# Stephen B. > Product Manager @ Homeowner.ai | Ex-Google Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephenb Creative lifecycle marketing specialist, manager & full-stack software engineer with background in operations, people management, and marketing. First in my family to attend and graduate college. Skilled at navigating tough conversations and coming to solutions built with care. My goal is always to make my team feel heard and making sure everyone gets to shine. I love to learn and I love to build. I've built a business White Cube Media which has served clients like Samsung, Snapchat, Rubicon Project, Yieldmo, Triplelift and more. I've built a developer tool called SurfQL to auto-complete dev queries based on their schema. I've built a youtube channel (ask me about it) that has gained 13.5k subscribers and a course that has helped generate additional income. I even built my basement (yes framing, electrical, drywall, painting, baseboard, doors)! I may not know immediately how to solve every problem, but I know how to ask the right questions to make sure it gets solved. ## Work Experience ### Product Manager @ Homeowner.ai Jan 2025 – Present ### Co-Founder @ White Cube Media Jan 2014 – Present | New York, NY White Cube Media Clients: Samsung, Adweek, Snapchat, The Washington Post, Yieldmo, Rubicon Project, Helpr, Triplelift, Spoonfed (NYC Restaurant), International Advertising Association, Maranatha Nut Butters, Baruch College, Ella's Kitchen, Shoe Carnival, Dorian Baroque Orchestra, Charlton Cleaners and Tailors and more. White Cube Media is a design agency that believes in the strength of branding. We specialize in creating engaging short 2D Motion Graphics videos as they're usually the most effective way to communicate messages to a "now now now" generation. Whether B2B or B2C, people have less time now due to other important tasks such as catching Pokemon, Instagraming their food or going on their phone during company meetings to complain how it was, "another meeting that could have been an e-mail". We enjoy working to meet our clients diverse creative needs such as: - Website creation and design - Email Design - SEO/SEM management - Social media content creation and scheduling I've learned from this business that clients have diverse ideas and plans with specific needs. You have to treat each customer like your only customer even if you're pressed on time. It's such a pleasure to provide this service and we hope as we expand to always keep this mindset. Please give us a visit if you have a creative project in mind and we'll explain how we can make it work: www.WhiteCubeMedia.com! ### Lifecycle Marketing Specialist @ Linqto Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New Jersey, United States Strategized and launched full-funnel lifecycle programs, resulting in a 10% QoQ revenue uplift; combined user behavior data with segmentation logic via Liquid and Braze to personalize touchpoints across email, push, content cards, and in-app. Tripled onboarding conversion rates by designing behaviorally triggered journeys and replacing static email templates with responsive, high-engagement flows. Owned lifecycle brand voice, campaign calendar, and QA process; partnered with legal to align all campaigns with SEC/FINRA compliance. ### Email Marketing Manager @ Madrivo Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New Jersey, United States Led Marketing Automation Projects: Built automated workflows in Klaviyo for Vanguard Home Warranty, initiating drip campaigns for new leads and segmenting users based on engagement. Tailored email content to low, mid, and high-level engagement users, improving personalization and relevance. Managed Technical Teams: Led a team of several email senders, overseeing campaign creation, QA processes, creative optimization, and A/B testing to ensure high conversion rates. Increased eCPM of top assets by 30-40%: Leveraged email performance data to optimize new assets and align content with target audiences, contributing to over $2 million in monthly revenue for an exclusive publisher through email alone. Developed Post-Monetization Strategy: Created interaction-driven segmentation in Klaviyo, generating an additional $10K in monthly revenue through personalized content delivery. Coded Custom Tools: Independently coded a tool to monitor KPI fluctuations. It was adopted by the wider team and used daily by leadership as a data trend dashboard. My custom tools were recognized for detecting early issues & generated proactive solutions. ### Software Engineer @ SurfQL (Open Source) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Research & Email Operations Manager @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Used Javascript, developing a call scheduling tool and time tracker for our vendors to track when feedback was given and when it was actioned, increasing accountability of the team. Additional built several tools to help our team calculate project length and expected resources required. Used SQL, generating queries to pull data from Google Databases to accurately filter users and provide flexible options on advertisers allowing diverse responses for every study. Used HTML/CSS, creating recruitment emails templates to modularize email sends for several product areas which were sent to 500,000+ advertisers. Managed team of 30 to run user research studies for Ad tools from start to finish, coaching my team, taking feedback sessions, and developing solutions to optimize performance, increasing customer satisfaction in the tool. ### CX Lab Ads Consultant @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California Work with research team to improve Google Ads through qualitative data and cross-functional collaboration with Product Managers & Engineers. ### Digital Marketing + Email Specialist @ VisitorsCoverage Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara ### Brand Partner @ Aerial Canvas Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redwood City, California Aerial Canvas + White Cube Media work together to create stunning video and photography. ### Marketing Committee Board Member @ International Advertising Association - New York Chapter Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### Student @ Baruch College Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ### Social Media Manager and Consultant @ Campbell Solberg Associates Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | 