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Quintin Au

Co-Founder

New York, New York, United States8 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Grew over $30M in value for brands
  • Built LLM-powered assessment product
  • Founded growth agency during COVID
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Growth Marketing Specialist with a strong focus on AI and data-driven strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth ProductGenerative AiConversion OptimizationProduct ManagementData AnalysisCustomer Relationship Management (crm)

Other Skills

A/B TestingAI toolingAgile Project ManagementAnalysisArtificial Intelligence (AI)CommunicationCreative strategyCritical ThinkingCustomer AcquisitionDigital MarketingEmail MarketingEvent ManagementFunnel OptimizationLarge Language Models (LLM)Leadership

About

🚀 I'm a full-stack growth lead - I do my own data analysis (SQL), optimize full-funnel for conversion/engagement/retention, run create my ads, and I have 8+ years of design experience (had to pay off uni bills somehow). I prefer hands-on roles with 80% IC work and 20% people leading. 📚 Currently: Coding my own personal/work apps with Cursor, Claude Code, and Midjourney - for fun. Writing my AI newsletter, check it out: https://quintin-au.beehiiv.com/ -- ✅ I make growth playbooks for DTC startups. ✅ I focus on revenue, systems, people, and process, not hacks. ✅ I've grown >$30M in value for brands and in the past 6 years. ✅ I love email, SMS, CRO, and referral marketing. -- I've been a builder since I was 10, starting a business selling rare Pokemon cards to high school kids in the neighbourhood. In my off time, I make wax jewelry, organize community API events, write, and eat my way through cities around the world. Tools of the trade: ⭐️ Cursor - Made 4+ mini-apps for work/personal 🎨 Midjourney - Image Gen + Image-to-video gen ✨ SQL - Data Analysis Language 🎨 Figma - Web Design/Email Design 📈 Amplitude - Funnel Analysis (website analytics) 💻 Looker - Data Visualization 📫 Salesforce, Autopilot, Braze, & Iterable - Email Service Provider 📱Twilio - SMS delivery 📨 Email On Acid - Spam Deliverability (pre-delivery) 🙅‍♀️ 250ok - Spam Deliverability (post-delivery) 👨‍🎨 Adobe Photoshop/Illustration/Indesign - Ad/Graphic Design ⚒ Asana - Task Management Languages: SQL HTML/CSS/JS React Python (Numpy/Pandas/Seaborn) Node.js 🙇‍♂️ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/QuintinAu

Experience

Scale ai

Growth Lead, Generative AI

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • Leading full-funnel growth for Scale AI's Generative AI team, responsible for acquisition, onboarding, enablement, and activation.
  • Grew our Experts (bachelors/masters/PhD) contributor base for RLHF training for top AI models such as Meta, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and character.ai, by nearly 3x in 3 months.
  • Built an LLM-powered assessment product that dynamically generated questions, graded them, and continuously optimized in the backend to improve conversion rates and combat fraud with a team of 2 engineers. Ran multiple evals to improve model precision & accuracy and measure LLM outputs. Assessed over 100,000 candidates across 30+ domains (eg. math, biology, python, JS, coding) while improving CVR by ~15-30%.
  • Built and led an AI-assisted creative team, leveraging templates, custom GPT workflows, and AI tooling, improving tripling creative & experiment output and reducing turnaround from a week to within hours.
  • Scaled new channels such as Paid Social, SMS, webinars and white glove outreach from 0 to 1, leading teams of 6+ operators. Resulted in 5x increase in activation rates and ~20% higher data quality.
Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Conversion OptimizationGrowth ProductPaid Media AdvertisingReferrals+2

Spotify

Growth Manager

Apr 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • Led growth for Spotify For Artists' ad products - establishing new marketing attribution models, improved communication workflows & built campaign-level reporting. 500-1000 person org.
  • 📈 Grew revenue & adoption by 3x MOM, for Spotify For Artists' new ad products by improving lifecycle campaigns using in-app & email channels. Focused on increasing adoption of Self Serve ad platform.
  • 🖥️ Learnt & wrote SQL data queries for email targeting/segmentation, marketing attribution analysis, revenue pacing & reporting, collaborating across 3 cross-functional teams of PMMs, PMs & salespeople
  • ⭐️ Developed a data strategy to implement a multi-product attribution model leveraging first-party cookies/data that accelerated paid, email, push, and in-app teams, increasing overall CVR
Product ManagementData AnalysisSQLMarketing Attribution

Prodigy education

Senior Paid Acquisition Manager

Jul 2020Jan 2021 · 6 mos

  • Grew the Prodigy Education business during Q4 of 2020, where we raised one of the largest Series B EdTech funding rounds in history ($125M USD). ~300 person org.
  • Led our 8-person agile growth team focused on reducing student & parent churn.
  • Reduced subscription churn by leveraging targeted paid ads & dunning emails
  • Establish a revenue attribution model & new data processes for our 30+ product & marketing team, reporting directly to the CMO.
  • Quit to pursue promising entrepreneurial projects (Noa Growth).
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Data AnalysisAgile Project ManagementMarketing AttributionPaid Media Advertising

