Growth Marketing Leader · Demand Gen · PPC · SEO, AEO & AI Search · B2B Tech

Hi, I'm Jayashree. I build growth engines that compound.

I'm a B2B growth marketing leader who builds efficient engines across paid, organic, AI search, website conversion and AI-powered marketing ops. I own the budget, the agencies and the attribution, so every channel answers to sales pipeline and the results keep compounding quarter after quarter.

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Senior Growth Marketing ManagerHiveMQ · Nuremberg area, Germany

Achievements

Numbers from building HiveMQ's top-of-funnel engine, joining as one of the company's earliest marketing hires.

$10M

Stage-1 pipeline in 2026

Contributed to $10M in Stage-1 pipeline, up from $5M influenced in 2025.

158%

Organic traffic growth

From 13.9K to 35.9K monthly visitors over five years of compounding SEO.

13.3%

Web-to-lead conversion

Year-to-date 2026, against a 3 to 5% industry norm.

96K+

Leads & product sign-ups

Year-to-date 2026, from 844K website visitors.

71.5%

AI search visibility

Up from 58.5% through AEO and GEO work, now generating leads and SQLs from AI answers.

$57

Paid search CPA low

Q2 2026, with paid conversion rates above 16% and a 20% CPA cut on LinkedIn Ads.

45%

Traffic from organic & AI search

Organic search alone generates 42% of HiveMQ's inbound leads.

35%

More inbound leads from webinars

End-to-end webinar programme, from registration campaigns to post-event nurture.

€575K

Marketing budget managed

Allocated across paid, organic and content with revenue-led quarterly plans and two specialist agencies.

Systems I've built

Campaigns end. These systems keep running and keep producing long after launch.

Content engine

A content and SEO engine, built without a content team

Blog, pillar pages and SEO governance that now carry most of HiveMQ's organic demand, plus a 7.4K-subscriber newsletter grown organically, mostly ICPs.

AI search

An AEO and GEO program for answer engines

TL;DR summaries, freshness signals and stronger CTAs that moved AI visibility from 58.5% to 71.5% and turned AI answers into a lead source.

Agentic AI

An AI inbound chat agent, tested 50/50

Homepage agent run as a split test. I analyzed 175 conversation threads, found missed conversion on commercial signals, and built the fix.

Automation

An N8N sales content toolkit and navigator

I designed and built this automation end to end: an N8N workflow that pulls every campaign asset into one searchable toolkit, so reps find the right content for each prospect in seconds.

ABM & funnel warming

Gartner reprints as an ABM engine

Turned licensed Gartner research into a funnel-warming programme, putting trusted analyst validation in front of target accounts across ABM and nurture so buying committees arrive pre-sold.

PPC

A smart PPC budget allocator

Reallocates spend across Google Ads and LinkedIn Ads each quarter from the previous quarter's performance by platform, so budget follows CPA and pipeline. Paid conversion rates now run above 16%.

Demand programme

"Ask Me Anything", HiveMQ's flagship webinar series

Started in 2021 as live office hours with subject matter experts, before any competitor did it. Still one of the team's top lead-generating programmes.

Distribution

An employee advocacy programme

Mobilized internal voices on LinkedIn, starting with a Slack advocacy channel, to extend campaign reach beyond paid channels.

Open source

A Thought Leadership Social Post Generator

A free tool built with Claude and hosted on GitHub that helps anyone turn ideas into thought leadership posts.

Try it free ↗

What it's like to work with me
She has ambitious goals and goes the extra mile to get there. She is extremely helpful and shares her knowledge with everyone in the team, so we all benefit from it.
A senior team member at HiveMQ

Where I go deep

I own the top of the funnel end to end and connect every channel back to pipeline.

01

Organic & AI search

SEO, AEO and GEO strategy, technical and content SEO, and visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews.

02

Content-led growth

Editorial strategy, pillar architecture, newsletters and turning SME knowledge into narratives that rank and convert.

03

PPC & paid social

Google Ads and LinkedIn Ads built around persona and intent, conversion rates above 16% and CPA and pipeline as the scoreboard.

04

AI marketing ops

Agents, workflows and experiments with Claude, N8N, AirOps and OpenAI that make good work repeatable.

Claude CodeN8NAirOpsOpenAIGA4GSCLooker StudioHubSpotSalesforceHockeyStackAhrefsPeec.aiVWOMixpanelMS ClarityGoogle AdsLinkedIn Ads

What else I bring

Depth built over 14+ years, and the way I lead teams and agencies.

