Hi, I'm Emily.

Let's grow by building

something users love.

based in
San Francisco
Last project

Making marketing fun, creative, and effective.

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. In addition to articulating our value across assets, refreshing our content, and defining and developing our marketing to sales funnel, I'm perpetually learning!

As of October 2023, I'm engaged in Reforge's Marketing Technology live cohort, Dataquest's Beginner Python course, and Fast.AI's "Deep Learning for Coders."

projects
1
Branched Typeform Logic. Emily Giddings increased activation and engagement by optimizing user enrollment.
Activation & Engagement

Improved onboarding process & app experience resulting in 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, and launched multiple no code toolkits, two in Top Ten

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 strategy and monthly 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.
Content Marketing - Newsletter

Wrote a weekly newsletter as MOFU (middle-of-funnel) engagement strategy; 53%+ open rate to 7.5K subscribers for over one year

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 responsive full lifecycle marketing campaigns with 41% - 88% open rates, seeding engagement at the right time to prompt desired actions (app engagement or conversion)

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

Conceptualized new product and created end-to-end marketing campaign, 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 (GAU, GA4), Microsoft Clarity, Fullstory, Google Sheets, Stripe, Bitly, Rebrandly

Collaboration

Jira, Slack, Miro, Zoom, Butter, Trello, Asana

Community

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

Social Platforms

LinkedIn, Slack, X, Instagram, Meta

my principles

Open

Communication

I'm a big believer in consistent, "no-surprises" communication across the team, and I bring effective, positive communication to every project.

Continuous

Learning

I'm intrinsically motivated by personal and professional growth, and I make time most days of the week to continuously learn.
Currently:
• Reforge Fellow since March 2022, current live cohort is "Marketing Technology"
• Dataquest.io's "Beginning Python"
• Fast.AI's "Deep Learning for Coders"

Creative

Thinking

My creative background helps me bring innovative thinking to tech, where I love to answer, "How could we...?"

biography

prior
work.

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Roadmap

As Roadmap's Growth & Product Marketing leader, I've grown a highly engaged community to 7K, written a weekly newsletter with a 50%+ open rate for over a year, 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 and contracting for Canadian-based coaching platform, Sphere.guide.

American Apparel

Why retail sales? Because it's the front line of marketing and psychology. I became the #1 sales leader in the Midwest, and #2 nationwide.

Sears/Kenmore/Craftsman
via Suite Partners, Inc.

As an Event and Social Media Marketer, and Livestream Host & Event Producer, I wore nearly every hat in my first startup role. We increased brand lift, dove into 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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