Victor Stankov
Verified Expert in Marketing
Marketing Expert
Sofia, Bulgaria
Toptal member since August 5, 2024
Victor is a full-stack digital marketer with 10 years of experience helping SaaS startups and scale-ups drive growth through experimentation. His expertise spans the entire user experience, from campaign launches to product and offers testing, with a strong focus on conversion rate optimization (CRO), UX, positioning, and messaging strategy. Victor's data-driven approach and hypothesis-based mindset ensure organizations achieve optimal growth efficiently.
Expertise
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Figma
- Google Analytics 4
- Hotjar
- Messaging
- Psychology
- Semrush
- User Research
Work Experience
Growth Marketing Expert
Livem Operations LLC
- Developed clear value proposition and messaging strategy during meta testing, aligning the team on target audience and engagement-driving themes. Identified high-performing variables like hooks, subtitles, visuals, primary text, and CTAs.
- Attracted 150 new community members under 30 days for Lucens' exclusive network for physicians through targeted Meta ads testing.
- Achieved a cost-effective $13 per lead with a $1,000 ad spend, surpassing the campaign objective and setting a benchmark for future tests.
- Optimized landing pages for enhanced conversions. Directed a cross-functional team to create optimized landing pages tailored to various product offerings.
Conversion Rate Optimization Expert
PurpleFire
- Increased website conversion rates by over 30% for multiple clients through A/B testing key pages and sections. Furthermore, the learnings from each test helped clients clarify their value proposition and align all other marketing assets.
- Led end-to-end conversion rate optimization (CRO) audits, including deep quantitative (GA4 and heatmap tools) and qualitative (on-site and email surveys) research to develop data-driven hypotheses and test pipelines.
- Managed a team of UX designers, project managers, and front-end developers to launch tests on a strict schedule, resulting in 100% client retention and satisfaction.
Senior SaaS Growth Marketer
UENI
- Helped drive over 50% uplift in website conversion rate through a series of Unbounce landing page A/B tests. The winning page structure was used to craft personalized pages for users from different touchpoints, further streamlining performance.
- Doubled daily referrals by revamping the UI experience with auto-generated referral links, pre-filled messages, and awareness through email and in-app messaging, and tested the sweet spot for the referral incentive.
- Helped drive a 50% increase in ROAS from Meta ads by testing variants inspired by website messaging tests. Made the design process faster by using AI-generated mockups for creatives.
Growth Marketer
Colorful
- Worked with founders to improve UX for no code accessibility, specifically e-commerce SMBs. This helped drive Colorful's acquisition by Soona in 2024.
- Orchestrated Product Hunt's launch, achieving 2nd place in the product of the week, more than 600 upvotes, and over 1,000 signups in three days.
- Delivered 40+ demos in 1 month with hyper-targeted cold outreach to Amazon sellers and D2C Instagram and TikTok brands, which were manually scraped.
Growth Manager
Printt
- Reached a number one result on Google UK using local and programmatic SEO combined with a 5-digit monthly search ad spend.
- Increased app signup conversion rate by 140% by conducting A/B testing on our website and email marketing.
- Increased account activation by 40% two months after launching a new UI re-design that also pushed average order value by 15% for in-app purchases.
Head of Growth
Innologica
- Achieved 20% growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) through successful pricing experiments and landing enterprise customers.
- Lifted activation rate by 25% with a personalized onboarding experience and targeted email engagement triggers. Increased free-to-paid conversions by 10% by focusing on paid feature discovery in the UI.
- Initiated search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing targeted at high purchase intent queries, leading to 30+ new paid user accounts per week.
- Outreached tech journalists and landed a featured article on WIRED, which further boosted brand awareness and SEO rankings.
Head of Growth
Dealmarket
- Achieved a 48% uplift in a free trial to paid conversion rate by optimizing the onboarding journey with in-app feature walkthroughs and an educational welcome email drip campaign.
