@ivy-macharia
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Curiosity, made strategic

Product marketing and brand partnerships, built on strategy that shows up in real numbers - from a 401% jump in campaign views to a signed cross-brand partnership.

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Work samples

Things I've Worked On - Strategy, campaigns, partnerships, social, culture, and a few ideas I couldn't leave in my head. Here's a look at the work I've done and the thinking behind it.

  • Safaricom Hook: Social & Community Growth
    Safaricom Hook: Social & Community Growth

    Jul 2026

    Safaricom Hook: Social & Community Growth

    Co-led digital marketing and community strategy for Safaricom Hook's social platforms, executing youth-focused campaigns tied to major cultural moments including the FIFA World Cup. Supported campaign strategies, content calendars, and creative briefs, working closely with designers to deliver conte

    Social Media Strategy,Content Calendar PlanningCampaign Execution,Performance AnalyticsCommunity Management
  • Safaricom Hook × Canva: Finding the Overlap

    Safaricom PLC · Feb 2026

    Safaricom Hook × Canva: Finding the Overlap

    Safaricom Hook and Canva shared a youth audience but no unified strategy. I mapped each brand's pillars to find genuine overlap. The strategy contributed to a formal partnership in motion and an invitation to meet Canva's Africa team during their Kenya visit.

    Partnership StrategyAudience InsightCross-Brand CollaborationBrand Positioning

About me

Product marketing and brand partnerships, built on strategy that shows up in real numbers - from a 401% jump in campaign views to a signed cross-brand partnership.

Part techie, part marketer, part professional overthinker. I turn curiosity, culture and random ideas into things people actually care about. ✨

Experience

Product Marketing Lead

Hauz Entertainment · May 2026 - Jul 2026

Product Management Trainee

Africa Agility · Jan 2025 - Apr 2026

Product Marketing Intern

Safaricom PLC · Jun 2025 - Feb 2026

Co-founder & Program Manager

Geek-ssters · Apr 2023

Education

Multimedia University of Kenya

BSc. Software Engineering · Class of 2025

Moringa School

Data Science & Machine Learning Certification · Class of 2023

Africa Agility

Product Management · Class of 2025

Skills

Product designUser researchProblem framingProduct strategyDigital MarketingBrand StrategyBrand MarketingInfluencer MarketingProduct ManagementAI
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Safaricom Hook: Social & Community Growth

Co-led digital marketing and community strategy for Safaricom Hook's social platforms, executing youth-focused campaigns tied to major cultural moments including the FIFA World Cup. Supported campaign strategies, content calendars, and creative briefs, working closely with designers to deliver conte

Social Media Strategy,Content Calendar PlanningCampaign Execution,Performance AnalyticsCommunity Management

Overview

Co-led digital marketing and community strategy for Safaricom Hook's social platforms, executing youth-focused campaigns tied to major cultural moments including the FIFA World Cup. Supported campaign strategies, content calendars, and creative briefs, working closely with designers to deliver content built for engagement rather than just visibility.

Safaricom Hook: Social & Community Growth

What I've accomplished

Drove a significant jump in organic reach and engagement across Safaricom Hook's core social platforms during a high-attention cultural moment, translating campaign strategy and content planning into measurable audience growth rather than one-off viral spikes.

Outcome

2.8M Instagram views (+401%), 2.6M Facebook views (+462%), 67K content interactions (+594%), and 1,100 new Instagram followers (+77.7%) — all tracked and attributable to the campaign period

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Safaricom Hook × Canva: Finding the Overlap

Safaricom Hook and Canva shared a youth audience but no unified strategy. I mapped each brand's pillars to find genuine overlap. The strategy contributed to a formal partnership in motion and an invitation to meet Canva's Africa team during their Kenya visit.

Partnership StrategyAudience InsightCross-Brand CollaborationBrand Positioning

Overview

Safaricom Hook and Canva shared a youth audience but no unified strategy. I mapped each brand's pillars to find genuine overlap. The strategy contributed to a formal partnership in motion and an invitation to meet Canva's Africa team during their Kenya visit.

What I've accomplished

Owned the partnership process end-to-end rather than handing it off after the strategy phase — coordinating cross-functional teams across product, legal, and communications to move the collaboration from concept to a formal signed agreement, a concrete deliverable rather than an unexecuted idea.

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Geek-ssters

Co-founded Geek-ssters with two friends to close a gap we saw firsthand: women in tech in Kenya lacking a dedicated space for skills-building and peer support. I designed and led a Soft Skills Program that grew the community past 100 members with a 50% completion rate, and formally registered it as

Community BuildingProgram DesignFounder LeadershipStakeholder Management

Overview

Co-founded Geek-ssters with two friends to close a gap we saw firsthand: women in tech in Kenya lacking a dedicated space for skills-building and peer support. I designed and led a Soft Skills Program that grew the community past 100 members with a 50% completion rate, and formally registered it as a Community-Based Organization.

Geek-ssters

What I've accomplished

Co-founded and personally drove strategy for a community built to close a real gap, designing a structured program from the ground up rather than adapting an existing model.

Outcome

Grew the community to 100+ women with a 50% program completion rate, and formally registered Geek-ssters as a Community-Based Organization.

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Product Marketing & Partnerships:

Worked on Safaricom Hook from two sides of the same relationship — first internally at Safaricom as an intern, then from the agency side at Hauz Entertainment, where Safaricom Hook and its parent brand Safaricom are clients. That continuity gave me a working understanding of the account from both th

Customer InsightPartnership DevelopmentClient & Stakeholder Management

Overview

Worked on Safaricom Hook from two sides of the same relationship — first internally at Safaricom as an intern, then from the agency side at Hauz Entertainment, where Safaricom Hook and its parent brand Safaricom are clients. That continuity gave me a working understanding of the account from both the brand and agency perspective.

What I've accomplished

Operated across two organizations coordinating marketing, product, technology, legal, and external partner teams — translating business needs into customer-facing strategy while managing multiple concurrent client and partnership initiatives.

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Be Audacious Africa

Co-founded Be Audacious Africa with a mission to make tech knowledge more accessible to young Africans. I helped develop and launch a webinar series covering AI, machine learning, and adjacent tech topics, structured to turn one-off learning sessions into an ongoing community of engaged, digitally c

Content ProgrammingLeadershipCommunity BuildingDigital Education,

Overview

Co-founded Be Audacious Africa with a mission to make tech knowledge more accessible to young Africans. I helped develop and launch a webinar series covering AI, machine learning, and adjacent tech topics, structured to turn one-off learning sessions into an ongoing community of engaged, digitally curious young people — reaching 300+ participants.

Be Audacious Africa

What I've accomplished

Co-founded a second, distinct initiative, developing and launching a structured webinar series aimed at making tech knowledge more accessible to young Africans.

Outcome

Reached 300+ young Africans through the webinar series, building an ongoing structured-learning community around tech topics.

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Notes from the Internet by Ivy

An ongoing LinkedIn platform where I write on marketing, culture, and the moves brands make in African tech and youth spaces - part commentary, part thinking out loud. It's where I test and sharpen my own perspective on partnership and brand strategy in real time, outside of any single job.

Content StrategyBrand & Culture CommentaryPublic Point of View

Overview

An ongoing LinkedIn platform where I write on marketing, culture, and the moves brands make in African tech and youth spaces - part commentary, part thinking out loud. It's where I test and sharpen my own perspective on partnership and brand strategy in real time, outside of any single job.

Notes from the Internet by Ivy

What I've accomplished

Built and maintained an independent commentary platform, publishing original perspective rather than resharing others' takes — establishing a public point of view outside of any single employer.

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