Senior Director, Acquisition Marketing
• Grew flagship newsletter the Daily Skimm list by 1M+ engaged email subscribers, offsetting monthly churn while driving CPAs down by 65% and increasing engagement by 100%
• Oversaw $10M paid media budget and P&L for 10-person growth marketing team, including invoicing and accruing for ads (Meta, Google, TikTok, Outbrain, Taboola, Pinterest and more) and vendors (Keywee, Anyword, Brainlabs, Kitchn, SEMRush, Unbounce and more)
• Led 4 direct reports on acquisition team - paid media manager and associate, campaigns manager and audience development director - unifying paid and organic growth channels into a cohesive strategy based on acquiring engaged subscribers below target CPA at scale
March 2022
- Present
New York, New York, United States
Director of Growth Marketing
• Led team in launching thefascination.com, a curated Shopify marketplace featuring the best direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands all in one place
• Oversaw performance marketing and client relationships, including paid media, email, social, SEO, affiliate, editorial, and partnerships, driving $150k in revenue and 20k email subscribers in less than 6 months
July 2021
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California, United States
Performance Marketing Manager
July 2019
- July 2021
New York, New York, United States
Director of Content & Growth Marketing
Drove $15M+ in sales through $5M in performance marketing for portfolio of mattress brands • Led content, social media, community management and influencer teams, focusing efforts on
creative storytelling and data-driven testing, leading to an incremental $1M in sales
• Built a cohesive, enterprise-level content strategy based on one simple idea: create and promote content based on distribution. Presented “Content That Converts” at 2018 Digiday Retail Forum
• Optimized social media performance through multivariate dark post testing with Naytev
• Drove new channel experimentation through native advertising on Outbrain, Taboola and Quora • A/B tested social proof, 1st and 3rd party audiences and endless creatives to drive ROI
April 2018
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New York, United States
Performance Marketing Director
• Established first ever marketing team for 10 Gizmodo Media brands after Univision acquired Gawker and formed millennial media business Fusion Media Group
• Leveraged trust within the org to grow editorial brands such as Gizmodo & Lifehacker
• Managed & mentored employees in key growth channels: paid media, email marketing
• Effectively oversaw $1.5M marketing budget through in-house & agency media buys
• Optimize ads through A/B testing audiences, creatives and bidding strategies
• Spearheaded creation and adoption of FACT, a social distribution optimization strategy that led to a $500K deal with Verizon and a $255K sale with Google
• More than doubled newsletter subscribers of entire portfolio within six months
• Tested to find most effective growth levers, which included PostUp audience development widget, Facebook Instant Articles, social promotion and events
• Oversaw ESP migration from Mailchimp to Salesforce, negotiating contracts and monetizing newsletters for entire media portfolio
February 2016
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New York, United States
Content Marketing Manager
Drove client engagement and demand generation through growth marketing and content marketing at the leading native adtech company.
• Led a team who manages all digital and physical ad buys on billboards, elevators, social media and premium publisher websites
• Managed team of internal and external freelance writers for B2B content marketing
• Launched NATIVE (nativeadvertising.com), a brand publication I've grown to 8,000+ monthly uniques
• Spearheaded redesign of Sharethrough.com, writing and editing all website copy, metadata and project managing design and development
• Optimized web properties and content for search, increasing organic search traffic on nativeadvertising.com by 115% and sharethrough.com by 23% (from 9K to 11K organic search visits a month)
• Acted as brand voice for B2B audience of marketers and publishers on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook
November 2014
- February 2016
California, United States
Digital Marketing Manager
Implemented and strategized e-commerce marketing strategies for premium electronics brand:
• Drove $100,000 in online sales through email and social media marketing
• Converted $20,000 from a single email with a 49% open rate and 11% clickthrough rate
• Established brand voice and style through creative posting on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
• Launched Current (http://blog.moshi.com/), a blog that earned 6K unique visits in first 2 months
May 2013
- November 2014
California, United States
Communications Specialist
• Selected as an internal consultant to provide retail perspective to corporate team
• Produced business-critical articles published on an internal iPad app for 60,000 retail employees
May 2012
- September 2012
Cupertino, California, United States