Context
By 2019, Traveloka's paid marketing spend was underperforming — fragmented attribution, broad audience targeting, and no unified view of spend efficiency across 6 markets. When COVID-19 hit in 2020, the problem intensified: the company was sitting on a sprawling 20+ tool martech stack with redundant capabilities and contracts negotiated piecemeal across countries.
My Role
Starting as a Senior Associate focused on ROAS optimization, I moved into the PM I role to lead the full infrastructure rebuild. I owned marketing technology end-to-end: attribution modeling, tag management, mobile SDK, vendor consolidation, and the budget renegotiations during COVID.
Key Decisions & Process
- Optimized conversion signals across channels to improve ROAS by 50% — moving from last-click attribution to a more accurate multi-touch model
- Standardized user event tracking with mobile measurement partners, eliminating custom implementations per ad network
- Expanded programmatic capabilities through new platform integrations, multi-app attribution, and fraud detection
- Re-architected the martech stack during COVID, consolidating redundant tools and centralizing tracking infrastructure — cutting costs by 90%
- Renegotiated vendor contracts during budget freeze, achieving cost savings equivalent to 12 months of contract value while maintaining business continuity
- Designed a privacy-compliant pre-permission prompt for mobile attribution, preserving signal quality under iOS tracking restrictions
Outcomes
50% improvement in ROAS across all paid channels. 90% reduction in marketing infrastructure costs. 12 months of contract value saved through COVID renegotiations. The rebuilt stack became the foundation for all subsequent marketing technology work at Traveloka.
What I Learned
Crisis creates the political will to do what should have been done already. The COVID budget freeze forced consolidation decisions that had been deferred for years. The hardest part wasn't the technical rebuild — it was getting channel managers to trust the new attribution numbers and change how they allocated spend.
90%Cost Reduction
50%ROAS ↑
12 moContract Value Saved