
Bryce Liggins
Verified Expert in Marketing
Marketing Expert
Lancaster, United States
Toptal member since June 9, 2026
Bryce is a full-stack marketing leader who builds organizations, growth systems, and brand strategy for companies running multiple business models at once. He led marketing across a PE-backed pet health portfolio spanning SaaS, insurance, D2C, and veterinary networks, building a 16-person hybrid team from scratch. Bryce also led marketing for a $118 million Series B at a real estate startup and spent nine years at a growth agency, working with founders on positioning and demand generation.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Brand Positioning
- Competitive Research
- Go-to-market (GTM) Planning
- Growth Model
- HubSpot
- Performance Marketing
- Product Positioning
- SaaS
Work Experience
Founder
Sous Chef
- Shipped a full-stack AI product from zero. Designed, built, and deployed a web app and React Native mobile app solo, covering auth, database, AI orchestration, streaming, and payments without an engineering team.
- Built a conversational onboarding system that replaces every form field captured through natural dialogue, turning a data collection step into a brand experience.
- Deployed full-funnel product analytics with PostHog before the first paid users. Instrumented event tracking across web and mobile to support activation analysis, funnel measurement, and behavioral insight.
- Architected brand, messaging guidelines, and a product-led go-to-market strategy from scratch. Established brand language, a competitive watchlist, and a defined acquisition funnel with lead magnet and free trial activation paths.
- Developed a video production pipeline to produce short-form content. Used ChatGPT for storyboarding, Higgsfield for AI video generation, and CapCut for final editing. Codified the workflow into a skill to eliminate overhead on every subsequent video.
- Engineered a TikTok micro-influencer scraper with Codex to identify niche food and family lifestyle creators. Replaced manual research and generic cold messaging with a systematic, data-driven acquisition pipeline.
Vice President (VP) of Marketing
Synergy Pet Group
- Directed marketing across a four-brand pet health and veterinary technology portfolio spanning SaaS, employee benefits, D2C insurance, and veterinary network services.
- Rebuilt the marketing organization into a hybrid operating model combining embedded business unit leadership, centralized specialists, and fractional support.
- Spearheaded a 16-person team across growth, brand, RevOps, lifecycle, events, and creative functions.
- Scaled Shepherd Veterinary Software ARR 3x in 12 months through repositioning, demand gen, lifecycle marketing, and acquisition infrastructure.
- Reversed decline within the Pet Assure veterinary network, growing participation practices 10% in 12 months through refreshed positioning and newly implemented performance marketing.
- Drove launch strategy for Wishbone's PPO-style pet insurance product, designed to differentiate in a highly commoditized market.
- Guided portfolio-wide brand consolidation across business units, aligning executive leadership around long-term positioning and operating clarity.
- Built forecasting models used by sales, operations, and CX teams for headcount planning, capacity management, and revenue forecasting.
- Overhauled event and field marketing operations, including performance measurement, break-even analysis, activation strategy, structured sales follow-up, and ROI accountability.
- Led market research and ICP development for a new SaaS product initiative in the companion animal space in partnership with executive leadership.
VP of Marketing
Newfound Group (formerly Houwzer)
- Led the development and launch of Newfound as the parent portfolio brand in partnership with Red Antler, contributing to market research, positioning, and brand architecture strategy.
- Directed marketing integration following the Trelora acquisition, unifying positioning, messaging, and growth operations across East and West Coast business units.
- Reduced blended MQL acquisition cost from around $1,500 to approximately $200 through pivoting from 3rd-party lead sourcing to owned strategy.
- Drove 830% increase in organic traffic over two years through SEO, CRO, content strategy, and information architecture improvements.
- Managed 7-figure advertising budget across paid social, SEM, lifecycle, referral, sponsorships (The Official Real Estate Partner of the Philadelphia 76ers), OOH, and direct mail.
- Built full-funnel analytics and lifecycle reporting infrastructure during CRM transition from Salesforce to HubSpot.
- Contributed to raising a $118 million Series B funding round.
Director of Marketing Strategy
Brolik
- Ran the marketing half of the agency as a business unit, owning client growth, hiring, and the approach to scaling the department.
- Spearheaded brand, website, go-to-market strategy, and lead nurturing for a concierge medicine startup during the peak COVID-19 lockdown, contributing to what is a seven-figure business today.
- Shifted a financial services client from paid acquisition dependence to organic growth via an educational content funnel, helping expand from nine states to nationwide.
- Overhauled paid strategy for a regional HVAC company. Relaunched paid search, expanded into social, and introduced the EOS framework for prioritization and reporting, achieving a successful PE exit.
