Aaron Winston

Business Development Executive

Austin, Texas, United States14 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led GitHub's content strategy with significant media coverage.
  • Authored influential reports driving product engagement.
  • Expert in marketing communications and content strategy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing expert with a strong focus on content strategy and digital media.

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Skills

Core Skills

Content StrategyMarketing Communications

Other Skills

ArgumentationBrand DevelopmentBrand ManagementCompositionContent MarketingContent PlanningConversational GermanCopy EditingCopywritingCritical ThinkingDigital MarketingDigital MediaEbooksEditingEditorial

About

I'm a ready hand in advertising, crafting marketing copy, making Hallmark cards pop (when needed), writing songs and singing them loudly, SEO/black magic, building out sales enablement materials, and everything that has to deal with words. In the past, I have reworked copy and UX flows for mobile apps, audited a 12-year-old B2B company's marketing assets (lots of time spent in Excel), and written everything from e-books to thought leadership to push notifications to email marketing campaigns. I have dealt in everything from the buyer journey to lifecycle marketing, and know my way around a printer (I'm a sucker for the printed word). I'm also a dual citizen with British and American passports, so I'm able and willing to relocate for work whether it be domestic or international in nature. I am conversational in German (ok this used to be true, who knows these days) and semi literate, if poorly spoken, in French (also suspect). I am also fluent in Scots and good enough at basic Yiddish to pretend I'm interesting (it's not all drek, I promise). Interests include: James Joyce, Raymond Carver, writing music, building teams, and the Oxford comma.

Experience

Github

3 roles

Senior Developer Marketing Manager

Promoted

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Develop and operationalize GitHub’s product messaging strategy across awareness, consideration, and adoption phases
  • Translate developer insights and product telemetry into actionable messaging frameworks, content themes, and campaigns that drive activation and retention.
  • Lead cross-functional go-forward initiatives with PMM, Lifecycle, and Product to improve adoption loops and messaging consistency across channels (GitHub Blog, product surfaces, email, social, and campaigns).
  • Evolve the GitHub Blog and flagship reports (e.g., Octoverse) into strategic vehicles for both awareness and ongoing product usage.
  • Define and measure success through product usage, activation, and retention metrics tied to marketing touchpoints.
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Sr. Manager, Content

Jul 2022Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Lead editorial strategy on the GitHub Blog and GitHub's developer content strategy
  • Authored the 2022 State of the Octoverse report, generating 40+ press mentions, 2,000+ free trials
  • Led the 2023 and 2024 State of the Octoverse report, which garnered over 200+ media mentions—including shout outs from India’s PM and Jupyter Notebook’s creator.
  • Strategic lead for the GitHub Blog and developer-focused content starting in 2025 with an 18% jump in total traffic within the first 100 days
  • Led a redesign of the GitHub Blog including its information architecture to improve organic traffic performance
  • Built a thought leadership program with third-party quant research around software development resulting in extensive earned media coverage and CxO communications platforms
  • Led GitHub's 2024 Developer Survey, which was cited by the United States Federal Reserve in their February 2025 Fed Notes on AI's uptake in the workplace (cited under Kyle Daigle, GitHub's COO and the attributed author of the foreword of the report)
  • Led a team of four writers
  • Nominated and awarded for managerial excellence
  • Authored GitHub's 2025 content strategy framework which is now used by Content, Universe, Brand, DevRel, Film, and PMM teams
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Senior Content Strategist

Sep 2021Jul 2022 · 10 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Co-coordinated the development/execution of an SEO strategy for a key product
  • Helped lead the development of a new tagline and value proposition
  • Built GitHub's 2022 annual thought leadership report on the state of open source
  • Partnered with campaign managers to develop ongoing awareness plays via SEO, social, and email
  • Worked with demand gen to develop content and assets for mid- and bottom-of-funnel plays
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Cbre

Senior Marketing Manager, Content

Jan 2021Aug 2021 · 7 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

  • Following CBRE's investment in the flexible workspace provider Industrious, I moved from Hana to CBRE to help assist their content production and strategy efforts.
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Hana | cbre

