Vetted Market Research Professionals

“Sales/business development candidate with hands-on outbound experience targeting Amazon FBA sellers, combining cold calling and LinkedIn outreach with event-based lead generation at seller conferences. Uses AI tools (Notion, Gemini, ChatGPT) and company research to tailor scripts and messaging based on a prospect’s growth stage and needs, with a focus on SMEs seeking Amazon reimbursement services.”

“Entrepreneurial builder using Claude Code to rapidly prototype multiple product ideas and validate them with target users via social channels. Created and launched NotePulse (a lower-priced Notionlytics alternative), acquiring a dozen early users through Reddit-driven discovery and light paid experiments, with a strong emphasis on MVP scoping and product polish.”

“Brand/partnership leader with high-profile celebrity brand experience, including launching the Kardashian Kollection into hundreds of stores and hiring 50 VIP selling specialists nationwide. Managed end-to-end brand management across product, placement, and retailer/celebrity stakeholder satisfaction, and was promoted to VP of a fragrance endeavor within 6 months; also partnered closely with Revlon on an Elizabeth Taylor fragrance launch (GWP/packaging).”

“Founder/CEO of a consumer products startup since 2020 who has raised angel funding and reinvested it into R&D, product development, production, and expert legal/industry support (has not taken a salary). Former financial and deals consultant who applies rigorous market, buyer-landscape, and exit-path analysis (including Blue Ocean Strategy) to choose and execute opportunities, with a strong commitment to entrepreneurship.”

“Growth creative/performance marketer currently at Walmart who led Walmart+ checkout announcement/enhancement campaigns end-to-end, combining user behavior analysis, customer feedback, and multi-variant A/B testing. Reported measurable funnel and revenue-adjacent lifts (faster checkout, nearly doubled first-time completion, +18% repeat visits, +$1.2 basket size) and uses Power BI plus platform analytics (Meta/TikTok/YouTube) to drive rapid, modular creative iteration with creators and editors.”

“AI Product Manager who also operates as a product marketer/CRM lifecycle lead, focused on behavior-driven onboarding and retention. Has delivered measurable growth through segmentation, multi-channel lifecycle programs, and experimentation (e.g., activation +23%, TTFV -30%, retention +14%), and led a cross-functional chatbot integration that improved course completion (+23%) while reducing refunds (-15%).”

“Hands-on engineering leader with 22 years in marine vessel monitoring/control who spans embedded electronics/software through cloud services. Built end-to-end telemetry platforms (sensors to cloud to web UI/API) and led a shift from low-level implementations to web-native technologies to accelerate delivery and broaden the hiring pool, while also scaling teams with a strong culture of openness and accountability.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience selecting and rolling out an analytics dashboard vendor end-to-end—using stakeholder discovery, POCs, and a scoring matrix—then negotiating a ~26% cost reduction and waiving implementation fees. Also demonstrates strong trade compliance instincts by catching and correcting an incorrect tariff code that would have increased duties ~18%, and uses structured milestone/risk tracking (RAG) to keep OTD and approvals on track.”

“Cross-functional corporate operations/real estate leader with experience delivering office consolidation, finance centralization, and facilities management transformation programs. Implemented a digital budgeting/forecasting tool covering ~$700MM in costs and automated reporting into OneStream to improve executive visibility and reduce errors. Experienced in portfolio optimization and executive steering committee governance to maintain alignment across Real Estate, IT, and FM stakeholders.”

“Corporate development / corporate strategy M&A professional from a small boutique consulting firm (Aleris Acquisitions) who also owned internal ops improvements. Led the shift from manual spreadsheet-based tracking to HubSpot with pipeline scoring/prioritization, created enablement materials to drive adoption, and regularly supported founders in tech/tool decision-making through structured presentations and demos.”

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“Marketing designer focused on modern, high-polish creative across direct mail, responsive web, and lightweight social video. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks to support high-volume campaign output with bulk-edit efficiency and minimal quality drift, and collaborates closely with UA/growth and product partners in fully remote, async workflows (Slack/Figma/Loom).”

