Filed · DayOne Tech Solutions · case file 04

Ten months inside a startup, holding design and client success at once

Held two roles at once as the company's only designer and its Client Success Manager — all marketing and brand material, plus the client relationships behind it.

Overview

Held two roles at once as the company's only designer and its Client Success Manager — all marketing and brand material, plus the client relationships behind it.

My role

Client Success Manager & sole designer

Timeline

Jan — Oct 2023

Filed

  • Client success
  • Design
  • Delivery
  • Process

Impact overview

  • 10 mosFull-time, on-site
  • 2Roles held at once
  • SoleDesigner for the company

01

The role

DayOne is a Bengaluru tech company. I joined full-time in January 2023 and wore two hats: sole designer and Client Success Manager. The design side meant every piece of marketing and brand material the company put out. The client side meant owning the relationships, the deliverables and the escalations.

02

What I did with it

Built processes to keep design moving while client work ran in parallel, because there was nobody else to hand either half to. It was a resource-limited environment, which is the environment I already knew — the difference was doing it inside someone else's structure rather than my own.

03

Why it is on here

Nine years of running my own businesses invites one obvious question from a hiring manager: can this person work inside a company, to someone else's priorities? This is the answer. Ten months, full-time, on-site, holding a client-facing title.

GetMyCreative stayed open the whole time. I staffed delivery with part-timers and the freelance bench and stayed accountable for the book without running the day-to-day. It came out of 2023 intact and hit its ₹5,00,000 peak in 2024.

04

Results

10 mosFull-time, on-site
2Roles held at once
SoleDesigner for the company