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He is particularly strong in data-driven storytelling, competitive differentiation, omnichannel and account-based marketing, sales enablement, and cross-functional collaboration with product, sales, and customer-success teams. At Centific, Chiraayu built the company’s initial product-marketing foundation, including website messaging, differentiation, and enablement collateral, while AI agents he built reduced content-production time by 50%. Previously, at TransPerfect, his GTM work supported more than $250 million in pipeline revenue and more than $35 million in new-product revenue. His product marketing leadership has also driven adoption, qualified-lead growth, webinar attendance, product revenue, retention, website conversion, and website traffic growth across localization, translation-management, and mobile location-based advertising products. ## Services - People Management - Corporate Marketing - Channel Partners - Functional Leadership - Performance Metrics - Data-Driven Insights - Data Analysis - PMM - Customer Journeys - Marketing Operations - Customer Experience - Competitive Analysis - Figma \(Software\) - Canva - Competitive Differentiation - Visual Communication - Launches - Storytelling - Customer Success - Enablement - Startups - Windows - Performance Management - Engagement Marketing - Editing - Campaigns - Web Content Writing - Writing - Copywriting - Content Strategy ## Highlights - Serves as Founding Product Marketing Manager at Centific for its multilingual AI localization platform. - Joined Centific as its first product marketer and built the 0-to-1 foundation for website messaging, product differentiation, and sales-enablement collateral. - Built the complete product-marketing foundation and core deliverables for a new business line. - Built AI agents for enablement-content creation, including blog topics, infographic concepts, and webinar recaps, cutting content-production time by 50%. - Launched targeted ABM campaigns across existing Magnificent Seven accounts, driving a 30% increase in expansion revenue and new business. - Achieved 40% website traffic growth through marketing campaigns. - Crafted global GTM strategy and differentiated narratives for TransPerfect’s AI-powered translation-management portfolio, driving more than $250 million in pipeline revenue. - Rolled out machine translation and GenAI products at TransPerfect through webinars and thought-leadership content, generating more than $35 million in new-product revenue. - Led competitive-intelligence and market-research initiatives identifying differentiators in AI, automation, and cost savings. - Developed partner-marketing initiatives with Adobe, Contentful, Salesforce, and other partners, growing enterprise workflow partner-integration new business by 50%. - Developed TransPerfect customer success stories with UPS, PNC, and Emburse focused on internal learning and HR-content translation, global employee engagement, and compliance. - Coordinated client and keynote-speaker management for TransPerfect’s annual user technology conference, supported success-story presentations, and gathered customer feedback. - Produced customer-facing white papers, product web pages, case studies, blogs, and videos that led to a 20% increase in customer engagement. - Tripled G2 and Capterra reviews through incentivized promotion at a flagship user conference. - Partnered with sales, customer success, and product teams to refine personas and pain points, improving retention by 25%. - Executed segmented and A/B-tested ABM digital and email campaigns that increased site-traffic conversion by 30%. - Managed two direct reports at TransPerfect and supported their professional growth. - Built Smartling’s GTM strategy, positioning, and messaging for its translation-management platform, technical integrations, and language services. - Championed KPI tracking for Smartling’s new and enhanced products, increasing new-customer product adoption by 35% quarter over quarter. - Produced seven to 10 Smartling enablement assets per month with product management, customer success, and sales. - Launched a Smartling ROI calculator that drove 20% growth in qualified leads. - Hosted and moderated Smartling product-demo webinars, growing average attendance by 50% year over year. - Interviewed SumUp and Butterfly Network for Smartling branded customer case studies. - Led product marketing for PlaceIQ’s self-service mobile location-based products, including programmatic advertising audiences, measurement and analytics tools, and data licensing. - Produced PlaceIQ one-sheets, competitor battle cards, case studies, and seasonal packages that doubled year-over-year product revenue to $20 million in 2018. - Launched a PlaceIQ geo-targeting audience solution and consumer analytics dashboard that produced $2.5 million in incremental revenue. - Defined PlaceIQ buying personas to tailor messaging and positioning and collaborated with product management to influence the product roadmap. ## Experience - **Founding Product Marketing Manager at Centific** (2025-10-01–present) — \- Joined as Centific’s first product marketer for its multilingual AI