Shourjo Dasgupta.
Account Manager, Ads
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Profile
Strategic growth operator with 8+ years activating sellers, partners, and communities across competitive, high-growth platforms. Finds the connective tissue between fragmented stakeholders and turns it into momentum.
Have launched markets from zero, onboarded merchants under competitive fire, built trust with customers putting real money into unknown brands, and fed product teams the insights that actually change what gets built. Equally at home in the field and in the data.
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Core Competencies
Campaign & Media Operations
RFP Support & Media PlanningPre- & Post-Sale WorkflowCampaign Kick-offsAsset ManagementPacing & Delivery OptimisationIssue EscalationsWrap ReportingInventory / FlightingYield Management
Client & Partner Management
Agency & Direct AdvertisersProperty Partners (commercial + council)Stakeholder ManagementCommercial NegotiationPipeline ManagementReporting for senior, non-technical audiences
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Professional Experience
Locky Dock ·
Commercial Partnerships & Media Operations Manager
Jun 2024 — Mar 2026 · Auckland, NZ
Network partner of oOh! Media — national DOOH inventory and partner campaigns.
- Architecting a $500K/year global partnership with Bolt — identified the opportunity, structured the custom commercial proposition, and led the negotiation track.
- Managed end-to-end DOOH campaign execution from brief intake and planning through creative scheduling, delivery monitoring and post-campaign wrap reporting using Doohly.
- Coordinated directly with oOh! Media Ad Ops on order implementation, asset QA, and troubleshooting to ensure flawless campaign delivery across 100+ stations in 10 cities.
- Produced post-campaign wrap reports for brand partners (e.g., RNZ, NZ Police) covering plays, impressions, city-level performance, bonus value delivery, and partner-ready insight narratives.
- Built the qualified commercial pipeline from near-zero to 100+ leads in record time; reset the oOh! Media partnership and unlocked the 2026 75-unit deployment target.
- Built LockyDockNZ, an internal AI-powered business assistant system using Claude Code to speed up reporting, proposals, and network understanding across the team.
Kiwiyāna ·
Co-Founder & Brand Partnerships Lead — Only Good®
Sep 2024 — Present · Melbourne / India (Remote)
- Built India market entry plan for a NZ clean beauty brand: segmentation, positioning, and channel strategy (70% e-commerce / 30% modern trade).
- Negotiated and secured a manufacturing partnership with Apex Brands / Pauling Industries through cold outreach and long-horizon commercial pitching.
Uber Eats ·
Merchant Partnerships & Campaign Growth Manager
Sep 2023 — May 2024 · Auckland, NZ
- Trained and supported 1,000+ merchants on promotional campaign setup and in-app advertising products to drive demand and improve performance.
- Designed a "shadow shift" onboarding model that improved first-week merchant activation above benchmark.
- Used Salesforce + dashboards to monitor account/campaign health, prioritise high-potential partners, and intervene early to reduce churn risk.
- Delivered structured training for scaled and mid-market merchants, turning complex tools into clear commercial actions.
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Professional Experience · continued
Ambit ·
Customer Success Manager — Enterprise AI / SaaS
Mar 2021 — May 2022 · Auckland, NZ
- Owned enterprise account lifecycle from pre-sales demos through onboarding, adoption, expansion and renewal.
- Ran QBRs/EBRs and built a Customer 360° view across product, support and commercial performance.
- Built a real-time health score dashboard in the team's analytics stack to surface risk early and drive proactive account action.
SquareOne ·
Customer Success & Growth Manager — Venture-funded fintech
May 2022 — Apr 2023 · Auckland, NZ
- Owned end-to-end customer lifecycle: onboarding, retention, expansion and renewal.
- Built an offshore support team from scratch (documentation, training, QA) and improved consistency at scale.
- Implemented automation strategies across Intercom and internal tooling to scale high-touch support.
Aera ·
Customer Experience & Growth Manager
May 2023 — Dec 2023 · Auckland, NZ
- Qualified and converted customers into a first-to-market home ownership product through structured onboarding and disciplined comms.
- Fed high-signal customer insight back into product and GTM decisions during an early-stage build phase.
Zilch ·
Service Delivery & Account Operations Manager — Car-sharing / EV
Aug 2019 — Mar 2021 · Auckland, NZ
- Built and executed customer success strategy for business customers and enterprise fleets on a car-sharing / EV mobility platform.
- Managed commercial account operations including invoicing, reporting, and AR/AP alongside relationship management.
Uber ·
Marketplace Efficiency Analyst & Partner Success Specialist
Feb 2018 — Jun 2019 · NZ
- Core member of the ANZ city launch strike team for Tauranga, Hamilton, Dunedin and Queenstown — onboarding and activating partners from sign-up to first trips.
- Drove ~30% uplift in partner activation rates through structured onboarding playbooks and process optimisation.
- Seconded to Marketplace Efficiency team analysing promotional campaign performance using internal analytics tooling.
- Championed Project Alfred, a proactive onboarding strategy shifting funnel ops from reactive support to concierge-style guidance.
VH1 India ·
Programming & Client Relations Executive — Viacom
May 2007 — Jun 2009 · India
- Managed daily scheduling for VH1 — 24/7 lifestyle music channel — ensuring accurate programming inputs and schedule integrity.
- Maintained internal and competitive programming calendars and contributed to weekly/monthly scheduling decisions.
- Built relationships with music labels, event coordinators and agency partners supporting sponsorship and commercial alignment.
Earlier Career ·
Hospitality, Media & Banking — Accor Hotels, NZ Herald, ANZ, BNZ
2009 — 2017 · NZ / India
Foundations in customer operations, scheduling, commercial admin and stakeholder management — the operational rigour that now powers campaign delivery.
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Education & Professional Development
'24–'26Master of Technological FuturesAcademyEX
2025Perplexity Business AI FellowshipPerplexity AI
2025Organisational Leadership in the Era of AIBrian Evergreen
2025Project Tipping Point(re)Biz
2023No-Code Mastery FellowshipStartmate × Connor Finlayson
2021Customer Success Manager Certified ProfessionalGainsight