growth

is the art of sharing

how your audience benefits

hi, i'm emily!

based in
San Francisco
Last project

good marketing feels good

For nearly 10 years, I've explored growth, product marketing, community-building, and lifecycle campaign management in all-hands-on-deck environments.

Today, I'm the Marketing Manager at Presence, a digital product consultancy and full-stack development firm whose parent company, Work & Co, has been acquired by Accenture Song. In addition to articulating our value across assets and creating case studies on market-leading digital product development projects, I plan, promote, and support "sold-out" tech events (for TechCrunch Disrupt, SF Tech Week, and SF Climate Week), promote our brand thought leadership.

As I lifelong learner, I'm always enrolled in something to stay on the leading edge. Currently in my 3rd year as a Reforge Fellow, and tapped to submit Reforge Artifacts (starting with my PMF doc).

projects
1
Branched Typeform Logic. Emily Giddings increased activation and engagement by optimizing user enrollment.
Activation - Optimizing Onboarding

Experimented to improve product onboarding completion rates, resulting in a 32% increase in user activation for marketplace product

2
Emily Giddings' Product Hunt profile page showing numerous product launches, include her first and most successful: The Laid Off Toolkit.
Acquisition - Product Hunt

Conceptualized, built (no-code), and launched multiple "toolkits," two made Top Ten lists

3
Overview of a scrappy Google Sheets database of user research, including surveys and interviews.
User Research & Analysis

Created user research database, led interview processes, and analyzed data to create product marketing strategy and growth experiments

4
Example of a recent newsletter written by Emily that features Top Industry Tools. Emily's newsletters net an over 50% open rate every week and go to a subscriber list of over 7,000 tech career enthusiasts.
Community Building & Newsletter Writing

Wrote a weekly newsletter with 53%+ open rate to 9K subscribers.

Created Slack onboarding sequences to welcome and nurture an active Slack community.

5
Emily creates responsive full-lifecycle marketing content with Mailerlite, MailerSend, Make, and Airtable tagging to create complex automated drips. Getting content to the right people at the right time increases conversion. These automations net a 61% - 88% open-rate.
Lifecycle Campaign MGMT

Created multiple full lifecycle marketing campaigns with automated email sequences netting 40% - 88% open rates, automated email sequences for various funnel entry points and customer journey warmth levels

6
Scrappy overview of a Miro board work session to create one of many end-to-end marketing plans for a D2C SaaS product.
End-to-End Product Marketing

Brought new product ideas to leadership based on community listening, resulting in a product that increased new active paying subscribers by 123% & increased MRR from paid subscriptions by 41.5%

tools

No Code

Softr, Zapier, MailerSend, Make (Integromat), Squarespace, Webflow, Canva

Marketing

Mailerlite, Mailchimp, Meta Business Suite (IG/FB), Product Hunt launches, Weekly Newsletter

Data / Analytics

Airtable, Google Analytics, LookerStudio, Fullstory, Google Sheets, Stripe, Bitly, Rebrandly, Salesforce, Hubspot. Apollo.io, HeyOrca

Collaboration

Jira, Slack, Miro, Zoom, Trello, Asana, Figjam

Community

Commonroom, Slack, Intercom, Zoom (leading workshops & webinars), Luma event creation & reminder sequences

Social

LinkedIn, Slack, X, Instagram, Meta

my principles

open

communication

I bring encouraging, open communication to team projects, but I don't assume everyone has the same communication preferences.  I find out by asking about team dynamics, traditions, and standards.

continuous

learning

I'm intrinsically motivated by personal and professional growth and consistently learn to stay ahead in my career. I am also coachable and value open, direct feedback.

creative

thinking

My creative background helps me bring innovative strategies to marketing goals. I believe in mining outside of the box for valuable ideas and solutions.

biography

prior
work.

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Roadmap

As Roadmap's Growth & Product Marketing leader, I grew a highly engaged Slack and subscriber community to 9K, wrote a weekly newsletter with a 50%+ open rate, built and tested end-to-end growth campaigns that informed product strategy, and increased our new, paid, active subscriber base by 123%.

Marketing Consulting / Music / Sphere

I booked and promoted multi-month national tours with 10% MoM increase in ticket/merch sales, while freelancing independently as a marketing consultant for Canadian-based coaching platform, Sphere.guide.

American Apparel

Retail sales is the front line of marketing and psychology. I became the #1 sales leader in the Midwest, and #2 nationwide during one especially aggressive year.

Sears/Kenmore/Craftsman
via Suite Partners, Inc.

As an Event and Social Media Marketer, and Livestream Host & Event Producer, I wore all the startup hats. We increased brand lift, experimented with live-streaming before competitors, and put designer gowns in washing machines. Our team was Emmy-nominated for interactivity for a live streamed fashion reality show.

Picture of Emily Giddings doing one of her favorite things: hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim.
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