Matt Maraia

Matt Maraia

Marketing Manager · Lavender

Los Angeles, CA

In My Own Words

Accomplished marketing manager with over 10 years experience, helping brands scale by creating a valued identity in both the real world and the digital space through meaningful community building.

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Work Experience

Co-Owner

Lavender

2017 – Present

Handle all operations, marketing, and production for Lavender.

Marketing Manager

Real Bad Man

2021 – Present

Brand Marketing Manager

Market

2024 – 2024

Merchandising/Marketing

Market

2022 – 2024

Within merchandising I build all product on Shopify from copywriting, curating collection pages, seo/meta tagging, as well as tracking analytical data. Other duties include trend-forecasting in the form of inspo-boards and color palettes for larger seasonal collections and collaborations for our design team to work off of.

Within marketing I handle the brand's social media strategy, management, and copy. As the brand’s influencer marketing manager I curate seeding lists per drop, do all outreach and handle all campaigns from beginning to end.

Marketing Manager

B’s International Japan

2021 – 2022

Handled US social media management, strategy, and content production for XLARGE & x-girl.

Social Media Manager

Christine Quinn

2020 – 2021

Social Media Manager and Strategist for Christine Quinn of 'Selling Sunset'.

Social Media Manager

Good Smile Company, Inc.

2020 – 2021

Social Media Manager for developing brand, Sokudo Society

Social Media Business Strategist

Creator Deck

2020 – 2021

Paired client brands with influencers for marketing campaigns across various social media channels including Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

Social Media Manager

Young & Reckless

2019 – 2020

Managed all Social Media and Influencer Marketing

Marketing/PR

Koogle.tv

2016 – 2020

KoogleTV is a Korean media company dealing in KPOP and Korean entertainment news. Handled the company’s Social Media.

PR / Social Media

ROKIT

2018 – 2019

Managed Social Media and Influencer Marketing, as well as content production.

Marketing Assistant

HLZ BLZ (LLC)

2014 – 2018

Working with the marketing team to create event calendars, promotional campaigns, managing social media platforms, as well as managing/ editing the content for their old women’s lifestyle blog: whatthehellz

Barista

Starbucks

2010 – 2017

Starbucks certified Coffee Master.

Ecommerce Manager/Ass. Store Manager

Primitive Apparel

2012 – 2015

Marketing Intern

CROOKS & CASTLES

2011 – 2012

Education

Associate's degree

Los Angeles Pierce College

2008 – 2011

Skills: Problem Solving

Associate's degree

Santa Monica College

2006 – 2008

Skills: Problem Solving

Skills

Sprout SocialMedia MonitoringWeb Content WritingMedia StrategyUser Generated ContentCommunity ManagementTwitter MarketingCopywritingSocial Media Optimization (SMO)Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Project ManagementProblem SolvingSocial Media CommunicationsMarketing StrategyCross-functional CommunicationCommunicationMerchandisingShopifyE-CommerceInfluencer MarketingSocial MediaMarketingFashionSocial Media MarketingBloggingAdvertisingOnline MarketingApparelBrand DevelopmentTrend AnalysisMulti-channel MarketingPhotographyStylingRetailDigital MarketingVisual MerchandisingEvent PlanningCreative WritingEvent PhotographyCustomer SatisfactionTrade ShowsBrand AwarenessProduct DevelopmentRetail SalesFacebookHTMLMacMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordOS XPOSCustomer ServiceOrganizational DevelopmentTime ManagementTeamworkTumblrFashion WritingBarista TrainingBrand LoyaltyCreative DirectionSocial NetworkingStaff SupervisionMulti TaskingPatienceTrendPublic Relations

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