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    Aleksandr Lashkov

    Aleksandr Lashkov (He/Him)

    Expert in go-to-market strategy, product launches, market positioning, SaaS and AI marketing. Skills are vetted by a US govt–– O1 visa > EB1 green card holder.

    Marketing Manager San Francisco Russian State Technol...
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    Experience
    Linguix Writing Assistant
    Linguix Writing Assistant
    Founder
    Linguix Writing Assistant
    Linguix Writing Assistant
    Lead Product Marketing Manager | Co-Founder 2018 - Present (almost 8 years)
    - Assembled Linguix's product marketing program and designed a go-to-market strategy focusing on the key differentiators this AI writing assistant offered, thus escalated... more user numbers from zero to 300,000 in 24 months.
    - Identified 5 main user acquisition channels that allow the company to receive organic traffic and ROI-positive conversions. The list includes: SEO, content marketing, email marketing, affiliate program, review campaigns. Establishing each channel took no longer than three months on iterations.
    - Led product launches and marketing campaigns, resulting in top honors on Product Hunt and features in major publications like the Washington Post, Fortune, and Bloomberg. Such a coverage increased brand visibility by 400%
    Smile Bright Media
    Smile Bright Media
    Head of Product Marketing 2016 - 2018 (over 2 years)
    - Managed a team of 4 product marketers to improve product launches for the agency's clients, which led to a 30% increase in contract renewals retention for b2b customers... more in six months (from 40% to 70%).
    - Developed a framework for assessing new products prior to launch, which allowed to shrink the time spent on go-to-market strategy preparation from two weeks to 5 business days.
    - Integrated powerful marketing automation and analytics tools such as SEMrush, Amplitude, and Inspectlet into the product marketing team's workflow. This implementation allowed to gather invaluable product insights and utilize data-driven strategies to establish a strong market positioning resulting in elevated marketing campaigns performance and reduced costs due to a lesser number of iterations needed to reach positive ROI.
    Positive.com
    Positive.com
    Product Marketing Manager 2012 - 2016 (about 4 years)
    - Orchestrated a global product marketing campaign for "The Standoff" online conference, reaching a 5 million-strong audience across 7 countries in 2 months, surpassing a... more target goal of 4m people.
    - Developed product positioning and messaging strategy to promote company's SaaS online security tools on 4 social platforms, including X, Facebook, Blogger.com, and LinkedIn, improving content engagement rates by 20% in one month.
    Founder
    Linguix Writing Assistant
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    Positive.com, Smile Bright Media, Linguix Writing Assistant
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    About
    Achievements

    My biggest achievements include:

    - Co-founding a startup and building a product marketing team that got the company from 0 to 200k users in two years from bootstrapping to $1.35M in venture funding.
    - Creating the whole B2B customer acquisition process for a Tech marketing agency.
    - A switch from content marketing expert to a maker and getting a hands-on experience on growing things from 0 to 1.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Marketing Management Sales and Marketing Content Marketing Content Strategy Content Creation Project Management Market Research Cross-Functional Team Leadership Product Management
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area
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