Andy Varshneya

VP, Marketing Strategy & Operations @ Redis

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Marketing leader focused on making growth predictable. I step into high-potential orgs and implement the planning, financial, and technical backbone required for IPO-scale execution. Expertise in marketing strategy, business forecasting and planning, resource allocation, cross-departmental process optimization, financial management, and technical architecture.

Experience

  • Redis (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • VP, Marketing Strategy & Operations
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

      Dual executive leadership role leading global marketing strategy and operations while serving as advisor and deputy to the CMO. Built the Marketing Operations function from the ground up and scaled it into a high-functioning team of 12 responsible for the department's AI transformation, performance forecasting, operational analytics, systems architecture, GTM engineering, annual planning, budget management, headcount management, SDR operations, PMO, and campaign operations. A few highlights include - • Architecting the attribution model from systems to data to dashboards. Enabled tracking the pipeline impact of every dollar, then leveraging it to improve Marketing ROI by >300% and supporting the business as it's grown 5x. • Leading or co-leading the annual operating planning cycle every year since joining in 2020. • Executive partner to 3 CMOs, scaling Marketing from 12 to 100+, including SDRs, and building the operating system to consistently hit our targets quarter after quarter. • Building the internal AI platform with over 25 automations in platform. Workflows that previously took 6–8 hours now run in minutes. The platform is expanding company-wide under my ownership. • Building a reporting framework used to demonstrate Marketing’s value to the investors. I also founded and led growth lifecycle marketing at Redis.

    • Sr. Director, Marketing Operations & Chief of Staff
      Feb 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Director, Marketing & Growth Operations
      Oct 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Optimizely (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sr Manager, Growth Operations
      Aug 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr

      Acquired by Episerver, who adopted the Optimizely brand. Supported business growth from $70M ARR to $140M ARR. Navigated marketing processes and architecture to enable moving upmarket. The changes implemented improved CAC by 126%. Led marketing and growth operations for a new product line (Rollouts). Achieved 1.8X of board commits while managing a budget impacted by COVID. Responsibilities included fiscal year planning, forecasting, tech stack management, analytical architecture, budget management, leadership alignment, and funnel optimization.

    • Sr Manager, Marketing Operations
      Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Sr Manager, Marketing Automation
      Feb 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Datameer ()
    • Manager, Marketing Operations and Digital Marketing
      May 2016 - Feb 2017 · 10 mos

    • Marketing Operations Manager
      Sep 2014 - May 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Marketing Operations and Strategy at Intuit
    Mar 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

    At Demandforce, acquired by Intuit.

  • Marketing at Aryaka Networks
    Nov 2011 - Mar 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos