Simon Harms
Resume
Growth & Acquisition Marketing Leader · Vancouver, BC

I build the AI systems that run growth, not just campaigns.

A decade of acquisition at Match Group and Newton Crypto, now running marketing on agents I build myself: reporting that writes itself, decision scripts that beat gut calls, and data infrastructure that catches the lies in the dashboard.

Proven at
Match Group Plenty of Fish Newton Crypto Yieldschool Kubera Payments Silk'n Webby Winner 2023 MVP 2024
How I Work

One marketer. A team's output.

Every system below is real and in production, built in Claude Code, Python, and n8n. No engineering team.

SYS 01

The morning agent

Every day at 7 AM an agent assembles the full performance report: spend, cost per qualified lead, booked calls, show rates, closes. It replaced the first 90 minutes of my day, every day.

SYS 02

Decision scripts

Kill and scale calls run through Python scripts with hard rules about data maturity. Killing a winner on day two becomes impossible, so does scaling a fluke on day three.

SYS 03

The data lake

Joins every ad platform, the CRM, and individual sales call outcomes. It found hundreds of duplicate records inflating the KPIs everyone trusted. All in the flattering direction.

SYS 04

The copy toolkit

Drafts come from a prompt system tied to a brand knowledge base: winning ads, real customer language from sales calls, and the angles that already failed. Blank page to draft in minutes.

AI deleted the work between decisions. The decisions got harder to hide from.

The agents report, they don't have taste. Reading results honestly, killing a favorite ad, knowing which problem matters: faster answers just made judgment the bottleneck. That's the job now.

Career

A decade of acquisition, now AI accelerated.

JUN 2025 · PRESENT
Performance Marketing Consultant
S.A.H. Strategies · Self employed
  • Interim Head of Marketing and Performance Lead for Yieldschool, an online education brand
  • Own paid acquisition across a multi Business Manager Meta structure at $500K+ per month
  • Rebuilt the tracking stack: server side GTM, Meta CAPI, and HubSpot
  • Built the AI media buying, reporting, and creative testing systems shown above
  • Funnels and paid acquisition for dental and pest control clients
JUN 2024 · JUN 2025
VP of Marketing
Newton Crypto · Canadian crypto trading platform
  • Built the entire ads infrastructure from scratch in two months: MMP SDK, app events, web events, server side events
  • Promoted twice in nine months, Senior Manager to VP
  • Awarded company MVP 2024 despite joining halfway through the year
  • Scaled the marketing team from 2 to 7 and built a single source of truth for ad data
  • Built the SEO and ASO strategy that lifted keyword rankings and organic traffic
NOV 2019 · MAR 2024
Senior Digital Marketing Manager 3
Match Group · Dating apps and websites
  • Personally delivered an all time high ROI, quadrupling ROI year over year
  • SEM brand campaigns: 5x multiple on both ROI and spend
  • Led a paywall experiment that increased first time subscribers by 13%
  • Scaled UGC and influencer campaigns to 10x spend at lower CPA and higher ROI
  • Webby Award winner, Best Growth Strategy 2023
NOV 2016 · MAY 2018
Co Founder & Owner
Twin Sales · Ecommerce
  • Built to roughly $1,000,000 revenue in the first full fiscal year, Shopify and Amazon FBA
  • Ran paid across Facebook, AdWords, Amazon PPC, Twitter, email, and influencers
  • Automated operations, built the exit strategy, and sold the business
APR 2016 · JAN 2023
Co Founder & CMO
Kids Without Yachts · Nonprofit
  • Founded an NGO helping low income families affected by cancer pursue care outside the public system
  • Raised over $100,000 with 100% of proceeds going to sponsored families
Selected Results

The numbers I'd want to see too.

$100M+
Lifetime ad spend managed
4x
ROI growth year over year at Match Group
13%
Lift in first time subscribers from one paywall test
9 mo
Senior Manager to VP at Newton Crypto

Female acquisition

Match Group · Apps & websites

Legacy targeting was underdelivering as subscription CPAs rose industry wide. Built a two part app event that fires when a woman creates a profile, letting the algorithm learn the exact funnel that mattered.

10x spend increase45% lower CPA

SEM brand campaigns

Match Group · Search

Brand search was stuck at low spend with stagnant ROI. Restructured the account to unlock scale and efficiency at the same time instead of trading one for the other.

5x ROI multiple$180K monthly spend

Plenty of Fish acquisition

Match Group brand · 2019 to 2023

My home brand inside Match Group for nearly four years. Owned paid acquisition across Meta, Google, and Apple Search Ads, migrated measurement from the AppsFlyer MMP to Firebase to unlock target ROAS bidding on Google Ads, and earned a double promotion along the way.

+18% ROI via tROAS biddingMillions in spend optimized

Ads infrastructure from zero

Newton Crypto · Fintech

No MMP, no server side events, no unified reporting on day one. Two months later every advertiser ran on clean, deduplicated data, and the quarter that followed was the best in company history.

2 mo to full stackMVP 2024

AI operated growth

Yieldschool · Online education

Rebuilt tracking end to end, then layered the agent stack on top: automated reporting, kill and scale scripts, VSL watch time optimization, and a data lake all sourcing one clean signal.

$500K+/mo managed9/10 Meta match score

Paid media

  • Meta, Google, TikTok, X
  • Apple Search Ads
  • Budget forecasting at scale

AI & automation

  • Claude Code, Cursor, n8n
  • Python decision systems
  • Agent orchestration

Funnels & organic

  • CRO and A/B testing
  • SEO and ASO strategy
  • VSL and watch time testing

Data & attribution

  • Server side GTM, Meta CAPI
  • SQL and data pipelines
  • HubSpot and CRM routing
Let's Talk

Building the same way? I compare notes gladly.

Open to growth and acquisition leadership roles where the mandate is aggressive, AI accelerated, sustainable growth.