110 William Street • Strategized creative advertisements for use on Facebook • Saved business hundreds of dollars by switching off marketing services that used black hat SEO • Provided analytical reports to the President of user interaction on site to help guide new website creation • Increased Facebook likes from 115 to 600 in 2 months. • Increased Goal conversion 52% from February to June. ### Global and U.S. Marketing Intern @ Xaxis Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York, New York Xaxis is a global digital media platform that programmatically connects advertisers and publishers to audiences across all addressable channels. As a marketing intern I had various responsibilities that ranged from creative to analytics/reports. Here's some of my favorite achievements thus far: • Created report for one of our largest clients on the importance and future of digital advertising. • Optimized AdWords campaign and knocked a competitor off the first page without raising price, prior to this campaign we weren't on the first page. • Built Landing Pages on Hubspot for various events and tracked interaction. • Designed newsletter banner, twitter header, and promotion flyers. • Provided critique on design of website and functionality, using Chartbeat, into a report, changes to be implemented. • Analyzed social media efforts on key days and created reports on interaction around them. ### Analytics and Design @ CrowdsUnite Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Creating compelling infographics and working on homepage design • Checking analytics to see user trends • Designing site to spur user interaction and ease of use while decreasing bounce rate on homepage/platform pages. • Designing E-Newsletters using Mailchimp and tracking outbound link clicks on both Mailchimp and Google Analytics. • Upgrading Financial Deck from bottom-up to new modern look. • Increased Conversion Rate 20% during A/B Testing (after I designed custom consulting page) • Managed Google Adwords + Keyword research/testing. ### Graphic Communications Coordinator @ City University of New York Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 The Cuny Center for Student Entrepreneurship (CSE) was in need of a Graphics person to both create and print materials for the many events we hosted. I learned the importance of generating creative content for CSE while under a tight set of rules and deadlines. My responsibilities include: • Creative idea/campaign generation for multiple events • Creation of all graphics, booklets, motion graphics, some photo and videos for events. • Creating clear, detailed and organized instructions for supervisor for projects to meet regulation deadlines. ### Campus Ambassador @ Kipinhall Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Kipinhall is a communication platform for students to help enhance interaction with professors and other classmates. As a campus ambassador for Baruch College my job/achievements include: • E-Mailing, meeting, pitching and selling product to professors, student groups and other organizations. • Contributing new ideas, and suggestions to the company. • Providing account management & help to new users. ### Community Manager @ Teem'd Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | 55 Broad Str Teem'd is a powerful collaboration tool to write and publish your content and get the word out to the right audience. My contributions include: •Creating new ideas for company platform, to improve functionality and aesthetics. •Managing and contributing social media postings (Facebook,Twitter,Linkedin,Tumblr) for company. •Acquiring new customers through research. •Generating new company advertisement using Adobe After Effects. ### Marketer @ MindSmack.com Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | 311 W 43rd Street MindSmack Games has been created as an extension of MindSmack.com by Founder & CEO Sam Feuer. Our daily passion and drive is to create apps and games that everyone can laugh with as they use or play them. All of our apps have some type of silly factor no matter the genre. With our FastMall app we let users shake their phone to find the nearest bathroom at the mall. Now with Pixies users can make any photo into something really fun. We hope you enjoy our apps and games as much as we love making and using them! My contributions include: •Marketing IPhone apps through Social Media sites. •Testing, improving and debugging IPhone apps with programming team. •Updating company Twitter/Facebook with promotions and users creations. •Creating video advertisement for Smactive.com. •Organizing and making new app ideas for future creation. ### Bookkeeper @ Education Consortium, LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | 41 Madison Education Consortium, LLC is a consulting firm that hires coaches to mentor teachers from Catholic and Islamic schools around NYC. We work with different companies such as our most recent partner Catapult Learning™ to expand our projects. Coaches who have done work require completed packets of their activities to be paid. I was hired to be in charge of Bookkeeping and packet assembly, my responsibilities include: •Invoicing 100+ bills for 25+ different coaches. •Answering phones, updating our excel dashboard and keeping the CEO and contacts up to date. •Organizing 550+ coaching packets for finalization. •Thoroughly reviewing invoices and packets to guarantee no mistakes. ### Concierge/Doorman @ West End Avenue Condominium Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | 10 West End Avenue ### Cashier and delivery @ Village Tailor and Charlton Cleaners Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | 125 Sullivan, New York N.Y.10012 My first real job folks! You shoulda seen me on my first day I was so nervous. This job helped teach me about the value of money and good customer service. ### Volunteer @ Habitat for Humanity Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering Codesmith Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Marketing/Marketing Management, General Baruch College Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 ### Economics Hunter College Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephenbenner - Website: http://www.whitecubemedia.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephenb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephenb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29