Professional Background
Brand & marketing leader for innovators and game-changers
Human understanding is processed in narrative form. This fundamental behavior is at the core of my approach to brand marketing strategies. The goal is to keep digging until the truth of the challenge is irresistibly compelling. My passion is forming experiences in innovative ways that will engage society in a measured, constructive way.
January 2021 - Present
Brand Marketing
Torris Digital Agency
Torris is a marketing and design firm specializing in branded content for tech startups and interactive entertainment, including brand development, social media, and digital marketing.
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Leveraging AI to lead marketing efforts for a gamer-centric social startup, Dynasty 11. Establishing marketing best practices, social and community frameworks, content marketing, and live streaming events.
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Developed a content pipeline and asset library for a high-complexity game developer with 200K Discord MAU. Collaborated with a cross-functional team, streamlining content creation and workflow. Improved click activity by 25%, reducing unnecessary content noise by 33%. Reduced monthly churn rate by 67%.
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Developed foundational brand and social presence for online learning AI startup, resulting in $1.5M seed consideration. Created flexible brand assets, set up a content calendar, and established a social media strategy. Increased followers by 150% M/M.
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Led brand-building for an interactive media company, contributing to a $1B valuation at product launch. Consulted on messaging, supervised user guide development, and led in-product written content development.
January 2019 - March 2022
Brand Content
Spire Global, Inc.
Hired to guide Spire’s story from start-up to IPO. Set the precedent for brand, content and community building. As a team of 3, I directed, managed, or drove fundamental brand and marketing initiatives now executed by 26 communications, brand, marketing, and content creators.
Led or influenced the establishment of multiple teams, serving many different functions, including PR & Communications, Brand & Creative, Content Marketing, Product Marketing, Digital Marketing, and Demand Gen. Headcount increased 3 to 25 in thirty months.
Managed projects for brand development, brand marketing, video production, website design and analytics, internal communications. Y/Y ‘20/’21: +150% organic search increase, 6x greater video ad CTR than B2B benchmarks. Reduction of video ad cost-per-view by 45% vs B2B benchmarks.
Directed brand campaigns, thought leadership narratives, journalism-like blog series’, company vision presentations, department roadmaps and budgets, and IPO training. Annual Recurring Revenue: +50% Y/Y.
July 2016 - January 2019
Content Marketing Lead, Brand Management
Justastic Creative Studio
Drove content marketing, brand strategies, and digital product development for this multimedia creative agency.
Influenced brand strategy, The Sandbox: Evolution mobile game, which went on to become a top 10 game, featured in iOS App Store 6 times, Best Simulation Game (iOS, 2016). Acquired by Animoca Brands in 2018.
Strategized and executed brand and social campaigns for a diverse clientele averaging a social media organic follower increase of 3% per month (26% annual) across multiple channels.
Led brand content for professional services clientele including logos, content, sales enablement/collateral, ad & social campaigns, market research and analysis, and performance analytics.
Rebranded company logo, brand messaging, and website which increased clientele by approx 15%.
January 2014 - October 2017
Lead Designer, Product Content
Telltale Games
Led end-to-end narrative design and collaborated with cross-functional teams, as well as influenced the look and feel of characters, UI/UX, and other related work to engage the consumer with top-tier entertainment brands.
Outlined narrative content to strategize maximum engagement for The Walking Dead, a Game of the Year franchise, with more than 28 million copies sold.
Designed content systems to allow cross-functional teams to execute on time and under budget for games such as Minecraft: Story Mode, a top 10 game (iOS & Google Play). Average project cost: $3M.
Developed UX solutions on an episode to increase retention for Game of Thrones. Received best average rating of all franchise episodes. Over a million downloads.
Peter Platzer | CEO, Spire Global
Matt has an uncanny eye for visualization and a great dedication to team work. Always ready to help he is as unflappable by chaos as anyone I have ever seen. Above his professional dedication, what makes it an even greater pleasure to be working with Matt, is his kind, calm, and friendly attitude. It has been a true privilege having him on the team and I am certain about the positive impact he will have wherever he chooses to engage!
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