I am a newly minted University of Michigan graduate with a B.A. in International Studies. About a year ago, I stumbled into Silicon Valley startups by way of the 500 Startups accelerator and have stuck around ever since. Since then, I've been in San Francisco working in marketing with early stage startups.

Marketing @ From April 2015 to Present (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMarketing Intern @ I joined LocBox as a marketing intern to launch and run their content marketing. This included starting an email subscriber platform for our blog, optimizing our CMS platform for organic search, writing between five and 10 blog posts a week, and managing our social media distribution and support. I also led several product marketing efforts such as redesigning and launching a new website and designing and implementing a new sales deck. From June 2014 to April 2015 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSales Associate @ Rock Paper Scissors is a small Michigan gift shop located in downtown Ann Arbor. My daily tasks included retail sales, handling customer requests, visual merchandizing, and blogging. From October 2012 to May 2014 (1 year 8 months) Marketing Intern @ As part of the sixth batch of the 500 Startups accelerator program, I worked with co-founders Nadia and David to develop and promote our online cooking classes. This included managing our social media channels, writing for our blog, and researching and developing cooking tips for our emails. I also had the opportunity to participate in both our local demo days for 500 Startups and network with investors and other companies. My main project was launching our free week-long crash course. It used a drip email campaign to help users tackle the obstacles of learning how to cook. Using content and social media marketing, I helped maintain open rates of well over 40% and click through rates of over 20%. This course served as the foundation for our latest paid class, the 30-Day Bootcamp class. From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) Sales Associate @ I worked with over 40 sales associates, managers, and merchandisers to assist customers in store, resolve customer issues and improve the overall brand satisfaction with our customers. Daily tasks included managing customer needs such as purchases, returns, inventory inquiries, and personal shopping. I also performed store operations such as new hire training, restocking and inventory organization to increase store efficiency. From 2011 to 2013 (2 years)

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International/Global Studies @ University of Michigan From 2010 to 2014 Menlo SchoolMenlo School Siena Witte is skilled in: Social Networking, Social Media, Online Marketing, Cooking, Facebook, Adobe Creative Suite, Retail Sales, Policy Analysis, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Graphic Design, Marketing, Blogging, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Research, Management