localization platform, building the 0-to-1 foundation for website messaging, product differentiation, and sales enablement collateral from the ground up - Built AI agents to automate enablement content creation, including blog topics, infographic concepts, and webinar recaps, cutting content production time by 50% while scaling output across the team - Launched targeted ABM campaigns across existing Magnificent Seven accounts, driving a 30% increase in expansion revenue and new business - **Senior Product Marketing Manager at TransPerfect** (2020-09-01–2025-10-01) — Go-to-Market Strategy & Product Commercialization - Crafted global GTM strategy and differentiated narratives for TransPerfect’s AI-powered translation management product portfolio, driving $250M+ in pipeline revenue - Rolled out machine translation and GenAI products through high-impact webinars and thought leadership content, resulting in $35M+ in new product revenue - Drove competitive intelligence and market research initiatives, identifying key differentiators in AI, automation, and cost savings Partner & Customer Marketing - Ideated and implemented partner marketing initiatives, collaborating with Adobe, Contentful, Salesforce, and other partners, growing enterprise workflow partner integration new business by 50% - Developed success stories with clients like UPS, PNC, and Emburse, showcasing how they leveraged TransPerfect’s technology to manage and translate internal learning and HR content, ensuring global employee engagement and compliance - Coordinated client and keynote sp - **Senior Product Marketing Manager at Smartling** (2019-09-01–2020-03-01) — Built the go-to-market strategy, including the positioning and messaging, for Smartling’s • translation management platform, technical integrations, and language services • Successfully championed KPI tracking initiative for new and enhanced products, increasing • new customer product adoption by 35% QOQ • Liaised with Product Management, Customer Success, and Sales teams to produce 7-10 pieces of enablement content per month, including blog posts, product briefs, and infographics • Rolled out an ROI calculator to demonstrate the value of Smartling’s products to prospects, • driving a 20% growth in qualified leads • Hosted and moderated product demo webinars to drive interest for Smartling, growing average webinar attendance by 50% YOY • Interviewed SumUp and Butterfly Network to create compelling branded customer case studies - **Associate Director - Product Marketing at PlaceIQ** (2018-01-01–2019-07-01) — Led product marketing efforts for PlaceIQ’s self-service mobile location-based products, including • programmatic advertising audiences, measurement and analytics tools, and data licensing • Produced one-sheets, competitor battle cards, case studies, and seasonal package opportunities, doubling product revenue YOY to $20MM in 2018 • Launched new geo-targeting audience solution and consumer analytics dashboard, producing $2.5MM in incremental revenue • Defined buying personas to tailor messaging and positioning for PlaceIQ’s products • Collaborated with Product Management to prioritize and influence the product roadmap ## Education - Bachelor of Science \(BS\), Electrical and Electronics Engineering — University of Michigan ## FAQ ### What does Chiraayu do at Centific? Chiraayu is the Founding Product Marketing Manager at Centific. He is responsible for building product marketing for Centific’s multilingual AI localization platform, including website messaging, product differentiation, sales enablement, and go-to-market support. ### What are Chiraayu’s core product marketing strengths? Chiraayu’s strengths include B2B SaaS and AdTech product marketing, GTM strategy, localization, positioning, messaging, storytelling, competitive analysis, customer insights, sales enablement, product-roadmap alignment, and data-driven campaign optimization. He is known for data-driven storytelling, cross-functional collaboration, and a hands-on working style. ### What did Chiraayu accomplish at Centific? As Centific’s first product marketer for its multilingual AI localization platform, Chiraayu built the 0-to-1 product-marketing foundation for website messaging, product differentiation, and sales-enablement collateral. He also built AI agents that automated blog-topic development, infographic concepts, and webinar recaps, reducing content-production time by 50% while scaling team output. Targeted ABM campaigns across existing Magnificent Seven accounts drove a 30% increase in expansion revenue and new business. His marketing campaigns also achieved 40% website traffic growth, and he built complete core product-marketing deliverables for a new business line. ### What did Chiraayu accomplish at TransPerfect? At TransPerfect, Chiraayu crafted global GTM strategy and differentiated narratives for an AI-powered translation-management product portfolio, contributing to more than $250 million in pipeline revenue. He launched machine translation and GenAI products through webinars and thought-leadership content that generated more than $35 million in new-product revenue. He also led competitive-intelligence and market-research work