๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi, I'm Manav

I build the systems
behind growth. Not just the campaigns.

Three years of turning โ‚น1L a month into โ‚น65L, rebuilding a marketing engine mid flight, and shipping my own tools when engineering had a longer queue than my patience. Currently doing this at Classplus. Open to freelance projects and full time roles where the problem is genuinely hard.

Manav Jain
โ‚น1L โ†’ โ‚น65L/moPaid acquisition, scaled
-30% CACRebuilt from scratch
Growth engines built at
Bosscoder Academy Classplus
0โ‚น/month paid acquisition
4-5XROAS sustained
0Pipeline growth
0AOV growth
Manav Jain
About

A bit about how my brain works.

I don't see performance marketing as running ads. I see it as building the machine that makes the ads worth running: targeting logic, landing pages, attribution, and the follow up nobody remembers to automate.

I've built that machine from nothing at Bosscoder, and rebuilt one that had quietly fallen apart at Classplus. Somewhere between marketing and growth is where I actually live. Comfortable in an ad account. Equally comfortable shipping my own tools when engineering has better things to do.

Outside the day job, I tear down products I have no professional reason to touch. Purely because the puzzle is fun.

๐Ÿ† 4th Globally, Product Folks Teardown ๐Ÿ† Top 5, NextLeap Product Cohort ๐Ÿ† Top 10, C2P Summit
Career So Far

Where the last three years actually went.

Two companies, one steady climb from figuring things out to owning the P&L.

Classplus

Classplus, Noida

Aug 2025 to Present
Performance Marketing Manager
Found โ‚น8-10L a month in acquisition spend doing nothing useful. Fixed that before building anything new.
Rebuilt marketing across 6 channels: CAC down 30%, qualified pipeline up 45%.
Built a micro-webinar acquisition channel from scratch. It now out-converts every standard paid channel.
Repositioned messaging from price-led to aspiration-led, growing AOV from โ‚น19K to โ‚น24K (+26%) without spending more.
Automated the boring 40% of manual ops so the team could focus on the interesting 60%.
Currently own โ‚น40L/month paid media and โ‚น50-55L/month total marketing, with 3 direct reports.
Bosscoder Academy

Bosscoder Academy, Noida

Jul 2023 to Aug 2025
Performance Marketing Lead (joined as the 3rd marketing hire)
Built the Google Ads channel from zero, scaling from โ‚น1L to โ‚น65L a month in 15 months.
Sustained 4 to 5X ROAS the entire way, contributing roughly 60% of company revenue.
Pitched and built conversion-focused landing pages as the de facto product owner, lifting conversion 35%.
Promoted to Lead. Managed a โ‚น1.2Cr/month budget with 2 direct reports and full-funnel attribution.
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University of Delhi

2020 to 2023
Bachelor of Management Studies
Where the fundamentals came from, before Google Ads and spreadsheets took over.
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Recognition

4th Globally, Product Folks Teardown, 270+ senior PMs
Top 5 NextLeap Product Cohort
Top 10 C2P Summit, 690+ nationally
Want the longer, more scrollable version of all this? Find me on LinkedIn
What I Do

Where I actually help.

Five things I'm hands on with. Not a menu of everything that could loosely be called marketing.

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Paid Acquisition

Google, Meta, and YouTube campaigns built around what a customer is actually looking for, not just where the budget goes.

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CRO & Landing Pages

Query-matched pages instead of homepage traffic dumps, tested against real behavior data, not guesses.

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Attribution & Analytics

Full-funnel tracking that tells you which channel actually closes deals, not just which one fills a leads report.

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GTM & Positioning

Messaging built from what a sales team actually hears on calls, not what sounds good in a strategy deck.

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Marketing Automation

Internal tools and workflows shipped fast with AI-assisted development, without waiting on an engineering queue.

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Not sure which one you need?

Fair. Most projects start with a diagnosis, not a fixed scope. That part's free to talk through.

Case Studies

Two very different fires. Same person putting them out.

One had nothing built yet. The other had everything built, just quietly on fire. Pick your favorite kind of chaos.

Bosscoder AcademyBosscoder Academy

Building a paid acquisition engine that didn't exist yet

3rd marketing hire โ†’ Performance Marketing Lead ยท Jul 2023 to Aug 2025

Bosscoder sells โ‚น1.2L software and data courses to working professionals. Before I got there, every campaign led to the homepage and hoped for the best. There was no remarketing and no real system, just Meta ads at small scale.

"No landing page, just send them to the homepage" is not a strategy. Who knew.
Monthly ad spend15 months
โ‚น1L โ†’ โ‚น65L/mo
4-5XSustained ROAS
~60%Of company revenue
35%Landing page CVR lift
2Direct reports by exit

Learning to segment, not just spend

Two campaigns, side by side. "Full stack development course" pulled cheap, high volume leads from college students. "System design course" cost more per lead but converted working professionals at a much higher rate. That gap changed how I thought about every targeting decision after it. Cost per lead alone was telling me almost nothing.

Building what wasn't there

I introduced campaign and behavior specific landing pages instead of one homepage for everything, studied real user behavior with Microsoft Clarity, and built full-funnel attribution (GTM, GA4, Clarity, LeadSquared) so campaigns could finally be optimized against closed deals, not just form fills.

