Gaurav Mishra
Brand & product strategist, obsessed with customers. Looking for senior roles in brand, marketing, growth, community, content and creative direction.
Twelve years of finding out what customers really think, then building the brand, content and community that changes it.
FITTR, H&R Block, Ketto and TransPerfect Paybooks. Research first, numbers always, and a habit of building the thing myself when nobody else will.
- Experience
- 12+ years, 2014 to now, across 5 companies
- Now
- Senior Manager, Brand & Marketing, TransPerfect Paybooks
- Looking for
- Senior manager, lead or head roles in brand, marketing, growth, community, content or creative direction
- Team
- Hired 16 at FITTR inside a 30-person marketing function; managed 50+ influencers and several agencies
- Budget
- Up to about $4.3M a year in marketing spend
- Industries
- Health & fitness, tax & fintech, crowdfunding, B2B HR & payroll SaaS
- Markets
- India, plus global work across 70+ countries and US campaign support
- Education
- MBA, Balaji Institute of Technology & Management, Pune
- Notice period
- 30 days
- Location
- Based in Bengaluru. Open to relocating across South India, Pune and Goa.
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- KarnatakaBengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru
- MaharashtraPune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
- Tamil NaduChennai, Coimbatore
- TelanganaHyderabad
- Andhra PradeshVisakhapatnam, Vijayawada
- KeralaKochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode
- GoaGoa
Who's reading? Pick one and this page rearranges itself for you.
Brands I've built with
SalesNXT
How I work
I'm a hustler. I figure things out fast, learn what I don't know, and ship the best version I can, then make it better. A convention is just an experiment that worked once. I like running the next one.
- $68An AI pre-sales engine for seven markets, built in weeks.
- $7This website, designed, written and shipped with AI.
- 1 empty roomTurned into H&R Block India's content studio, 500+ videos later.
What I solve
Four problems I'm brought in to fix.
The work
Brand work, backed by the numbers.
The problem and the result are on the card. How I got there is the part I'd rather walk you through myself. Tap any card to ask.
Case studies go deep. Projects are shorter wins. Both come with the full story on request.
Career in a snap
Twelve years, five companies, one throughline.
May 2023 – now
TransPerfect Paybooks
Senior Manager, Brand & Marketing
Upmarket repositioning, a 43-country brand extension, an AI pre-sales engine.
Mar 2020 – May 2023
FITTR
Brand Manager
Rebrand, brand film, community from 200K to 800K+, 16 hires.
Sep 2019 – Feb 2020
Ketto
Brand Strategy Manager
PodcastMD and the treatment cost estimator.
Mar 2015 – Sep 2019
H&R Block India
Junior Executive to Assistant Manager, Brand Communication
Three promotions in 4.5 years. Content Lab, Knowledge Center, 200M+ reach.
Jul 2014 – Mar 2015
SalesNXT
Primary Researcher to Business Development
Where research became the habit.
Years by industry
Career snapshot, by function
Agencies and partners I've briefed and shipped with
About Gaurav Mishra
Customer first. Numbers always. Built, not borrowed.
I started in 2014 as a primary researcher, sitting across from people and asking what they really thought of the brands they bought. I never stopped asking.
At H&R Block I turned tax, a subject nobody wants to think about, into content a country searched for. At Ketto I made it easier for families to ask for help. At FITTR I took a six-pack brand to wellbeing for everyone and grew a community across 70+ countries. At TransPerfect Paybooks I moved a payroll brand upmarket and built an AI engine that finds buyers in seven markets every day.
The method doesn't change: find the gap between how a brand sees itself and how its customers see it, then close it with creative, content and community that scale. I'm based in Bengaluru, and I'm ready for the next full-time role where I can do that at a bigger scale.
- Marketing Guru Award (Global), H&R Block, 2018, chosen from 20 nominations across 5 countries
- H&R Block: Global Rising Star, Hall of Fame, Outstanding Contribution to India Operations
- World Digital Marketing Congress: Best Content Marketing Video Series, Best Social Media Marketing Campaign
- Global Youth Forum: Best Use of Facebook · DIGIXX: Social Awareness Award
Voices from the work
What the people I worked with say.
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