Merrill Cook

Content Marketing Manager • Product Marketing Manager • Data Analyst • New Orleans, LA, US

CRM

Data Visualization

Content Development

Content Strategy

Data Analysis

Front-End Development

Messaging Strategy

Brand Strategy

Available for hire fromNegotiable

Contracts

Full-Time Roles

6x series A marketer - brand and content leader - storyteller for SAAS and technical products

I've worked with 7 seed through series B companies, several as the first marketing hire, to stand up content marketing, messaging, market intelligence, and product marketing. I'm a semi-technical marketing generalist happy to jump into the trenches or sketch out strategic direction. Over time, I've specialized in AI products and workflows, data visualization, programmatic content, and messaging. Competencies: Content marketing CRM Marketing automation Email marketing Market Intelligence (Analyst relations, product marketing) Semi-technical (scripting, webDev, data analysis)

Work History

Director of Brand and Content Marketing

AristMar 2022 - Aug 2023 • 1 yr 6 mosWorked as the first web-centered marketing hire owning all inbound web-based leads, marketing properties, analyst relations, and product marketing launches. I led market intelligence due diligence through our Series A raise, oversaw Gartner (and other) analyst relations leading to “Cool Vendor” placement, helped stand up our integrated marketing approach, and owned content across our funnel. Accomplishments: Doubled inbound MQLs half year over half year for entire tenure Built out largest sources of inbound leads in the form of ROI calculators and a marketing test drive of our genAI course builder. Oversaw brand marketing initiatives including a weekly newsletter to >14,000 corporate learning and ops leaders as well as top-tier learning events sporting > 90 attendee NPS. Set up initial marketing tech stack to support lead enrichment, scoring, routing, and initial drip campaigns Revamped digital properties to 4x conversion and get more community members into the product Oversaw content calendar, asset creation for ABM and paid campaigns, and thought leadership content for founder presentations Oversaw product marketing campaigns Oversaw market intelligence and analyst relations

Head of Content

DiffbotOct 2019 - Mar 2022 • 2 yrs 6 mosI was the first marketing hire for a deeply technical series of AI products at Diffbot. In this role I evangelized technical and non-technical uses of AI, NLP, and market intelligence products. I built out test drives, data visualizations, and technical how-to’s, and owned web-facing properties. Accomplishments: Proved digital creators were a viable consumer profile Doubled established organic traffic YoY twice Built out the most authoritative collection of knowledge graph-related content online Revamped web properties to increase conversion Drove adoption of web scraping and AI-enabled market intelligence tools with hands-on tutorials and starter projects for students, data teams, and marketers Found ways to market internal highly technical resources to support partnerships and hiring Built the largest family tree of Game of Thrones by scraping thousands of pages of a GoT wiki and parsing relationships with NLP API.

Agency owner, site manager, front end developer, content marketer

Self / NosferdatumJan 2013 - Oct 2019 • 6 yrs 10 mosMy career began as a freelance data journalist, helping to craft hundreds of infographics – at the height of infographics as link building assets – from 2013-2015. These engagements soon developed into site management roles leading content and front end web development for a range of niche affiliate marketing blogs. Over time I began to create my own properties including many of the top affiliate marketing blogs for higher education, coding bootcamps, CBD, among other niches. Spent plenty of time “in the trenches” and led a team of up to 20 marketers.

Education

Stanford University

Graduate certificate, Product MarketingMar 2022 - Mar 2022

Thinkful

Bootcamp, Front end developmentJan 2013 - Jul 2013

Sewanee: The University of the South

Dual Bacherlor's, English and PhilosophyAug 2008 - May 2012

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