Colleen Gao

Experience

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  Great Ocean Reality

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2016

  Sales Manager
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  Accent Group

  Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

  Sales
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  SOSA

  Nov 2017 - Jan 2018

  Marketing Intern

  ✖️ UQ Ideas Hub Scholarship Participant ✖️ Immersed myself in the fast paced Israeli ecosystem ✖️Created content pieces for SOSA's new content system ✖️ Managed their social media handles

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  Scrunch

  Jan 2018 - Feb 2018

  Campaign Manager Intern

  ✖️At Scrunch, I executed paid influencer campaigns based on client's requirements. During my time, I worked with UnderArmour, Youfoodz and Bubz AUS. ✖️Managed + booked talent and ensured content was delivered to schedule. ✖️Supported the team with promotional activities. ✖️Created reports + analysed analytics in providing supporting evidence for the client.

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  Attract.ai

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

  Marketing Manager

  ✖️Attract.ai is a powerful talent attraction tool that finds a beautiful balance between human touch and cutting-edge artificial intelligence. We make it easy to find, qualify and engage with the best software developers.✖️At Attract.ai, I am the inhouse marketing manager, CMO (Chief Merch Officer) and DJ (Listen to us here 👉 http://bit.ly/DJAttractBot)✖️Content creator. Content, content and more content. Blog content. Content to improve SEO. Social media content. Meme content. In-house collateral content. Website content. Email content. All of the content. Wanna see some content? Sign up to our newsletter here 👉https://attract.ai/#newsletter-contact✖️Social media manager. Created and manage all social media accounts. Eg, more content. ✖️Experimenter. Made friends with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and good ol' Excel. I love extracting the relevant data to then analyze and create meaningful insights to drive our marketing strategies. Always testing. Always iterating. ✖️Stratigiser. I love getting to be creative in creating strategy, implementing and then seeing all of the results. ✖️Events. I love going to events and so I'm lucky in the fact that I get to organise them for attract.ai. Growing an idea, putting it into a plan and then executing. Managing internal and external stakeholder relationships. Reaching out to brands, building relationships and then creating awesome collaborations. Good times. Show less

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  Phillips Group

  May 2018 - Dec 2018

  ✖️ Upon completing my internship, I was offered a position as a Consultant to work on corporate, public and infrastructure sector clients.✖️ I was given the opportunity to work on across a range of communication practice areas including marketing, stakeholder engagement, and media relations. My strong task and people management skills helped develop positive relationships with clients, stakeholders and colleagues. ✖️ Worked extensively in developing analytical and creative collateral across digital and print media, developing and publishing digital content in consultation with key project stakeholders across multiple platforms, ensuring cross-channel consistency of messages and branding. Show less

  • Public Relations Consultant

    Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Public Relations Intern

    May 2018 - Jul 2018
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  Future Females

  Apr 2019 - Sept 2022

  City Ambassador - Brisbane

  Future Females exists to connect, inspire and support current and aspiring female entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs – to rapidly increase the number of and success of these women. I'm excited to be building other Brisbane gals up!! www.futurefemales.co

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  Askable

  Mar 2020 - now

  ✖️ What happens when you start a Growth role as a pandemic hits? Hi and welcome to my first day at Askable! ✖️ You just adapt and make magic happen. You introduce physical for virtual coffee packs to engage clients for meeting to chat business but also to have fun doing it. ✖️ You help then create new products that help your clients through this time like Askable Live and Askable+. Coupled with good listening skills and a bit of consulting, you bring on new clients, grow existing ones which then enables business growth by 113% in the first 12 months, then 250% in the following 12 months. ✖️ With revenue growth, sees the need for people growth. So I help with the Ops on that. Bringing in people is actually one of my favorite things about this role. It's tough to find great talent but through hosting awesome events, being involved in the community, and just listening to what other people want, it's actually not as bad as people make it out to be. Oh and in case you have no idea what Askable does: Askable exists for the legends who test, the ones that ask the hard questions and gain the real insights. Askable is a platform that lets you find and schedule the perfect participants in minutes, without the chaos. And I get to help grow this epic business in Australia and NZ 🥳Our Story: Askable was born through Orange Digital's innovation facility. We had experienced way too much frustration when it came to recruiting participants for user testing, so we fixed it. Since our 2017 launch, the team has grown to over 10 and our platform now recruits participants for some of Australia's biggest brands. Big mood. Show less

  • Head of UK

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Head of Growth

    Mar 2020 - now
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  Assisterhood

  Feb 2022 - now

  Community Manager