Ashley Simon

  1. Marketing
  2. Fractional CMO

Expert Generalist

I’m a seasoned leader with over 15 years of experience leading brand and product marketing teams for high-growth companies such as Medium, Airbnb, Google, Foursquare, MTV, Daily Harvest, and more.I’m creatively-driven with expertise in developing brand strategy, honing customer segmentation and positioning, launching new products, and acquiring (and keeping) customers.

Collaborative and scrappy, I’m a hands-on leader who thrives in cross-functional environments. I’m also a certified yoga instructor, baking enthusiast, writer and avid adventurer. You can find me in Brooklyn with my husband, two daughters, and a grumpy old cat.

Ashley Simon
I have an existential crisis whenever someone asks, Who am I? I'm, I'm kidding. I'm Ashley Simon, and at this point I'm a pretty seasoned marketing leader, which just means I'm old and have a lot of experience. I have a little over 15 years experience in sort of all areas of marketing though I would say, I sort of lean more into brand and product marketing. I've worked across a broad range of companies. I've worked at large public companies like MTV and Airbnb, and I've also worked with companies at the seed stage, pre-launch, like, Daily Harvest. So I have a really broad range in terms of the size and stage of company that I've worked at and I've mostly worked in consumer facing companies. In terms of how my work kind of shows up in the world, I find that I work with clients on sort of a couple of of distinct buckets. One is bringing a new product for service or offering to market. So go to market strategy, which includes, a lot of brand work as well, positioning and messaging. The second piece is helping an early stage company build out their marketing function. Who should you hire? When? What skill sets are you looking at based on the size? What's your growth plan? And then the third piece is working with, usually the CEO or founder, potentially CMO, if it's a larger company, on a specific strategic project where they really want, someone to focus on it and they want an outside point of view. So those are the most wide ranging of the projects where it's like, Hey, we don't really know what to do, if anything, with the metaverse, and we just want, like, can you come in and think about that and, and own that and come back with recommendation. So those are the sort of, I put that in like a third bucket of a pinata like, I don't know any interesting question. I'm here to help. But that's, that's more or less me and the types of work that, I've done and I'm doing right now.

Work

  • ASHLEY SIMON

    • Go To Market
    • Branding
    • Messaging
    • Positioning
    • Partnerships
    • Content Marketing
    • Research
    • Product Marketing

    You can find my full portfolio here.

    https://www.ashleysimon.work/

Experience

  • Mixing Board

    Mixing Board

    Member

    May 2022 - Present

    A community of top minds from iconic brands.

  • Google

    Google

    Marketing Strategist

    Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

    • Global strategy, positioning and messaging for Google internal platform
  • Medium.com

    Medium.com

    Head of Brand and Product Marketing, Creators

    Nov 2020 - Aug 2021

    Where ideas take shape before they take off.

    • Product Marketing Strategy, Customer Research / Persona Development, Positioning, Messaging, Partnered with Product on roadmap and GTMs
  • Curious Elixirs

    Curious Elixirs

    Cofounder and Creative Director

    Aug 2016 - Oct 2018

    delicious booze-free beverages that taste like your favorite craft cocktails -- with organic ingredients, no added sugar, and mouth feel for days.

    • Brand strategy, Customer research/persona development, Creative Direction, Growth Strategy & Execution, Events, Vendor Management, kind of everything!
  • Upworthy

    Upworthy

    Head of Video and Strategic Partnerships

    Jun 2013 - May 2015

    Delivering you the best of humanity since 2012. 💫♥️🌎

    • Brand Strategy, Video Strategy and Creative Development, Video Growth Plan, Production and Co-Promotional Partnerships
  • Foursquare

    Foursquare

    Manager, Media Partnerships

    Jun 2011 - Aug 2012

    Where Matters: Put the most trusted, independent location data and technology platform to work for your business.

    • Orchestrated co-marketing and API partnerships with some of the biggest names in pop culture: Ticketmaster, MTV, Kanye, Jay Z, etc.
  • Viacom

    Manager Creative Digital Strategy, MTV Scratch

    Apr 2009 - May 2011

    Creating culture and conversation for audiences around the world.

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