
Mariana Santiago
Verified Expert in Marketing
Marketing Expert
New Orleans, LA, United States
Toptal member since July 2, 2025
Mariana is a lifecycle marketing and CRM professional with 6+ years of experience. She holds Braze certifications and has extensive experience in building omnichannel lifecycle marketing programs, including email, push notifications, in-app notifications, and SMS. Mariana has built lifecycle marketing programs from the ground up and optimized existing programs, improving results for organizations she has worked with.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Braze
- CRM Implementation
- Email Marketing
- Email Marketing Automation
- Email Marketing Strategy
- Lifecycle Marketing
- Marketing Automation
- Marketing Operations
Work Experience
Lifecycle Marketing | CRM Consultant
Marianawrites LLC
- Created and implemented multichannel lifecycle marketing programs from scratch.
- Designed and built marketing automations in several CRM and email service provider platforms, including Braze, HubSpot, Klaviyo, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- Built, quality-assured, and launched omnichannel campaigns, including email, push notifications, SMS, and in-app messages.
Project History
Lifecycle Marketing Strategy & Email Marketing for a Nationally Recognized Nonprofit
The client had a new offering that substantially differed from their existing offerings. We needed to convince their existing users to adopt and onboard onto this new program.
We launched a high-performing lifecycle marketing program that encouraged adoption of this new program.
This lifecycle marketing program successfully encouraged mass adoption, signups, and onboarding onto this new offering.
Marketing Automation & CRM Implementation
The client’s CRM was badly disorganized, requiring a massive overhaul of its structure.
I redesigned their CRM, implemented several new automations to ensure future data cleanliness, launched campaigns and automations to help them reach their target customers, and consulted on email copy to ensure their emails were as persuasive as possible.
I transformed the CRM into a relevant, usable system that connected with the right person at the right time. Email deliverability was massively improved, and automations minimized the manual work required to maintain it.
CRM Coordination for an International Subscription-based Streaming Service
- 40+ — Campaigns Launched Monthly
An international streaming service needed to send a large volume of campaigns, but they didn’t have the manpower to build, design, QA, and launch campaigns across an omnichannel lifecycle marketing program that included emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS.
I embedded with a team of employees to join them for 40 hours a week. I built, quality-assured, and launched as many as 40 campaigns a month, working cross-functionally with marketing, creative, and engineering teams.
This lifecycle marketing program improved with data from A/B and multivariate tests.
Certifications
Braze Certified Marketer
Braze
Braze Certified Practitioner
Braze
Skills
Core
Email Marketing, Email Marketing Automation, Marketing Operations, Marketing Automation, Marketing
Platforms & Tools
Braze, CRM Systems, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Other
Lifecycle Marketing, Email Marketing Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), CRM Implementation, Email, Customer Journey, Customer Journey Optimization
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