Vetted Budget Management Professionals

“Senior Paid Ads Manager/PPC Consultant with experience owning and scaling $50K–$200K+/month budgets across Google Search/LSA, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Display for US home services and legal clients. Emphasizes lead quality and profitability (call tracking via CallRail, GA4, and CRM feedback) and uses a rigorous testing framework to drive outcomes like ~40% CPL reduction and significant qualified-lead growth.”

“Performance marketer focused on hospitality (hotel + F&B) who owned multi-platform paid media (Google/Meta/Bing) to drive direct bookings and restaurant event leads. Delivered a major ROAS lift on Google Ads (~2:1 to ~25:1) and rapidly grew retargeting audiences (<1K to 10K in 60 days), while navigating creative fatigue and competitive keyword constraints with disciplined testing and auction-insights-driven decisions.”

“Cross-functional operator at Andium who led founder-level initiatives spanning next-gen product launch + legacy sunset, built decision-driven operating cadences (dashboards, memos, blocker tracking), and drove international expansion after a Series B led by Saudi Aramco. Also supported a $6M strategic opportunity in Australia by coordinating pricing, product feedback loops, and internal alignment across an AI-enabled SaaS + hardware business.”

“Former Division III college football coach with extensive experience supporting collegiate and professional athletes, including work with Under Armour athletes (e.g., Kelsey Plum, Steph Curry) and Baltimore Ravens player engagement. While not hockey-specific, they emphasize end-to-end athlete guidance (goal-setting, transparency, family support) plus social media/profile-building to increase athlete visibility.”

“Recruiting Ops/Preboarding leader who owned end-to-end TA operations and the full recruiting tech stack, directly managing 8 team members within a 15–20 person recruiting org. Drove measurable efficiency gains by automating an AI assessment workflow (12% faster time-to-fill in 5 months) and supported extreme high-volume hiring (800+ agent hires in 2022). Led tool rollouts (Metaview) and was recognized with a bonus for leadership during a cross-company HRIS transition.”

“Founding engineer at a previous company who reports owning all products end-to-end from ideation through launch and inventing the company's flagship technology/products; emphasizes making development tradeoffs to deliver safe, functional, usable, ergonomic products.”

“Currently at Magnum managing a small global team (NY/London/Paris) and leading analytics operations, including financial reporting for a Shopify-based ecommerce platform. Partnered directly with a newly appointed CFO and COO during a significant org change involving elimination of three global director roles, coached the COO through difficult conversations, and supported a senior promotion that included navigating an H-1B visa process.”

“Engineering leader with experience at Replenium, Savo Group, Radnet, and MatricOne, focused on business-aligned roadmaps and transparent, servant-style leadership. Notable for scaling teams quickly (18→36 in 6 months) and resolving high-impact performance incidents by leveraging DevOps data (reframed a suspected memory leak as a memory spike). Has led pragmatic build-vs-buy architecture decisions (waiting for a Microsoft transaction server) and uses Agile/CI/CD practices to drive consistent delivery.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketer with experience reactivating inactive members in a gaming/loyalty context, using RFM-style segmentation and multi-channel journeys (email plus host phone outreach). Demonstrated measurable lift (20% reactivation/engagement) and optimization through A/B testing of incentive strategy, while coordinating closely with Creative, Operations, and Compliance during major campaigns.”

“People-operations and L&D operations builder who helped a young organization (TGH-USF People Development Institute) standardize workflows using a People-Process-Platform approach. Implemented scalable policies and centralized intake systems (web forms) and partnered closely with HR/payroll to resolve vendor/facilitator payment delays. Known for coaching executives without ops backgrounds by translating operational concepts into clear, practical language.”

“Cybersecurity leader with 13 years in IT/cyber and 8 years in management, currently managing ~200 people while innovating explainable AI (XAI) for military/high-stakes decision-making. Experienced with large budgets, resource allocation, and investor engagement, and is motivated to build a proactive, future-focused cyber company centered on Zero Trust and human-overseen XAI.”

“Audio engineer with 10 years of experience using Pro Tools for sound design and music/SFX editing to picture. Has delivered educational longform content for Nearpod, including culturally specific music choices (e.g., oud-driven Middle Eastern cues) and prioritizes dialogue intelligibility through ducking and mix adjustments; typically turns projects around in 1–2 days using templates.”

