Sculptural silver and red ribbons forming a connected pipeline

Gowsika Vadivel · Product marketing

Product marketing that turns complex products into pipeline.

5+ years of GTM, positioning, content and outreach across AI, fintech, cybersecurity and compliance automation...

Bengaluru, India5+ years · B2B SaaSOpen to opportunities

Test Tubes to Taglines.
Five seasons, one hypothesis.

Before the SERPs, the sales decks and the content calendars, there was a notes app.

I was the kid who wrote short stories and typed tiny observations into my phone wherever I was: a bus, a queue, a very boring family function. Nobody told me that was a career. I just knew I could not stop doing it.

Then I went and got a B.Tech in Industrial Biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai (class of 2020). Yes, I know. Pipettes to punchlines is not the usual pipeline. But a biotech degree teaches you one thing very well: form a hypothesis, run the test, read the results, repeat. Turns out that is also just called A/B testing, and the lab coat was optional.

Michael Scott meme: “What do you do for a living?” — I do my best.
  • ~300blogs & assets at Joy
  • 70+SQLs from SEO at Sprinto
  • 2K→4.5Knewsletter subscribers
  • 10+podcast episodes produced
  • 15+enterprise conversations post-launch
  • 41.5%impressions lift in 3 months
  1. Meme: “Yeah, if you could make us #1 on Google over the weekend — that’d be great.”
    Season 1 · 2020–2021

    Dunder Mifflin, Minus the Office

    In my final year, I took an online digital marketing course, and something clicked. Then COVID happened, plans changed, and I spent lockdown learning everything I could about content marketing. I reached out to a few Chennai agencies, and one small agency took a chance on me. As the only woman on the team, I let the work do the talking, creating content strategies for hospitals and a restaurant chain that delivered real reach and happy clients. Soon after, I joined Joy Technologies, a US-registered startup, where I learned to own clients end to end. I built a UK-based HR brand's website content, newsletters and founder stories from scratch. The articles ranked, traffic followed, and I got my first taste of what content could do for a business. I wore many hats — around 300 pieces, a training programme for new writers, mentored juniors, customer interviews and two in-house projects as Product Owner — occasionally giving the camera a Jim look, and somewhere along the way, realised SaaS was where I wanted to grow.

  2. Meme: Content writers 90% of the time — “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going.”
    Season 2 · 2023

    Bears. Beets. Bottom-of-Funnel.

    In 2023 I joined Sprinto, a compliance automation startup, as one of its early marketers. I was a non-technical writer suddenly talking to CISOs and CTOs, basically Michael Scott being asked to explain SOC 2. The first six months were a crash course. Then it clicked: 70+ full-funnel SEO blogs, 70+ SQLs, and mid and bottom of the funnel pieces that still rank at number one. Did I stutter? I also partnered with Customer Success on 5+ case studies and ABM campaigns, and learned how content turns into pipeline.

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  3. Meme: “Not everything’s a lesson, Ryan. Sometimes you just fail.”
    Season 3 · 2024

    The Spin-off

    A referral from a former Sprinto marketing leader took me to Cyber Sierra, a Singapore-based GRC platform. There I ran content and community like a small newsroom: the entire LinkedIn calendar (4K to 7K followers), the newsletter (2K to 4.5K subscribers), 5+ research reports and whitepapers, 10+ podcast episodes, and CISO roundtables and conferences in the US and Singapore. It was a brilliant chapter. After a year, I was ready to grow into product marketing and looked for a role with a bigger scope and better compensation.

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  4. Meme: “We’re launching a new product.” — “In a few months?” — “Next sprint.”
    Season 4 · 2025

    The Rebrand Arc

    A founder reached out on LinkedIn. Optiq was becoming Matters.AI, and they needed a product marketer. I walked in to blank pages, a vision and a one-pager. Every great pilot starts like that. Fact: the competitors were unicorns. Also fact: a sharp position beats a big logo. I created the “AI Security Engineer” category position, drew the product flows with pen and paper, built the entire website in about two months, and made the investor and sales decks. After launch, we were in 15+ enterprise conversations. With the rebrand shipped, I moved on to my next challenge.

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  5. Meme: “Well, I’m going through a little bit of a rough patch.” — “The whole year, actually.”
    Season 5 · 2026

    The Unicorn Era

    At Open, a fintech unicorn, I built content operations and an SEO framework from zero (41.5% more impressions in three months), wrote 50+ blogs, ran 10+ tailored LinkedIn and email campaigns across six industries, and sent out an HTML email that was basically Kevin's famous chili: simple ingredients, carefully made, a big jump in MQLs. I built an AI agent that briefs sales before every discovery call, and started a CFO community. Within a few months I was named a top performer, my Dundie, basically. In June 2026 the company restructured its marketing team, and my role was part of that change.

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  6. Michael Scott with a mullet shaking hands with his old boss

    This show has not been cancelled. It has been renewed for another season.

    Five seasons, one hypothesis: people respond to clear stories. I now write for CISOs, CFOs and founders, build a product's voice from scratch, and teach AI agents to do my research.

