About

Growth without data is a commodity. Operations without a growth instinct builds systems nobody uses.

I spent fourteen years in a creative agency convinced I knew what marketing was. Then I joined a SaaS company and found out I knew a part. An important one. But a part.

The shift was realizing that in SaaS the work does not end at the campaign. The customer stays, or cancels. Marketing extends to Growth: onboarding, retention, churn, expansion. The funnel keeps going long after the click.

And the deeper I went into operations, the more I saw the same gap everywhere. Revenue systems built to be technically correct and operationally abandoned. Right queries, clean schemas, and a sales rep who never opens the tool.

That is where my decade in design turned out to matter. I started behind the canvas. That eye for aesthetics never left. It just learned to read a funnel, and to see who is on the other side of it.

A system nobody adopts produces data nobody trusts. And data nobody trusts can never become a forecast.

The question I bring from design is simple: how is this for the person who has to use it? Almost nobody running growth asks it, and almost nobody in operations does either.

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In practice

What the two halves actually do

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I run growth from the first creative test all the way into the CRM, not just up to the click.

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I design the CRM for the rep filling a field at 6pm on a Friday, not just for the perfect query.

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I automate without discarding the human. AI as a layer of efficiency, not a replacement for judgment.

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I measure a system by adoption, not by technical elegance. Because adoption is what makes the data real.

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Marketing, Sales, and CS are almost always orphaned from engineering. So the person running growth ends up building the tooling.

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Where I stand

Honest about the role

Growth and marketing management is the job: the team, the demand generation, the experimentation cadence, and the number at the end of it. I led a team of four across two companies, and I went from being a company’s only marketing hire to running the department in six months. What makes that combination unusual is the layer below it, the CRM architecture, the automation and the forecast, which I build myself when nobody else will.

I know exactly what I am good at, and I say it out loud. That is more useful than claiming to do everything.

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The path

Creative direction to growth leadership

May 2026 — Present

Revenue Operations Lead

Axenya, a B2B corporate health broker. Structured the RevOps function from zero reporting to the CRO and CFO, built an eight-panel pipeline BI platform and the forecast ritual behind it, then documented it for handoff.

Revenue layer, embedded

2024 — 2026

Marketing Analyst → Marketing Operations & Growth Manager

Nola, a restaurant-management SaaS. Joined as the first and only marketing hire and was running the department six months later, leading a team of four.

Growth owner, with a team

2025

Marketing Manager

Grupo Arcca, the franchise holding behind Nola’s sister brands. Built the B2B franchise demand engine from zero, positive ROAS in under 90 days.

Concurrent, sister company

2026

CRM & RevOps Consulting

HubSpot implementation for a B2B construction-tech SaaS, via Deal Machine. Project scope.

External consultant

2010 — 2024

Art Director → Creative Director

Full-service agency, 14 years. Promoted to Creative Director in 2014. Brand, digital strategy, web, and UX for clients across sectors.

2016 — 2019

Founder, QueerFeed

Independent media for the LGBTQIA+ community, run alongside a full-time job. Number one organic for competitive keywords with no paid media, and 3,500+ monthly users.

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Tools, with judgment

How I choose, not just what I use

The stack matters less than the logic behind it. Every automation starts with the business question, not the tool.

Growth & MediaGoogle, Meta, LinkedIn and YouTube for acquisition. GA4 and GTM for tracking and attribution. RD Station and HubSpot for everything in between.
CRM & OpsHubSpot at the core. Architecture, custom properties, lifecycle, routing, automation and workflows, data hygiene.
AutomationHubSpot workflows when native tools are enough, no need to fragment the stack. n8n when the logic is complex. Zapier when speed matters more than control.
Data & BuildVercel and Claude Code for custom apps like the Axenya dashboard platform, API-first, no database in between. GitHub to document and hand off.
AI layerClaude and Gemini applied to operations, and an in-house AI video pipeline that took creative output from about six a month to ten tested per week. Efficiency, not a gimmick.
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In their words

Not just my word for it

As our Marketing Manager, he took full ownership of growth strategy and operations, turning a chaotic environment into a predictable machine. He integrated our stack (HubSpot, RD Station, n8n) and automated the manual work blocking the sales team. An autonomous, strategic, technically brilliant leader.

Louise Canavarro Commercial Director, Nola
Translated from Portuguese

As a leader, he has a rare ability to know exactly what to ask for, how to guide, and how to lead people with clarity, presence, and confidence. He is the kind of professional who raises the bar and makes the people around him grow with it.

Thayrone Nick Direct report, Nola
Translated from Portuguese

His greatest quality is autonomy: give him a mission and you know he will deliver above expectations. He takes on complex problems with real resolve, studies, tests, fails, gets it right, and ships the solution. A natural self-learner and an excellent partner.

Evelin Ghidetti Partner, Agência Comvix
Translated from Portuguese
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Quick answers

The short version

What does he actually do?Leads growth and marketing teams in B2B SaaS, and builds the revenue operation underneath them: demand generation, paid media, HubSpot architecture, automation and forecasting.
What has that produced?At Nola, CAC down 76.8%, revenue up 569%, lead base up 1,184% in 17 months, and sales connection from 39% to 95% with 70% fewer SDRs. At Grupo Arcca, positive ROAS in under 90 days. At Axenya, a forecast cycle of four to five manual days every two weeks rebuilt to real time.
Which stack?HubSpot at the core, with n8n, Zapier and RD Station for automation, Google, Meta and LinkedIn for paid media, GA4 and GTM for attribution, and Claude and Gemini applied across operations and creative production.
Has he managed people?Yes. A team of four covering social media, paid media, design and development, serving two companies in the same holding, with daily standups and 1:1s. Promoted from the only marketing hire to manager in six months.
What is he looking for?Growth Manager, Marketing Manager, Head of Marketing or Marketing Operations Manager roles at remote-first B2B companies, working from Vitória, Brazil, in English or Portuguese.

If this way of seeing the work resonates

No pitch. Just connection. Open to Growth Manager, Marketing Manager and Head of Marketing roles at remote-first B2B companies.