Marketing Executive · Charlotte, NC

Tara
Phoenix

Tara Phoenix

Head of Marketing & Growth · MBA

I build the strategy, the team, and the system, then I own the outcome.
Revenue doubled. Traffic grew 5x. A 12-person team built from the ground up.

Tara Phoenix
Doubled revenue to $12M DTC + wholesale + 4 retail locations
Grew organic traffic 5× 500K to 2.5M sessions, 16M+ users
Built 550K subscribers Open rates 17% to 54%
Cut acquisition cost 35% $1M+ ad spend · 2.5× ROAS

About

I drive revenue.
Not impressions.

Not followers. Not open rates for their own sake.

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, conversion-focused work at Because Market, and an early foundation at Coca-Cola. MBA trained. I build integrated full-funnel systems where paid, organic, lifecycle, and brand work as one, not in silos.

I think in systems. Paid media, lifecycle, SEO, brand · I run all of it and build the infrastructure that makes it scalable. I'm resourceful with budget and time. I've built automation into how I work at every layer, from simple workflow triggers to agentic pipelines · so strategy moves faster and budgets go further.

Expertise

Every channel.
Full ownership.

Seven years of hands-on ownership across every major marketing channel. Not surface-level familiarity · I've built, run, and been accountable for results 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, n8n, 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

Signal over noise.

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 tells 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 content and analytics ops. My 12-person team executes like 25. That's not a pitch · it's just the new baseline.

Available Now

Ready to grow?
Let's talk.

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

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