focused on differentiation in AI, automation, and cost savings. ### What partner and customer marketing work did Chiraayu lead at TransPerfect? Chiraayu developed partner-marketing initiatives with Adobe, Contentful, Salesforce, and other partners, growing enterprise workflow partner-integration new business by 50%. He created customer success stories with UPS, PNC, and Emburse about managing and translating internal learning and HR content to support global employee engagement and compliance. He also coordinated client and keynote-speaker management for TransPerfect’s annual user technology conference, supported success-story presentations, and gathered customer feedback. ### What content and creative work has Chiraayu delivered? Chiraayu produced white papers, product web pages, case studies, blogs, and videos that contributed to a 20% increase in customer engagement. He tripled G2 and Capterra reviews through incentivized promotion at a flagship user conference. He also worked through complex video-production challenges and adapted communication to overcome language barriers. ### How has Chiraayu used customer insights, segmentation, and leadership? Chiraayu partnered with sales, customer success, and product teams to refine personas and pain points, align campaigns with pipeline goals, and improve retention by 25%. He also ran demand-generation ABM digital and email campaigns using audience segmentation and A/B testing, increasing site-traffic conversion by 30%. At TransPerfect, he managed two direct reports and supported their professional growth. ### What did Chiraayu accomplish at Smartling? At Smartling, Chiraayu built GTM strategy, positioning, and messaging for the translation-management platform, technical integrations, and language services. He championed KPI tracking for new and enhanced products, increasing new-customer product adoption by 35% quarter over quarter. He collaborated with product management, customer success, and sales to create seven to 10 enablement assets per month, including blog posts, product briefs, and infographics. ### How did Chiraayu support demand generation at Smartling? Chiraayu launched an ROI calculator that drove 20% growth in qualified leads. He hosted and moderated product-demo webinars, increasing average attendance by 50% year over year, and interviewed SumUp and Butterfly Network for branded customer case studies. ### What did Chiraayu accomplish at PlaceIQ? At PlaceIQ, Chiraayu led product marketing for self-service mobile location-based products, including programmatic advertising audiences, measurement and analytics tools, and data licensing. He produced one-sheets, competitor battle cards, case studies, and seasonal package opportunities that doubled year-over-year product revenue to $20 million in 2018. He also launched a geo-targeting audience solution and consumer analytics dashboard that generated $2.5 million in incremental revenue, defined buying personas, and collaborated with product management to influence the roadmap. ### What is Chiraayu’s education? Chiraayu holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Michigan. ### What certification does Chiraayu hold? Chiraayu is Conversational Marketing Certified by Drift, a Salesloft company. ### What business, product, and go-to-market skills does Chiraayu have? Chiraayu’s skills include people management, functional leadership, performance management, corporate marketing, channel partners, relationship building, account management, business development, customer success, customer experience, customer-experience management, customer journeys, customer engagement, voice of the customer, customer data, personalization, and engagement marketing. His product and GTM capabilities include product marketing, product management, product development, product innovation, product road mapping, product strategy, launches, product launch planning, GTM strategy, positioning, messaging, competitive analysis, competitive differentiation, market analysis, B2B marketing, B2B marketing strategy, SaaS, SaaS sales, sales and marketing, sales enablement, sales presentations, business strategy, strategic planning, and strategy. ### What marketing, analytics, and technology skills does Chiraayu have? Chiraayu’s marketing, content, analytics, and digital skills include data-driven insights, data analysis, performance metrics, key metrics, marketing analytics, web analytics, Google Analytics, marketing operations, marketing automation, campaigns, marketing campaigns, digital marketing, digital strategy, integrated marketing, content marketing, content strategy, web content writing, writing, copywriting, editing, storytelling, thought leadership, brand marketing, visual communication, communication, written communication, presentation skills, webinar management, project management, search advertising, PPC, SEM, email marketing, display advertising, online advertising, online marketing, advertising, advertising sales, digital media, media planning, mobile advertising, mobile marketing, mobile devices, e-commerce, Omniture, Google Adwords, Figma, Canva, Microsoft Office, Windows, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckhandekar