Daniel Glickman

Senior Director, Product Marketing (AI & Enterprise GTM)

email · linkedin.com/in/glickmandaniel · cmoconfessions.com · github.com/msdanyg
Boston / Natick, MA · Remote

Summary

Senior product marketing leader, 15-plus years leading marketing, ~14 of them scaling SaaS revenue across PLG and sales-led motions. Builds and ships the AI infrastructure that runs go-to-market — production agents in Python and TypeScript, custom MCP servers, and RAG knowledge bases — not just strategies about it. Reports to the Chief Product Officer at ActivTrak, owns Product Marketing, Customer Education, Technical Writing, and company-wide AI enablement. Distributed-team operator with direct leadership across five countries.

Experience

ActivTrak Jul 2023 – Present · Remote

Senior Director, Product Marketing (AI & Enterprise GTM)

  • Recruited to build the enterprise sales motion from scratch; enterprise segment ARR grew from ~$7M to ~$45M during tenure (contributed across packaging, positioning, and enablement).
  • Led the Essentials Plus mid-tier launch: $2.7M new ARR against a $675K goal (4×) and $947K expansion ARR against a $626K goal (1.5×), with a ~10–12% ARPA lift post-launch.
  • Diagnosed and re-engineered competitive over-discounting: average discount fell from 18% to 4%, cutting discount-revenue leakage approximately 75%.
  • Built a 14-module company-wide AI enablement course (SCORM), deployed to ~1,600 active users at a 61% completion rate; academy adoption spans accounts representing $13.9M (named) and $2.6M (scaled) ARR.
  • Deployed ~10 production AI agents and 3 MCP servers; reduced PMM time-to-delivery approximately 50% and roughly doubled output with no added headcount.
  • 2024 AI Marketing Innovation Award, Product Marketing Alliance.
Swapcard May 2021 – Jun 2022

VP of Marketing

  • CMO-level marketing leadership for an events and community SaaS platform; tripled the in-house marketing and design team.
  • Led packaging rebuild and shift from event-booking to annual subscription model; inbound leads up 15–20%, web traffic and leads up 20–25%.
  • Earned the platform's first-ever Top-10 G2 rankings in four categories.
StreamYard (Hopin) 2020 – Apr 2021

Head of Marketing

  • Helped position the browser-based live-streaming SaaS for sale; acquired by Hopin in January 2021.
  • Grew social following to 135K; improved churn approximately 23%; grew ARR approximately 35%.
Wave.video (JetBrains) 2017 – 2020

Chief Marketing Officer

  • Built the brand from the ground up and scaled the product line from $0 to ~$22M ARR over three years, with MRR and LTV up 78%.
  • Built a 96%-organic inbound funnel reaching 160K visitors per month, a 200K+ social following, 1,200+ affiliates, and a 1M+ email list.
  • Led a 10-person team distributed across five countries.
Roojoom 2015 – 2017

Chief Marketing Officer

  • Led the SMB-to-enterprise pivot (content-curation tool to enterprise customer-journey and personalization platform); landed a €1M/yr contract with a large European enterprise as a direct result.
  • Closed deals up to $1.6M; 25% SQL conversion; helped secure a private-equity capital infusion.
emaze 2014 – 2015

Chief Marketing Officer

  • Pivoted a browser-toolbar product into a 3D content-creation platform; average monthly revenue up 43%, customer lifetime value up approximately 600%, annual revenue up 60×.
  • Cut CAC approximately 66% in one year; led LatAm expansion.
PowToon 2012 – 2014

Chief Marketing Officer

  • Grew organic traffic from 10K to 2.5M monthly visitors in one year; annual revenue up 16×.
  • Helped grow the company from 6 to 35 employees; led a 16-person marketing, sales, creative, and support team.
Sustainable Construction Services 2002 – 2012

VP, Sales & Marketing

Co-founded and later sold a green-energy design/build firm. Pre-SaaS role; included in full for continuity.

Selected AI Systems

Weekly Competitive Intelligence Scanner — ~24 competitors, adversarially verified, auto-posted to sales systems
Product Release Status Automation — reads transcripts and Jira, generates weekly release-status docs
GTM Content Hub Monthly Snapshot — catalogs content, flags issues, posts summaries
General Helper — RAG knowledge base giving reps company-specific, aligned answers
SARA (Sales AI Resource Assistant) — objection handling, battlecards, and value props by ICP
Account Intelligence + MEDDIC Analyst — CRM notes and transcripts to use-case mapping and MEDDIC analysis
MCP servers (3): Obsidian, Productboard, Smart Connections — built against their APIs
Second-Brain KM system — Obsidian vault + Claude + MCP bridge; a no-code organizational knowledge base
"Solo Pilot → Squadron Leader" — 14-module SCORM AI course; ~1,600 active users, 61% completion; ~50% faster delivery and approximately 2× output with no added headcount
ActivTrak Python API Client Library — pagination, retry/backoff, type-safe models, UTC handling
Kaggle "5-Day AI Agents Intensive" capstone — five-agent competitive-intelligence system on Google ADK (in-progress, not a deployed system)

Stack: Claude / Claude Code · Anthropic API · Agentforce · Python · TypeScript · MCP · RAG

Education

BA, Geography — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

MSc, Environmental Science — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Post-Graduate Degree, IT Management — University of Toronto

Award

2024 AI Marketing Innovation Award — Product Marketing Alliance