caro.

Systems brain. Designer's eye.

Email marketing that turns one-time buyers into repeat customers — strategy, automation and execution, owned end-to-end.

10+ yearsD2C & B2B
7+ yearsremote
AI-enhanceddaily workflow
Formerly at

Services

Everything your email marketing needs, without the agency overhead

I plug into your team as a senior lifecycle marketer — from a one-off audit to fully owning your email and retention program.

Email Audits & Optimization

A full review of your flows, campaigns, segments and deliverability — then structured A/B testing to fix what's underperforming and lift what's working.

Audit

Lifecycle & Retention Strategy

Customer journey mapping, flow architecture and retention roadmaps built around how your customers actually buy.

Strategy

Automation & Platform Setups

Welcome, abandonment, post-purchase, win-back and nurture flows — plus platform setups with a focus on email and automation, in your platform of choice.

Build

Email Campaign Management

Full ownership of your campaign calendar: planning, copy, design coordination, segmentation, QA, deployment and iteration.

Execution

Marketing Management

Integrated campaigns beyond the inbox — cross-department coordination, sale events and launches, plus the SOPs that make execution repeatable, with AI woven into the daily workflow.

Ops

Reporting & Insights

Clear, client-ready performance reporting and post-campaign retrospectives that tell you what to do next — not just what happened.

Analytics

Automation that runs like clockwork.
Emails people actually open.

Ten years deep in marketing platforms and data — with roots in graphic design, photography and storytelling. Every flow is built clean behind the scenes, and beautiful where your customers see it.

Toolkit

Fluent in your stack. Loyal to your results.

Deep expertise in most email platforms and the full stack around them.

Core platform

Klaviyo

Flows, campaigns, segmentation, A/B testing, analytics, Composer, Customer Hub, CDP.

Core platform

HubSpot

Nurture automation, segmentation and campaign ops for B2B pipelines.

Core platform

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Enterprise campaign execution, journeys and segmentation at scale.

Core platform

GoHighLevel

All-in-one funnels, automation and CRM workflows for lean teams and agencies.

Email & Ops

Kit Mailchimp Salesloft Shopify WooCommerce Google Analytics NeverBounce WordPress

Creative

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Lightroom Canva CapCut

AI Workflow

Claude ChatGPT Gamma ElevenLabs Nano Banana AI-assisted copy & QA

Remote Collaboration

Slack Asana Jira Notion Google Workspace Microsoft Office

Experience

A decade of owning the email channel

2022 — 2025

Email Marketing Specialist

Toptal · Remote

  • Independently built, QA'd and executed complex email automations, serving as main point of contact while collaborating with C-level stakeholders.
  • Led key aspects of the HubSpot → Salesforce Marketing Cloud migration.
  • Spearheaded newsletter testing, turning a pilot into a high-performing ongoing campaign.
  • Managed pre- and post-event comms for initiatives like Toptal Marketing at Cannes; developed SOPs for campaign execution.
2018 — 2022

Marketing Campaign Manager

Planet of the Vapes · Remote · promoted from Digital Marketing Assistant

  • Grew the email channel from zero to 21% of total revenue, owning all Klaviyo campaigns and automations end-to-end.
  • Increased the returning customer rate to 46%; helped scale revenue 5× in four years without paid advertising.
  • Project-managed Black Friday end-to-end, reporting to the CEO — 65% YoY revenue growth and a doubled returning-customer rate.
  • Brought all email automation in-house from an agency and standardized marketing ops processes.
2017 — 2018

Email Marketing Account Manager

Cheetah Digital · Costa Rica

  • Executed and deployed cross-channel campaigns for several of North America's largest brands, building basic and advanced database segments.
  • Managed day-to-day client relationships and performance reporting across multiple accounts.

Earlier: social media management for a 600k+ follower brand, SEO & content, and email support at Amazon — plus degrees in Marketing Communications and Advertising.

Certifications & Education

Claude 101Anthropic
Copywriting & Product MessagingCXL Institute
Storytelling MasterclassStorytellers ST
Cinematography Semester GrantSanta Fe University of Art & Design
Graphic Design, Color Theory, Photoshop & IllustratorFUNDATEC
Marketing Communications & Advertising degreesUniversidad Latina de Costa Rica

Case Study — Planet of the Vapes

The numbers, and the people behind them

What happened when I owned the email channel at Planet of the Vapes for four years — confirmed in writing by the CEO who saw it happen.

0 → 21%of total revenue from email, built from scratch
46%returning customer rate
65%YoY Black Friday revenue growth
revenue in 4 years — no paid ads
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Caro was a critical part of what POTV is today. She grew e-mail from nothing to 21% of revenue and a return customer rate of 46%. She is operational and will create clear, effective systems. I would highly recommend Caro for a leadership role in e-mail marketing, campaign management or marketing operations.

Patrick BissenCEO, Planet of the Vapes
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One of the most reliable and organized people I've had the pleasure of working with at Toptal. As an email marketing specialist she has supported literally dozens of us and our campaigns — yet somehow she was always on top of everything, completes things quickly and without errors, and never drops a thread.

Sunny GoldB2B Content Marketing Leader · Toptal
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Working with Caro was an absolute delight. A marketing skill set that covered all channels — content planning through to creation and campaign execution — with an abundance of enthusiasm and positive energy. Not just a fantastic team member, but an invaluable asset to any company.

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English · Fluent Español · Native Français · Conversational

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