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Jordan Chavis

Full-Stack B2B SaaS Marketer

Summary

I'm a full-stack marketer who's built dependable inbound engines for multiple B2B SaaS companies over a 10-plus-year career, with three exits so far.

Right now I'm focused on AI search visibility (AEO/GEO), where brand meets AI, and agent skills for marketing teams.

Roles I'm a fit for

  • Principal Marketing Manager
  • Head of Organic Visibility
  • Head of AEO/SEO
  • Principal Demand Generation Manager

Experience

Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Tiger Data

Dec 2025 – Present

A time-series database built for the Postgres ecosystem.

  • GEO/AEO and AI search. Grew AI search visibility from 40% to 60% in the first months and increased citation share and AI agent traffic 20%+. AI search is now a verified, significant source of inbound leads (self-reported attribution).
  • Technical SEO. Took site health from 80 to 95 through systematic audits and ongoing technical updates.
  • AI-powered research and content. Built custom Claude Code skills and agents on top of Ahrefs and Profound that automate competitive research and generate content briefs, for faster human-assisted content at scale.
  • Channel ownership. Top-of-funnel growth across organic search, paid (Google, LinkedIn, and Reddit Ads), and newsletter sponsorships aimed at developers and technical decision-makers.

Senior Web Marketing Manager, DroneDeploy

Apr 2024 – Dec 2025

  • Website optimization and CRO. A/B tested a landing page redesign with the form moved into the hero: conversion up 29% (11.8% → 15.2%) and demo requests up 69%. Ongoing site and SEO work grew organic traffic 15% year over year.
  • Pipeline generation. Grew SEO-sourced pipeline 30% quarter over quarter with keyword research, competitive analysis, and conversion-focused content briefs, tracked in a Looker Studio dashboard across GA4.
  • LLM-sourced growth. Grew LLM attribution 70% quarter over quarter with technical SEO and content SOPs that optimize every asset for AI citations, turning LLMs into an attributable pipeline source.
  • AI-powered workflows. Custom GPTs, plus AI as a coding partner, to create content and ship website updates faster with less reliance on outside developers.

Senior Demand Generation Marketing Manager, ProsperOps

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024

  • Organic growth. Grew non-branded organic traffic 35% year over year and organic signups 20% with a content-led SEO strategy; MQLs more than doubled in the first six months across organic and paid.
  • Email and lifecycle. Multi-stage nurture workflows with persona-based targeting. SDR sequences hit 31% open and 8.16% reply rates; the 9,500+ subscriber newsletter held 12–15% opens.
  • Paid channel launch. Launched the company’s first paid search and paid social programs, driving multiple enterprise customers and $1M+ in attributed revenue.
  • CRO. Started the company’s first conversion testing program and redesigned key pages within the first month.
  • Agency leadership. Hired and managed two agency partners (paid social and SEO content) in the first quarter.

Growth Marketing Consultant (Fractional), Forgematic

Jan 2021 – Present

Fractional growth marketing for Seed to Series B B2B SaaS.

  • SEO strategy. Content strategy, keyword research, and AI-assisted SEO briefs for B2B SaaS clients across dev tools, healthtech, and logistics.
  • AEO and LLM visibility. Helping clients grow their citation share and visibility in LLMs and AI-powered search, tracking LLM mentions with Peec and Scrunch.
  • AI-powered production. Custom GPTs and Claude Projects that let client teams scale content production without adding headcount.

Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Spreedly

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

Promoted after 2 years

  • Revenue-focused growth. Built $12M+ in pipeline from organic channels and $5.3M from paid search on $400K of spend.
  • Category creation. Among the first to publish on payment orchestration, helping define the category and making Spreedly its leader within 18 months through consistent, niche-focused content.
  • PLG and lifecycle. Long-term nurture and churn recovery programs that won back $1M in otherwise lost pipeline. An early adopter of inbound-led outbound, working with sales to convert free users to paid through signal-based selling.
  • Conversion and A/B testing. Led website redesigns and a standing backlog of experiments across content layout, CTAs, video, and schema.
  • Community and brand. Scaled the community sub-brand from 99 to 2,500+ members with LinkedIn and X ads, and led the visual rebrand and the website redesign that followed it.

Digital Marketing Manager & Marketing Operations Manager, Lenovo

Jul 2016 – Jan 2019

  • Digital demand generation for Lenovo’s flagship commercial software offering.
  • Marketing automation. Ran HubSpot and Pardot, and the Salesforce integration behind them.
  • Website strategy, working with an external agency.

Social Media Strategist, Premier, Inc

Aug 2013 – Dec 2015

Healthcare technology: Aperek, acquired by Premier during my time there.

  • Social media strategy for a healthcare technology company (Aperek, acquired by Premier during my tenure), growing the company’s following 20%+ in nine months.
  • Executive presence. Managed the CEO’s social presence and thought leadership content.

Skills

AI search and SEO
AEO/GEO and LLM citation share · Technical SEO · Keyword research and content strategy · Ahrefs, Profound, Peec, Scrunch
Demand generation
Pipeline from organic and paid · Paid search and social (Google, LinkedIn, Reddit Ads) · Newsletter sponsorships · Product-led growth
Website and CRO
A/B testing and landing pages · Website redesigns · GA4 and Looker Studio
Lifecycle and marketing ops
Nurture and churn recovery · Email and SDR sequences · HubSpot, Pardot, Salesforce
AI for marketing teams
Claude Code skills and agents · Custom GPTs and Claude Projects · AI-assisted coding for site updates

Side projects

  • Coffee Notebook (notebook.coffee): A living display of my coffee inventory, history, and favorite roasters
  • Claude Code Marketing Skills (github.com): A collection of marketing skills I've created for Claude Code to help with tedious SEO, AEO, and Google Ads work.
  • Hiring Bias Remover (biasremover.com): Use AI to remove bias indicators from LinkedIn profiles before sharing with hiring managers
  • LandscapeAI (landscapeideasai.com): Use AI to design your dream garden and backyard landscape
  • Forgematic (forgematic.com): Former fractional growth marketing services for seed to growth stage companies. Now just my holdco.

More: the AI Lab, everything I've built with AI, and the work gallery.