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About

I help brands spend smarter and grow on purpose.

For eleven years I've worked on every side of the growth table: running paid media at an agency, leading a growth team in-house and, since 2022, advising founders and marketing leaders as an independent strategist.

The common thread is simple. Most marketing problems aren't channel problems, they're clarity problems. Who is the customer, what do they need to hear, and what is a new customer actually worth? Answer those well and the tactics get a lot easier.

Today I work with a small number of DTC and B2B brands at a time, usually as a fractional growth lead or through focused strategy sprints. I'm based in Lisbon and work with teams across Europe and North America.

Maren Holt smiling with her arms crossed
Based in
Lisbon, Portugal
Experience
11 years
Focus
DTC and B2B growth
Works as
Fractional or project

How I work

Four principles behind every engagement.

Tactics change every quarter. These don't, and they're the reason clients keep coming back.

  1. 01

    Strategy before spend

    Every engagement starts with the numbers: unit economics, cohorts and where the money actually goes. Then we decide what to build.

  2. 02

    One source of truth

    Clean tracking and a single dashboard, so decisions are made on data everyone trusts instead of opinions.

  3. 03

    Test, learn, compound

    Small, fast experiments with clear success metrics. What works gets scaled and what doesn't gets cut quickly.

  4. 04

    Leave teams stronger

    Playbooks, documentation and training, so your team can run the system long after our engagement ends.

Experience

Eleven years, three vantage points.

Agency, in-house and independent. Seeing growth from every side is what makes the advice practical.

Team sketching ideas in a notebook during a strategy workshop
  1. 2022–Now

    Independent growth strategist

    Lisbon and remote

    Fractional growth lead and strategy partner for DTC and B2B brands across Europe and North America.

  2. 2019–2022

    Head of Growth

    Parcel & Pine

    Led a nine-person team across paid, lifecycle and analytics as the home goods brand grew from $6M to $31M in annual revenue.

  3. 2017–2019

    Paid Media Lead

    Brightline Digital

    Managed $14M in annual ad spend for more than twenty e-commerce and SaaS clients, and built the agency's creative testing practice.

  4. 2015–2017

    Digital Marketing Specialist

    Kestrel Studio

    Started in SEO and email at a creative agency, learning the craft one campaign and one spreadsheet at a time.

Toolkit

The stack I work in every week.

Platform-agnostic by principle and fluent in the tools most growth teams already run.

Platforms

  • Google Ads
  • Meta Ads Manager
  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager
  • TikTok Ads
  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Looker Studio
  • BigQuery
  • HubSpot
  • Klaviyo
  • Shopify
  • Semrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Hotjar
  • Figma
  • Notion

Certifications

  • Google Ads Search and Shopping
  • Meta Certified Media Buying Professional
  • Google Analytics 4
  • HubSpot Inbound Marketing

Booking projects for Q1 2027

Have a growth target and no clear plan to hit it?

Tell me where you are and where you need to be. I'll reply within one business day with honest thoughts on whether I can help.