Jelena Dopudj Growth, Product & Operations Strategy | Startup-to-Acquisition

Product Marketing Manager

aTeam

Feb 2026 - Current (9 months)

Custom AI Systems Built by Industry Experts | A.Team

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Independent Strategic Advisor

A. Team

Jan 2026 - Current (10 months)

Provide advisory engagements focused on repositioning companies, modernizing platforms, and establishing emerging technologies within their markets. My work centers on developing markets for technologies that do not yet have a clearly defined category, narrative, or adoption path.

Marketing Director (Advisory Role)

ClinicMind

Jan 2026 - Feb 2026 (2 months)

Advised leadership on modernizing ClinicMind’s healthcare platform, helping translate business and customer needs into a clearer product strategy, improved user experience, and stronger market positioning. Evaluated platform capabilities, identified opportunities to streamline workflows and messaging, and provided recommendations across the modernization roadmap, go-to-market approach, website, and customer adoption.

Director of Growth Marketing

Akute Health

May 2025 - Jan 2026 (9 months)

Led GTM and revenue growth initiatives at Akute Health, a Y Combinator–backed healthtech startup serving outpatient medical practices. I have continued my work in disruptive solution development with Akute Health, challenging legacy platforms such as Epic through modern infrastructure and AI-powered patient cohort intelligence.

Head of Marketing, Product Growth & Customer Relations (Fortune 500 Customer Panel & Advocacy Committee)

Alkira Inc

Aug 2021 - Dec 2024 (3 years 5 months)

Led Product Marketing, Go-to-Market strategy, and global GTM communications for Alkira, a Silicon Valley cloud-native networking company later acquired by Lumen Technologies. Partnered across Product, Solutions Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Executive Leadership, and industry analysts to position one of the earliest Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) platforms, translating highly technical infrastructure into differentiated market narratives that accelerated enterprise adoption. I helped establish and commercialize the Multicloud Networking category, translating a highly technical platform into a differentiated market position that contributed to the company’s approximately $500M Silicon Valley acquisition.

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Sr Marketing & GTM Manager

Cireson, Tikit AI

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 4 months)

First marketing hire for Tikit AI, helping define the commercial narrative for enterprise AI inside Microsoft Teams before the current generative AI wave. I led the launch of Tikit AI, helping introduce an AI-powered service desk within Microsoft Teams at a time when enterprise AI adoption was still nascent.

As the first dedicated marketing hire for Tikit AI, I led product marketing and go-to-market strategy for one of Microsoft's earliest AI-powered service desk experiences built natively for Microsoft Teams. Long before Copilot and enterprise generative AI became mainstream, I partnered across product, engineering, sales, and executive leadership to translate emerging conversational AI capabilities into a compelling enterprise

Marketing Project Specialist

TD SYNNEX North America

Oct 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 4 months)

Managed a portfolio of 30+ partner accounts and more than $1,000,000 in channel-funded marketing programs, including paid media, email, landing pages, and event-driven campaigns.

Analyzed partner campaign performance to identify optimization opportunities across targeting, creative, and bid strategy, resulting in 4x ROAS improvements.

Collaborated directly with Sales and Product teams to refine messaging for virtualization, cloud, and infrastructure offerings.

Oversaw co-branded content development, landing pages, and digital assets designed to support partner sales cycles, resulting in more cohesive marketing materials that facilitated partner success.

Managed $500,000+ in digital media spend acr

Project Manager

TRIAD

Jul 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 4 months)

Managed $500K+ in digital advertising portfolios for enterprise B2C clients including Samsung, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Walmart, and GameStop. Led A/B testing programs that improved CTR by 25 percent and conversions by 18 percent, ensuring campaigns honored brand voice while delivering measurable performance. Streamlined creative production workflows, reducing turnaround time by 30 percent and increasing cross-team capacity by 40 percent. Acted as the strategic bridge between creative, analytics, and client teams to deliver campaigns that were both on-brand and revenue-focused.

Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant

University of South Florida Muma College of Business

Dec 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 6 months)

Communications Specialist

AARP

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Developed strategic communication plans with outreach and engagement teams. Wrote and researched news releases, media advisories and other media-relations materials. Managed web and social media sites. Assisted in planning and executing special events. Monitored media coverage and targeted issues for AARP, such as social security. Wrote feature stories for blogs and newsletters. Designed creative materials such as business cards, postcards, fliers and banners.

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