
Egor Donde
Crafting revenue through product features, retention and user loyalty for #gaming and heavy-tech #startups
Bio
- 12 years as CMO and Head of Digital Marketing - 8 years as Marketing Product owner and Senior Product Marketer - Two $10m+ startup exits: cybersecurity and algo trading - Four successful ICOs with $3M+ each (2018-2020) - Launched gaming fintech in the US. Full product architect, GTM, and product launch. With MQL cost of $190 and CPI to $0,7 in 6 months. - Increased Premium subscribers for GameTech company by 3.5X in 4 months - Increased Total Revenue From All Sources for GameTech company by 30.6% in 8 months. - Increased players’ Return to the game rate for GameDev company by 54.8% My focus is SCALING gaming Heavy-tech and Gaming startups from idea to launch.
Expertise
Go to market strategy
I built 30+ GTM strategies for web2 and web3 products: - FinTech - GameTech - cyber security - algo trading - AdTech - EdTech and many less savvy industries, such as Real Estate, Asset Management, etc.
Marketing automation
Retention and Customer Success automation. With tools like Zendesk, Optimove, Zapier, Intercom, Redash and more. For context I run a project with 570+ weekly automated communication campaigns with 50+ granular target groups. That increased LTV by 145% in 8 months.
Product launches
I worked or advised 7+ heavy-tech startups, launched 20+ product and/or pivots and supported two $10M+ startups' exits. I'm controlling product messaging and collateral, inbound and outbound communication, researching personas and user stories, product value prop, and end-to-end product positioning strategy - the full thing. I know how to build the hand-in-hand synergy between the Sales, Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to meet product goals & business KPIs.
Product marketing
I'm a senior-level cross-functional product marketer with proficiency in managing multiple campaigns across various media channels, product/brand management in the gaming and tech industry, in setting, tracking, and analyzing KPIs to optimize campaign performance in real-time and building revenue streams through product features, retention, and user loyalty.
Toolkit

Miro
10 years of experienceProduct architecture, building Product Wireframes, Strategy Visualization and Planning, building Customer Journey Maps, Project Management and Tracking

Zendesk
6 years of experienceCustomer Support and Success automation for gaming startup with 400k+ DAU and one the largest gaming Discord channel. With widgets, and custom roles for mods
Asana
8 years of experienceBest project management tool: to track performance, set tangible KPIs, communicate with diverse team across the globe. It helped me to manage 35+ people during Corona pandemic and close the multi-million exit for cyber security startup.
Intercom
6 years of experienceExpertise in outbound campaigns' automation and Customer Success automated funnels. With focus on Retention and decreasing the MQL costs. Funnel orchestration.
JIRA
7 years of experienceManaging 10+ devs as a Head of Product / CMO for heavy-tech startup. Helped to track progress on product R&D and improved communication between business and development.
Zapier
7 years of experienceMarketing automation that covers 5+ tools in one funnel. Example: Intercom + Zapier + Whatsapp Business + Twilio SMS service = sms outbound and inbound notification that cost 5 times less than native Intercom solution, had higher limits for messages and work both as SMS and Whatsapp-native message.