- Provided business consulting to emerging business clients across product-market fit, product-channel fit, persona development, and go-to-market strategy.
Project History
From Market Research to Product Launch
https://meetsouschef.app/- 28 — AI-supported Household Activations
Traditional meal kits offer convenience but lack flexibility. After reviewing 1,000+ App Store and Google Play reviews, I found that AI meal planners focused on recipes rather than households. Users repeatedly cited weak personalization, poor dietary support, and little schedule awareness, revealing an opportunity to reduce the mental burden of feeding a family.
Research began with an analysis of 1,000+ public reviews across leading meal planning apps to identify recurring frustrations and market gaps. Those insights shaped a product strategy centered on understanding the household, not just generating recipes. A conversational onboarding flow captured preferences, schedules, and cooking habits while AI, analytics, authentication, and subscriptions were integrated across web and mobile. Product analytics and organic community outreach validated engagement and demand from launch.
I built and launched an AI meal planning product, acquiring the first users entirely through organic channels. The project reinforced my approach to growth: start with research, validate with real behavior, and turn insights into a scalable strategy.
Building a New Growth Engine After iOS 14.5
- 87% — Reduction in Cost per MQL
Apple’s iOS 14.5 privacy update fundamentally changed the economics of customer acquisition for this company. As Meta’s targeting and attribution degraded, the cost of acquiring motivated home sellers climbed rapidly, exposing the risk of relying on a single growth channel. The opportunity was to rethink the go-to-market model itself.
I led testing across Google Search, in-platform Meta ads, OOH, sponsorships, direct mail, and third-party lead providers to identify a more resilient growth strategy. The research uncovered an opportunity in the FSBO market: many DIY sellers ultimately wanted professional support at a price point they could afford. I worked with the leadership team to launch a dedicated brand to own this funnel. I built a search-first go-to-market strategy and designed conversion paths throughout the customer journey to guide qualified sellers to our discounted full-service brokerage offering.
The initiative reduced acquisition costs by 87% while creating an owned pipeline of sellers. Upfront revenue nearly offset acquisition costs, making the model close to self-liquidating while generating opportunities for the company’s core offering.
Building a Modern Demand Engine for Vertical SaaS
- 350% — ARR Growth
- 100% — Client Growth
Vertical SaaS categories naturally mature into feature parity, making customer acquisition increasingly expensive and differentiation more difficult. In veterinary practice management software, growth required more than better campaigns. It required a clearer market position and a modern demand generation system built around it.
Rather than simply increasing ad spend, I rebuilt the go-to-market strategy from the ground up. Competitive research and customer insights informed a new market position, which was activated through paid acquisition, lifecycle marketing, attribution, and RevOps infrastructure. After validating the model, I recruited and scaled the growth function while implementing forecasting and reporting systems that aligned marketing with sales and finance.
What began as a positioning initiative evolved into a scalable growth engine. The strategy drove 350% ARR growth while creating the attribution, lifecycle, and forecasting needed to align the rest of the organization around a single growth model.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing
Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg - Bloomsburg, PA, USA
Skills
Core
Growth Model, Performance Marketing, Marketing Budgeting, Product Positioning, Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies, Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, Audience Targeting, Email Marketing, Funnel Optimization, Paid Advertising, Product Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Email Marketing Automation, Content Strategy, Digital Marketing Strategy, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Organic Social Media, LinkedIn Marketing, Social Media Marketing (SMM), SMS Marketing, Video Ads, SEO Content, Google Tag Manager, Out-of-home (OOH) Advertising, Influencer Marketing
Platforms & Tools
HubSpot, Google Analytics, Claude, Crazy Egg, HubSpot Marketing Hub
Business Models
SaaS, SaaS Product Marketing, Business to Business (B2B), B2B, B2C, Market Positioning
Other
ChatGPT, Meta Ads, Paid Search, Go-to-market (GTM) Planning, Competitive Research, Lifecycle Marketing, Analytics, Agentic AI, Brand Positioning, Customer Acquisition, Early-stage Startups, Growth Marketing, Digital Strategy, Marketing Management, B2B Marketing, Growth Strategy, AI Content Creation, AI Social Media Content Creation, B2B Lead Generation, Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Web Content, Brand Voice, Data Analytics (Marketing), Revenue Operations (RevOps), Claude Code, Event Marketing, Startups, Startup Marketing, Vibe Coding, AI-generated Video, Agency Relationship Management (ARM), Fractional CMO, Artificial Intelligence (AI), User Retention, Corporate Culture, Higher Education, Rebranding, Accounting, PostHog, Higgsfield, Sponsorships, Account Management, Research, Design, APIs, Finance, Legal
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