Cody Browne: Director, Growth Marketing in Irvine, CA

Cody Browne
Director, Growth Marketing
Irvine | United States
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Director, Growth Marketing | 05/2018 - Current
• Built and structured partnerships to increase and accelerate user growth worldwide.
• Prospected, and conducted and participated in networking with major media partners which aligned with our long-term,
lifetime organizational goals.
• Drove relationships with partners across creative, product, marketing and legal.
• Aligned brand creative with global media and advertising acquisition/GTM teams to coordinate efforts against broader
media, market and localization goals.
• Managed external partners and brand ambassador strategy hyperfocused on meeting partnership timelines and KPI's.
• Oversaw local and global creative including product shoots, commercial shoots, and agency partnerships to build
everchanging marketing campaigns which align with our consumer-base.
• Selected, attracted, motivated, retained and trained members of our creative and marketing workforce.
• Lead strategic and complex projects which directly impact global brand recognition and consumer conversion.
• Developed internal workflows and recommended operational enhancements to global teams to scale new offers and development tools for creators.
• Worked directly with our global CEO to implement new, modern internal corporate communications which motivated staff
and talent.
• Built cultural relevance through planning and execution of strategic events, partnerships and innovative modern-day
community engagement.
• Utilized consumer insights to understand and develop insight-driven decisions to scale brand growth.
• Drove growth and impact across all major international KPI's including: consumers, revenue, conversion, marketing ROI,
LTV, and retention.
Starbucks Coffee Company
Sr. Growth Marketing Manager | 01/2016 - 05/2018
• Created and built strategy, media plans and advertising buys across programmatic channel partners.
• Responsible for negotiation and execution of programmatic and direct buys.
• Managed audiences, creatives, budget and bidding strategies to maximize efficiency; including technical setup of experiments and analysis of results in conjunction with cross-functional teams within the organization.
• Maintained a data-driven approach through continual experimentation and optimization to exceed aggressive company
goals
• Oversaw all marketing and communications initiatives to all external consumer conflicts and resolution management.
• Collaborated with product, engineering, and consumer engagement teams to build features and creatives that drove brand
growth.
• Owned end-to-end channel measurement, attribution, optimization and automation funnel points for the corporate
leadership division.
• Created in-store marketing campaigns to drive new consumer bases.
• Managed in-store marketing for west coast and east coast concept and flagship stores for A/B in-store and digital end
point tests.
• Launched consumer retargeting and reengagement campaigns which focused on specific touch-point drop offs within the starbucks mobile app and starbucks.com
• Developed hyper-focused growth strategies and media KPI's to drive consumer growth and retention.
• Responsible for redlining and revising all digital end-point copy on all major social media platforms including: Instagram,
Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and competitor retargeting advertisements.
• Collaborated with brand influencers and key media personnel to execute strategic, relevant brand presence in the modern
media.

Adidas
Communications Manager, Originals | 01/2012 - 01/2016
• Demonstrated strong leadership and cross-functional excellence in a competitive omni-channel environment.
• Aligned daily with senior global leadership to develop and implement long term visionary marketing strategies through
internal, digital, and physical space.
• Drove integrated marketing processes to enable effective implementation through global, geo, and city planning strategy.
• Drove seasonal plans with cross-functional partners to enable successful campaign growth.
• Oversaw end-point copywriting for Yeezy, NMD, and Originals product franchises.
• Lead brand concepts and creative development, marketing briefs, and utilized both internal and external marketing tools
to fuel brand growth.
• Wrote content and assisted in managing both e-commerce, digital driven product activations and in-store retail activations
for Yeezy, NMD, and Originals product line campaigns.
• Coordinated digital promotions, in-store events, and cultural movements in key-cities.
• Created and drove annual concept maps on behalf of the Originals category in alignment with external partner accounts.
• Pushed boundaries with new concept marketing techniques and campaigns for various categories to align with market
demographics throughout key cities.
• Wrote digital copy for digital e-commerce product categories on adidas.com.
• Wrote physical copy for in-store marketing campaigns for global retail partners and corporate adidas Originals retail
locations.
The Walt Disney Company
Marketing and Communications Manager, Theme Parks & Resorts | 01/2008 - 01/2012
Acted as a primary point of contact for all social media platform partners that include, but are not limited to, Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and the like.
• Managed strategy for fan interaction and spearheads artist + fan engagement on social media channels and brands tied
to DMG.
• Analyzed and assessed performance across social media channels. This includes performance of individual posts and content, as well as broad trends across platforms.
• Worked closely with advertising leads to coordinate campaign based native posts.
• Provided brand-building digital ideas to PMs and stakeholders, providing new avenues of visibility and reach for our artists
and Disney projects
• Built strategy focused on maximizing monetization of social platforms where applicable.
• Focused on developing growth strategies and running programs to drive theme park audience growth and engagement
across new theme park attractions and offerings.
• Developed and led the daily planning and operations of developing data-driven, segmented marketing campaigns,
lifecycle promotions and dynamic messaging through push, email, web, app and other channels in order to acquire, engage
and retain global audiences throughout the user lifecycle.
• Identified and developed strategic growth opportunities by leveraging data and insights from across our Digital Media
product portfolio Own and execute lifecycle marketing strategies to grow our audiences
• Developed cross-channel (email, push, in-app, SEM/SEO, display, video, fan engagement, and content marketing) plans
to achieve business targets; execute and measure successes to report business impact and drive ongoing planning to build and understand core consumer insights to drive effective audience segmentation.
Dim Mak Records (Steve Aoki)
Public Relations Manager | 09/2006 - 05/2010
• Pitched and secured media opportunities across entertainment, lifestyle and hospitality publications
• Coordinated logistics for interviews and photo shoots
• Interfaced directly with media outlets, sponsors, and venues
• Managed relationships across multiple continents and countries
• Regularly created touring and event schedules, contracts, artist riders, and event agreements
• Monitored press and media channels for ad placement, social media engagement and reputation management
• Worked closely with artists, celebrities, and influencers to promote shows and events
• Worked closely with recording artists to seed new music and remixes
• Provided media updates regularly to multiple departments and artist
• Responsible for all ticketing and social media engagement surrounding all ticketed/pre-sale events
• Regularly attended all industry events to foster brand and media relationships
• Managed all digital content assets across social media
• Scheduled radio and television appearances for recording artists
• Drafted and announced press-releases across influencer, musician, and publication database
• Launched, maintained, coordinated all aspects of our Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly events
• Managed all on-site touring and event logistics within the United States