Brand Content Strategist

Jan 2019May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Backed by CBRE’s decades of real estate experience, we’re leading the way in creating spaces where companies and individuals can collaborate and thrive. We’re building a world-class product and team that is redefining the flexible work space and beyond.
  • Job duties include:
  • ● Developing website, sales materials, and content strategy
  • ● Creating email marketing programs
  • ● Building content including ad headlines, emails, social ads, landing pages, and web copy
  • ● Assisting sales and marketing collateral and brochure development
  • ● Directing editorial strategy alongside key stakeholders
  • ● Trying to convince colleagues about the benefits of the Oxford comma (losing battle so far)
  • ● Writing white papers and other key pieces included in the thought leadership program
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Bulldog solutions, a hero digital company

Copywriter

Jan 2018Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • ● Rebrand the company, building a new website and messaging around all agency services
  • ● Write copy for a variety of marketing deliverables, including emails, landing pages and case studies
  • ● Strongly advocate usage of the Oxford comma
  • ● Steer SEO optimization of website and campaign landing pages
  • ● Write and develop 15-plus case studies, highlighting award-winning client work
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Ofo

Copywriter

Jan 2018Jan 2018 · 0 mo · Austin, Texas

  • Company shut down US operations due to funding issues. Helped arrange a donation of 400+ bikes to a local Austin charity called Yellow Bike Project: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/after-bikeshare-leaves-town-austin-charity-gets-truck-loads-of-donated-bikes.
  • ● Own copywriting that spans headlines, advertising, and physical signage
  • ● Develop brand voice, editorial guidelines, and editorial calendar for all written communications
  • ● Audit user experience (UX) and messaging on mobile app and website, helping to wireframe new designs
  • ● Write voice guides and build master copy docs to collaborate with other stakeholders, creatives, and marketers to ensure omni-channel alignment
  • ● Manage a program calendar/roadmap and communicate to all stakeholders
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Spiceworks

3 roles

Staff Writer

Promoted

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

  • · Sourcing and writing news analysis pieces with a unique Spiceworks angle
  • · Working with IT professsionals to gauge the interest of Spiceworks Community
  • · Working with the Executive Editor to identify major news themes
  • · Traveling to cover key events in the market
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Tech Journalist

Jan 2015Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

  • I work to bring the most important IT and technology news to the forefront of the Spiceworks Community by interviewing thought leaders, writing op-eds, curating community-driven content, and more.
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Writer & Editor (Contract)

Jan 2014Jan 2015 · 1 yr

  • Responsibilities include: writing original content on cutting edge tech news, curating the Spiceworks Community, managing basic editorial duties, and maintaining Spiceworks Community standards of decorum.
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Bazaarvoice

Content Manager

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas

  • ● Conducted a full content audit of all external marketing assets
  • ● Built a content strategy around Bazaarvoice's product lines
  • ● Orchestrated a GTM content plan for a year-long campaign of thought leadership
  • ● Helped re-brand the company website and sales materials
  • ● Established thought leadership content around changes in the retail and e-commerce spaces
  • ● Rebuilt sales enablement materials materials including one-pagers and pitch decks across 7 products
  • ● Assisted in copywriting for client-facing programs and new product features
Digital MediaMarketing CommunicationsContent Strategy

Weeva inc.

[Contract] Editor and Content Marketer

Jan 2014Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas Area

  • I have been responsible for developing content marketing strategies, conducting market research, optimising website copy for SEO purposes, cultivating our personal brand, copywriting, rewriting landing pages, working through messaging strategies and content, and editing book projects prior to publication.

The goliard

Editor in Chief

May 2013May 2014 · 1 yr · Wooster, OH

  • I was responsible for hiring a staff of 23 individuals to receive and work through literary, artistic, and musical submissions in order to create an annual full color print literary magazine. Hired on the basis of past experience creating websites and working with social media marketing, I spent time making a website to promote accessibility for the student body.

The college of wooster

English Department Editorial Assistant

Apr 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Artful dodge

Editorial Assistant

Mar 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Alongside the Editor-in-Chief Daniel Bourne, I have been responsible for 'modernising' an older literary magazine by creating online content, both in the form of a new website and social media content. Other jobs have included filing, editing, and vetting internationally submitted literary submissions each year.

Shabby road recording studio

Studio Intern

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Working with Producer, Engineer, and full-time owner Roger Greenawalt, I aided in session recordings and helped provide comfort and a creative atmosphere for each musician and band that worked at Shabby Road Recording Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Education

The College of Wooster

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — English Literature and Philosophy

Jan 2010Jan 2014

The University of Edinburgh

Study Abroad — English Literature and Philosophy

Jan 2012Jan 2012

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