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Courtney Harrison · Asheville, North Carolina · Remote

Go to market strategist.
Growth-system builder.
Sales-minded marketer.

Go to market and product marketing leader with 10+ years of experience translating market opportunities into focused growth strategies. Connects positioning, portfolio storytelling, campaign planning, sales enablement, and execution systems to align Marketing and Sales.

Experience

Director of Go to Market Strategy

Superstorm Events

Built the integrated campaign framework for a multi-city Small Business Summit series, connecting audience strategy, messaging, channels, conversion paths, and launch milestones.

  • Developed B2B buyer personas, messaging pillars, and audience-specific positioning for prospective, new, and established small business owners.
  • Shaped website architecture and conversion-focused copy for attendee, sponsor, and exhibitor journeys.
  • Translated campaign strategy into social content and brand examples, supported by a scalable ClickUp structure for planning, ownership, approvals, and coordination.

Director of Go to Market Strategy

Destinations & Detours

Defines brand positioning, product architecture, and messaging for an emerging B2C experiential travel company.

  • Structured signature travel experiences under a cohesive brand.
  • Developed supporting campaign, website, and social content strategies.

Product Marketing and GTM Strategy Manager

AVID Center

Owned end-to-end GTM strategy and campaign execution across a portfolio of programs, leading cross-functional teams through positioning, launch, and engagement.

  • Developed portfolio positioning and messaging adopted across Marketing, Sales, and executive communications. Calls to action generated 2,043 QR code scans, nearly four times the next-highest campaign.
  • Led competitive and market analysis that contributed to a threefold increase in target-audience adoption.
  • Built a multi-stage HubSpot lifecycle program generating 1,300+ prospective leads and improving conversion from approximately 8% to 40%.
  • Increased average nurture open rates from approximately 33% to more than 50%, with peaks above 70% during key conversion periods.

Marketing Strategy and Business Development Director

Catapult Learning

Developed integrated campaigns informed by AI market trends, public-sector purchasing needs, funding timelines, and regional opportunity.

  • Increased lead generation 52% through targeted outreach using Outreach, GovSpend, and Dynamics 365.
  • Identified high-opportunity verticals by synthesizing market data, funding timelines, regional penetration rates, and public-sector procurement dynamics.

Strategic Growth Manager

Amplify Education

Oversaw enterprise implementations and multi-product pilots while connecting market insight, adoption, engagement, and ROI.

  • Grew market share 25% by identifying regional trends and expanding awareness in new verticals.
  • Translated educator, administrator, and district-buyer needs into product and feature feedback.

Market Strategy Consultant

Harrison Consultants

Advised startups and nonprofits on product-market fit, positioning, audience segmentation, and go-to-market strategy.

  • Guided a UK-based SaaS nonprofit into 20 U.S. markets through segmentation and partner strategy.
  • Optimized awareness campaigns and KPIs for early-childhood and multilingual-learning organizations.

Director of Go-to-Market Strategy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Designed regional GTM, customer engagement, state-adoption, and sales enablement programs across literacy and mathematics.

  • Generated $83M in revenue through integrated field marketing and high-impact adoption campaigns.
  • Created regional product summits with 89% attendance that scaled nationally and generated $10M in new sales opportunities.
  • Collaborated with Product to extract and reposition existing content for remote learning, creating $500K in additional sales opportunities.

Earlier foundation

Sales executive and classroom educator

Early experience in curriculum sales and public and private school classrooms created the foundation for how I approach product marketing: understand the customer, make the value concrete, and give the field what it needs to move the conversation forward.