Our Founder
Nicole Martinez
Product Management and Engineering nerd with 20 years of experience successfully leading and delivering products customers love, in the Finance, Healthcare, and Non-profit Industries.
Recognized for strong technical product leadership and collaboration with an impressive track record for delivering new features that customers love by focussing on outcomes over output. Partners with engineering and design, using an Agile mindset, defines product roadmaps, creates reporting solutions using OKRs / KPIs, Go-To-Market strategies, and executes delivery with feedback loops, while innovating game changing products.
In addition to being the President for BetterPlanet Inc., Nicole also leads the creative teams, as its Director of Product Management & Creative Growth.
This role leads strategy, development, production and creative operations. She leads an in-house performance creative function to drive bottom of the funnel execution velocity (with creatives embedded in agile squads) and owns the delivery of middle and upper funnel content and creative to support awareness, consideration, and preference for BetterPlanetCoop with customers across our Consumer, Micro-Seller, SMB and Enterprise Segments through a hybrid in-house/agency of record model. She is also responsible for owning and evolving the Co op Brand Foundations and embedding these pieces into the DNA of the total Company.
Nicole drives performance, impact and scale. She is passionate about putting world-class, breakthrough digital innovation into the world, while being able to deliver expanding services and channels of creative and content iteration at high velocity and with increased efficiency and impact over time.
This is a role with huge scope for impact and growth in a purpose driven, category defining business, Global Betterment.
Additionaly, Nicole is building the next set of tools, processes and partnerships that will enable our team to execute with excellence.
Nicole uses a marketing model, where marketing is a growth lever and game changing function. And uses this opportunity to explore the potential impact marketing has as part of the Agile Development teams.
In this role, she offers some key responsibilities:
Accountability for delivering strategy, creative playbooks, and delivery of the program against the goals and priorities laid out in the Segment Marketing Plan
Drives an accountability and partnering mindset to deliver on the goals of each individual Segment and provide the reporting and cadences to optimize this partnership
Operationalizes an internal performance creative function with performance creative resources embedded into agile operating squads. Drives continuous improvement in the performance, velocity of execution and foster a high velocity experimentation culture with the team
Leads the commercial partnership with a Global Agency of Record
Creates accountabilities, builds cadences, creates operational excellence to drive more impact and manages the efficiency of creative spend through this partnership
Owns and evolves the Co op Brand Foundations and puts in place the training, communication, enablement tools and ways of working to embed these as part of the DNA of the Enterprise
Defines and communicates new benchmarks in digital creative excellence and provides the inspiration, mentoring, processes, and training to develop the teams to continually meet and jump over these benchmarks
Leads Social Channels and Social Channel Marketing. Drives increased reach and customer engagement through Social Channels
Leads the development of new capabilities in always on content creation through Influencers, Creators, & customer-led content
Supports each segment with a content program that meets the needs and opportunities of the segment goals. Partners with Compliance, Legal and Sourcing to drive effective risk management and execution velocity. Partners effectively with our Comms team to seamlessly connect Content development for customers and content development targeting media and key stakeholders within our eco-system
Leads Creative Operations to increase the efficiency of creative production over time and to increase the velocity of execution. Drives transparency and measurement of the cost of development and production and drives innovation in delivery through automation, partnerships and integration of AI practices
Leads the Team through outstanding leadership and strong management against OKRs
Creates a learning and feedback culture, builds development and growth plans with each team member
Provides thought leadership and innovation roadmaps for capabilities, creatives activations, brand moments, measurement, platform experimentation and AI assisted development
In this role, she offers some key competencies:
Expertise across the Media Lifecycle; Strategy, Planning, Buying, Delivery and Optimization
Agile practices and experimentation: Check out her most recent article, โStop Doing Agile to Be Agileโ or book, The Agile Product Creative Growth Method, or obtain her free Agile Certification
Deeply analytical with strong financial acumen
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Partnering mindset and orientation
Situational Leadership; knowing when to empower and when to direct
Goal setting, goal accountability and delivery
Team leadership and management
High attention to detail
Performance Creative Leadership
Experimentation and Growth Creative Practices
Brand Management
Content Creation and Management
Social Marketing and Social Creative
Creative Operations
Client Services
Proven team transformation experience in hiring, retaining and coaching a team for peak performance
Experience in building and transforming a creative function
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