Rahul Kumawat
Verified Expert in Sales
Sales Expert
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since July 28, 2025
Rahul is a sales and client expert with 4+ years in SaaS and tech. He’s generated $1.3M in revenue and acquired 17 clients, helping one company secure seed funding. His strengths include sales, prospecting, lead generation, email marketing, cold calling, and networking via LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, HubSpot, and Apollo. With strong client relations and account management skills, Rahul consistently drives growth and new business.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Apollo
- Business Development Representative (BDR)
- Client Engagement
- Email Campaigns
- HubSpot
- Lead Generation
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Sales
Work Experience
Growth and Marketing Head
upTalkk
- Assisted founders, CXOs, and coaches in growing their brand by 10x on LinkedIn.
- Executed cold outreach, email campaigns, client prospecting, and lead management.
- Helped the team create and train an AI writing tool named WritesLike.AI. Trained it rigorously for a year in different writing styles of various personas from LinkedIn.
Sales and Growth Manager
Quantal AI
- Collaborated with the founders and CXOs of fast-growing startups and organizations from the US and EMEA on implementing hiring solutions. Led and managed a team of three business development executives.
- Performed requirement gathering, lead generation, and cold calling. Created reports and presentations, and conducted meetings with clients to understand their requirements.
- Established and nurtured long-term relationships with key clients, leading to an increase in recurring business from existing clients.
- Developed and executed targeted strategies and campaigns for activation and reactivation that led to the acquisition of over 20+ clients worldwide, resulting in a 40% increase in the client base.
Growth Consultant
Manevolves Studios
- Collaborated directly with the CEO to analyze app data, sales, and business development strategies, leading to data-driven decisions that fueled the app's growth.
- Analyzed in-app data and customer feedback to recommend changes and new features for the application, which significantly contributed to the app's massive growth and user engagement.
- Generated substantial revenue by identifying key partnership opportunities and developing effective marketing strategies, resulting in the app reaching an impressive milestone of one million downloads.
- Helped the founder onboard potential investors and assisted them in raising seed funding.
Sales Executive
Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS)
- Onboarded potential customers for life and health insurance, achieving a total insurance premium of 16.5 million Indian rupees within the first year.
- Obtained recognition as a top performer with two "Best Performer" awards for consistently exceeding sales targets and demonstrating exceptional sales skills.
- Demonstrated exceptional research and growth, leading to a well-deserved promotion to sales officer, where I exclusively engaged high-ranking officers and premium clients from Aditya Birla Group.
Project History
Growth Consultancy Freelancing at Manevolves Studios
https://mandontfap.flycricket.io/Analyzed in-app data and customer feedback to recommend features that boosted user engagement and growth. Identified key partnerships and developed marketing strategies, leading to the app surpassing one million downloads.
At Manevolves Studios, I collaborated directly with an app owner in my network who needed assistance growing his app’s user base. I helped him develop sales and business strategies, leading to data-driven decisions that fueled the app’s growth. I ultimately allowed the app to reach one million downloads and onboarded a potential investor who helped the app owner with seed funding.
LinkedIn Brand Building
Grew a client's personal brand on LinkedIn from scratch.
I assisted a founder and a local business owner in creating and growing their LinkedIn brand from scratch. This project included helping them create engaging content, write excellent and compelling copy, and post on LinkedIn and other platforms. This project taught me more about working directly with clients and building my own agency.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Mumbai University - India
Skills
Tools
Apollo
Demand Generation
Cold Calling, Email Outreach, Brand Building
Competencies
Communication, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Sales Strategies
Outbound Sales
Roles
Account Manager, Business Development Representative (BDR), Customer Success, Sales Development Representative (SDR)
Other
LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Lead Generation, Sales, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Social Media Management, Canva, Google Meet, Image editing, HubSpot, LinkedIn Connect, IT Sales, Client Engagement, Sales Growth, Microsoft Excel, Slack, Zoom, Cold Outreach, Email Campaigns, Client Success, Social Media Marketing (SMM), Content Creation, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Outbound Prospecting, B2B Sales, OpenAI GPT-3 API, Claude, Persona research, Remote Talent Hiring, ZoomInfo, Video Editing, LinkedIn posts, Instagram posts, YouTube, Client Retention, Lead Conversion, Sales Pipeline Management, Lead cycle, Nurture & Retention Campaigns, Email Marketing Strategy, Social Media Content Writing, AI Trainer, LLM Trainer, Sales Pipelines, Discovery calls, Client Meetings, Appointment Setting, Account Management, Business Development, Stakeholder Management, IT, SQL, Analytics, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Email Marketing, iOS, App Development, Android, Copywriting, Team Leadership, Growth Marketing, LinkedIn Brand Building, Demand Generation, Notion, Twitter posts, Newsletter content, Template Editing, LinkedIn writing, SaaS Sales, Inbound Sales, SaaS
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