
Nicola Cronin
Senior Marketing Consultant | Content Strategy
Salary / Daily rate
Berlin, Germany
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I'm a freelance startup consultant and content strategist. Having worked in early stage tech startups my whole career – and being the 'first marketing hire' more than once – I'm now working with founders who need marketing guidance and great content. Think of me as a 'drag and drop' CMO who can offer a range of services as and when you need them. Things like: - Strategy - Messaging - Content Creation - Case Studies - Landing Pages - Social Media - Training and Workshops - Internal Processes
Work experience
Startup Marketing Consultant & Content Strategist
N CroninFreelance
Mar 2023 - Present
3 years 8 months
Berlin, Germany · Remote
I support startups with all things marketing – whether it's strategy, content creation, processes, or a bit of everything.
Marketing Manager
Radia - the inclusive tech networkFreelance
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 5 months
Berlin, Germany
Radia is a network seeking to erase the gender gap in tech – a cause very close to my heart! I originally joined the Girls in Tech Germany team to support them with all things marketing, brand content & comms until they rebranded to Radia when GiT closed.
Marketing Consultant
Competence Centre for Workplace EquityFreelance
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
6 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Transforming workplace DEI with a competency-based and politically neutral approach. I work with CCWE as a B2B marketing consultant and content strategist, helping them increase brand awareness and win new business.
Guider
Dec 2019 - Oct 2023
3 years 11 months
London, UK
Head Of Product Engagement
Jul 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 4 months
London, UK
Guider helps businesses and individuals get the most out of mentoring and peer learning to drive change in company culture and DE&I. As Head of Product Engagement, my team drives demand and usage of our product, as well as increasing engagement with our users, stakeholders, and the market.
Head Of Content
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
7 months
London, UK
Managing and scaling Content at Guider as an impactful cross-functional team. Supporting Sales & Marketing with industry content, Customers with materials and resources to improve their mentoring programmes, and Product to enhance our user experience.
Content Marketing Manager
Dec 2019 - Jan 2022
2 years 2 months
London, UK
I joined the founding team of mentoring SaaS platform Guider as the first Marketing hire. Responsible for driving demand for our product, building brand awareness, and accelerating inbound growth through a range of digital and content marketing strategies.
Marketing Manager
Hopper HQ
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
2 years
London, UK
I led content and digital marketing at Hopper HQ for two years, producing keyword optimised blogs, monitoring SEO, managing social media accounts, running events, and collaborating with brands and customers in creative ways to drive growth. A number of my articles reached #1 on Google, and were responsible for bringing in hundreds of new customers a month.
Marketing & Ops Lead
School Of Code
May 2017 - Mar 2018
11 months
Birmingham, UK
Worked with the Founder of School of Code to plan, manage and run their first 16-week coding Bootcamp. As part of a two person team, I was responsible for all marketing, PR and comms activity, as well as general Ops and running of the Bootcamp. Including: attracting 300 people during the application process and documenting the Bootcamp via the blog, social media, press and video content. During my time at SoC, I also won the 1776 Challenge Cup pitching competition, and spoke at a Google Digital Garage Inspiring Women event.
Marketing Manager
Real Tribe
Oct 2016 - May 2017
8 months
Birmingham, UK
I was one of the first hires at social influencer startup Real Tribe. Identifying social media influencers that best matched our clients’ campaign requirements and objectives, building and maintaining strong relationships with them throughout the process to deliver authentic and successful campaigns. This role gave me a good understanding of influencer marketing in a cutting-edge start up business, as well as the opportunity to harness and improve my people and communication skills.
Communications Manager
Project: Birmingham
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
1 month
Birmingham, UK
Interned for 4 weeks at Project Birmingham – a local cultural collective – managing multiple social media accounts, arranging and attending meetings with companies and individuals, co-running events in the city, discovering and contacting new artists, illustrators, musicians and filmmakers in Birmingham, and networking with them to discuss collaborations. Also began my own personal projects such as expanding the collective to include writers and poets by launching an online collection of written work.
Education
The University of Manchester
BA (Hons) English Literature
2013 - 2016
2 years 11 months
Solihull School
2006 - 2013
6 years 11 months
Institute of Counselling
Certificate in Mentoring
1900 - 1900
1 month
Portfolio

Pollup Industry Report
