YA

Yashmi A.

eir at antler

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder in Residence

    2024 - 2024

    building oleka - emotional intelligence for the next generation.

  • Product Marketing / GTM - Contractor

    2023 - 2024

    nexstem is a neurotech startup building cutting edge technology to unlock the true potential of human-machine interactions. as the first and marketing hire, I worked on go to market strategy & execution. learned about BCI technology, how EEG data is captured and processed, brain scanning, neurofeedback as a therapeutic approach for neurodivergence, and most importantly, how to talk to (and sell to) neuroscientists.

  • Product Marketing / Growth

    2021 - 2023

    first external marketing hire. worked on everything from content & email marketing, to events, PR, partnerships, CRM, and influencer marketing. also built an investing community of 5k+ US investors. I know. we ran lots of data-led experiments.

  • Fellow

    2021 - 2021

  • Marketing Manager

    2020 - 2021

    joined as the first marketing hire in Klub’s early team in bangalore at the height of the pandemic. worked on 0-1 gtm. also played a lot of badminton with the team.

  • Crowdfunding Strategy Consultant

    2018 - 2020

    raised over Rs. 2.5 crores in non-dilutive crowdsourced funds for 50+ creative initiatives ranging from films and music albums, to events and publishing. humble brag - one of the films I worked on fundraising for has won multiple awards and film festival recognitions over the years and is now an Oscar-qualifying film(!). got rid of stage fright (conducted events and workshops at film schools in bombay to teach hundreds of students about crowdfunding).

  • Brand Operations Manager

    2017 - 2018

    learned everything I know about marketing, client management (we worked on health & luxury d2c brands, fashion & lifestyle accounts like vogue, verve, GQ), and the process of creating new things (we built an entire card game from scratch, started an NGO, shot documentaries, ran Cat Cafe Studio India, and a whole bunch of other things most first jobs could never offer anyone). truly the sharpest learning curve I could have had as a young person just starting out.

  • Social Media Marketing Manager

    2017 - 2017

  • Social Media Intern

    2017 - 2017

  • Intern

    2016 - 2016

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