“Performance marketer managing high-spend, multi-platform paid media for major brands (e.g., Navistar, Buick), with end-to-end ownership from strategy to reporting. Uses multivariate testing and trend-based budget reallocations to drive measurable lifts (27–60% KPI improvements) and significant outperformance (2.8x vs forecast), and has experience removing conversion friction by replacing lead forms with landing page + chat-based flows.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with hands-on Braze automation experience, running cross-channel (email + push) onboarding and milestone campaigns for an app-based content product. Demonstrated strong activation metrics on Day 0 and drove a 10% week-over-week churn reduction by partnering with Customer Service on winback save-rate and scripting tests.”

“GS-9 federal civilian Human Resource Specialist supporting Navy recruiting at Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn), leading ~12 military recruiters and overseeing elements of contracting and security clearance processing via NASIS. Brings prior Army experience (medically discharged) plus a BS in Legal Studies/Criminology and is starting an MBA in Global Management & Leadership, with a strong data-driven approach to executive stakeholder decisions.”

“Founder who has raised $2.5MM from angel investors to build and operate smart beverage fountains in fitness studios that dispense user-personalized hydration. Former Pentair product manager (residential water purification) who identified an on-demand purified + additive-dosed beverage opportunity and chose to pursue it as a startup, using lean customer discovery, MVP prototyping, and pitch-competition-driven fundraising.”

“Merchandising/brand partnerships professional with Hot Topic experience sourcing and scaling licensed collaborations (e.g., Monster High with Mattel) by using social/customer demand signals and post-launch sell-through/ratings analysis. Strong in vendor/licensing negotiations to improve wholesale costs and margins, and in data-driven assortment planning with weekly performance reviews and seasonality-based inventory strategies.”

“Has worked at a startup within an incubator program and is a certified mentor with a startup mentorship non-profit focused on early-stage/pre-funded companies. Not currently seeking to found a company or take equity-only roles, but open to working at very early-stage companies (pre-launch/pre-revenue/pre-funded).”

“Senior technology leader focused on joining existing organizations to build and scale products rather than founding at all costs. Has turned a recurring manual data-process bottleneck into a production platform by validating via user interviews, integrating with legacy systems through phased decoupling, and improving reliability with strong data validation/observability while driving cross-team adoption.”

“Longtime S-Corp founder (20+ years) who evolved from running a web agency to becoming a Shopify expert contracted by agencies/brands to upskill teams and lead enterprise eCommerce builds. Recently built and launched a payment-links/QR-code web app in weeks that gained 20 users on day one without advertising; now looking to pivot toward building a scalable product business not tied to hourly contracting.”

“Operations/people leader with strong analytics orientation who has led large multi-site teams and built KPI dashboards to drive measurable performance gains. Notably improved a high-volume intake process at NYCHHC by ~20% through real-time throughput/wait-time tracking and workflow standardization, and partnered with senior leaders at Amalgamated Bank to lift engagement by 15%.”

“Recruiting Operations leader who has managed teams up to 6 across local/remote/international (including Brazil) and specializes in building multi-site recruiting infrastructure. Led multiple ATS implementations (most recently UKG to Ceridian Dayforce, covering ATS + onboarding) and redesigned high-volume hiring events into a measurable engine, cutting candidate wait times by 30% and improving hiring outcomes.”

“Talent/recruiting operations leader with 6+ years experience who built end-to-end hiring processes for a ~60-person organization and managed nearly a dozen external recruiters across vendors. Known for streamlining hiring workflows (kickoffs, centralized hiring hubs, dossiers, EA enablement) and cutting time-to-hire from ~90 to ~60 days; hands-on with Lever analytics and Notion-based process documentation/training.”

“Operator-turned-CEO coach who founded and scaled a laundry services business from a $500 start into an international, multi-location chain. Led high-stakes retail merger integration and rapid store expansion at Advance Auto Parts (600→1,200 stores in ~9 months; 2,500+ additional openings over 5 years) and developed an OGSI operations framework adopted by dozens of companies.”