Susan Kimmel-Kelly

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I'm a strategic and data-driven marketer with more than a decade of leadership experience driving digital transformation, brand growth, and customer engagement across healthcare and growth-stage startups.

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I’m a strategic and data-driven marketer with more than a decade of leadership experience driving digital transformation, brand growth, and customer engagement across healthcare and growth-stage startups. I excel at turning insights into omnichannel campaigns that move the needle and scale with the business.

I’m proud to have led cross-functional teams, built marketing automation foundations, and steered brand management and creative initiatives to ensure consistent messaging across channels. I’m passionate about aligning marketing execution with evolving customer needs and enterprise goals while delivering measurable results.

  • 23 years' experience
  • Joined September 2025

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Professional Services
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Education
  • Software & Internet
  • Other

Work experience· 19 roles

Senior Growth Marketer and Director, Marketing · Hopscotch Primary CareJun 2025 – Sep 2025 · 4 mos

Founded and led the brand and communications function, building cost-effective, multi-channel programs across paid digital, SEO, social, email, direct mail, and CRM to drive patient acquisition, provider recruitment, and membership growth. Elevated executive messaging via PR and thought leadership, contributing to a 3x increase in organic traffic, 60% lift in brand awareness, and 200% increase in earned media coverage. Designed and optimized demand generation campaigns, reducing CAC by 25%, generating 20,000+ qualified leads, and contributing 60% of the sales pipeline. Applied an agile, data-driven approach to testing and analytics, building SOPs that improved execution and operational efficiency.

Senior Growth Marketer and Director, Marketing · Hopscotch Primary CareJun 2025 – Sep 2025 · 4 mos

Founding marketing leader responsible for building brand and communications from the ground up. Directed multi-channel programs (paid digital, SEO, social, email, direct mail, CRM) to drive patient acquisition, provider recruitment, and membership growth. Achieved a 3x increase in organic traffic, 60% lift in brand awareness, and a 200% increase in earned media coverage. Designed and optimized demand generation campaigns, reducing CAC by 25% and generating 20,000+ qualified leads, contributing to 60% of the sales pipeline. Implemented agile, data-driven testing and analytics with SOPs to improve execution and efficiency.

Director, Marketing · Hopscotch Primary CareNov 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Senior growth marketer leading omni-channel strategy, development and execution to scale a value-based primary care startup serving Medicare Advantage patients. Built and optimized demand generation campaigns, reducing CAC by 25% and generating 20,000+ qualified leads, contributing 60% of total sales pipeline. Served as the founding marketer, led end-to-end execution across brand, content, digital, demand and lead generation in a high-growth healthcare startup. Built an omni-channel growth framework increasing qualified leads by 25% and improving conversation rates by 40% through strategic use of marketing automation tools. Led integrated strategy across paid search, SEO, AEO, paid and organic social, video, email/SMS, OTT, content and earned media to drive pipeline and brand visibility. Led the development and execution of A/B testing frameworks, creative performance analysis, and funnel optimization strategies. Defined target market, segments, penetration goals; executed lead gen cam

Director, Digital Marketing · North American Dental GroupAug 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos
Director, Marketing · North American Dental GroupAug 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos
Digital Marketing Director · North American Dental GroupDec 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos
Director of Marketing · Phoenix Physical TherapyDec 2020 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos
Director of Marketing · Phoenix Physical TherapyDec 2020 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Education

Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications · Point Park University2030 – 2025
Bachelor of Arts - English Writing (Concentration in Journalism) · University of Pittsburgh2030 – 2025

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