Deepak Kumar Verma

Deepak Kumar Verma

Growth & Monetization Leader
India
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Full-time Hybrid

About Me

Growth and digital business leader with 14+ years across fintech, banking, payments, telecom, consumer internet and capital markets. Built growth engines from zero multiple times spanning acquisition, activation, engagem…

Experience

Director MEM - Head of Marketing and Business

Tide Platforms Ltd. · Gurugram , Haryana , India
Sep 2025 - Aug 2026 · 11 months

<p>Led a 20-member Growth organisation across acquisition, engagement and loyalty.</p><p> Incubated and owned PnL of 3 categories.</p><p> Partnered with global Product, Data, Engineering, Risk and Operations teams.</p><p> Built the full-funnel growth model across eight business lines, linking acquisition, onboarding, activation, cross-sell and retention.</p><p> Increased monthly active customer share from 11% to 40% in seven months.</p><p> Grew Subscriptions ARR 4X from £250K to £1Mn in seven months.</p><p> Increased debit usage from 29% to 79% through upgrade, billing, proposition, onboarding and GTM redesign.</p><p> Incubated and scaled Bill Payments from zero to 200K monthly transactions in seven months.</p><p> Scaled Business Registrations to 17K per month.</p><p> Created an approximately £2M ARR category.</p><p> Led customer discovery and India rollout for Tide's global onboarding activation programme, homepage redesign, vernacular app and responsive web platform.</p><p> Built acquisition and partnerships across fintech platforms, affiliates, owned inventory and assisted channels.</p><p> Governed CAC, acquisition quality, onboarding and multi-product adoption.</p><p> Led Tide Assist, AI powered assistant driving personalized, in-app decisioning across payments, collections & filing.</p><p> Led a 120-member customer-engagement operation alongside the marketing team integrating CRM and IVR automation.</p>

Founder’s Office

Transformative Ventures Ltd. · Gurugram , Haryana , India
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 1 month

<p>Worked within the CEO Office on strategic priorities spanning growth, marketing, supply chain and business transformation; structured cross-functional problem diagnosis, opportunity assessment, stakeholder alignment and execution planning.</p>

AVP Marketing - CLM Head

Bharti Airtel Ltd. · Gurugram , Haryana , India
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 year 3 months

<p>Led a 14-member team and one of India's largest lifecycle ecosystems across 360Mn+ customers in Financial Services, Mobility, Wi-Fi, DTH, OTT and Payments Bank.</p><p> Delivered $120Mn monthly CLM-attributed revenue.</p><p> Created One Airtel growth & decisioning framework, unifying transactional & behavioural signals and real-time moments.</p><p> Delivered 20% higher retention.</p><p> Delivered 25% growth in high-value customers.</p><p> Delivered 8% m-o-m growth in new-service adoption.</p><p> Ran quarterly cross-sell planning.</p><p> Grew 28% q-o-q by acquiring 770K new lines.</p><p> Boosted digital acquisition share of Postpaid and Broadband to 50%.</p><p> Took financial products into assisted channels for first time through eligibility prompts in 5,000 advisor call centre and 1,600 retail outlets.</p><p> Stores delivered 3.5X conversion uplift in the first weeks.</p><p> Owned acquisition, lifecycle marketing and cross-sell across Airtel Finance ecosystem.</p><p> Reduced EMI-card CAC by approx. 40% in 3 months while maintaining volume.</p><p> Grew cross-sell for existing finance customers from 2% to 8% in 6 months.</p><p> Scaled Insta EMI Card to 176K net additions in six months.</p><p> Scaled financial-services adoption to 33%.</p><p> Scaled Payments Bank to 23%.</p><p> Authored the Thanks app strategy.</p><p> Scaled the app MAU of Xtream Play (OTT) App by 100% to 25Mn.</p><p> Scaled Airtel Thanks App by 15% to 110Mn.</p><p> Diagnosed 3.3Mn data-exhaustion events.</p><p> Delivered Data Loan – micro credit of 1GB.</p><p> Resulted in 1.5Mn new customers a month, 70% repeat, and hundred crore revenue line.</p><p> Grew distribution via Google Pay, PhonePe, Airtel store on WhatsApp, quick commerce stores and 3rd party logistics vendors.</p>

Director Marketing - Growth and CRM

Tata Neu (Tata Digital Ltd.) · Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
Sep 2020 - Mar 2024 · 3 years 6 months

<p>Built the growth and CRM function for India's first super app from zero.</p><p> Scaled to 6Mn+ monthly actives and $350Mn GMV in year one.</p><p> Scaled the team to 15 across growth, performance, CRM and analytics.</p><p> Built a cross brand P&L vertical with $210Mn of annual GMV.</p><p> Partnered with five Tata brands to monetise 150Mn+ group customers via cross-brand campaigns.</p><p> Drove store traffic and acquired 250K+ new buyers.</p><p> Owned and allocated a $12Mn annual budget across paid search, social, display, affiliate and app-install channels.</p><p> Drove 100Mn+ app visits.</p><p> Cut CAC 35% while scaling transacting customers 3X to 1.2Mn in 18 months.</p><p> Established that early visit frequency and cross-category exploration drove retention while sign-up did not.</p><p> Restructured growth strategy away from installs to down-funnel retention to grow repeat frequency 1.8X and repeat buyers 1.5X.</p><p> Led acquisition and lifecycle activation for the Tata Neu HDFC Bank co-branded credit card.</p><p> Scaled issuance past 1Mn.</p><p> Designed and enabled strategic Tata Group loyalty program - NeuPass.</p><p> Designed the tiering structure and automated lifecycle progression.</p><p> Drove a 43% lift in conversion rate.</p><p> Expanded multi-category transactors by 28%.</p><p> Designed 8 customer cohorts and 70 micro-segments.</p><p> Used propensity models and event-triggered journeys across WhatsApp, Push, SMS, RCS and Email.</p><p> Delivered 3X engagement and 10X conversion lifts.</p><p> Led CDP evaluation, selection and migration to MoEngage.</p><p> Rebuilt attribution across app and web.</p><p> Created a Power BI workbench making micro-segment performance self-serve.</p>

AVP – Debit Cards

HDFC Bank Ltd. · Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020 · 6 months

<p>Owned debit-card portfolio growth across onboarding, activation, usage, communications and customer value.</p><p> Improved card activation 5%.</p><p> Improved spend per active card 9%.</p><p> Designed the National Right Carding Program.</p><p> Improved product adoption by 10 percentage points in four months.</p>

GM – National Planning and Customer Insights

Vodafone Idea Ltd. · Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
Feb 2016 - Feb 2020 · 3 years 11 months

<p>Led customer lifecycle management for 300Mn+ users.</p><p> Used segmentation, product experimentation and commercial guardrails to increase Unlimited Pack penetration from 15% to 45%.</p><p> Increased product renewals from 60% to 80%.</p><p> Launched the “Chillar Recharge” micro-proposition.</p><p> Generated approximately ₹2Cr incremental monthly revenue.</p><p> Helped grow 4G customers from 69M to 100M in 12 months.</p><p> Ran reactivation and churn programmes at scale.</p><p> Lifted retention 25%.</p>

Business Development Manager – FII

Trust Capital Services Pvt. Ltd. · Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
May 2013 - Feb 2016 · 2 years 9 months

<ul><li>Research from different internal and external sources to understand business needs of potential investors</li><li>Onboarded and developed partnership with 40 clients like emerging market funds and pension funds across the globe</li><li>Conceptualized alternate strategic opportunities for company by exploring both demand and Supply sides of the business</li></ul>

Operations Officer

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. · Mangalore , Karnataka , India
Aug 2008 - Apr 2011 · 2 years 8 months

<ul><li>Project management, vendor management, budgeting of maintenance activities and non-plan capital budget projects</li><li>Awarded by Exec. Dir. HPCL for ideating and leading the project for Pipeline Risk Identification & Mitigation</li></ul>

Skills

Full funnel growth strategy Paid acquisition Owned acquisition Product-led acquisition Cohort analysis Personalisation Retention Cross-sell LTV Growth experimentation Funnel CRO Lifecycle marketing CRM Acquisition Activation Monetisation CAC Payback ROI P&L Market expansion Segment expansion AI Recommendation systems Decisioning Digital Marketing Omnichannel GTM Team building Collaboration Marketing Business leadership Product management Data analysis Engineering collaboration Risk management Operations management Segmentation Customer insights Product experimentation Commercial guardrails Propensity models Event-triggered journeys WhatsApp Push notifications SMS RCS Email MoEngage Power BI CDP
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