David Tran

Head of Growth

San Diego, California, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led demand generation for a $300M acquisition.
  • Expert in B2B marketing across multiple industries.
  • Passionate about inclusive leadership and team development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B marketing leader with expertise in SaaS and life sciences.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth StrategiesMarketing LeadershipBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Campaign StrategiesTeam ManagementOnline Marketing AnalysisInbound Lead GenerationContent StrategySales EnablementEvent ManagementOrganizational LeadershipData AnalyticsThought LeadershipProduct MarketingBrand MarketingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Marketing CampaignsMarketing Operations

About

Acquisition, retention, growth for B2B | I am a marketing and people leader with 17+ years of experience in demand generation, brand strategy, market research & competitive analysis, audience and persona builds, campaign implementation, journey analytics, sales enablement, and program and project management. I work at the intersection of SaaS, healthcare, life sciences, and technology. Here's a proud career moment: After a few years of leading its demand gen, my genetics testing company Agena was acquired by Mesa Labs for $300M in Sept 2021. I'm passionate about inclusive leadership. Our social location informs how we form workplace relationships, how we think creatively, and how we make decisions. My clients have included Pfizer, Philip Morris, Dealstruck, AMN Healthcare, Perifery/DataCore Software, UC San Diego, Wells Fargo, Eli Lilly, United Way Worldwide, United Way of Canada, Kindness.org, The Happiness Adventure, Amgen, JMR Electronics, and Biogen Idec. ZoomInfo ▪ Cognism ▪ B2B Databases ▪ Intent Data and Intent Signals ▪ A/B Testing ▪ Google Ads ▪ PPC ▪ Terminus ▪ Intent Data ▪ DemandBase ▪ Retargeting ▪ Display Ads ▪ Email Journeys ▪ Email Automation ▪ B2B Marketing ▪ Branding ▪ Partnership and Marketing Collateral Design ▪ Content Creation ▪ Copywriting and Editing ▪ CRO ▪ Demand Gen ▪ Digital Marketing Strategy ▪ Email Marketing Campaigns ▪ Event Marketing ▪ External Communications ▪ Financial Technology ▪ Healthcare ▪ Lead Generation Platforms ▪ Leadership Development ▪ Marketing Automation ▪ Online Marketing Campaigns ▪ Business and Partnership Development ▪ Product Marketing ▪ Project Management ▪ PR ▪ Account-Based Marketing (ABM) ▪ Strategy ▪ Web Analytics ▪ Website Development Program & Project Management ▪ Reporting & Metrics ▪ Process Improvement ▪ Social Media & Content • Agile and Waterfall ▪ Account-Based Marketing ▪ Demand Generation ▪ Growth Marketing ▪ B2B Marketing Leadership & Team-building ▪ User Journeys ▪ Segmentation ▪ Persona Mapping ▪ Hubspot Marketing ▪ DemandBase ▪ Google Analytics ▪ Google Data Studio ▪ Reporting ▪ Objective and KPI Setting ▪ LinkedIn ▪ Account-Based Marketing ▪ Growth Marketing ▪ ChatGPT ▪ Artificial Intelligence Content Generation ▪ Generative AI ▪ Agentic AI ▪ Downstream Marketing ▪ Growth Strategy and Execution ▪ Team Leadership and Enablement ▪ Brand Management and Identity - Corporate and Product Marketing ▪ Data Infrastructure and Management ▪ Conferences, Tradeshows, and Events ▪ Generative AI ▪ Market Research

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Zoomrx

Head of Growth Marketing

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

  • ZoomRx is a strategic life science consultancy that empowers pharma and biotech companies to achieve clarity in bringing their drugs to market. ZoomRx combines data, technology, and life science expertise to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies optimize their market strategies. With over 15 years of experience, ZoomRx serves as a partner to 19 of the top 20 global biopharma firms, and over 100 firms in total, providing solutions that transform complex data into actionable insights. Simply put, ZoomRx helps life science companies’ breakthroughs, break through. https://www.zoomrx.com/
  • Growth Strategy and Execution: Translate ZoomRx’s corporate and product level growth strategies into clear, actionable growth and marketing plans.
  • Campaign & Content Optimization: Plan and execute campaigns across corporate and product levels, optimizing content for SEO and LLM tools to enhance visibility and engagement.
  • Brand Management: Own and evolve ZoomRx’s brand identity, ensuring consistency across channels and customer touchpoints.
  • Corporate and Product Marketing: Drive messaging, positioning, and campaign development across 5–10 product verticals.
  • Team Leadership and Enablement: Build and lead a high-performing marketing team with an AI-first approach to strategy and execution.
  • Data & Infrastructure Management: Build and manage a centralized customer database including lead capture, web analytics, and CRM
  • Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with product and account teams to align marketing efforts with business goals and client needs.
  • Conferences and Events: Develop conference and trade show strategies
Campaign StrategiesMarketing LeadershipTeam ManagementOnline Marketing AnalysisGrowth StrategiesInbound Lead Generation+28

Mesa laboratories, inc.

