“So what are you looking to do?”
GOAL
After starting my career in Finance / Venture at global investment banks and media companies, I've moved into senior BusOps Strategy / Growth roles - supporting venture backed startups and international NGOs. Most recently, I founded my own political organization and ran for US Congress. In my next role, I hope to put these skills and experiences to work at a similar mission driven and dynamic organization.
John Isemann / Resume
ROLE / INDUSTRY
I’m currently targeting mission-driven teams, startups, and venture/consulting firms that are tackling the world's most significant and complex problems. From building the future of global defense, infrastructure, and space tech to launching/funding new and innovative brands and companies. My tool kit and past experiences have equipped me for Senior Business Operations/Strategy roles, Business Development (Sales/Customer Success) leadership, and to support founders/investors from zero to one and beyond.
Creative/Comms Portfolio
“Ok great, what can you actually do?”
Customer obsessed and insight focused solutions.
I've led complex multi-year, organization-wide, international product deployments that not only drove customer success and critical organizational revenue, but also yielded deep product development insights.
- In my last role, I wrote our Customer Success/Deployment playbook. From owning all aspects of our Seed stage pipeline (prospecting, sales, integration, success) to embedding with our largest and most complex partners to architect novel solutions - the process and insights my team developed represented the customer to our entire internal team (founders, engineering, design) and drove critical feature development / roadmap adjustment.
Lead, build, take risks - have real world impact.
I ran for U.S. Congress with no prior political experience or capital.
- In the nine months from October 2021 to June 2022 our campaign grew from myself, an idea, and a macbook - to a team of eight staffers and 100’s of donors/volunteers from around the US.
- As the first challenger to enter a race for the third most competitive seat in the U.S. House, we led one of the most hotly contested primaries in the nation - raising over $100k, knocking on 10,000 doors, and producing in house content that garnered national coverage.
- Our organization had a unique brand, message, and mission focused on creating a generational change in Congress and a categorical shift in the character of our leaders. In the end we garnered thousands of votes and increased voter turnout by ~41%.
John Isemann 2022 Press Reel
Problem solve, produce, execute tirelessly and consistently.
Wall Street, entertainment, tech, or NGO - no order is too tall / task too small.
- I started my career on an Equity Derivatives trading desk. More recently, I had some of my most significant/formative work experiences building a $110M software startup.
- I’ve executed multi billion dollar trades, saw a company from zero to its first half million in ARR - developing, selling, and integrating complex software into some of the world’s largest and fastest growing companies.
- I do my best work when communicating and collaborating across the entire organization and externally. Whether it’s product/project or relationship management, I’ve developed a unique ability to build partnerships, deliver product, and hit company deadlines/metrics consistently.
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Story tell, communicate, create - across all mediums.
I’ve written/directed short and long form video, fundraised in the NGO space, venture & politics, managed marketing campaigns, and created complex web and organizational infrastructure.
- Whether it’s creating the copy/video/social content that helped our non-profit raise and distribute over $140k in pandemic relief aid, the CRM that carried an organization from Seed to Series A, an SEO engine that consistently placed 100+ pages in Google’s top ten, or the bones of a political organization - I’ve designed, built, and managed a little bit of everything both in house and with great partners.
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