Kristin O’Rourke

Experience

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  Kristin O'Rourke (KAM Strategic Consulting LLC)

  Founder and CEO

  Jan 2016 - Present

  Founded single person growth marketing consulting firm that serves digital-first brands with yearly budgets up to $16M. Clients: ALOHA, Basis, Beautyrest, Capitalize, CarmaCare, Dormify, Fable (Pets), Finch, MMLaFleur, Mockingbird (Strollers), Oatly, Pinrose, Realm, Serta, Tomorrow Sleep, Tracksmith, Tuft & Needle, and Ursa Major

  • Work with executive teams at various phases, including pre-launch, launch, growth, and scale to define marketing and business goals based on funding, resources, company lifecycle, competitors, and historical track record.
  • Identify gaps within marketing strategies, operations, digital infrastructure, and agency partners; effectively create business cases for new initiatives, and present to key stakeholders.
  • Build marketing budget and channel allocation models based on KPIs and business strategy.
  • Obtain buy-in and strategic feedback on full-funnel marketing campaigns and new feature launches; implement procedures to execute, drive measurable results, and streamline internal processes.
  • Analyze marketing data to drive continuous improvement and hypothesis-led testing of new concepts.
  • Assist in talent recruitment and re-organization of internal teams. Vet, negotiate, and manage agencies.
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  Hologram Sciences

  VP, Growth

  Jun 2021 - Mar 2023

  Founded in 2021 and backed by Royal DSM with $100M, Hologram Sciences builds and launches personalized subscription-based nutrition brands and partners with in-market brands. Brands: d.velop (Vitamin D), Phenology (Menopause – including CBD products), Healthy Aging (collab with Haleon), and Momentous (Athletic & Human Performance).

  • First marketing hire after CMO; managed growth team of four across acquisition, retention, and eComm
  • Oversaw numerous consultants and acted as primary contact for external agencies across paid social, paid search, Amazon, SEO, website development, analytics, data, content, UGC, influencer, and affiliate.
  • Defined and launched full-funnel GTM acquisition strategies, from paid ads and landing pages to lead nurture and conversions, with a keen focus on customer segmentation and behavioral analysis.
  • Developed website roadmap and coordinated with cross functional teams to bring features to life; defined strategic priorities and requirements, managed the budget, and tracked performance.
  • Designed operational and testing frameworks to optimize campaigns across targeting, messaging, and offers.
  • Built and maintained detailed forecast, budget, demand planning, product risk assessment scenarios, and campaign performance reporting
  • Prepared and presented reports to executive team, providing insights and recommendations to improve KPIs (CAC, LTV, AOV, retention cohort, purchase frequency).
  • Partnered with external resources to ensure data cleanliness and optimized MarTech stack.
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  Raden

  Director of Marketing and Operations

  Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

  Joined team of four co-founders prior to March ‘16 launch. Raden, dubbed the “Apple of luggage,” was a connected hardware smart luggage company. $3.5M seed led by First Round Capital and Lerer Hippeau Ventures.

  • Owned marketing budget and defined KPIs to achieve customer and revenue goals.
  • Implemented pre-launch & GTM strategy across paid, organic, earned, and NYC retail store.
  • Dissected campaign performance, identified issues, and leaned into successes; gained insight into multi-touch attribution and reallocated budget.
  • Collaborated with product, CX, operations, and tech to prioritize and optimize high impact opportunities to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, and advocacy.
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  Oyster (acquired by Google)

  Growth Marketing Manager

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

  Joined as 18TH employee and second growth hire. Oyster, dubbed the “Netflix of books,” was a streaming app and web service for ebooks. $3M seed led Founders Fund and $14M led by Highland Capital Partners.

  • Led growth initiatives focused on subscription based service and single ebook purchases for both app and web products with a yearly budget in the millions.
  • Oversaw budget, agency relationships, campaign management and analysis, and exploration of new tools and channels (paid social and search, affiliate, branded content, partnerships, direct mail, audio, display, video, and native).
  • Partnered with strategy and data science team to increase the sophistication of analyses, including regression forecasts. and machine learning models to understand reader cohorts and deploy hypothesis-led testing of new concepts.
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  BONOBOS (acquired by Walmart)

  Performance Marketing Associate

  May 2012 - May 2014

  Joined with 60 employees and as second growth hire with the focus of bringing marketing in-house.

  • Spearheaded brand as one of the first DTC brands to invest media budget in Meta and podcast; led efforts across display, video, SEO, affiliate, student & military program, print catalog, and retail.
  • Managed yearly growth budget in the millions and worked cross functionally to achieve KPIs.
  • Provided channel performance updates to leadership and fostered a culture of continuous optimization by developing a framework for fast, recurring, and iterative testing.
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  Goldman Sachs

  US Equity Sales Financial Analyst

  Jul 2010 - May 2012

  • Worked with senior salespeople to build and maintain relationships with mutual fund and hedge fund clients with the goal of helping them achieve excess returns.
  • Identified, synthesized, and pitched new investment opportunities from research, traders, and strategists that met client’s strategic and financial portfolio requirements.
  • Partnered with Equity Capital Markets on IPOs and follow-on offerings to identify client interest and price deals; pitched offerings to clients, assisted in due diligence, and hosted management meetings.