Samit Malkani
Head of Brand, Social & Events Marketing, SEA | APAC Modern Marketing Transformation Leader @ Google
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Social Media Marketing
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Advertising
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Project Management
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Copywriting
Brand Management
Singapore

Hi there! I'm Samit Malkani, a highly adaptable and award-winning marketer with over 10 years of experience. I've had the privilege of working with Google, leading brand and creative marketing initiatives in SEA and India. I specialize in driving impactful marketing through innovative strategies, cutting-edge technology, and cultural insights. 

Head of Brand, Social & Events Marketing, SEA | APAC Modern Marketing Transformation Leader, Google
June 2023 - Present
Singapore
- Build foundational social infrastructure and best practice playbooks across APAC to support Modern Marketing Transformation and critical focus areas like Gemini (fka Bard)
- Building Google Indonesia social channels into world-class, Google-leading channels
- Achieved 4x YoY performance with lower than average spend
- Lead breakthrough campaigns that exceed our goals on key business outcomes
- Drive measurable improvements in brand health through transformative social-first marketing
Head of Brand & Creative Marketing, India & SEA | Scaled Social-First Advocacy & Adoption Strategy, Google
July 2021 - May 2023
Singapore
- Delivered breakthrough Search and Brand campaigns that won 60+ awards and exceeded business targets
- Scaled the India Social model to SEA and APAC as part of APAC Marketing's Social-First/Modern Marketing Transformation
- Re-engineered creative operations and agency rosters to deliver 11% durable cost savings and significant reduction in FTE time
- Achieved a 66% reduction in negative sentiment through a robust social listening and defence infrastructure
- Upskilled Marketers in creative skills through a wide-ranging programme of training and inspiration
Head Of Brand Marketing, SEA & India | Drove Digital Responsibility & Upskilling Initiatives, Google
April 2019 - July 2021
Singapore
- Unified the Brand Reputation and Brand Creative teams, and set a vision and culture to transform the team
- Drove a 10% gain in brand trust by identifying a key issue, and influencing senior leadership to prioritise it
- Co-led Google’s COVID response, supporting over 1B users with authoritative information, wellbeing and helpful campaigns through social and owned channel
- Completed our commitment to ASEAN to upskill 3M SMBs on digital skills, accelerating scale and delivery with operational efficiencies
Brand Creative Lead, India & SEA | Drove Product Usage and Brand Love, Google
May 2017 - April 2019
Singapore
- Led campaigns that drove high incremental product growth alongside brand love and trust across multiple products and initiatives
- Elevated our Social creative with outstanding content and creative work focused on driving positive advocacy
- Modernised our agency roster, giving us access to critical skills and talent
- Led the APAC Crisis Response team, responding to a number of natural and man-made disasters and helping users access critical information around those
Brand Creative Lead, India | Established Brand Voice, Drove Product Adoption, Google
April 2014 - May 2017
Gurgaon, India
- Established the brand voice for India through a series of highly creative and effective campaigns for every Google consumer product in India, from hardware (Pixel, Home) to apps (Search, GPay, Maps, Duo, Photos)
- Set up foundational marketing structures like the agency roster, brand book, creative vision and principles and our first Brand Creative team
- Owned and led brand initiatives like Doodles and Crisis Response, and innovative brand projects like India In A Day
- Won multiple Effies and various creative awards, along with multiple internal awards
Sr. Creative Director | Team Leadership and New Business, Interactive Avenues
January 2014 - April 2014
Bombay
- Took over creative leadership of the agency's largest office
- Led the team through new business pitches
Strategic Creative Director | Data-driven Creativity, Hansa Cequity
March 2013 - December 2013
Mumbai
- Led the company's effort to build creative capabilities to complement strong data-driven capabilities
- Innovated with experimental, data-driven social-first campaigns for brands like Westside and Celio
Creative Head | Led 20+ Team, Won Pitches, Delivered Multidisciplinary Viral Campaigns, Jack in the Box Worldwide
October 2011 - February 2013
Bombay
- Led and built a young, multidisciplinary, social-first creative team
- Won new business mandates from brands like Microsoft, Pepsi, 7Up and Nivea, leading to significant new revenue
- Co-authored the viral campaign behind 'Why This Kolaveri Di?', India's most-watched YouTube video for nearly 10 years
Creative Partner (West + South) | Content and Performance Marketing Solutions for Top-Tier Clients, Yahoo!
August 2010 - September 2011
Bombay
- Boosted advertiser success with content and media strategies for Dove Real Beauty and P&G
- Led successful pitches for major clients like Accenture and Kotak
- Developed high-performing, long-running brand solutions for them
- Led successful cross-functional collaboration with Editorial, Marketing, Sales, Sales Strategy and Custom Brand Solutions teams across APAC
Creative Group Head | Iconic Campaigns, Digital Creative Leadership, Lowe Lintas
March 2003 - August 2010
Bombay
- Crafted award-winning campaigns for iconic brands like Tata Tea, VIP, Idea Cellular, Bajaj Auto and Johnson's Baby
- Lead copywriter on the first 3 years of Jaago Re, Tata Tea's long-running purpose-driven campaign that turned around the tea category in the wake of coffee competition
- Led high-performing local and regional campaigns for Johnson's Baby that cemented market leadership, built trust and sold product
- Shifted to digital and led a young team to build good work on Pureit (Hindustan Unilever) and Fastrack (Titan)
Education
MDCM, Communication Management - Advertising
2001 - 2003
Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication
B.Sc., Mathematics
1998 - 2001
JAI HIND COLLEGE, MUMBAI
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