Areas of expertise

Years of hands-on experience, growth and leadership skills first

  • Growth & leadership
  • Go-to-Market Strategy8 yrs
  • Demand Generation6 yrs
  • Campaign Management16 yrs
  • Marketing Analytics10 yrs
  • Team Management & Coaching9 yrs
  • SEM / PPC10 yrs
  • SEO10 yrs
  • Project Management11 yrs
  • Content & channels
  • Content Strategy & Marketing16 yrs
  • Content Management13 yrs
  • Tech Content Creation12 yrs
  • Technical Communication9 yrs
  • Social Media Marketing7 yrs
  • Content Syndication5 yrs
  • Webinars5 yrs
  • Tradeshows & Events5 yrs

Also: A/B testing & experimentation · Agile marketing · Account-based marketing · Funnel growth & CRO · PLG · Budget management

Personality type

Advocate (INFJ)

A strategic brand builder: driven by purpose, reads people and markets closely, and turns long-range vision into steady execution.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

How I lead
  • Build systems that move business metrics, from pipeline engines to automation, not one-off campaigns
  • Experiment-led and agile: ship fast, A/B test key commercial pages, keep what wins and drop what doesn't
  • Data-driven by default: every channel tied to pipeline through attribution across HubSpot, Salesforce, GA4 and HockeyStack
  • Early adopter of AI for efficiency: shipped agents and workflows with Claude, N8N and AirOps before they went mainstream
  • Expert at managing specialist agencies as extended teams
  • Find and fix funnel leaks with attribution, experiments and CRO
  • Skilled negotiator with agencies, vendors and partners
  • Cross-team collaborator with Sales, Product, RevOps and Engineering
  • Team builder: led Minjar's content team and co-founded my own studio

The journey

2021 to now · Germany

HiveMQ

Senior Growth Marketing Manager · Nov 2025 to now

Lead top-of-funnel growth with a €575K budget and two agencies, contributing to $10M in Stage-1 pipeline in 2026.

Senior Content Marketing Manager · Apr 2022 to Nov 2025

Built the content engine behind 158% organic growth, shipping 150 blog posts in 2024 with no dedicated content team.

Senior Marketing Specialist · Mar 2021 to Apr 2022

Launched the "Ask Me Anything" webinar series, still one of HiveMQ's top lead-generating programmes five years on.

2017 to 2019 · Bangalore

TotalCloud

Content Marketing Manager

Became the company's voice in market, growing its SaaS user base through content and a G2 presence built from scratch.

2016 to 2017 · Bengaluru

Minjar Cloud Solutions

Content Manager

Built and led the content team, earning the founder's Minjar Ninja Award as the "Magician of Words".

2015 to 2016 · Bengaluru

MAA Communications

Senior Content Writer

Ghostwrote technical and marketing content for the agency's key enterprise IT clients across verticals.

2012 to 2015 · Bengaluru

Inscribes.Org

Co-Founder, Technical Communication Consultant

Co-founded and ran a technical communication and design studio, owning clients, delivery and growth.

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University, India

Certifications

  • Master of Claude, Coursiv, 2026
  • Marketing Attribution in the Age of AI, Reforge, 2024
  • Advanced Account-Based Marketing, Demandbase, 2024
  • Marketing Analytics, The Wharton School, 2021
  • Strategy for Content Marketing, UC Davis, 2017

Quick answers

Who is Jayashree Hegde?

Jayashree Hegde is a B2B growth marketing leader with over 10 years in technology and SaaS. As Senior Growth Marketing Manager at HiveMQ, she owns marketing-sourced pipeline across organic search, AI search, PPC and website conversion, manages a €575K budget and two specialist agencies, and contributed to $10M in Stage-1 pipeline in 2026. She joined HiveMQ as one of its earliest marketers, previously built and led a content team at Minjar, and co-founded a technical communication studio. Her growth systems keep compounding long after launch.

What does Jayashree Hegde specialize in?

Top-of-funnel growth for B2B tech: SEO, AEO and GEO for AI search, PPC on Google Ads and LinkedIn Ads, paid social, content engines, and AI-powered marketing operations built with Claude and N8N.

What results has Jayashree Hegde delivered?

At HiveMQ she contributed to $10M in Stage-1 pipeline in 2026, grew organic traffic 158%, reached a 13.3% web-to-lead conversion rate against a 3 to 5% industry norm, drove 96K+ leads and product sign-ups year to date, and lifted AI search visibility from 58.5% to 71.5%.

Does Jayashree Hegde have PPC and budget experience?

Yes. She runs PPC strategy across Google Ads and LinkedIn Ads, with conversion rates above 16%, a paid search CPA low of $57 and a 20% CPA reduction on LinkedIn Ads. She manages a €575K annual marketing budget and two specialist agencies.

How can I contact Jayashree Hegde?

The fastest way is LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/jayashree-hegde-adkoli.

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