Marketing Executive · Charlotte, NC

Tara
Phoenix

Head of Marketing & Growth · MBA · AI-First

I build the strategy, the team, and the system — then I own the outcome.
Revenue doubled. Traffic 5×'d. A 12-person team built from nothing. And a stack that keeps compounding.

Tara Phoenix
$6M→12M Revenue Grown DTC + wholesale + 4 retail locations
5× Organic Traffic 500K → 2.5M sessions · 16M+ users
550K Subscribers Built From 50K · Open rate 17% → 54%
35% CAC Reduction $1M+ ad spend · 2.5× ROAS

About

I build marketing
that compounds.

I'm a marketing executive with direct CEO accountability and full P&L ownership across DTC ecommerce, B2B wholesale, and brick-and-mortar retail. At The Hemp Doctor, I inherited a $6M brand with no real team and no system — and built both from scratch while doubling revenue to $12M.

Before that: inbound and content strategy at Vanta during their path to a $110M Series B, and conversion-focused work at Because Market. Early foundation at Coca-Cola. MBA trained. Harvard-certified in AI for business leadership.

I think in systems. Paid media, lifecycle, SEO, brand — I run all of it, and I build the infrastructure that makes it scalable. I also run agentic AI workflows that give my 12-person team the output capacity of a team twice that size. That's not a differentiator I'm proud of — it's just the baseline now.

MBA

International University of Ulaanbaatar

AI for Business Leaders

Harvard Business School

Google Ads Certified

Google

Google Analytics (GA4) Certified

Google

Klaviyo Product Certified

Klaviyo

Technical SEO Certified

Semrush

Revenue Operations Certified

HubSpot

Expertise

Eight disciplines.
One operator.

I've spent seven years building deep, hands-on expertise across every major marketing channel — not as a generalist who dabbles, but as an operator who has owned the outcome in each of these areas.

Lifecycle

Email & SMS Marketing

Built a subscriber base from 50K to 550K. Lifted open rates from 17% to 54%. Email and SMS are now the primary revenue channel — not a support function.

Klaviyo · HubSpot · WooSender · Flows · Segmentation architecture

Acquisition

Paid Media & Attribution

$1M+ in annual paid spend managed to 2.5× ROAS with a 35% CAC reduction. I optimize for blended MER and LTV:CAC — not platform-reported numbers.

Meta · Google · TikTok · LinkedIn · Triple Whale · ZoomInfo

Organic

SEO & Content Architecture

Grew organic traffic 5× — from 500K to 2.5M sessions. Built on technical SEO infrastructure, not just content volume: crawl efficiency, hierarchy, programmatic scaling.

Ahrefs · SEMrush · Google Search Console · Technical SEO · GSC signals

AI & Ops

Agent Workflows & Automation

Running agentic pipelines for lifecycle triggers, content production, analytics reporting, and SEO. My 12-person team operates with the leverage of a team twice that size.

Claude · Make · Zapier · GoHighLevel · MCP servers · MailScale

Data

Analytics & Attribution

GA4-certified. I build reporting systems that connect media spend to revenue — not vanity dashboards. Looker Studio for exec-level visibility, Hotjar for behavioral insight.

GA4 · Looker Studio · Hotjar · Attribution modeling · Blended MER

Conversion

CRO & Funnel Optimization

+30% site conversion rate. AOV from $74 to $83. I run structured A/B testing programs — landing pages, checkout flows, UX decisions — tied directly to revenue impact.

A/B testing · Landing pages · UX · WooCommerce · Shopify · Hotjar

Brand

Brand & Content Strategy

From regulated CPG to B2B SaaS — I've positioned brands in complex markets. Content strategy is infrastructure: editorial calendars, persona mapping, and distribution built to compound.

DTC brand · B2B positioning · Copy strategy · Launch playbooks

Leadership

Team Building & P&L

Built a 12-person cross-functional team from zero. $3.6M budget owned. CEO-direct reporting with full accountability for growth outcomes across every channel and location.

Paid · content · email · dev · creative · agencies · vendors

Currently

Open to the Right Role

Senior in-house marketing leadership or fractional CMO engagements. I go deep, I go fast, and I own the result.

o.tara.phoenix@gmail.com

Experience

Where I've built,
led, and owned it.

The Hemp Doctor 2022 — Present

Head of Marketing & Growth

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CEO-direct · Full P&L · Regulated hemp-derived cannabinoid brand · DTC + B2B wholesale + 4 retail locations

$6M → $12M across all channels

5× organic traffic — 500K to 2.5M+ sessions

550K subscribers built from 50K

Email/SMS open rate 17% → 54%

$1M+ paid spend at 2.5× ROAS

35% CAC reduction across all channels

+30% site CVR — CRO, landing pages, UX

AOV from $74 → $83

+80% retail revenue — 3 new store openings

12-person team built from the ground up

Wholesale acquisition funnel in GoHighLevel

Cold outbound infrastructure via MailScale

Agentic SEO & content automation workflows

30% ops cost reduction via AI automation

Vanta 2021 — 2022

Marketing Manager

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B2B cybersecurity SaaS · $110M Series B — Craft Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator

Content funnels surpassed 1,000 customer milestone

+249% website traffic via long-tail SEO

Content calendar co-developed for B2B persona targeting

Social managed across FB · Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube

Because Market 2019 — 2021

Content Marketing Associate

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DTC ecommerce · traffic, content, and conversion optimization

Customer persona development for product page optimization

+12% sales via interactive product-fit quiz

Bounce rate reduction through visual content strategy

Built internal content tracking system for team coordination

Coca-Cola 2018 — 2019

Marketing Intern

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Global consumer brand · copy, international market expansion, creative operations

+17% engagement on email & social copy

International market translation & localization

External creative agency coordination & delivery

How I Think

Clear conviction.
No fluff.

01

Email and SMS are your highest-margin revenue engine.

550K subscribers, 54% open rates. That's segmentation architecture, trigger logic, and obsessive testing — not luck. Most brands treat lifecycle as an afterthought.

02

Platform ROAS is lying to you.

I optimize for blended MER and LTV:CAC. I cut CAC 35% while scaling spend because I measured what actually mattered — not what Meta told me mattered.

03

SEO is infrastructure, not a content play.

5× traffic growth wasn't a campaign. It was crawl efficiency, content hierarchy, and GSC signals used as real feedback loops. Technical first, content second.

04

AI raises the ceiling — if you know how to use it.

I run agentic workflows for lifecycle, content, and analytics ops. My 12-person team executes like 25. That's not a pitch — it's just the new baseline.

Available Now

Let's build something
worth owning.

Senior in-house leadership or fractional CMO engagements. I go deep, I go fast, and I own the result.

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