8+ years as a Marketing Director scaling DTC and creator-led brands – paid media, retention, and brand, all under one roof. I already know this world. I've lived in it.
Built specifically for @dillonxlatham – not a template, not a mass send.
Simpletics isn't a normal DTC brand – it's a creator-first company. The audience came before the product. The growth engine has to be built around that: affiliate and UGC on the front end, paid media that amplifies what's already working, and retention that turns first-time buyers from a 4M-follower audience into repeat customers.
That's the exact model I've spent the last several years operating inside – scaling Meta ad accounts for DTC and lead-gen brands, working alongside affiliate/UGC programs instead of against them, and building the paid + organic + retention loop that makes a founder-led brand compound instead of plateau.
Simpletics has the audience, the product, and the proof (200,000+ customers, Fortune and NY Post coverage). What it needs next is someone who can turn that into a predictable, scalable growth machine – without losing the voice that built it. That's the job I want.
I understand brands that start with an audience, not a product launch – the growth playbook is different, and I've run it before.
Simpletics already runs a strong affiliate/UGC engine. I build paid media that reinforces it instead of competing with it for budget and attention.
With a product this consumable (hair care, repeat-use), the real growth lever is LTV – email/SMS flows and retention are part of the plan from day one.
A mix of verified Meta ad account data and directional estimates from accounts I've run – clearly labeled either way.
Grew monthly Meta spend ~30x over five months – from $116 to $3,400+ – while ROAS held at or above 2x for four straight months. Proved the account could absorb aggressive budget increases without losing profitability.
Took over an account losing money – as low as 0.19x ROAS – and rebuilt it into consistent profitability, growing monthly purchases from single digits into the 30s while cutting cost per purchase ~70%.
Scaled monthly spend from $131 to a peak of $3,423 over four months while growing leads from 4 to 106/month – cost per lead improved as budget increased.
Launched this apparel brand from scratch and scaled it to roughly $950/day in ad spend by month five, with cost per acquisition trending down and average order value trending up as the account matures. Currently active and performing well.
Took daily ad spend from $200 to $43,000 in 22 days – an aggressive, fast-scale campaign built to find and exploit a winning offer quickly – while holding roughly a 2x ROAS as budget climbed.
Built this account from zero – no prior ad spend, no pixel history – scaled it to $3,000/day within six months, and held that spend level (and a 4.11x average ROAS) through eleven months live.
A Marketing Director role means owning the whole growth stack – here's what I actually run day to day.
Meta & TikTok media buying – strategy, creative testing, scaling, budget management.
Creative direction, hooks/angles, ad concepting, and keeping brand voice consistent at scale.
TikTok/organic content strategy, affiliate and UGC creator management and sourcing.
Email/SMS flows, LTV growth, and turning one-time buyers into repeat customers.
Landing pages, CRO, offer design, analytics and tracking – the full Shopify + pixel stack.
I'm Trevor – I've spent the last 8+ years as a Marketing Director for consumer brands, running paid media, brand/creative strategy, organic and affiliate growth, and retention as one connected system rather than separate departments.
That's spanned outdoor gear, apparel, e-commerce turnarounds, lead generation, and coaching/services – different products, same core job: take a brand with real potential and build the system that scales it without breaking it.
I don't think a brand like Simpletics needs a media buyer or a brand marketer – it needs someone who can hold the whole growth stack at once, protect what already works (the creator-first model, the affiliate engine), and build the paid and retention layers that turn it into a durable, compounding business.
That's what I want to build for Simpletics.
No deck, no recruiter, no middleman. Just reach out directly – I'd love to talk through what growth looks like for Simpletics next.