“Founder of an early-stage molecular diagnostics startup currently pursuing an MVP and awaiting NSF feedback on an SBIR/STTR grant. During COVID, assessed roughly a dozen diagnostic/PPE technologies and worked with interdisciplinary teams (engineering, legal, MBA, and clinical trainees) to repurpose and patent 2–3 for commercialization.”

“Growth marketer from earthnutre who led a zero-to-one conversion and traffic-quality improvement project combining SEO, landing page/CRO, and paid-media measurement. Used SEMrush-driven high-intent keyword restructuring plus phased page optimizations with control comparisons, then tied results to paid performance—reporting ~15% lower CPA and ~30% MoM ROAS lift. Also runs a modular, data-driven creative iteration process across Meta/TikTok/YouTube and provides performance-based guidance to creators/editors.”

“Customer-facing technical professional experienced in productionizing complex systems (including LLM/agentic workflows) and high-volume cloud data pipelines. Built and hardened a near-real-time data extraction/caching solution that significantly reduced latency and became a reusable pattern for other enterprise use cases; also runs developer demos/workshops with hands-on test environments and has driven 30–50% latency improvements.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with hands-on CAPEX equipment sourcing experience, building RFI/RFP packages, qualifying new vendors, and negotiating using market and internal spend data. Demonstrated process-improvement impact by redesigning proposal evaluations into a parallel workflow, cutting sourcing cycle time by ~20% while maintaining evaluation rigor.”

“Operator who took a seed-funded university spin-off in cybersecurity from zero revenue and heavy losses to profitability and industry leadership, while building the full internal ops stack (HR/payroll/benefits/401k) and the initial GTM engine (Salesforce/HubSpot, SPIN + MEDPICC). Personally led fundraising across 30+ VC pitches, raising $11.2M total and delivering $98M returned to investors to date, with additional upside from a subsequent spin-off.”

“Operations/program leader with experience at Open Core Ventures driving cross-functional initiatives across content/engineering and legal/tax operations. Built systems-heavy process improvements (public handbook + SOP frameworks, DRI accountability) and delivered measurable outcomes like +30% Hacker News front-page frequency and ~80% faster company formation.”

“Senior Membership Manager at Chief who operated in a player/coach leadership role across US/UK teams. Partnered with CRO and RevOps to shift the business from a city-by-city model to a national GTM, scaling membership from 3,400 to 20,000+ and lifting conversion 10% through revamped workflows, enablement, and data-driven KPI dashboards.”

“Built and owned "Cortex," an AI agent that helps users understand large GitHub repositories by mapping architecture and relationships between files/folders in minutes. Implemented an agentic, multi-stage prompt decomposition approach and validated it across open-source repos, while also doing legacy service modernization work involving dependency upgrades and refactors.”

“Customer Success/CSM leader with Freshworks enterprise experience owning complex accounts end-to-end (onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion). Demonstrated impact through quantified outcomes (e.g., +20% resolution speed, +15% CSAT, +25% handling-time improvement) and strong cross-functional execution on high-stakes integrations (Freshdesk–Salesforce) plus product influence via PRDs/user stories (Shopify integration improvements).”

“Sales/business development candidate with hands-on outbound experience across donor/partner and community stakeholder outreach, including multi-channel campaigns (email, word-of-mouth, door-to-door) managed through Salesforce. Applied data-driven targeting (NY census) to focus outreach on high-poverty areas and has experience operating in an early-stage/ambiguous environment at NBC during the Paris Olympics, using proactive coordination and meetings to create structure.”

“Business development and partnerships leader with sports/gaming experience who helped deploy Low6’s free-to-play gamification platform across 20+ NCAA schools through a LEARFIELD deal, acting as the cross-functional liaison from tech implementation through marketing and prizing. Currently building the Sports & Entertainment division at drive21 (experiential graphic design), owning both the go-to-market pitch and post-sale partnership execution while operating closely with founders/executives.”