Marketer. Operator. American in Seville.

Twenty years of making marketing work

I'm a fractional marketing and go-to-market lead. I spent four years at Google, where I helped create Local Guides and ran its brand, then built my own consultancy, which has grown to seven figures without a dollar of paid ads. These days I lead marketing and go-to-market for startups and growing brands, B2B and consumer, that need a senior lead before they can hire one full time. Software companies, AI startups, jewelry houses, dental groups, education platforms. The job is the same: find what's holding growth back and fix that first.

I'm good at the stretch between the plan and the result. Positioning a buyer can repeat. Named-account programs sized to the real market. Lifecycle and retention programs, built hands-on in Braze and Iterable, that pay back the cost of acquisition. Brand and community that people join on their own. I also run budgets like they're mine, because for a long time they were.

Fractional first. I take on a few companies at a time, usually for three months to start, and I'm open to the right full-time leadership role. If that sounds like what you need, write to me.

I didn't pick Seville off a map. I married a Sevillano, and when he got a tenure-track job offer in his hometown, I was already working remotely. So I said, ¿por qué no? Now it's home.

I also write Last Click, a daily AI newsletter for marketers, currently in private beta.

Esther Brown at work
Esther, at work
Rooftops of SevilleSeville, from the roof

Cities that shaped me

I understand people better when I know where they come from. Here's where I come from.

Chapel HillBorn and raised a Tar Heel.
BudapestMy mom's hometown and my second home. Family is still there, and I go back as often as I can.
CharlottesvilleUVA, where I studied English and creative writing. Wahoowa.
Washington DCMoved here right after college. My brother's family still lives here.
New YorkStarted on a rented couch in the West Village. Then the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side.
BrooklynBoerum Hill.
DurhamBought a house, met my husband six months later, and moved to Spain within two years. So now I'm a landlord.
SevilleWhere we live now.

How I work

Discovery comes first.I learn how your business works before I suggest a single tactic.
Test the message before the build.I try it small before we put real money behind a full campaign.
If I can't back it up, I don't say it.Every number and claim in my work traces to a real result or a real source.
The big picture and the details.I keep the end goal in view while I take care of the small things that get us there.
AI does the first draft, never the final call.I test the tools for Last Click, my daily AI newsletter, and use the good ones for research and drafts. I check every claim and make the call myself.

“She has the uncanny ability to help her team stay on track without micro-managing.”

Adri Cowan, Head of Social, Community, and Creator at Warner Bros. Games

A few facts

20
years in marketing
Dozens
of companies worked with, from seed-stage startups to Google
8
cities lived in

“Most importantly, her leadership style is consistent with strong values: honesty, directness, and authenticity.”

Derek Chan, Global Publishing and Marketing Leader at Riot Games