How the role changed

At โ‚น1L/month I was running a handful of campaigns and doing most of the legwork myself. By โ‚น65L/month I'd decentralized execution, picked up two direct reports, and was spending more time on funnel quality than on the campaigns themselves.

Becoming the de facto product manager

Once the ad engine was humming, the ceiling stopped being "more budget" and started being "the signup flow itself." I sat with the tech team directly, mapped where users actually dropped off between clicking an ad and completing enrollment, and pushed for changes that had nothing to do with marketing on paper: form field order, page load speed, the exact moment a counsellor's phone number appeared. None of that shows up in an ads dashboard, but all of it shows up in ROAS.

Proving the landing pages actually worked

Every new page went through the same loop: ship a hypothesis, watch real sessions in Microsoft Clarity, not just the aggregate numbers, then decide whether the drop-off was a copy problem, a trust problem, or a plain confusion problem. Most "conversion rate" advice treats every drop-off the same. It isn't. A user leaving because they don't believe the price is different from a user leaving because they can't find the enroll button, and the fix for each is nothing alike.

What I'd do differently

Build the attribution layer in month two, not month ten. I spent longer than I should have optimizing toward leads before I could see which leads actually turned into revenue. Once that was fixed, everything downstream got sharper faster.

I left Bosscoder not because something broke. The climb was steady. I left because I noticed I was getting comfortable, and I wanted a harder, messier problem. That's what led to Classplus.
ClassplusClassplus

Fixing a fragmented, six-channel marketing engine

Performance Marketing Manager ยท Aug 2025 to Present

Classplus sells a white-label app platform to coaches and creators. What I inherited wasn't broken in an obvious way, it was fragmented. Six channels, inconsistent ownership, and spend nobody was watching closely enough.

โ‚น19K got their attention. "Ten minutes to launch" got their money.
-30%
CAC, before โ†’ after
+45%
Qualified pipeline
+26%AOV, no extra spend
10-15%Webinar to sale CVR
40%Manual ops automated
3Direct reports

The diagnosis

Before building anything new, I audited active spend line by line and found campaigns left running long after they'd stopped performing, plus money going to tools nobody was using. I paused what wasn't working and rebuilt the channel mix around it, leaning harder into lookalike audiences and testing faster.

Repositioning the pitch

Biweekly sales feedback sessions surfaced that prospects weren't hesitating on price, they were hesitating on effort and risk. The old line was "Get your own app in โ‚น19K." The new one: "Launch your coaching brand in less than 10 minutes." Same product, different promise. AOV grew 26% off reduced discounting, not a price hike.

Building the micro-webinar channel

I built a recurring roster of ten webinars addressing real customer problems, owning topic research, offer design, funnel, nurture sequence, landing pages, and ad campaigns. Cold traffic came via Meta. Warm traffic, people who'd engaged before but hadn't converted, came via WhatsApp and IVR. It now outperforms standard paid channels on conversion.

Shipping my own tools

Using Claude, Bolt, Zapier, Pabbly, Netlify, and Supabase, I automated lead uploads that used to be manual, and built an automatic WhatsApp welcome and feedback flow that fires the moment a product demo ends. I also built a real-time sales leaderboard so reps could see standings live instead of waiting for an end-of-day spreadsheet, which turned out to matter more for morale than I expected going in.

Running the team

Three direct reports now own Social Media, ORM, and WhatsApp Marketing respectively. My job is less "approve everything" and more "make sure the three channels are telling the same story," since it's easy for a social post, a WhatsApp broadcast, and an ORM response to a review to quietly contradict each other if nobody's watching the seams.

The metrics I actually watch weekly

Not vanity reach. Cost per qualified lead by channel, webinar attendee-to-sale rate, and AOV trend line. If a channel's CPQL creeps up two weeks running, it gets a creative refresh or a budget cut before it gets a shrug.

Not everything worked. A campaign built around the founder's birthday didn't land, the audience just didn't connect with the personal moment framing the way the concept assumed. A separate Valentine's Day brand campaign hit 1.7M Reels views. I count that as a brand metric, not a pipeline one. Worth being precise about the difference.
Manav Jain at work
How I Work

Diagnose before I touch anything.

The same rough sequence shows up in both case studies above.

01

Diagnose

Audit the funnel and the spend first. Most "growth problems" are one specific leak wearing a disguise.

02

Rebuild

Fix the system, not the symptom. Landing pages, attribution, targeting, positioning.

03

Test

Ship experiments fast, kill what doesn't work quickly, and say so honestly when something flops.

04

Scale

Double down on what's proven, automate the boring parts, and hand off a system, not a dependency on me.

Strategic Work

Homework nobody assigned me.

Product teardowns and GTM strategy, done for competitions, or because a problem looked too interesting to leave alone.

I also occasionally write unsolicited growth theses for companies I find interesting. Here's one I put together for MyOperator, entirely unprompted.

Things I've Built

Marketing needed tools. Engineering had a queue. I had Claude.

Four working products, shipped end to end with AI-assisted development.

Four products, zero engineering tickets opened. That's not a boast, that's just what "AI-assisted development" is supposed to mean.

Stack

What's actually open on my laptop.

& many more.

Contact

Let's build the thing.

Freelance projects, full time roles, or you just want to argue about whether attribution models are lying to you. All welcome.

Manav Jain giving a thumbs up