driven growth orgs from scratch — GA4 to attribution to conversion optimization — that took companies from seed traffic to category leadership, and grows marketers into leads.
6x
Monthly signups scaled
₹14Cr
Annual budget owned
18
Marketers led
Skills
Leadership
Growth channels
Analytics & CRO
Stack
Work experience
Head of Growth Marketing · Verdara (Series C fintech)
Mar 2019 – PresentBengaluru
- Lead a 18-person growth org across paid, SEO, content and lifecycle, owning a ₹14 crore annual budget tied to a ₹220 crore revenue target.
- Built the multi-channel growth engine that scaled monthly signups 6x in three years while improving blended CAC payback from 14 to 8 months.
- Set the SEO and content marketing strategy that grew organic to 2.1M monthly sessions and now sources 41% of pipeline at near-zero marginal cost.
- Restructured Google Ads and Meta Ads accounts and introduced attribution modelling in GA4, lifting marketing-sourced pipeline 58% on flat spend.
- Hired 12 marketers and grew 5 into channel-lead roles; established the experimentation and analytics culture used company-wide.
Digital Marketing Manager · Trailmark Commerce
Jul 2015 – Feb 2019Chennai
- Led a team of 7 across SEM, SEO and email for a D2C marketplace, scaling annual revenue from ₹40 crore to ₹110 crore.
- Launched a conversion optimization program (GA4 + A/B testing) that raised site conversion rate 36% over two years.
SEO & Performance Specialist · Earlier roles — Webchutney, Dentsu
2013 – 2015India
- Ran SEO, Google Ads and analytics for retail and BFSI clients; promoted twice for campaign performance and client growth.
Education
PGDM — Marketing
2013T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal
B.Com
2011Stella Maris College, Chennai
Certifications
Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GA4)
Google Skillshop · 2023
Meta Certified Marketing Science Professional
Meta Blueprint · 2022
Selected achievements
Scaled monthly signups 6x in three years while cutting CAC payback from 14 to 8 months.
Grew organic to 2.1M monthly sessions, now sourcing 41% of pipeline at near-zero marginal cost.
Speaker, GrowthX Summit 2024 — "Attribution that survives the boardroom: GA4 to revenue."
Mentors growth marketers through a women-in-marketing fellowship; advises 2 early-stage D2C brands on go-to-market.
See the work in 3D
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