Senior Director, Demand & Digital Marketing
Fifteen years turning demand into pipeline and revenue.
Senior digital and demand generation executive with 15+ years leading high-growth B2B SaaS and enterprise marketing organizations. Experienced in transforming digital strategy, building integrated demand engines, and connecting customer engagement to pipeline and revenue across Enterprise and PLG GTM motions. Builds high-performing teams, modernizes marketing ecosystems, and uses AI, analytics, experimentation, and automation to scale marketing performance and accelerate growth.
- Based In
- Denver, Colorado
- /in/margiebutlershaw
- Education
- University of Colorado Boulder — B.S. Business Administration, Marketing
Core competencies
- Digital Strategy & AI-Powered Marketing Workflows
- ABM & Account-Based Programs
- Pipeline Forecasting, Attribution Modeling & Revenue Accountability
- PLG + Sales-Led Motions
- Multi-Million Dollar Budget Ownership
- Team Leadership, Organizational Design & Operating Rhythms
- Vendor Management
Technology
- Salesforce
- Marketo
- Bizible (Adobe Marketo Measure)
- Demandbase
- Goldcast
- Google Ads
- Looker
- BigQuery
AI-Powered Search
Led GEO/AEO strategy at Fivetran, increasing AI-generated traffic 7x and strengthening brand authority in generative responses across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Built structured data, topical authority, and AI-native content systems that improved citation share and zero-click visibility.
Professional experience
2004 — 2026Fivetran
Denver, Colorado · 2025 — 2026
Data movement platform that helps companies move, manage, and transform data for AI and analytics.
Director, Digital Marketing & Demand Generation: Acquisition Marketing
2025 — 2026Led digital and demand generation for a dual acquisition GTM motion within the Commercial Revenue Marketing organization: MQL and S1 pipeline for Commercial sales-led new business, plus free trial starts for PLG.
Built and led an acquisition demand generation team spanning paid media, content syndication, webinars, and EMEA digital; established operating rhythms rooted in accountability, experimentation, and measurable revenue contribution.
Owned pipeline and revenue targets across Commercial sales-led and PLG motions, driving one-third of all inbound pipeline at 4x ROAS and consistently exceeding quarterly S1 and conversion goals.
Rebuilt paid search into a predictable, repeatable performance system: full account restructure, ad copy and landing page testing, and a BigQuery-to-Salesforce conversion connection that consolidated competing signals into one trusted MQL and Account Created signal.
- 80% YoY growth in S1 (open opportunities)
- +22% QoQ increase in conversions
- −35% QoQ decrease in cost per conversion
Managed and dynamically reallocated a multi-million-dollar digital budget across paid media, lifecycle, and acquisition channels to maximize pipeline creation and revenue impact.
Led Fivetran's AI-first demand strategy, expanding GEO/AEO programs that increased AI/ChatGPT referral traffic 7x and strengthened brand visibility in generative search environments.
Implemented AI-powered workflows to scale analysis, reporting, and content development while maintaining strategic oversight.
Lumen Technologies
Denver, Colorado · 2014 — 2024
Director of Marketing
2023 — 2024Directed global integrated acquisition campaigns influencing $60M+ pipeline in 1H 2024, partnering with Sales, SDR, and RevOps to accelerate conversion velocity and improve revenue predictability.
Oversaw $7M–$24M annual budgets, optimizing spend in real time across paid search, paid social, programmatic, video, and lifecycle channels to maintain pipeline health and revenue attainment.
Implemented machine-learning scoring, next-best-action models, and signal-driven lead intelligence to improve lead quality, targeting, and sales conversion, contributing $100M+ in annual lead-generated sales.
Launched Seismic for 1,500+ sellers and SDRs and implemented Salesforce dashboards with machine-learning lead scoring and next-best-action recommendations.
Built and developed high-performing digital and demand generation teams, establishing operating rhythms, clear accountability, and a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
Senior Manager, Growth Marketing
2021 — 2022Led acquisition and ABM programs supporting new-logo and expansion revenue as part of a multi-year brand-to-demand transformation.
Implemented an employee social sharing program that generated more than $500K in annual earned social value and managed an internship program with a 90% post-graduation conversion rate.
Manager, Marketing — Small & Medium Business
2018 — 2021Led a high-performing digital marketing team and segmented demand generation programs that accelerated e-commerce growth and supported major product launches, including DDoS Hyper and Engage.
Delivered major digital transformation wins, including doubling e-commerce sales YoY (2017–2018) and improving PLG experiences for Fiber+.
Lead Marketing Manager, E-Commerce & Digital Marketing
2014 — 2018Doubled e-commerce sales year over year from 2017 to 2018, following 49% growth from 2016 to 2017, through disciplined testing of offers, media, landing pages, and customer experience.
Launched “Simple for Business,” a no-contract internet service with subscription billing, and supported the Level 3/CenturyLink post-merger website integration.
M. Shaw Marketing
Denver, Colorado · 2004 — 2013
Principal Marketing Consultant
2004 — 2013Built and scaled digital marketing programs across multiple clients, including multi-dimensional test-and-scale media campaigns and full-funnel digital strategy.
Led rebranding and demand programs that increased sales-qualified pipeline by 110% and improved customer retention.
Developed digital strategies for SanDiego.com, CSUGlobal.org, and Fullbar.com, demonstrating early leadership in digital experience optimization.
Professional development & certifications
- Demandbase ABM Certification
- Dare to Lead Training — Brené Brown
- Women in Leadership — Skillsoft
- Former Board Member — Interactive Marketing Association of Colorado