
Julie Verstraeten
Marketing Analytics + Automation + AI | LLM SEO
Salary / Daily rate
Brussels, Belgium
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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).
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
Data Manipulation in R with dplyr
Issued: May 2025
Introduction to Machine Learning
Issued: Dec 2017
Statistical Modeling in R (Part 1)
Issued: Mar 2017
Introduction to Portfolio Analysis in R
Issued: Mar 2017
Optimizely Platform Certification
Issued: Oct 2016
Practical Machine Learning
Issued: Feb 2016
Exploratory Data Analysis
Issued: Oct 2015
R Programming
Issued: Aug 2015
Introduction to R
Issued: Aug 2015
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
Issued: Jul 2015