Curriculum vitae

Mariia Shekhireva

Skills

  • PPC [Performance marketing]
  • Growth strategy
  • Measurement and attribution
  • Building and leading high-performance teams
  • Brand marketing
  • CRO and experimentation

Experience

2024 – 2026

Senior Growth Marketing Manager

Feather Insurance (Berlin/Germany)

Outcomes: built France into one of the top-performing markets from scratch; validated 5 additional EU markets through structured testing; 3x MRR growth for new markets in Q1 2026 with stable / growing ROAS.

Leading SEM and paid growth strategy for a subscription-based digital insurance startup. Covering day-to-day channel management and strategic initiatives simultaneously

  • Owned Google, Meta, Tiktok strategy for multi-market expansion across Germany, France and additional EU markets
  • Developed a market validation framework in collaboration with local country teams
  • Built a multi-angle ROAS dashboard with the data team, turning the existing ROAS framework into an actionable, company-wide metric used for budget and scaling decisions
  • Led end-to-end brand campaigns across multiple channels - from briefing and agency management to cross-functional coordination, launch, ongoing campaign management
  • Conversion tracking ownership and analytics infrastructure development with the data team
  • Built effective working relationships across data, design, ops and country teams to create shared tooling, campaign briefing processes and market launch frameworks
2022 – 2023

Growth Marketing Lead

d.MBA (remote) — Freelance, 1 year contract

Outcomes: 90% y-o-y lead growth, 10% y-o-y sales growth (based on 1 year with yearly sales cycle), website rebuilt.

Sole marketer responsible for full marketing strategy and execution.

  • KPI planning, setting, and reporting
  • Marketing channels: SEO, Paid Search and Social, CRM and email
  • Website CRO (Squarespace) and tracking maintenance
  • Hiring and training a permanent marketing manager to hand over all tasks
2018 – 2022

Head of Performance Marketing

CareerFoundry (Berlin/Germany)

Outcomes: built paid channels from scratch, 60% yearly growth, 15x budget growth over 3 years with stable CPA; started a performance team from 0 to 5 people.

Built and led a 5-person performance marketing team (Performance, CRO, SEO, Data) from scratch. Owned strategy across all major paid channels with a 7-digit yearly budget.

  • Built channel strategy from scratch, identifying and prioritising the highest-ROI mix across SEM, Paid Social and Display
  • Established tracking, attribution, and reporting infrastructure from the ground up
  • Drove CRO experimentation and technical SEO initiatives, including A/B testing across landing pages and conversion funnels
  • Stakeholder management across Editorial, Creative and Data teams
2017 – 2018

Senior Marketing Manager (B2B)

E+H Digital Labs / Visaya (Berlin/Germany)

  • Defined growth marketing strategy and executed SEM and Paid Social for a range of industrial automation products
  • Trained interns and freelancers in PPC, SEO, digital analytics and CRO
2014 – 2018

Independent Growth Marketing Consultant

Freelance

Outcomes: 50% CPA reduction (wedding e-commerce, UK), two sold-out cohorts via Paid Social, multiple analytics and attribution setups built from scratch.

Selective engagements with Berlin and European startups and scaleups across analytics setup, paid channel strategy, and SEO.

2015 – 2016

Growth Marketing Manager (B2B)

Sonarworks (Riga/Latvia)

  • SEM, display and retargeting campaigns, email marketing, GA setup, website redesign project
2014 – 2015

Co-founder and Operations Manager

UCORS (Riga/Latvia – Edinburg/Scotland)

  • Co-founded and operated an early-stage startup across product, partnerships and fundraising
2011 – 2014

SEM Account Manager

77Agency (Riga/Latvia – London/UK)

  • Managed paid search and social campaigns for Estée Lauder brand portfolio targeting the UK market. Average yearly budget: £1.2M.

Education and continuous learning

  • 2026MIT xPRO: Systems Thinking (certificate)
  • 2024Reforge membership: Advanced Growth Strategy, Marketing Strategy
  • 2023MAD//Masters by Rory Sutherland (Ogilvy): Creativity, innovation and behavioral science (certificate)
  • 2022d.MBA: Business strategy course from user-centered design perspective (certificate)
  • 2021Section4: Brand Strategy Sprint (certificate)
  • 2021CXL Institute: Growth Mini Degree (certificate)
  • 2020CareerFoundry: Intro to Data Analytics
  • 2020SQL Habit: Advanced Product and Marketing analytics with SQL (certificate)
  • 2018CXL Institute: Digital Psychology & Persuasion Mini-Degree (certificate)
  • 2008-2011Stockholm School of Economics in Riga: BSc in Economics and Business Administration

Tools & Platforms

Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Bing Ads, TikTok, ASA, Hubspot, Supermetrics, Hotjar, Ahrefs, SEMRush, BigQuery, Redash, Metabase, WordPress, Squarespace.

Language skills

English: fluent (C2); German: beginner // Estonian: intermediate // Russian: fluent

Hobbies

Film photography, bouldering, psychology.