2 roles

Director, Global Demand Generation and Corporate Marketing

Promoted

Aug 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

  • Lead downstream marketing - global demand generation & corporate marketing for Mesa's four divisions, empowering demand gen managers to strategize, implement, and optimize campaigns across AMER, China/APAC, and EMEA.
  • Operationalize internal learning and adoption of growth, ABM, and cross-commercial tactics to optimize sales, marketing, and customer support alignment.
  • Manage vendors, contractors, and internal team members to execute campaign strategy and reporting for multiple brands, products, and applications.
  • Evaluate current processes and KPIs for continuous improvement (A3, Kaizens)
  • Leverage best-in-class marketing and sales technology stack to enable commercial outreach, nurturing, and lifecycle management, including: Salesforce CRM, Hubspot Marketing Automation, ZoomInfo/Cognism, DemandBase, LinkedIn, Google, Sendoso / Reachdesk / Postie
  • Leverage generative AI + ML standard processes to improve speed between concept to campaign to optimization; improve content quality and content medium types with lean resourcing methodology
  • Mesa Labs Divisions
  • Biopharmaceutical Development: Immunoassays, Peptide Synthesis
  • Clinical Genomics: Pharmacogenetics, Oncology, Hereditary Genetics
  • Calibration Solutions: Data Loggers, Environmental Continuous Monitoring, Ambient Air Sampling, Dialysis Technician and Clinician Meters, Gas and Air Flow Measurement, Cap Torque Testing
  • Sterilization and Disinfection Control: Biological and Chemical Indicators Cleaning Process Indicators, Mail-In Biological Monitoring Services
BiotechnologyAttention to DetailWritten CommunicationKey Opinion LeadersMarketing LeadershipStrategic Partnerships+33

Senior Manager, Marketing Programs

Sep 2019Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

Marketing LeadershipOnline Marketing AnalysisInbound Lead GenerationSales EnablementData AnalyticsThought Leadership+5

Marketerhire

Senior Growth Marketing Consultant (ABM)

Feb 2021Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Diego, California, United States

  • Strategize mid-level and enterprise account-based marketing with commercial teams (Product, Marketing, Field Sales), build ideal customer profile (ICP), develop persona messaging, craft personalized content (Sales Collateral, Emails, Google Search and Display Ads, Third-Party Media Buys, Conference Materials), and deploy across multiple channels (SEO/SEM, Hubspot/Pardot, LinkedIn)
  • Consult with DataCore, Perifery, and JMR Electronics
  • Led 20% YoY growth in engagement and pipeline opportunities
  • MarketerHire is an network of pre-vetted, freelance marketers. Our mission is to connect top marketing talent with experience from global brands and hot startups with businesses quickly and seamlessly. Hundreds of marketers apply to MarketerHire each month. We accept less than 5%.
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationMarketing LeadershipBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing Analysis+27

Sendlane

Head of Growth Marketing

Dec 2018Jul 2019 · 7 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Drove acquisition, retention, and growth for global customer community through paid and organic growth marketing strategies
  • Spent $875,000 budget over 7 months (Sendlane), or $1.5 million annual budget. Our primary channels were: Google Ads (AdWords, Display and Video Retargeting), Bing Ads, Yahoo Gemini, Quora Ads, AdRoll, Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, LinkedIn
  • Optimized number of qualified leads from 40 weekly to 60 weekly, CPL from $70 to $40, and reduced CAC from $200 to $150
  • Ensured targeting on paid social platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook were hyper-focused on lookalike audiences of our power users.
  • Optimized the content based on pain point + solutions: Ensure every piece of content and messaging in the user journey reflects the needs and questions of that audience.
  • Ran multivariable experiments on imagery, messaging, and targeting. Keep what works. Pause and remove what doesn’t.
  • Removed friction for the user so they get to experience as quickly and as effectively as possible the product value we offer them. We cut out unnecessary sales steps, onboarding steps, and anything that may deter user from experiencing what we have to offer.
  • Sendlane is a email marketing automation SaaS product serving eCommerce and Content Creator businesses across the web.
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationMarketing LeadershipStrategic PartnershipsBusiness StrategyAnnual Budgeting+28