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41.5%

More website impressions in just three months.

Open Finance · SEO & content
1,000+

Marketing-qualified leads from personalised outreach.

Open Finance · Enterprise campaigns
751%

Growth in LinkedIn page views. 326% more impressions.

Cyber Sierra · Brand & community
70+

Sales-qualified leads from full-funnel SEO content.

Sprinto · Organic demand

Complex products.
Compelling stories.

From the first positioning statement to the next sales conversation. Here’s the work behind the numbers.

Open Finance

Banking. Payments. GST.

One content function. Three products.

Open Money / Zwitch / Optotax

Open Finance

Case study

A voice finance leaders listen to.

GTM strategyContentOutreach
1,000+ MQLs generated
Matters.AI logo

AI Security Engineer

A new category for complex data security.

Positioning / Rebrand / Website

Matters.AI

Case study

New category. Clearer story.

PositioningRebrandLaunch
0 → 1 brand & website
Cyber Sierra logo

A security brand worth following.

Content, community and conversations.

751% more LinkedIn page views

Cyber Sierra

Case study

A security brand worth following.

Thought leadershipCommunity
+751% page views
Sprinto logo

From search intent to sales conversations.

Full-funnel content for compliance automation.

70+ sales-qualified leads

Content that ranks. And sells.

SEODemand genCase studies
70+ SQLs generated

Different formats.
Same message discipline.

A story should work wherever your audience finds it.

Expertise that opens
enterprise conversations.

A gated Continuous Control Monitoring report, created with CISOs from India and the US. Each download, a named contact for sales.

Explore the report

From raw recording
to a launched episode.

Safe TechTalk: episode timestamps, thumbnails with designers, publishing and multi-channel promotion. Community and newsletter subscribers grew from 2K to 4.5K.

Listen to Safe TechTalk

I write the script.
Then step into the frame.

Short-form product explainers and founder-led content. One idea per video. One clear next step.

Safe TechTalk episode 18 with Vivek Ramachandran and Pramodh Rai

The Google–Wiz acquisition
and global success strategies.

Listen to the episode

Selected writing.

Funnel-based SEO blogs (TOFU · MOFU · BOFU), product narratives and customer stories

Curious about the product.
Obsessed with the story.

I’m Gowsika, an AI-native product and content marketer based in Bengaluru. I build 0-to-1 GTM strategies, category narratives and launches for B2B SaaS — connecting technical products with the people who buy them. I partner with Product, Sales, Engineering and founders, from customer discovery to sales enablement and pipeline.

Positioning & messagingProduct launchesSales enablementSEO & contentThought leadershipAI-driven GTMVideo & on-cameraPersonalised outreachCustomer discoveryAEO & analyticsA/B testingCommunity & eventsCompetitor researchManaging designers & writers

Open Finance

Marketing Manager, Content

Jan — Jun 2026

Content operations from scratch, the SEO and AEO framework behind a 41.5% impressions lift, enterprise outreach and AI-driven GTM.

Matters.AI

Product Marketing Manager

Jun — Sep 2025

0-to-1 positioning, a data security rebrand and the complete website.

Cyber Sierra

Content Marketing Specialist

Apr 2024 — May 2025

Content, community, podcasts and CISO events across the US and Singapore.

Sprinto

Content Marketer

Feb 2023 — Apr 2024

Full-funnel SEO, customer stories and ABM for compliance automation.

Joy Technologies

Associate Content Marketer / Product Owner

Nov 2021 — Feb 2023

SEO and content marketing for UK clients including LinkDoctor (linkdoctor.io), end-to-end marketing, customer discovery and ownership of two in-house projects.

B.Tech, Industrial Biotechnology
Anna University · 2016–2020

Certifications +
  • HubSpot Content Marketing
  • Product Marketing: GTM, Positioning & Demand Generation
  • Technical SEO and AI Search Essentials
  • Semrush AI Marketer
  • Project Management Fundamentals
  • Google AI Essentials
  • Introduction to Cybersecurity · Infosys
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“Gowsika owned her clients end to end and consistently delivered content that ranked and made a real difference to the business.”
Ownership Award
Gideon PhilipReporting Manager, Joy Technologies
“She has an exceptional talent for distilling complex infosec concepts into clear, engaging content — accurate, well-researched and accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Her work helped build our content strategy and establish Sprinto's authority in infosec and compliance.”
FrejPeer, Sprinto
“I gave Gowsi a task and she came back having built entire website pages. After interviewing her, our CRO said her communication and the way she articulates ideas were outstanding — we should definitely hire her. Very sincere, and she takes real ownership of her work.”
KeshavCEO, Matters.AI
“Very sincere and takes ownership. She listens to every stakeholder's requirements and delivers on them, with high-quality content, strong technical knowledge and sharp strategy. After seeing her writing task, I told HR that if we weren't hiring her, I didn't want anyone else.”
Top performer of the team
Shruti SinghVice President, Marketing, Open Finance

Every product
deserves a clear story.

gowsikavadivel1998@gmail.com