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Michael Soto

Building AI-powered systems that thrive at scale. Two decades of pattern recognition in growth systems.

INTERACTIVE RESUME

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Summary

20 years building growth systems. I replace fragmented SaaS stacks and manual processes with AI infrastructure that runs itself.

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Skills

Growth Strategy & Experimentation95%
A/B Testing & CRO90%
Paid Media (Google, Meta, LinkedIn)95%
Attribution & Full-Funnel Analytics90%

+2 more skills

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Key Achievements

$1.2M/mo

Revenue - up from $225k in <14 months

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Strengths

Data-Driven

Finding and fixing what's actually broken in growth systems

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Experience

Senior AI + Growth Strategist

Automation Station

02/2024 - 05/2026 (contract, scope complete)

Founder / Chief Marketing Officer

The Innovative Native LLC

04/2015 - Present

Growth Marketing Manager

Lawclerk

01/2022 - 09/2024 (role eliminated post-Smokeball acquisition)

Marketing Director

Performax Labs

01/2018 - 03/2020

Director of SEO + Content Marketing

Local Lighthouse

07/2012 - 03/2017

Marketing Director (Concurrent Freelance)

Community Real Estate Company

01/2014 - 12/2018 (Yorba Linda, CA, Hybrid)

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My Time

ABCDEF
ASystems Analysis25%
BEconomic Modeling15%
CRe-Architecture20%

+3 more categories

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Education

B.A. Psychology

California State University, Long Beach

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools & Technologies

n8nOpenAI / GPT-4Claude / AnthropicAirtableGoogle AdsMeta AdsLinkedIn AdsGoogle AnalyticsHubSpotSalesforceTableauSQLJavaScriptPythonHTML/CSSWordPressShopifyAdobe Creative SuiteCanvaMake (Integromat)SupabaseZapierHootsuitePardotSalesforce Marketing Cloudn8nOpenAI / GPT-4Claude / AnthropicAirtableGoogle AdsMeta AdsLinkedIn AdsGoogle AnalyticsHubSpotSalesforceTableauSQLJavaScriptPythonHTML/CSSWordPressShopifyAdobe Creative SuiteCanvaMake (Integromat)SupabaseZapierHootsuitePardotSalesforce Marketing Cloud
AI AutomationMarketing StrategyPerformance MarketingPPC Campaign ManagementSEOSEMLead GenerationConversion Rate OptimizationA/B TestingMarketing AnalyticsTeam ManagementP&L ManagementGrowth MarketingDigital MarketingContent StrategyEmail MarketingData AnalyticsProject ManagementBrand StrategyCustomer AcquisitionMarketing AutomationRevenue GrowthBusiness DevelopmentCopywritingVideo ProductionAI AutomationMarketing StrategyPerformance MarketingPPC Campaign ManagementSEOSEMLead GenerationConversion Rate OptimizationA/B TestingMarketing AnalyticsTeam ManagementP&L ManagementGrowth MarketingDigital MarketingContent StrategyEmail MarketingData AnalyticsProject ManagementBrand StrategyCustomer AcquisitionMarketing AutomationRevenue GrowthBusiness DevelopmentCopywritingVideo Production
IDEAL FIT

Roles Where I Deliver the Most Impact

20 years of building growth systems. These are the roles where I create the highest leverage.

Head of Growth / Marketing Lead

Hands-on leadership for teams that need their growth engine rebuilt, not tweaked.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead marketing strategy and team direction at the executive level
  • Identify what's broken in growth systems and rebuild the architecture
  • Own P&L accountability and board-level reporting
  • Build and mentor high-performing marketing teams
  • Align marketing efforts with business objectives and revenue targets
My Experience Match
  • Scaled agency portfolio 5.3x ($225K to $1.2M/mo) through structural improvements in measurement, attribution, and creative-system reuse
  • Led cross-functional initiatives across product, sales, and content at Lawclerk B2B SaaS marketplace
  • Managed $50M+ in lifetime media spend across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube with full budget ownership
  • Consolidated 120 reported KPIs down to 45 at Lawclerk, restoring leadership decision-quality

Sr. Growth & Performance Marketing

Full-funnel growth strategy with deep paid media expertise across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and execute full-funnel growth strategies from awareness to retention
  • Manage large-scale paid media campaigns ($100K-$500K/mo budgets)
  • Build experimentation frameworks and A/B testing programs
  • Develop attribution models and performance measurement systems
  • Optimize CAC, LTV, and ROAS across channels
My Experience Match
  • Owned paid acquisition across Google, LinkedIn, Meta, YouTube at $70K/month per platform on B2B SaaS marketplace
  • Managed $250K to $500K in monthly client ad spend across multiple verticals at The Innovative Native
  • Built A/B testing frameworks for landing pages, ad creative, and lifecycle email at Performax Labs
  • Designed the marketing-ops backbone (n8n, Airtable, HubSpot, GA4) replacing 25-hour-per-week manual reporting cadence

Director of Marketing

Marketing operator who ships AI-powered growth systems. 20 years performance marketing plus production-grade AI infrastructure that replaces fragmented SaaS stacks.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the full-funnel growth stack from awareness through retention
  • Architect attribution pipelines that map spend to revenue outcomes
  • Build experimentation frameworks running 25+ tests monthly
  • Deploy AI-powered automation (n8n, RAG agents, LLM orchestration) replacing fragmented SaaS
  • Lead cross-functional teams across product, sales, content, and engineering
My Experience Match
  • $50M+ in lifetime managed media spend across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube
  • Scaled agency portfolio 5.3x ($225K to $1.2M/month) via measurement, attribution, and creative-system reuse
  • Shipped 80+ production AI workflows running a live marketing, sales, and ops backbone today
  • Tier-1 PR placements (CNN, Forbes, WSJ, Fortune, BBC) at 18% reply rate, 4-5x benchmark

Let's Talk

Need AI systems that replace your fragmented tool stack? Let's talk about what you're building.

Or email: [email protected]

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