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Founder at Loom Care | ex-Airtel

Loom Care
Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Overview

Building Loom Care in Kolkata - D2C food brands. Took Loom Care from zero to $2 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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Skills
consumer brandssupply chainmarketing
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Loom Care is hiring 2 product designers in Kolkata

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹42-80 LPA
Team
Founding team, 4 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹21-46 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Kolkata, India · remote OKconsumer brandssupply chainmarketing
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Loom Care · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
    • Raised $12 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Partnerships Manager
    Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
    Airtel · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 8 months to 5.
  3. Partnerships Manager
    May 2020 - Mar 2024
    Google · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Built the mid-market team from 2 to 38 reps.
    • Signed 18 channel partners that now source 23% of pipeline.
  4. Sales Development Representative
    Apr 2018 - May 2020
    EY · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Signed 16 channel partners that now source 35% of pipeline.
    • Shortened the enterprise sales cycle from 12 months to 4.
  5. Sales Manager
    Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Shortened the enterprise sales cycle from 8 months to 6.
    • Opened 11 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.

Projects

D2C food brands benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing consumer brands and supply chain on real workloads.

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Education

  1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2004 - 2008

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