Zaire Allen

Zaire Allen

New York

About

Design manager and strategic growth leader focused on scaling products and teams. Work spans product design at Google and Ocean Finance, and taught 1,000+ students design.

Creating frameworks that drive user engagement and business outcomes.

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Work Experience

2019 — 2024
United Kingdom

Achievements

Business growth & revenue

  • Scaled revenue to $2M through multi-channel marketing strategy

  • Generated $635,000 in email marketing revenue with 60% open rates

  • Executed 5 day, $160,000 Black Friday campaign with 967% ROI ($15K investment)

  • Achieved conversion rate of 1 sale ($2,600) per 1,200 website visitors

Partnerships & business development

  • Developed recruitment partnership model generating $200K in revenue over 2 years

  • Achieved 40% partnership close rate through community-driven social proof strategy

  • Created unique partnership model with Google combining bootcamps, hackathons, and recruitment

  • Maintained 2-year average partnership retention rate with Fortune 500 companies

  • Secured and managed up to 3 major partnerships simultaneously per month

Product & user metrics

  • Built 3 profitable bootcamps from concept to market

  • Achieved 90% student retention rate across 1,200 active users

  • Reduced product development cycle to 2 months

  • Secured 200+ graduate placements at major tech companies

Marketing & growth

  • Reduced customer acquisition cost from $960 to $416.67 through UGC campaigns

  • Achieved 85% organic traffic through social and email marketing

  • Maintained 85/15 organic/paid traffic split through content strategy

  • Managed $40,000 annual paid advertising budget with positive ROI

Operational leadership

  • Led 12-person cross-functional product team across US and UK markets

  • Managed $60K monthly operational budget

  • Built sustainable growth engine across US and UK markets

  • Implemented multi-channel attribution model for accurate ROI tracking

2020 — 2020
Manchester
  • Reduced funnel abandonment by 15% through conversion optimization

  • Increased daily applications by 30% through enhanced user experience

  • Implemented comprehensive A/B testing program

  • Led product development for Secured Loans through rapid iteration cycles

Projects

2024

A design & research tool for marketing teams to steal frameworks from the best sites on the web.

Awards

2022
Black Entrepreneur Award from KPMG

Teams

Current
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