Sam Middleton Beattie

Product & Growth

Experience

Experience

Jun 2025 — Jan 2026

Product & Growth Lead · Health & Wellness Startup

  • Designed a personalised in-app activation initiative and proved its impact on user engagement through A/B testing
  • Built a cascading notification system targeting users by engagement level to improve retention
  • Led growth for a new product — designed an extensive beta program with user research across 100+ data points
  • Created launch and lifecycle communications infrastructure, including a modular email design system with 20+ responsive components

Dec 2024 — Jun 2025

Co-founder · Pulss

  • Co-founded a brand analytics startup targeting an underserved gap in local market brand measurement
  • Secured enterprise clients through founder-led outreach and validation across 100+ companies
  • Took initial designs through product iteration and user feedback to a live, working product with authentication and client access
  • Built an AI integration that let us query brand data in natural language, reducing analysis time from days to minutes

Apr 2024 — Jan 2025

Product & Growth Consultant · Self-employed

Took on fractional product marketing and growth roles for SaaS companies, focusing on conversion, retention, and positioning.

  • Uxcel

    Apr — Oct 2024

    • Improved pro conversion through a redesigned onboarding experience across email and in-app messaging
    • Led analytics migration from Amplitude to PostHog
    • Repositioned product and led website copy redesign based on 500+ survey responses
  • Kitbash 3D

    Oct 2024 — Jan 2025

    • Used Mixpanel analytics and customer cancellation surveys to design a churn prevention and win-back strategy
    • Reduced monthly churn by 15% and increased reactivation rates by 20%

Jun 2022 — Jan 2024

Growth & Product Marketer · Whimsical

  • Launched AI product to #3 on Product Hunt, doubling website traffic
  • Led user research interviews to inform product development direction and positioning
  • Redesigned and A/B tested workspace invite flows to drive product-led paid member conversion

Jan 2020 — Jun 2022

Head of Marketing · Catchbox

  • Pitched and led the company's pivot towards hybrid learning in higher education — a repositioning that fundamentally shifted the growth strategy and drove 120% revenue growth in 18 months
  • Built an organic growth engine around the new positioning — a content loop of SEO, case studies, and thought leadership that established Catchbox in the education vertical without paid advertising
  • Ran the full marketing function across content, website, campaigns, and partner channels — by ISE 2022, competitors had adopted similar positioning

Skills

Growth & Experimentation

A/B testing, conversion, retention, product-led growth

PostHog · Amplitude · Mixpanel

Data & Analytics

SQL, dashboards, data modelling, platform migrations

Metabase · Hex · Segment

Lifecycle & CRM

Email architecture, onboarding, activation, notifications

Customer.io · Klaviyo

Product Thinking

User research, messaging, positioning, prototyping

Figma

Building & Automation

Shipping products and internal tools with code and AI

Supabase · Claude Code · Google Apps Script · HTML/CSS · n8n

Education

2013 — 2017

MA Economics and Politics · University of Edinburgh

2022 — 2023

Growth Series & Product Marketing Series · Reforge