Kyle Mears
 

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Full-stack B2B Marketing Professional

Accomplished leader with 10+ years of experience leading revenue and operational excellence, with 2x acquisitions and 1x IPO under my belt. Repeated success in exceeding annual revenue and growth goals by working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver award-winning campaigns. Thrive when given the freedom to develop out-of-the-box strategies to push the boundaries of what is possible when marrying online and offline marketing initiatives to drive both revenue growth and brand equity

 

Experience

Cohda, Head of Client Strategy

March 2024 - Current | Remote

  • Developed and implemented long-term marketing and sales strategies for small to mid-sized financial firms

  • Onboarding new clients, helping them develop KPIs and dashboards to quantify growth and revenue goals and educating them on marketing best practices, off- and online

  • Coordinated internal and external team members across events, creative, and sales to drive new business growth and new market expansion

  • Led digital transformation initiatives across client technology stacks, helping them in the procurement and implementation processes to unify their software across multiple departments to assist in executive decision making

  • Managed marketing and advertising compliance with SEC and FTC regulations

AvidXchange, Senior Marketing Manager

October 2021 - January 2024 | New York, NY // Remote; Charlotte, NC

  • Managed events, copywriting, creative, and sales teammates to generate full-funnel strategies for new product launches, partnerships, integrations, industry events, client communications, and more across all Media & Advertising product lines

  • Procured and implemented new top-to-bottom tech stack for marketing and sales enablement in coordination with

  • Drove marketing, creative, and sales strategy across multiple product lines to increase national market share by over 200%

  • Onboarded all new sales team members, reducing impact time from six months to 60 days

  • Developed forecasting models and dashboards with sales, marketing, and client services teams for both quarterly and yearly growth targets while improving forecasting accuracy by 40%

  • Partnered with C-Suite and Revenue leadership to lead four new product launches

FastPay, Sales and Marketing Ops. Manager (acquired by AvidXchange)

January 2020 - October 2021 | Los Angeles, CA // Remote

  • Led strategy, messaging, and implementation of omnichannel campaigns across three products

  • Managed day-to-day operations of bi-coastal BDR team across three product lines

  • Drove out-of-the-box lifecycle and retention campaigns during COVID lockdown leading to YoY growth and over 90% customer retention

  • Developed business intelligence targeting and dashboards in junction with sales and marketing leadership to help forecast rapidly changing market trends

  • Worked closely with executive leadership in preparation for AvidXchange acquisition with reporting, presentations, and external and internal communications strategy

Seek Capital, Head of Email Marketing & Automation

April 2019 - October 2019 | Los Angeles, CA

  • Managed day-to-day operations of 40-person in-house salesfloor reporting directly to both VP of Sales and VP of Operations

  • Increased new weekly leads by over 2x by implementing revenue share and referral programs

  • Worked with CEO, Controller, and VP of Operations to forecast quarterly and yearly revenue targets, achieving ~15% MoM growth across all major KPIs

  • Provided weekly presentations to executive leadership and teammates on team KPIs

  • Created end-to-end cold outreach funnels increasing salesperson number of calls made per day by 200% and connection rate to 92%

  • Worked with content marketing and creative teams to create monthly thought leadership content pieces and co-branded marketing campaigns with partners

Account Executive, Silicon Drive

January 2018 - March 2019 | Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA

  • Led account executives and creative strategy across six accounts

  • Provide full-scope leadership for client campaigns including preparation of proposals, financial projections, analysis and performance reporting, and continual campaign updates

  • Worked with early-stage startups in developing GTM strategies and brand identities

  • Worked with client’s executive leadership to determine growth goals, strategies, and brand story in preparation for venture capital fundraising

  • Led creative, analytics, and campaign planning for clients to drive engagement, brand awareness, and new customers

Independent Contractor, Self

October 2014 - January 2017 | San Francisco, CA

  • Worked with various startups on marketing strategy including email marketing, PPC, out-of-home, and events

 
 

Skills

GTM strategy

Sales strategy and enablement

Budget forecasting and management

Cross-functional team leadership

Tech stack creation and management

Business and partnership development

Lifecycle marketing

Business analytics and data science

HTML / CSS

PPC marketing

Digital and traditional marketing strategy

CRM management

Education

San Francisco State University

Business Administration - Marketing | 2012-2015

Founder & President, Phi Delta Xi Fraternity; Trevor Project Campus Ambassador; AIDS Healthcare Foundation Campus Ambassador

RECOGNITION

American In-house Design Awards 2022

Winner – Online Design

Forbes Communications Council

Contributing writer

University of California Extension

Program advisor – Digital Transformation