• Growth Marketing Highlights

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    Improved SEM ROAS by 100%

    Improved SEM ROAS by 100% year-on-year by introducing an algorithmic focus on keywords.

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    Increased Relevant Traffic by 80%

    Grew relevant, mid-funnel traffic by 80% year-on-year by driving new efforts in affiliate and SEO channels.

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    Pursuit of Personalization

    Implemented dynamic content and time-based messaging to users resulting in a 2x to 6x increase on effectiveness.

  • Experience

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    Sr. Growth Markter

    Allergan - theSpotlyte.com

    May 2018 - Present

    Set the annual user acquisition goals and determined the marketing strategy to hit user and revenue targets for Spotlyte. Oversaw the creation and operation of 5 marketing channels, and coordinated with x-functional teams (editorial, product, engineering) to achieve full-team success. Most importantly, led the focus to understand the user journey and engagement touchpoints.

    AHAlife

    Director of Growth

    AHAlife

    Feb 2016 – April 2018

    Led the strategy and direction of marketing at AHAlife and Kaufmann Mercantile, including marketing mix decisions, team structure and size, and promotional efforts.

    Experienced in SEM, SEO, Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, and Paid / Display advertising.

    Pushed the marketing department towards personalization, connecting past browse and purchase behavior to personalized and meaningful on-site and advertising content.

    Partnered with CEO and creative team to develop engaging seasonal campaigns and to refine the branding, and integrate two acquisitions (Kaufmann Mercantile and Bezar)

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    Product Manager

    June 2015 - April 2018

    Responsible for our consumer facing sites (www.ahalife.com and www.kaufmann-mercantile.com) and our internal data products. Worked across departments to define business requirements, success metrics and launch features and products through an iterative, agile process.

    Through user surveys and interviews, led major site improvements on:

    • Site Search 
    • Product Filtering Functionality
    • Product sorting and merchandising algorithms
    • Homepage Redesign
    • Checkout flow enhancements

    Built a loyalty program in partnership with marketing and finance to ensure a simple, easy to understand program that was also easily audited and tracked.

    Streamlined internal reporting, resulting in a new data warehouse built on the ELT model, leveraging Microsoft's Power BI as the visualization layer.

    OrderGroove

    Client Solutions Team Lead

    OrderGroove

    September 2013 - June 2015

    Responsible for building out and managing a technical team to support existing clients. We work to build, and implement new product features and platform enhancements for our e-commerce clients in a variety of verticals while also providing enterprise-level customer support.

    General Mills

    Marketing Business Analyst

    General Mills - Pillsbury, Green Giant

    June 2008 - June 2013

    Managed two PNLs in the club channel for Pillsbury and Green Giant. Launched 2 new products, and was responsible for demand planning and forecasting, branding, and annual revenue targets.

     

    Part of a special project to help redefine the nature of the Business Analyst role in the organization, leading to an expansion of the program from 3 to 20 employees.

  • Product Management Highlights

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    Built a new Loyalty Program

    Created a customer loyalty program that is easy to understand and track, in partnership with marketing and finance.

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    Improved the Customer Experience

    Led a number of projects such as a site-search enhancement, creation of new product filters, and redesigns of our homepage and checkout funnel.

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    Increased Access to Data

    Standardized reporting, and built a data warehouse, leveraging Microsoft's Power BI for users to interact with the data.

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  • Skills

    Growth / Performance Marketing

    SEM, SEO, Affiliate marketing, Email marketing, Display Advertising, Partnership marketing, Social Media marketing, Content marketing

    Product Managment

    Wireframing, user testing, usage analytics and optimization, customer research gathering, managing the product roadmap, A/B testing, running Agile sprints, gathering business requirements

    Data Analytics and

    Forecasting, future planning, test analysis, channel performance evaluation, merch-mix analysis

    Strategy

    Team resourcing, marketing-mix evaluations, marketing funnel strategy, marketplace economics

  • Education 

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    University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

    Carlson School of Management

    B.S.B. (2005-2009)

    Majors: Marketing, International Business

    Minor: Computer Science

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    East China Normal University - Shanghai

    2008

    Concentration: Mandarin, International Business

  • Tools of the trade

    Product Management

    JIRA, Smartsheet

    Photoshop, Balsamiq, Invision

    Optimizely, Google Optimize

    Growth Marketing

    Paid Media: Adwords, Facebook Ad Manager, Criteo

    Email: Bronto, Sailthru, Mailchimp

    Affiliates: Linkshare, Skimlinks, RewardStyle, Cision

    Mobile: App Annie, Tune, Branch, Braze

    SEO: Moz, Ahrefs

    Other: Photoshop, Microsoft Office

    Data

    MySQL, Panoply

    Tealium

    Power BI, Tableau, Google Analytics

  • Connect with me

    Nate Ng - Email
    Nate Ng - LinkedIn
    Nate Ng - Photography