- Helped guide product roadmap by developing feedback loops with users through customer support and in-app surveys.
- Crafted the underlying use cases and target market strategy, which helped the company's acquisition by Drooms in 2016.
Project History
Website, Ads, and Emails Optimization
https://ueni.com/Redesigned and A/B tested digital assets for UENI.com, which led to an over 50% increase in conversion rate.
I worked as part of a cross-functional team with the founders to enhance the branding consistency and messaging strategy of UENI's landing pages and ads.
Leveraging data and insights, I recommended a series of optimizations that led to a successful redesign of the user journey. One key insight we gained was optimizing the "Special Offers" cadence and availability, which led us to the most effective revenue strategy, aligning closely with customer needs and expectations.
These pages have since been iterated further with significant improvements based on my performance insights.
1,000+ Signups from Product Hunt
https://www.producthunt.com/products/packshot-generator-by-colorful#colorful-studio-betaHelped orchestrate a Product Hunt launch using Twitter, Discord, Reddit, and other community warmup tactics, resulting in the number two product of the week.
I worked as part of a cross-functional team to carefully plan and execute our Product Hunt launch strategy.
Leveraging community engagement and outreach, we built relationships by posting in the PH community, reaching Twitter accounts, and warming up Discord and Reddit channels, among other communities, for launch day. The launch helped the team receive fundamental product feedback from various user segments and use cases to learn from.
To capture more learning and engage our new users, we also launched our Discord community, which I managed until it grew to 200 members. This strategy was invaluable for the team to iterate on the product and resulted in significant improvements based on the insights we gained.
Unlocked Revenue From Enterprise Plans
https://www.inoreader.com/pricing/enterpriseLeveraged deep data analysis to uncover user needs at Inoreader, driving the creation of new enterprise plans and securing over $100,000 in additional ARR.
By engaging directly with such users, we gained deep insights into their specific needs and challenges. This understanding led to a pricing re-packaging and the development of our new enterprise team and enterprise custom plans, specifically tailored to address the unique requirements of these high-value users.
In just under a month, we secured over $100,000 in additional annual recurring revenue through negotiation and personalized deals. This initiative boosted our financial performance and significantly enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.
This project remains one of my key reminders of the importance of data-driven decision-making and customer-centric strategies in driving business growth.
Education
Master's Degree in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
Alliance Manchester Business School - Manchester, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree in International Business, Finance, and Economics
The University of Manchester - Manchester, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree in Finance
Nanyang Technological University Singapore - Singapore, Singapore
Certifications
Product Marketing
CXL
Digital Psychology & Persuasion
CXL
Conversion Optimization
CXL
Skills
Core
Google Ads, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), A/B Testing, Digital Marketing, Funnel Marketing, Digital Marketing Strategy, Facebook Ads, Content Marketing, Performance Marketing, Lead Generation, Growth Hacking, Copywriting, Email Marketing, Sales, Local SEO, Product Marketing, Product Positioning, Paid Advertising, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Affiliate Marketing, SEO Tools
Platforms & Tools
Google Analytics 4, Facebook Ads Manager, Amplitude
Business Models
B2B, SaaS Product Marketing
Other
VWO, Unbounce, Hotjar, Semrush, User Research, Market Research, Teamwork, Data Analytics, User Experience (UX), Campaigns, UX Analysis, User Flows, User Feedback, Pricing Models, UX Research, Messaging, Pricing Strategy, Product-led Growth (PLG), Psychology, Neuromarketing, Growth Marketing, Landing Page Design, Customer Acquisition, Growth Strategy, Messaging Development, Meta Ads, Customer.io, Figma, Entrepreneurship, Team Management, Communication, Survey Development & Analysis, Referrals, User Onboarding, UX Design, User Experience Design, Programmatic Marketing, New Products, APIs, Webflow, Community, Launch Strategy, Product Launch, Product Packaging, Go-to-market Plans, Financial Reporting, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Account Management, Economics, Mathematics
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