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Product marketing and partnerships lead in Bengaluru, building GTM for cloud and AI security since 2021.

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Syed Hadi
Hi there

I’m Syed Hadi.

I lead product marketing and channel partnerships at AccuKnox, a Zero Trust CNAPP and AI security company. I joined in 2021 when the product was still being built and have worked across project management, product, marketing, sales and partnerships since.

I work best with security and SaaS teams past the zero to one stage who need a sharp story, a partner motion and an inbound engine that compounds into ARR. I completed an MBA at BITS Pilani alongside the day job.

Services

What I Can Do for You

1

Positioning and messaging

  • Category and competitive positioning
  • Personas, value props and proof points
  • Sales decks, battlecards and one pagers
2

Channel partnerships

  • Partner program design and tiers
  • Joint pipeline and co selling motions
  • Partner enablement and monthly reviews
3

GTM strategy and launches

  • ICP, pricing and channel choices
  • Launch plans for new product lines
  • AI search and SEO led growth
4

Demand and content engines

  • Webinars, events and community
  • Content matrix built for AI visibility
  • Attribution tied to influenced pipeline
Journey

Discover My Journey in GTM

  1. Mar 2026 to present
    AccuKnox

    Product Marketing and Partnerships Lead

    Leads product marketing, solutions engineering and customer advocacy, with partner programs across $35B of TAM.

  2. Mar 2024 to Mar 2026
    AccuKnox

    Product Marketing Manager, founding team

    First product marketer. Part of the growth team that took ARR from $500K to $1M+.

  3. Jan 2022 to present
    KubeArmor (CNCF)

    Community Manager

    Campaigns and events for the open source project, including a booth push that added 1.4K+ GitHub stars.

  4. Jan 2021 to Mar 2024
    AccuKnox

    Project Manager and Project Management Executive

    Roadmaps, epics and UAT. Worked on the v1.0 GA release of the SaaS platform.

  5. May 2020 to Dec 2020
    Visual BI Solutions

    Quality Assurance Engineer

    Tested a customised Power BI product and raised 100+ bugs.

  6. Jan 2020 to Dec 2020
    AIESEC in India

    Jr. Project Manager

    A UN Sustainable Development Goal project, including volunteering in Egypt.

Team AccuKnox at KubeCon IndiaAccuKnox team with the BSides awardCNCF community day at NetApp
How I work

Human Built Strategy, Powered by AI

Four steps I run on every launch, campaign and partner program.

01

Research and positioning

Talk to buyers, partners and sales. Map the competitive field. Land one sharp story the whole company can repeat.

02

Build the system

Turn the story into pages, decks, content and the apps and agents that keep the engine running without manual work.

03

Launch and enable

Ship it through webinars, events, partners and AI search, then train sales and partners until they sell it better than I do.

04

Measure and compound

Tie every motion to influenced pipeline and ARR. Keep what compounds, cut what does not.

See the results this process produced.

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