Julie Verstraeten

Marketing Analytics + Automation + AI | LLM SEO

Salary / Daily rate

Brussels, Belgium

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

SnowflakeNo-code AutomationsCanvaData AnalysisSQL QueriesGoogle Cloud PlatformTableauData EngineeringPythonData VisualizationLookerData ScienceRGoogle BigQueryZapierMaken8nNotionAirtableMarketing StrategySEOSQL databasesdbtWeb AnalyticsGoogle AdsMarketoMeta AdsGoogle AnalyticsA/B Testing

Languages

French (Native)EnglishDutch

About me

Intro

I help companies grow marketing ROI by combining automation, analytics, and AI. With 8+ years of experience across consulting and high-growth tech (most recently Canva), I bring deep expertise in attribution, A/B testing, impact measurement, and scalable marketing automation. I'm currently expanding into LLM SEO — helping brands improve their visibility in AI-driven search (like ChatGPT and Gemini).

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Work experience

Canva

Mar 2020 - Oct 2024

4 years 8 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

Data Lead, Brand Experience

Jan 2023 - Oct 2024

1 year 10 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

- Find and present data insights, using product analytics techniques such as A/B experimentation, funnel analysis, and retention analysis. - Size the expected impact (on ARR and users) of product initiatives to prioritise the roadmap. - Define and report on success metrics. - Leader of the group’s data team (3+ data scientists).

Data Lead, Martech

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

2 years

Sydney NSW, Australia

- Defined the data strategy for the group. - Developed marketing measurement tools (Media Mix Modelling, Attribution, Incrementality, Lifetime Value) to improve results from marketing spend ($ 200M+). - Coached data scientists and analytics engineers (5+). - Introduced agile ways of working as the group grew very fast.

Marketing Data Analyst

Mar 2020 - Jan 2021

11 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

- Partnered with marketing leadership in strategy, goal setting and metric development. - Measured the impact of marketing campaigns through experiments and analysis (SKAN, SEM, Facebook Ads, TV advertising, mobile marketing). - Designed and built an innovative marketing attribution framework from scratch. - Built and maintained reporting and dashboards. - Handled large and complex data sets.

Servian

Mar 2017 - Mar 2020

3 years 1 month

Sydney NSW, Australia

Senior Consultant

Dec 2018 - Mar 2020

1 year 4 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

• Advised clients on how to adapt a customer first mind-set and implement Servian’s customer engagement framework. Uncovering the full potential of customer data empowers them to build a deeper understanding of their customer base and to execute initiatives to attract and retain customers. • Directed projects with a team: setting the overall direction, delegating tasks, taking ownerships of the outcomes. Implemented controls and reviews to ensure quality work is delivered. • Led the Toastmasters Club by taking a role in the executive committee. Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. I developed and practiced my communication and leadership skills to become a confident public speaker. • Instructed the Google Cloud for Marketing Training - a 4-day deep dive course providing technical training for Marketing Analytics solutions on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Delivered the training in multiple locations across the world. Microsoft Excel • Teradata • SAS • Microsoft Office • Confluence • JIRA • Tableau • R • AWS Redshift • S3 • MemSQL • MySQL • SnapLogic • Marketo • ClickSend • Pivotal • Anaplan • SQL • Google Cloud Platform • BigQuery

Consultant

Mar 2017 - Dec 2018

1 year 10 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

I engaged with businesses to use their data and analytics capabilities to build competitive advantage by solving problems with data, analytics, digital, AI, customer and cloud solutions. • Communicated with stakeholders: understanding objectives and articulating technical findings in business language • Analysed customer data to identify relevant customers for a campaign and to find trends before presenting the insights back to stakeholders • Handled large and complex data sets • Provided recommendations to enhance client’s campaign analytics capability • Gathered requirements (user stories) for reporting dashboards • Built the foundations for a data mart that centralises all the campaign data for reporting purposes (data flow, data model, SQL scripts to load and transform data)

Consultant

Publicis.Sapient

Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

1 year 2 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

Designed innovative analytical solutions to help clients with their digital analytics implementation providing insightful analytics and creating advanced personalised customer experience. • Turned campaign performance reports into stories and actionable insights. • Implemented tag management systems (TMS) to track customer behaviour. • Performed cross-browser and cross-device testing (across desktop, mobile and app). • Investigated urgent issues for clients with the use of advanced features of analytical tools. • Trained developers to increase their data and insights capabilities. • Built a complete skill set in marketing analytics: SQL, JavaScript, R programming, HTML, CSS. • Used a variety of analytics platforms: Optimizely, Optimizely X, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Adhoc, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaign, Adobe SiteCatalyst, Adobe Tag Management, Dynamic Tag Manager, Ensighten, Tableau, Power BI, Domo, SuperTag.


Education

Tech Ready Women Academy

Startup Accelerator Program

2018 - 2018

1 month

Agence Wallonne à l'Exportation (AWEX)

Explort, International Trade

2014 - 2015

1 year 1 month

Grade: Export strategies

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

Master’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General

2012 - 2014

2 years 1 month

Grade: Honours

Kyung Hee University

Business Administration

2013 - 2013

1 month

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General

2009 - 2012

3 years 1 month

Grade: Honours


Licenses & certifications

Intermediate R

Issued: May 2025

Certified by DataCamp

Data Manipulation in R with dplyr

Issued: May 2025

Certified by DataCamp

Introduction to Machine Learning

Issued: Dec 2017

Certified by DataCamp

Statistical Modeling in R (Part 1)

Issued: Mar 2017

Certified by DataCamp

Introduction to Portfolio Analysis in R

Issued: Mar 2017

Certified by DataCamp

Optimizely Platform Certification

Issued: Oct 2016

Certified by Optimizely

Practical Machine Learning

Issued: Feb 2016

Certified by Coursera Course Certificates

Exploratory Data Analysis

Issued: Oct 2015

Certified by Coursera Course Certificates

R Programming

Issued: Aug 2015

Certified by Coursera Course Certificates

Introduction to R

Issued: Aug 2015

Certified by DataCamp

The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

Issued: Jul 2015

Certified by Coursera Course Certificates

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