Fifty & fifty

Senior Manager, Growth Marketing & Digital Strategy

Jul 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Deliver strategic insight and oversight for digital engagement projects reaching thousands of users across the U.S.
  • Lead operations and communications for United Way Worldwide and its 22 local United Way constituents
  • Support business development efforts
  • Facilitate project strategy and implementation for creative, technology, & content teams, utilizing Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CRM, and Wave
  • Grow and drive marketing analytics service line
  • Craft customer value & strategy – Development of customer driven, value enhancing strategies to drive increased business effectiveness, improved technology utilization, and enhanced positioning to address marketplace forces, including transformation road mapping
  • Evaluated and analyzed the effectiveness of existing solutions, platforms, and tools against selected business and technology KPIs and strategic goals
  • Perform process and technology improvements by assessing the effectiveness of user or donor impact processes; made recommendations to align to corporate goals, market trends
  • Develop, align, and deploy processes revolving around future state operating model and processes to match organizational strategic goals and vision
  • //
  • Fifty and Fifty's mission is to engage the world in the worthwhile. We love seeing good causes and organizations take up more of the popular culture space. Day-to-day we try to live by a simple, true wisdom: Do more for those who need it most. We invest in each organization we partner with. We believe in their causes, understand their issues, and work to meaningfully address they problems they seek to resolve in this world.
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationMarketing LeadershipBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing Analysis+27

Amn healthcare

2 roles

Senior Manager, Demand Gen

Aug 2015Jul 2016 · 11 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • NYSE: AMN
  • Lead digital customer acquisition efforts using sourcing tools across 15 brands and manage 25+ vendors and agencies
  • Implemented digital / IT transformation projects to overhaul job applicant platforms
  • Optimized paid and organic strategy to increase lead performance
  • Explored and tested innovative recruitment platforms and tools to expand reach and deepen the experience for job seekers
  • //
  • AMN Healthcare provides innovative healthcare workforce solutions and recruitment staffing services that help our clients, clinicians and physicians deliver excellent, cost effective patient care. Recognized as healthcare's workforce innovator, we enable providers to successfully navigate the evolving healthcare environment. We attract and recruit the most comprehensive offering of clinicians and physicians. We achieve superior shareholder value by investing in the most talented and passionate team in the industry.
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationKey Opinion LeadersMarketing LeadershipBusiness StrategyAnnual Budgeting+28

Marketing Consultant | Special Projects

Aug 2015Sep 2015 · 1 mo · Greater San Diego Area

  • Conducted competitive market research, evaluating product landscape to inform strategic direction
  • Developed and performed client validation survey for a product launch
  • Analyzed market and growth trends
  • A short-term, market research project to help client understand competitor landscape, including value proposition, products, and growth potential. Result: inform corporate investment decisions for long-term success.
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationKey Opinion LeadersMarketing LeadershipBusiness StrategyAnnual Budgeting+28

Dealstruck

Manager, Growth Marketing

Dec 2014Sep 2015 · 9 mos · Carlsbad, CA

  • Marketing Manager
  • Managed lead generation, reach, engagement, and conversion funnel with to a 34K B2B audience size
  • Managed marketing to sales funnel, including nurturing and lead scoring
  • Managed primary social media accounts
  • Led Dealstruck submission and received first place awards for 2015 Stevie Awards and 2015 San Diego Business Journal's Best Places to Work
  • Created technical writing, including blog series, e-Book, infographics and product explainers to increase web traffic click-through rates
  • Managed PR agency by producing earned and owned media; measuring results vs. competition
  • Led efforts to unify and simplify brand messaging in our indirect channels
  • Curated and promoted content to educate stakeholders, including partners and clients
  • Partner Manager
  • Identified and cultivated partnerships with vendors, banks, and affiliates to increase bottom-line sales (i.e., borrowers)
  • Designed two resource and training portals for 350 stakeholders, using responsive web design (RWD)
  • Assisted with development of business plan for new product launches (asset-based line of credit and inventory line of credit) deployment among sales, PR, marketing, and operations team
  • Measured new customer deal flow through indirect channel sales against firm’s monthly and quarterly objectives
  • Tracked small business growth trends across five vertical segments: general contracting, home healthcare, digital and web-based firms, residential/commercial cleaning, and financial services firms
  • http://dealstruck.com
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationMarketing LeadershipBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing Analysis+27

Gsk

Analyst, Digital Marketing | U.S. MBA Intern in Multi-Channel Strategy

Jun 2014Sep 2014 · 3 mos · Durham, North Carolina

  • Recommended, executed, and presented scalable knowledge management strategy for multi-channel outputs (i.e., learnings and insights) by conducting internal stakeholder interviews and researching collaboration platforms
  • Managed lead generation projects, assessing metric performance for TV, Print, paid and organic search, CRM, and Retail
  • Managed User-Acceptance Testing (UAT) protocols for newly established campaign tracker and reporting platform
  • Tracked promotional content released via web through tracking codes
  • Created and implemented SOP for marketing analytics request intake, prioritization, and execution
  • Developed and presented multi-channel benchmarking guide for use among all US Pharmaceutical brand teams; results informed alignment of campaign objectives
  • Partnered with agencies, brand teams, analytics and strategy teams, and executive leadership to roll out new platforms for all pharmaceutical product lines
  • Conducted competitive analysis with respect to digital marketing landscape for pharmaceutical brands
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing AnalysisCommunicationInterpersonal Skills+9

