Looking for a Marketing Job in NYC or SF

I’m planning to move to NYC or SF and I’m looking for a job. I’ll be in the US around August 20th, available to meet anyone.

I’m a marketer with sales experience and some technical knowledge who’s started and managed his own business

Last thing I’ve done is bootstrapping a small health care services business that I’m now selling. I started my career in sales at a hardware vendor. After that I held several marketing and sales management positions in media and telecom companies. More professional details in my Linkedin profile.

I understand small business and their advertising needs

I’ve been one. I’ve sold to many. I worked at a yellow pages company. You can criticize the product as much as you want. I will agree, it’s obsolete. But yellow pages companies still sell billions of dollars in advertising every year. They do it because they understand small business and they are great at marketing and selling that. I learned all the metrics and tactics used long ago.

I’m great at making things happen

I’ve had my own business, so I couldn’t afford not to execute ideas. This skill is the result of three characteristics I have:

-I understand people. Great at managing and organizing teams, even when they are not under my direct command or in the same continent.
-I live by the data. I believe in crunching data to make decisions and understand problems. If data doesn’t say, it doesn’t exist. Except when it does, but I’ll leave the role of intuition for another moment.
-I love tools and processes. That may sound boring and grey, but I do know that growth can only be achieved with some order. And I really think that a CRM can be fun.

I want to work in an internet company which gets or may get revenue helping small businesses to sell more

I’ve loved the internet since the moment I discovered it. It’s transforming every sector constantly and the way we do everything. I want to be part of a game changing company in which roles are redefined every day. I want to be challenged and live out of my comfort zone. I want to share an objective with the best and brightest.

I know that with my background I can be very useful to any internet company whose revenue source, present or future, is advertising in any form. Marketplaces, advertising platforms or services, review sites… in the end most services need to take into account small businesses.

Thanks to having started my own company I know what it is like to work with limited resources in survival mode. And thanks to having worked in big successful ones I know how things are done there and what can be done to compete with them.

Please contact me at gutierrezf@gmail.com if you want any more info.

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Posted: August 10th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: General | Tags: , , , | 5 Comments »
  • http://arnoldwaldstein.com awaldstein

    This is great Fernando. I pushed out to may FB and Twitter networks.

    Of course if you are in NYC, we need to get together.

    Good luck with this.

  • http://fernando-gutierrez.com Fernando Gutierrez

    Thaks a lot Arnold! I’m flying to Boston this week and will be around the East Coast for a couple weeks. I’ll let you know when I go to NYC… the wine is on me!

  • http://hirethoughts.blogspot.com Donna Brewington White

    I was going to suggest that he talk to you!  You’re on it!

  • http://twitter.com/RupyYuan Rupy Yuan

    In ice hockey there is the Wayne Gretzky move, which is to figure out where the puck is going and move to that sweet spot.   I am not suggesting for one one minute that you consider Brazil but there is an interesting quote in the first paragraph of this NYT article

    Foreigners Follow Money to Booming Brazil
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/world/americas/13brazil.html

    What caught my attention was Seth Zalkin’s response
    “If the rest of the world is cratering, this is a good place to be,”

    The problem with the article is that it does not show how Zalkin is following the puck, just moving to where the money is, is just one of a myriad of angles to consider.  If the real estate slogan was “location, location, location” yesterday, today it is “glocal, glocal, glocal”.

    The problem with the “puck” analogy, no two moves are ever the same, but it is the idea that greater amounts of research or upfront project management generally yield greater results over the long-term.  This is also true of product development, where product design that involves everyone in the value stream upfront can identify upstream problems before those problems are hardwired into the product, and reveal themselves as the consumer finds them.

    In a way, Wayne Gretzky was at the right place at the right time, if you see what assembled and came together with the Edmonton Oilers.  Life sometimes has a way of gathering which has a life of it’s own, I think the people who have responded to your prior to me showing up, do have that “something is happening here” feel to them and look like people who can follow the puck, so it looks like you are in good company.

    Regards
    [$M.]

    “Rupy Yuan” @thoughtspaces 

  • http://fernando-gutierrez.com Fernando Gutierrez

    Hi Rupy, thanks for your comment and the link. That’s a really interesting article.

    I have indeed considered Brazil. I have worked with companies there in the past, I love the country and its people… and I even speak some Portuguese. The problem is that I’m moving to join my girlfriend in the US and she’s already there, so I’m not really able to change country that easy!