Juliana Mendez

Interim CMO & Growth Advisor

Juliana Mendez
Barcelona, Spain

Experience

Jul 2023 - Present
1 year 8 months
Hamburg, Germany
Hybrid

Growth Advisor

Taxdoo

Advisory on Growth and supporting transition to a hybrid product-led growth model.

Jul 2022 - Present
2 years 8 months
Germany

Head of Growth Marketing & Sales (Interim)

Madame Moneypenny GmbH

Madame Moneypenny wants to help women in Germany to protect and free themselves from financial dependency by developing their financial knowledge and self-confidence. Madame Moneypenny offers Germany's most successful mentoring program to support women on their path to financial freedom. With Germany's largest female community around finance and investing. Growing the Company from 0 - 30M Annual Revenue strategically Leading the company’s GTM strategy and Marketing, Sales and Product teams.

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
6 months

Growth Advisor

CASAFARI

Helping Casafari to develop their Growth Model and Product-led GTM Motion and build up a high performing Growth Team.

Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
2 years
Munich, Germany
Remote

Head of Growth

Lanes & Planes GmbH

Built and lead a remote growth team of 12+, reporting directly to the CEO. Responsible for pipeline generation and ABM. Double digit % MoM opportunity growth while reducing CPLs during 12 months.

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
2 years 1 month
Belgium

Co-Founder

Alliance Europe

The only Growth operations & leadership program for Marketing and Growth leaders in Europe, featuring experts from Airbnb, N26, HotJar, TikTok, Holded, Showpad and Red Points. [link]

Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
2 years 2 months

Marketing Advisor & Interim Head of Marketing

Madame Moneypenny GmbH

Developed and implemented Growth and GTM Strategy of Germany's most successful online financial education program for women and grew it from 0 to multiple million Euros in revenue. #investments #EdTech

Oct 2016 - May 2020
3 years 8 months
Germany

Founder - Growth advisory and leadership for startups and corporates

SaleSide

Advisory and Interim Leadership for growth-stage B2B SaaS companies, such as OptioPay, Paqato, Casafari, Freshworks, Homewings, SocialCar, Consentio, AuthenticVacations

  • Growth Strategy & GTM Strategy for Growth Startups
  • B2B Growth and Account-based Marketing
  • Corporate Innovation & Corporate Workshops (Shell, Bosch, Rhenus Group etc.)
  • Internationalization & Localization
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 1 month
Spain

Marketing and Business Development Manager

TravelPerk

Build and led commercial team from 0 to 2 M GMV goal in the first 12 months.

Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
6 months
Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

Part-Time Lecturer: Master in Business Analytics

ESADE Business & Law School

Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
8 months
Indonesia

Regional Manager, SEA and US

AX Semantics

Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
7 months

Regional Manager, Latin America

AX Semantics

Colombia, Indonesia

Won major key accounts (Rocket Internet), built up sales representation and partnerships.

Nov 2012 - Aug 2014
1 year 10 months
Indonesia

Regional Manager, Southeast Asia

AX Semantics

Apr 2012 - Nov 2012
8 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Online Marketing Manager, Sales Systems for Building Efficiency

Bosch

BOSCH Top Project "Sales Systems for Building Efficiency": A cross channel sales approach for energy efficient buildings

Apr 2010 - Jul 2012
2 years 4 months

E-Marketing Manager, Global

Bosch

Definition of online marketing strategy for 13 brands in 80 countries incl. SEO, readability, Usability, Conversion Optimization, Content Strategy and rollout of a global web platform.

Jul 2006 - Dec 2006
6 months

Public Relations, Luxury Division Lancome

L'Oréal

Summary

Fractional CMO and growth advisor for B2B SaaS (product-led growth, TravelTech, FinTech, PropTech). 13+ years of experience in creating and executing growth strategies from early stage to growth stage (0-50M ARR). Led 40+ growth teams and advised C-Level. Done business across EU, SEA, US, LATAM, tri-lingual (DE, ES, EN) - SCALE: I have helped numerous companies, like Paqato, Taxdoo, Madame Moneypenny and Lanes&Planes to build and scale a reliable acquisition engine, align Marketing and Sales strategies and build pipeline for Sales to grow ARR from 7 to 8 digits. - PRODUCT-LED GROWTH: I have helped companies like Casafari, Taxdoo and others to create and implement their product-led strategy, (in)validate PLG use cases and design activation journeys. - EARLY STAGE: I have led Travelperk (now Unicorn) through a pivot, built up Marketing & Sales to reach their first 2M ARR. I led companies like Consentio to Product-Market-Fit and coached corporate innovation teams from Bosch, Shell, Rocket Internet and Rhenus to build and evaluate business models. - TEACHING: I taught Business Analytics and Growth to Master and MBA students, such as at ESADE and ESB (European Business School Reutlingen). - RECOMMENDED BY: VCs such as Mundi Ventures, Convivialité Ventures (Pernod Ricard) and Visionaries Club refer me to their Portfolio companies Top skills: B2B Marketing, International Marketing, Marketing Management Publication: Presentations

Languages

English
Native
German
Native
Spanish
Native
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 2004 - Jun 2009

University of Hohenheim

Master's degree · International Marketing and Business, Public relations, communication science · Stuttgart, Germany

Product-led.org / Reforge

growth strategy, Growth, product led growth, leadership

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