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Daniel Harper

Senior Growth Marketer | Developer Marketing | B2B SaaS

Experience

Director of Marketing

May 2024 - Present

Flatiron School, New York, NY

  • • Drove awareness and demand via advertising, content and communications initiatives
  • • Developed editorial strategy and calendar across owned and earned channels
  • • Led SEO strategy to deliver month-over-month non-paid growth
  • • Developed strategy and led execution for paid marketing, lifecycle marketing, SEO and content
  • • Owned regular communication of marketing performance in cross-functional settings
  • • Nurtured and mentored 12+ direct reports to maximize their potential
  • • Built and managed team executing AI content initiatives using automation and LLMs

Sr. Demand Generation Lead

April 2021 - December 2023; October 2025 - Present

RudderStack, San Francisco, CA

  • • Joined at seed stage (<$1M ARR) as the second marketing hire
  • • Marketed open source, cloud software to data engineers
  • • Built team and inbound programs supporting PLG, marketing-led, and sales-led growth motions
  • • Achieved 24x business growth to >$12M ARR in 2.5 years, with over 80% due to inbound programs
  • • Created a library of 10k+ programmatic, search optimized pages driving $2M in pipeline in less than two years
  • • Drove 10x growth in traffic, leads, and MQL in 2.5 years

Founder, Director of Growth

January 2018 - Present

MKTG MGMT, Greenville, SC

  • • Help small businesses and startups scale as utility players and marketing managers
  • • Provide access to network of data architects, designers and developers
  • • Projects include strategy, branding, web development, CDP/CRM implementations, SEO, PPC, content marketing

Digital Strategist

July 2017 - February 2021

FUEL Digital Marketing, Greenville, SC

  • • Worked with 20+ clients across multiple industries managing SEO, SEM/PPC, email marketing and social media
  • • HubSpot certified, Google Ads certified, Google Analytics certified

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Music Production & Engineering

August 2009 - May 2014

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with GPA of 3.8

Skills

Strategy & Ownership

  • • Developer Marketing
  • • GTM Strategy
  • • Pipeline Generation & Forecasting
  • • Email Marketing & Automation
  • • Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

Technical Marketing

  • • Technical/Developer Documentation
  • • Agentic Search Optimization (SEO/AEO)
  • • Performance Marketing (SEM, PPC, Display, Retargeting, Social)
  • • Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
  • • Field Marketing, Webinars, Events
  • • Out-of-Home (OOH) Advertising
  • • Referral Programs
  • • Marketing Operations

Technical Skills

  • • Basic Python, JS, Excel, SQL, RegEx
  • • Managing Tracking Plans & Data Layer
  • • Identifying Errors & Optimizing (vibe) Code
  • • Using CLI & Git for CI/CD Workflows
  • • Conversion Tracking
  • • Using APIs & Webhooks for Integration

Tools & Technologies

Data & Analytics:RudderStack, Segment, Snowflake, Postgres, dbt, Sigma, Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, GA4, Onverre
Marketing Automation:n8n, Resend, Customer.io, Zapier, Marketo
Web & Developer Platforms:Vercel, v0, Railway, Netlify, Gatsby, Next.js, Sanity, Webflow, WordPress
Developer Tools & Docs:GitHub, GitLab, Mintlify, ReadMe, Notion, Linear
CRM & Sales:Salesforce, HubSpot, Close, Attio
Testing & Optimization:Statsig, VWO, Mutiny
Advertising & Paid Media:Google Ads, Bing Ads, Adroll/Rollworks, 6sense, Meta Ads
SEO/AEO:Profound, Bear, Search Console, Jasper, Clearscope, Surfer
AI:Claude Code, Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini/Nano, Banana, Perplexity

Featured Project

RudderStack.com — SEO, CRO, Content, Inbound Traffic

Grew unique users 10x over 2.5 years, from 13k to over 130k monthly users through comprehensive SEO strategy, conversion rate optimization, and inbound marketing programs.