CREATIVE, BRAND & GROWTH

Résumé

 

Experience

Director, Brand & Growth Marketing

QuotaPath, April 2019 – Present

Marketing leader who achieves OKRs by creating strategic integrated campaigns and product positioning.

  • Led a brand redesign and go-to-market launch campaign generating 25% more pipeline with 20% of the opportunities attributable to the brand refresh through direct testimonials. 

    • Designed and executed an internal communications campaign, keeping company stakeholders informed, involved, and aligned.

    • Provided senior leadership with first-hand market, competitor, and customer research.

    • Established visual and content brand guidelines to speed up production and unify the entire brand experience.

    • Defined differentiated messaging and created content frameworks for marketing, sales, customer experience, operations, and executive team use.

    • Significantly increased website sessions (by 37%), conversion (by 169%), and technical performance (by 44%) after implementing a new, optimized website.

  • Develop compelling product and brand positioning to establish market presence, secure capital, and engage customers.

    • Generated 85% of the total pipeline through inbound campaigns, including organic search, paid channels, and events.

    • Worked closely with the CEO  to craft Series A and B stories, raising $62 million in capital.

    • Redesigned and positioned a lead gen asset and increased sessions by 248%,  engagement by 406%, and free trial conversions by 169% QoQ. 

  • Managed projects and budgets for 11 agencies and contractors providing design, video, website, content, SEO, product marketing, and demand generation services.

Creative Director & Designer

Independent Consultant, February 2019 – September 2019

Developed creative and brand strategy, web, graphic, motion, and video design for HR-tech, food and beverage, aviation, B2B SaaS, and research and advisory companies.

  • Exceeded revenue targets by marketing, networking, pitching, and managing pipelines efficiently.

  • Reliably managed and delivered work for 10 clients.

  • Crafted a Series A pitch deck for an HR data and analytics software company to successfully secure funding.

  • Designed a digital brand guide and developed a SquareSpace e-commerce website for a coffee company.

  • Provided brand strategy for a restaurant chain expanding to 5 new brick-and-mortar locations after acquiring a competitor.

Senior Art Director

Netplus, April 2016 – Feb. 2019

Led a creative team within an agency specializing in digital campaigns for consumer packaged goods (CPG) and direct-to-consumer e-commerce.

  • Managed 5 designers and 2 copywriters.

  • Grew sales year-over-year for an e-commerce website 3 years in a row by leveraging strategy, design, and copywriting skills to develop seasonal integrated campaigns and expand into 3 new markets.

  • Art-directed commercial-quality recipe videos for a national ice cream brand and launched a retail campaign at Walmart.

Product & Web Designer

AWeber, Sept. 2014 – April 2016

A senior designer supporting both product and marketing design teams.

  • Created a user interface (UI) design system to update the product experience after a marketing-led brand refresh.

  • Achieved a 30% increase in website conversion within 6 months of establishing a conversion rate optimization program.

Designer (Account Executive)

FleishmanHillard, Aug. 2012 – June 2014

Designed digital, print, event, motion, and video assets for worldwide integrated campaigns, supporting a network of 80 offices. 

  • Mentored 3 of 5 interns into full-time roles.

  • Lead designer on an award-winning healthcare campaign for Abbvie featuring spokeswoman Sofia Vergara. 

  • Crafted messaging and design for public education materials used in the FDA’s award-winning public education anti-tobacco campaign, “The Real Cost”.

  • Developed internal communication campaign assets for AT&T’s more than 10k+ employees.

 

Skills

  • Creative Strategy

  • Branding

  • Graphic Design

  • Copywriting

  • Digital Marketing

  • Customer & Market Research

  • Cross-functional Leadership

  • Strategic Project Management

  • Budgeting


Education

American University
B.A. Public Communication & Graphic Design


Languages

  • English: Native

  • German: Fluent, conversational


Awards

QuotaPath ‘Stay Curious’ (2022), Hackathon Winner (2019)

AWeber Hackathon Winner (2015)

Gold Effie, Disease Awareness and Education (2015)

PRSA-NY Big Apple Award Winner (2014)

PRWeek Finalist – Healthcare Campaign of the Year (2014)

 
 

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