Uc san diego

Graduate Teaching Assistant | Rady School of Management

Jan 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Assist professors with MBA graduate and undergrad courses: “Project Management,” “Marketing,” "Managing Diverse Teams,” and “Business Ethics”
  • Conduct office hour discussions, developed teaching materials, and graded course work for average of 80 students per course
  • Help students develop critical thinking and writing skills as well as cooperative behaviors
  • Topics included: customer acquisition, branding, marketing communications, personal ethics and values, role and importance of diverse teams in workplace productivity, homogeneous vs. diverse teams, power of diversity in decision-making, social identity, and emotional and relational intelligence
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationMarketing LeadershipBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing Analysis+27

University of california, san diego - rady school of management

MBA Candidate

Aug 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Diego, California, United States

  • Digital Strategy. Go-To-Market Strategy. Lab-2-Market. Inclusive Leadership. Social Entrepreneurship.
Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing AnalysisCommunicationInterpersonal Skills+11

Covance market access

Consultant, Market Access | Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Nov 2009Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Consultant
  • Composed two global value pharmaceutical dossiers (with gap analyses) for internal stakeholder education
  • Conducted primary and secondary research to inform clients’ marketing strategy (e.g., value messaging) throughout product life-cycle (from proof of concept to commercialization)
  • Developed best practices and new pricing model for dossiers, leading to revamped service line
  • Managed $3 million service agreement, its scope of work, change orders, and budget
  • Interfaced weekly with executives and senior leaders across various divisional departments to communicate new industry trends (e.g., biosimilars), explore new service lines (e.g., investigator-initiated trials), and keep up-to-date on reimbursement policies (e.g., CMS regulatory legislation)
  • Prepared summary reports illustrating key points, patterns, and trends found in data and policies
  • Drafted written proposals (including text, graphs, tables, & illustrations) to win new client work
  • Forecasted reimbursement pricing implications for a client’s product in insurance market (federal and private)
  • Operations
  • Managed contact center operations for client and operated cross-functionally as liaison between analysts, client, and executive teams
  • Drove 110% growth in revenue for client’s product within first year of contract
  • Performed insurance verification and presented efficiency strategies to colleagues and created standard operating procedures; metrics doubled within first eight months of program launch, giving client $5,000 in savings per week
  • Trained five teams (10 individuals per team) in CRM operations and Oracle platform metrics
BiotechnologyAttention to DetailWritten CommunicationBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing Analysis+23

Allele biotechnology & pharmaceuticals inc.

Specialist, Product Marketing and Operations

Aug 2008Jun 2009 · 10 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Managed customer accounts through follow-up, soft marketing, and lab visits.
  • Fielded phone calls and responded to billing and sales inquiries from lab managers.
  • Developed an online, customer care feedback system to improve Allele’s quality control of DNA primers.
  • Handled shipping logistics; formed key relationships with FEDEX, DHL, UPS and KWE representatives.
BiotechnologyAttention to DetailWritten CommunicationKey Opinion LeadersBusiness StrategyAnnual Budgeting+23

Connect - san diego

Intern, Program and Events

Jan 2008Dec 2008 · 11 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Coordinated a stem cell conference with leading scientists and industry experts in San Diego.
  • Marketed a conference to targeted researchers by designing fliers, preparing eBlasts and networking.
BiotechnologyAttention to DetailWritten CommunicationBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingOnline Marketing Analysis+24

The preuss school uc san diego

Public Health Research Intern

Jan 2008Jun 2008 · 5 mos · San Diego, California, United States · On-site

  • Implemented statistical instruments in psychology, education and health among youth
  • Translated research conclusions into practical applications for presentation to board members
  • Mentored by and researched directly under the former CEO of Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego
BiotechnologyAttention to DetailWritten CommunicationBusiness StrategyAnnual BudgetingContent Strategy+3

La jolla institute for immunology

Lab Intern

Feb 2007Apr 2007 · 2 mos · On-site

Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationAnnual BudgetingInterpersonal Skills

Lusys laboratories inc

Quality Systems Intern

Jun 2006Aug 2006 · 2 mos · San Diego, California, United States · On-site

Attention to DetailWritten CommunicationAnnual BudgetingInterpersonal Skills

Education

Boston University

Doctorate — Organizational Behavior and Transformation

Jan 2021Jan 2024

University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Marketing

Jan 2013Jan 2015

UC San Diego

BA

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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