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James Zayner

James Zayner

Head of Sales & Marketing

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director of Marketing, helping scale your inbound leads while making sense of your marketing costs.

  • Education

    • University of Wisconsin-Parkside

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      Bachelor's degree Marketing

    • Lewis University

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      Business

      Activities and Societies: Men's Varsity Soccer

    • Reforge

      2022 -
      Completion Growth Marketing

  • Experience

    • The Frame Shop

      Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
      Head of Sales & Marketing

      • Responsible for generating all new business in the City of Chicago, and creating lasting relationships with the arts community, constantly hitting 100%+ quota MoM.• Led a two year sales and marketing campaign that facilitated the opening of two new stores and a 300% recurring revenue increase.• Spearheaded the initiation of a major partnership that lead to an amazing lease deal on a new location that did very well for the company.•Constructed email marketing campaigns and cold calling best practices for targeted verticals. Show less

    • The ODIN

      Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
      Director of E-Commerce

      • Responsible for creating a global brand to market to users new to science.• Created a customer friendly image of genetic engineering kits through marketing efforts including email, live events, SEO, social media, print marketing, and content strategy resulting in $6,000 > $35,000/month revenue.• Created brand communities online to generate sales leads.• Represented The ODIN at conferences, tradeshows, and meet-ups around the Bay Area.

    • VR Kiosk

      Apr 2017 - Sept 2018
      Founder

      •Created partnerships with many hotel locations looking to provide a technical futuristic experience like The Virtual Reality Guestbook.• Managed and maintained an elaborated lead funnel in Streak logging day to day contact with each client.• Developed, manufactured and executed a product in 3 short months that is in revenue.• Focused on the distribution of future tech solutions for entertainment and content creation.

    • NeuroExplorer VR

      Jun 2017 - Sept 2018
      Co-Founder

      I did all of the artwork for our grant application which we received $50,000 from Oculus to finish the concept, and now I am tasked with getting it to market with a successful sales strategy.Launching on Oculus Store August 2018.

    • LaunchDarkly

      Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
      Senior Strategic Business Developer

      LaunchDarkly is a feature management system for developers.

    • Teleport

      Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
      Demand Generation Manager

      Teleport is a privileged access management platform for software infrastructure.

    • Courier

      Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
      Sr. Growth Marketing Manager

      Courier is a notification management system for software developers.

    • Letterdrop

      Sept 2023 - Feb 2024
      Growth Marketing Leader

      Letterdrop is an AI marketing tool the streamlines the content creation process from ingesting relevant content ideas on sales calls, to implementing SEO and editing best practices, to distributing across the web.

    • Pavilion

      Jan 2024 - now
      Executive Member

      Pavilion is an expert community of GTM professionals where knowledge that is shared and user generate most of the content and materials to learn from each other.

    • Modernize

      Apr 2024 - now
      Director of Marketing, B2B

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Hubspot Inbound Marketing Certification

      HubSpot
      Apr 2020

    • Google Analytics for Beginners

      Google
      Apr 2020
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    • Google Ads/Search Certification

      Google
      Jun 2020
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to James Zayner
      Oculus Launchpad Fellowship Oculus Jan 2018 Oculus has a competition each year to endow content creators with a fellowship to create their dream concept. My Co-Founders Fifer Garbesi and Troy Allen Norcross won this award and the app will be available on the Oculus Store in late July.
    • Awarded to James Zayner
      Roland Jansky Scholarship For The Arts Trenton Baylor Aug 2010 I was issued the top art scholarship while I attended my arts program.

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by Cityteam on May 2015
      CityteamAssociated with James Zayner

    • Junior Board Member

      Issued by First Star, Inc. on Jul 2014
      First Star, Inc.Associated with James Zayner

    • Fundraiser

      Issued by Back2Back Ministries on Oct 2015
      Back2Back MinistriesAssociated with James Zayner

    • Volunteer

      Issued by National Ovarian Cancer Coalition on Jun 2014
      National Ovarian Cancer CoalitionAssociated with James Zayner