Marketing Director

I build acquisition engines that scale profitably.

10+ years across paid media, growth and go-to-market. Agency side I led paid search and paid social for The North Face, Timberland, Napapijri and Liverpool. Client side I now own the full go-to-market at a B2B SaaS company, and a team of 4.

Milan, Italy · Open to remote and relocation · Italian (native), English (full professional)

Enrico Mauro, Marketing Director

€1M+

Monthly media spend managed

+40%

Company ARR growth in 12 months

−25%

Blended CAC, with spend held flat

100+

Marketers mentored and trained

Brands and teams I've delivered for

The North FaceTimberlandNapapijriLiverpooldentsuPHDCognizantGoogleSEO SherpaThe Adecco GroupFreename

Brand work delivered agency side at dentsu and PHD.

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Selected work

Three operating problems, solved with accountable growth.

Freename

Marketing Director

Lugano, Switzerland
Jun 2025 – Present

Rebuilt the acquisition mix around payback and cut blended CAC 25% at flat spend.

Context

Freename is a B2B SaaS company in the domain and digital identity space. I own the full go-to-market and lead a team of 4 — paid media, SEO, AI search visibility, content, lifecycle, partnerships and conversion.

What I did

  • Rebuilt the acquisition mix around the channels with defensible payback, rather than the ones that looked best in a dashboard
  • Built the measurement layer the company now plans against: attribution, funnel reporting and CAC efficiency by channel, with blended CAC measured as total marketing spend over total new customers
  • Launched tuositofacile.it and miwebahora.es, two AI-first products extending the core business into AI-assisted website creation for the Italian and Spanish markets
  • Embedded AI across the marketing function — creative production, campaign QA, automated reporting and custom agents — freeing up an estimated 15 hours of manual work per week across the team
  • Rebuilt organic discovery around AI assistants and AI search alongside traditional SEO

Company ARR +40% in 12 months

−25% blended CAC at flat spend

2 products launched

SEO Sherpa

Senior Performance Marketing Manager

Dubai, UAE
Mar 2023 – Jun 2025

Lifted blended ROAS 35% across a multi-client portfolio at a global award-winning agency.

Context

Led paid media strategy and delivery for an international client portfolio across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads, for ecommerce, SaaS and lead generation clients across EMEA and the Middle East.

What I did

  • Restructured campaign architecture and reallocated budget by channel performance, refining attribution-based bidding
  • Lowered CPA through custom scripts, dynamic bid adjustments and campaign-level automation
  • Shaped the agency's paid media methodology, setting the standards for account structure, testing and reporting that the wider media team works to
  • Turned GA4 and Looker Studio reporting into decisions rather than dashboards, as day-to-day strategic lead for clients

+35% blended ROAS

−25% CPA

€500K monthly spend

dentsu international

Performance Marketing Manager

London, UK
Feb 2022 – Feb 2023

Built and led a paid search team that cut CPA 15% across a €1M+ monthly portfolio.

Context

Led paid search delivery for an international client portfolio including The North Face, Timberland, Napapijri and Liverpool, owning team quality and performance against forecast.

What I did

  • Built and led a paid search team, setting the quality bar and the ways of working across all accounts
  • Managed and coached 4 specialists, raising QA pass rate by 20% through clearer account processes, QA standards and automation
  • Led automated bidding implementation across major accounts, improving optimisation speed and consistency
  • Challenged and interrogated briefs rather than executing them as received

€1M+ monthly spend

−15% CPA

+20% QA pass rate

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How I operate

The principles behind the numbers.

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Payback before volume.

A channel earns budget by paying back, not by looking good in a report. I'd rather run three channels that hold their CAC than eight that dilute it.

02

Make the numbers defensible before you make them look good.

Attribution and tracking come before the spend plan, not after the board asks. You cannot reallocate what you cannot measure.

03

AI as an operating layer, not a slide.

I run marketing with AI inside the workflow — creative at volume, campaign QA, automated reporting, custom agents — so the team spends its hours on judgement instead of exports.

04

Build teams that outgrow you.

I've hired and trained paid media teams, mentored 100+ marketers one to one, and taught Google Ads and YouTube Ads for Lacerba and Learnn. The goal is specialists who don't need me.

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Experience

From platform-side training to full go-to-market ownership.

Marketing DirectorFreename

Full go-to-market ownership and a team of 4 at a B2B SaaS company.

Jun 2025 – Present

Lugano, Switzerland

Digital Marketing MentorCareerFoundry

Concurrent role

Mentored 100+ career changers one to one, from first module through to job offer.

Mar 2023 – Mar 2026

Berlin, Germany

Senior Performance Marketing ManagerSEO Sherpa

Paid media strategy for an international portfolio at a global award-winning agency.

Mar 2023 – Jun 2025

Dubai, UAE

Performance Marketing Managerdentsu international

Built and led the paid search team across a €1M+ monthly spend portfolio.

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023

London, UK

Senior Media PlannerPHD

€800K monthly spend across four clients; +30% ROAS across paid search and paid social.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

London, UK

Performance Marketing Lead / SEM TrainerCognizant

Italian market lead on Google's highest-spending advertisers; led a team of 3 and built the training function.

Jul 2018 – Jan 2020

Dublin, Ireland & Lisbon, Portugal

Co-FounderCNC Media

Concurrent role

Co-founded a digital-first media company and grew it to 1M+ followers across platforms.

2010 – 2022

Brand SpecialistThe Adecco Group

Campaigns across four group brands; +20% brand awareness, +15% social-driven revenue.

Jun 2017 – Jun 2018

Milan, Italy

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Capabilities and stack

Broad enough to own the number. Deep enough to improve the system.

Growth & GTM leadership

go-to-market strategychannel mixbudget planningforecastingCAC efficiencymarketing P&L inputhiring and team development

Paid media

Google AdsMeta AdsLinkedIn AdsMicrosoft AdsTikTok AdsYouTube AdsSA360Campaign ManagerMerchant Center

Measurement

GA4GTMLooker Studioserver-side trackingattribution modellingincrementalityreporting automation

Growth beyond paid

SEOAI search visibility (AEO/GEO)CROexperimentationlifecycle marketingdemand generationpartnerships

AI & automation

custom agentsClaude CodeCodexGoogle Ads ScriptsAI-assisted analysisautomated creative workflows

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Teaching, community and credentials

Teaching

Created and taught Google Ads and YouTube Ads courses for Learnn, Adv Academy and Lacerba. Mentored 100+ marketers through CareerFoundry's Digital Marketing programme.

Community

Co-founded CNC Media, a digital-first media company grown to 1M+ followers across platforms, monetised through brand collaborations and sponsored formats.

Education & certifications

MBA, Entrepreneurship — Oneday, London (2024). MSc Management & Digital Innovation — Università di Milano-Bicocca. BSc Economics, Marketing & Global Markets — Università di Milano-Bicocca.

Google Ads Search/Shopping/DisplayGoogle Campaign ManagerGoogle Search Ads 360Meta Media Buying ProfessionalMeta Media Planning ProfessionalISIPM Base

Get in touch

If you're building a marketing function that has to scale without CAC running away, that's the problem I enjoy most.