Noa growth

Founder

May 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • I founded a growth agency with 2 employees, acted as fractional Head of Growth that built and ran growth engines (paid + email) for seed to Series A tech startups.
  • 🌱 Founded a growth agency during COVID; employed 2 growth marketers staffed across 8 clients from health tech startups to consumer e-comm startups.
  • 👏 Built & managed six-figure marketing budgets; hired growth marketers as fractional Director of Growth
  • ✨ Built data foundations (pixel installation, tracking and reporting), improved operational systems by conducting audits, and trained & coached teams on full-funnel growth across CRO, paid and email
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Email MarketingPaid Media StrategyConversion OptimizationFunnel Optimization

Opencare.com

2 roles

Growth Marketer, Referrals, Email, and SMS

Mar 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Grew Opencare's email, SMS, referrals, and CRO channels when I drove 4x growth for our Series A startup. ~50-100 person org.
  • 4X Revenue: Grew email, referrals, and SMS revenue by 380% ($11M annualized) over 7 months, contributing 78% of total growth during this time
  • First Principles Experimentation Framework: Grew experiment velocity from 2 to 6 per month
  • SMS & Email Deliverability Expertise: Increased email & SMS deliverability from 85% to 95% using domain splitting & randomized copy
  • Merging Product/Data/Marketing: Implemented 2 Email Service Providers (ESP/CRM) migrations, moving Opencare to an Enterprise CRM platform with SMS, Email, and automated trigger campaigns
  • Quit to accept an offer at Prodigy Education.

Growth Marketer, Google Paid Search (SEM)

Nov 2018Mar 2019 · 4 mos

  • I managed Opencare's Paid Search Account of a $2.3M annual spend across North America.
  • Performance First: Grew conversions by ~64% ($264K annual impact) over 4 months
  • Cross-Functional Growth: Developed dynamic LPs with product that increased CVR by ~61%
  • Most Impactful Win: Experimented with a hybrid "algorithm-toggle" strategy with tCPA & tIS which resulted in increased reach @ reduced CPAs
  • Conquesting Campaign: Created a highly successful conquesting campaign that represented 50% of our conversions with a 22% lower CPA
  • Restructure Experience: Led 3 account restructure experiments using multiple methodologies (SKAGs, geo-centric, algorithm-centric, BMM)
  • Automate & Optimize: Learnt VBA to develop internal tools to mass operationalize ad & campaign creation (-40% time spent on execution)
  • Google Partnership: Was invited and completed Google's Accelerated Growth program, leverage beta test products with a dedicated Google account manager
  • At Opencare, we're untangling healthcare by making the practice & patient experience accessible & frictionless. We're a marketplace platform that is changing the way practices and patients interact across Canada & the US.

L'oréal

4 roles

Product Marketing Manager - Lancôme Canada Skincare

Aug 2017Jul 2018 · 11 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • As a product manager, I was responsible for managing 4 product lines with annual sales of $42M, launching 9 new products and 3 national campaigns. Working across cross-functional teams from IT to legal, we identified and improved on key customer experience gaps from an omnichannel perspective resulting in strong YOY growth from our skincare portfolio in 2018.
  • I led a cost-efficiency project with our external sourcing team on marketing materials. We utilized those savings to develop better customer education and experiential initiatives that led to recruitment of new clients with a 10x ROI.

Product Owner - E-commerce & CRO

Mar 2017Jul 2017 · 4 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • As a Product Owner, I was responsible for the implementation of 2 e-commerce websites for Lancôme and IT Cosmetics and our new Personalized Engraving Service - focus on optimizing SEO, tagging, page load speed, content database, and ultimately, conversion rates.
  • I was responsible for:
  • Designing the end-to-end customer experience and long-term strategy for the Engraving Service
  • Implementing the critical features to ship within the 2-month timelines and budget
  • Coordinating international development teams, UX designers, data science, and supply chain teams to ensure the best customer experience for all 3 products
  • Post-launch optimizations leading to an increase in mobile conversion rates

Regional Commercial/Retail Marketing Trainee

Aug 2016Feb 2017 · 6 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • As part of the L'Oreal Rotational program, I managed a region of 46 Shoppers Drug Marts as Commercial Trainee - consulting and advising stores on their business strategy using analytics. Developed an automated dashboard tool to flag patterns and trends in the daily business reports.
  • I also managed a Kiehl's store as an Assistant Store Manager, working with the team to plan local store activations and servicing clients face-to-face to identify critical customer journey gaps.

Brand Marketing Intern

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos

  • As a Brand Marketing Intern, I implemented Lancôme Canada's first digital Asian strategy growing same-store sales by 14%. I was also responsible for reimagining our largest national activation, Crème de la Crème, resulting in a +11% sales growth vs last year with 2/3 of last year's budget.

Hip digital media inc. (acquired by snipp)

Digital Marketing Analyst

Sep 2013Jan 2014 · 4 mos

  • As a digital marketer, I A/B tested emails, content, webinars, and social posts offering white-label digital/marketing solutions for Fortune 500 CPG brands like P&G, RB, McCains, Pringles, and many more.
  • Conducted market & user research to create new B2B sale talk tracks.
  • Grew a list of leads to build a sales pipeline.
  • Built new sales persona profiles that enabled sales team to re-target older companies.

Education

Reforge

Data for Product Managers

Jan 2023Jan 2023

Schulich School of Business - York University

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) — Computer Information Systems & Business Administration

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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