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Keep readingIndependent growth consultant combining organic search (GEO & SEO) expertise, AI-driven automation and privacy-aligned strategy. Available for consulting, leadership roles, interim and fractional engagements.
Full-time, interim, or fractional: I embed into your organisation, own the growth marketing function and build the strategy, team and processes that compound over time.
Technical SEO, content strategy and authority building that earn rankings in both traditional search and citations in AI answers, from ChatGPT and Perplexity to Google’s AI Overviews. From crawlability and indexing to topic ownership, AI-driven content pipelines and the editorial and digital PR signals that build long-term credibility.
Senior-level resource for teams that need an experienced operator rather than another strategist. I slot into existing projects, lead discrete workstreams or provide surge capacity during periods of high demand.
Identifying and removing the structural blockages that prevent sustained growth. Whether that's in how acquisition works, how the funnel converts, or how the business iterates. A sequenced plan, not a list of recommendations.
Strategic growth marketing counsel for founders and leadership teams navigating growth decisions, team structure or channel prioritisation.
In-house and agency roles across e-commerce, both B2B and B2C, and regulated verticals. From early-stage teams to Fortune 500 scale.
Experience with director-level ownership of a distributed growth function across the US, UK and Germany at one of the world's largest e-commerce retailers with full C-suite and cross-functional accountability.
Multi-year programmes spanning technical infrastructure, GenAI automation, international market expansion, and platform architecture. Delivered across distributed teams and sustained executive alignment.
Multiple international awards across both in-house and agency work. Conference speaker. Industry judge.
Deep grounding in data governance and post-cookie acquisition strategy, where organic and AI search carry more of the load. A practical edge in regulated and privacy-sensitive verticals.
Essays and practical thinking on growth leadership, organic acquisition, and the structural decisions that separate sustainable growth from short-term gains.
This will be the location of periodic articles on infrastructure, strategy, execution, culture and other topics related to the core objective of business growth.
Keep readingMost growth stalls not because of the wrong tactics, but in how they're planned, executed, and measured. I help organisations close that gap, building growth systems that deliver durable results.
I bring the cross-functional experience to actually move things — across product, engineering and commercial — combined with deep organic acquisition expertise and a practical grounding in privacy-aligned growth strategy. I focus on what delivers: efficient acquisition, profitable growth trajectories and the kind of expertise that gives leadership teams genuine confidence in the direction they're taking.
Leadership and Execution, Not Just Advice
I have owned growth functions end-to-end: team, roadmap, board reporting and cross-functional alignment. I know what real leadership requires and how to deliver it.
I Connect Strategy to Engineering
With experience working alongside engineering and product teams at scale, I know how to translate growth priorities into technical roadmaps that move. What gets planned gets built.
Structure First, Campaigns With Purpose
Lasting growth is built on systems: architecture, automation, testing and measurement. Projects, campaigns and content are most powerful when they run on top of that foundation, not instead of it.
Growth Across Channels, Not Just Search
Organic search is my deepest specialism, but growth rarely lives in one channel. I bring experience working across content, paid, lifecycle, and product-led motions, with the strategic perspective to prioritise the right mix for the right stage of growth.
Open to full-time SEO, GEO and growth marketing roles. Also open to interim and fractional engagements, consulting projects, and strategic advisory. Based in Berlin, but open to suitable remote opportunities.
dgagerrard@proton.me