Strategic Product Marketing Manager with 4+ years of experience driving SaaS growth through differentiated messaging, go-to-market execution, and content-led demand generation. Expert in aligning Product, Sales, and Growth teams to improve adoption, conversion, and retention. Passionate about transforming complex products into customer-centric stories that move metrics.

Donovan Chiu

Strategic Product Marketing Manager with 4+ years of experience driving SaaS growth through differentiated messaging, go-to-market execution, and content-led demand generation. Expert in aligning Product, Sales, and Growth teams to improve adoption, conversion, and retention. Passionate about transforming complex products into customer-centric stories that move metrics.

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Strategic Product Marketing Manager with 4+ years of experience driving SaaS growth through differentiated messaging, go-to-market execution, and content-led demand generation. Expert in aligning Product, Sales, and Growth teams to improve adoption, conversion, and retention. Passionate about transforming complex products into customer-centric stories that move metrics.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Principal Product Marketer (Founding PMM) at VoiceMe
March 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025
Led end-to-end GTM and launch of IsekaiMe, VoiceMe's first standalone product, achieving 50K+ peak visitors and sustaining 10K DAU for 3 months post-launch. Drove a 52% peak conversion rate through optimized positioning, landing pages, and iterative onboarding improvements. Built and scaled data dashboards revealing a 2.6x increase in image uploads and a 15% uplift in re-engagement. Defined brand voice and messaging framework used across UI, web, and social channels, improving engagement by 25% and reducing onboarding confusion. Spearheaded launch of Fable Verse interactive fiction platform — reaching 44K+ plays in 96 hours, achieving 100% organic engagement growth and organic market demand.
Principal Product Marketer (Founding PMM) at Pickaxe
January 1, 2023 - March 1, 2025
Defined and executed a content-driven GTM motion that grew Pickaxe’s user base to 200K+ and drove consistent 20% MoM sign-up growth. Led Product Hunt launches for Pickaxe and Pickaxe Studio, earning Top-10 Product of the Day rankings and validating market fit. Designed and optimized a multi-tier freemium pricing model (Free, Gold, Pro, Enterprise) to successfully segment users from individual creators to AI consulting agencies, directly increasing ARPU and upgrading high-value cohorts. Partnered with Product and Engineering to redesign onboarding flows, reducing drop-off and improving activation across core user journeys. Developed customer story content to spotlight high-impact use cases, strengthening brand credibility and driving new trial sign-ups.
Product Marketing Manager at Vendr
June 1, 2022 - November 1, 2022
Managed cross-functional GTM for Vendr 2.0, repositioning the platform as a critical tool for governance and procurement compliance, driving a 35% lift in enterprise finance and IT buyer engagement. Developed sales playbooks and objection-handling assets addressing security review bottlenecks and vendor risk, accelerating deal velocity and lead conversion by 15%. Collaborated with Product to launch 'Workflows', a feature to streamline complex approval chains, achieving 30% adoption within the first quarter by targeting stakeholders from Finance to IT Security.
Content Marketing Manager at Culture Amp
March 31, 2021 - April 19, 2022
Owned the content strategy for high-priority GTM themes ("The New World of Work" and "DEI"), defining the narrative voice for marketing assets and establishing a framework that drove 16,500+ unique page views. Spearheaded a demand-generation initiative by developing "problem-aware" lead magnets (e.g., retention eBooks) that directly generated 373 new leads and 82 MQLs during a critical post-pandemic market shift. Partnered with Customer Success leadership to produce narrative-driven case studies (e.g., Wisdom Tree) that validated ROI for enterprise buyers, influencing $350K+ in sales pipeline and accelerating deal velocity.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at University of California, Berkeley
January 11, 2030 - December 29, 2025
Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Berkeley
January 11, 2030 - December 29, 2025

Qualifications

Product Marketing Alliance – Core Certified
July 2, 2022 - December 29, 2025
Product Management Apprenticeship – co.lab
September 1, 2022 - December 29, 2025
Core Certified (Product Marketing Alliance)
July 1, 2022 - December 29, 2025
Product Management Apprenticeship – co.lab
September 1, 2022 - December 29, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment