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Mason Brown
About

Marketer. Builder.

I run marketing functions end to end and build the AI tools that make the work possible. Range is real or it's nothing.

Chicago-based. MBA, Lee University. Currently consulting for a Fortune 10 healthtech company and looking for the next seat where the function is mine to own.

Portrait of Mason Brown
The work, in order

Two chapters. Same operator.

2020-2025

Five years running marketing at an IT community of 5 million developers.

Experts Exchange hired me to lead marketing for a community product in a crowded developer tools market. I inherited a dead email list under 10% open rate. In eight months I built ByteSize to 200K subscribers at 60% open. $1.65M projected ARR.

From there the scope kept widening. I led an SEO overhaul that upgraded 71,000 URLs and drove 135% traffic growth. Implemented Amplitude from scratch, found the activation moment via A/B test, lifted trial signups 30%. Shipped a gamification system end to end, PRD through Figma through GTM. Ran positioning on the April Dunford methodology and rebuilt the full messaging hierarchy.

Somewhere in there I bought a one-way ticket to Chicago without knowing a single person and built a life here. Finished an MBA from Lee while working full time. Four years in, Chicago is home.

2025-present

Built the first-ever enterprise buyer intelligence program at a Fortune 10 healthtech company. Shipped the AI tools that made it possible.

Walked in with no healthtech background. 300+ hours of primary audience interviews. A 76-slide persona library across four health system verticals. A 39-slide buyer journey architecture mapping the 5-stage, 7-to-13-month non-linear enterprise buying cycle. A proprietary framework called the Four Engines that maps the four competing forces every major healthcare purchase has to satisfy. All of it is now the GTM foundation for their expansion into a new market. I flew in to lead the in-person sales training that rolled it out to the field team.

I also shipped two production AI tools while the program was taking shape. A competitive intelligence aggregator that runs on a schedule, and a content recommendation engine grounded in the buyer journey I wrote. The tools are not a side project. They are the infrastructure that makes it possible for one person to run what used to take five. That is the claim. The tools are the proof.

What I believe

Four things, enforced in my own work.

01

Say the obvious thing nobody's saying.

Every job I've had, I walked in and noticed a thing that was broken that nobody was naming. Then I fixed it. That's been the whole career, compressed.

02

Ship, then refine.

The best plan that never ships loses to a mediocre plan in market. The best thinking I've done happened after launch, not before.

03

AI is infrastructure, not novelty.

I don't use AI to look clever. I use it to do the work of a team of five while I focus on the strategy. No model is doing that part for me.

04

Range is real or it's nothing.

Newsletter growth, SEO, gamification, rebrand, positioning, enterprise buyer intelligence, AI tooling, sales training. Not a specialist pretending to have range. An operator who has done the work across the funnel.

Right now

A seat where the outcome is mine.

Senior PMM, Growth Marketing Manager, Head of Marketing, or VP-level. Healthtech, B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, growth-stage companies. Remote-first. Chicago-based, open to hybrid.

What I want is ownership. A function that is mine to build or rebuild, a number on the line that I am accountable for, and a team or a solo seat where shipping is how we keep score. My best work has always come when the weight of the outcome sat on my desk. I want more of that, not less.

If that is the seat you are filling, the contact button lives at the bottom of every page. Send the note.

What I'm looking for

A senior PMM, growth, or head of marketing seat where the function is mine to own.

Available immediately. Remote-first, open to Chicago onsite. Targeting healthtech, B2B SaaS, and cybersecurity at Series B through public.

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