For
Courtney Ogawa, VP Revenue Marketing

How I'd build Cresta's enterprise demand engine

You've already built the engine. I'm here to run it at enterprise scale.

The thesis

I'm not coming in to learn enterprise demand gen on the job. I'm coming in to bring an ABM operator's discipline to the engine you've already built.

What I heard from you

The signal from our conversation.

The segment

Enterprise is 2,000 to 7,500 employees. The role is taking what's already spun up and making it unique to enterprise, not adapting a broader motion.

The 90 day ask

First quarterly enterprise campaign live and custom to segment. That's exactly the kind of zero to one I built at Pendo.

The channel mix

Events and field are ~33% of pipeline. Email, webinars, direct mail, and ABM are the channels this role owns, with 46 SDRs in your org as the natural partner.

The job description, in my words

Every requirement, mapped to something I've done.

What the role requires

Own and scale email, webinars, and direct mail for enterprise.

What I've built

Ran integrated enterprise programs at Pendo across all three. Nurture, webinar follow-through, and themed direct mail wired to the same target list.

What the role requires

Plan and execute end-to-end demand gen campaigns for enterprise.

What I've built

Built quarterly enterprise campaigns at Pendo from ICP and intent through to SDR sequences and attribution.

What the role requires

Run intent and interest-based programs with Sales.

What I've built

Tiered accounts by intent (low/no vs high) with separate ad, email, and outreach branches. Same playbook ready for Cresta.

What the role requires

Partner with content marketing on enterprise content.

What I've built

Industry-segmented campaigns built around case studies and product marketing assets. No campaign without a real story.

What the role requires

Cross-functional with Sales, RevOps, and Marketing.

What I've built

Built an ABM field in our CRM as the single source of truth, AE-aligned. The SDR org under your umbrella is the alignment I've been building toward.

What the role requires

4+ years demand gen in B2B SaaS, multi-channel campaigns.

What I've built

Built ABM and scaled multi-channel enterprise demand gen at Tipalti from 120 → 1,000 employees, and the program at Pendo from zero. ~$20M quarterly pipeline target, hit consistently.

What the role requires

Modern intent and orchestration stack.

What I've built

Built and run end to end without outsourcing to agencies. Hands-on with every layer from targeting to measurement.

What the role requires

ABM, intent-driven, enterprise sales partnership.

What I've built

One of the first ABM titles in B2B SaaS (2018). One-to-one, one-to-few, one-to-many built and run end to end.

What the program I built delivered at Pendo

My proof, in three numbers.

~0%
of marketing sourced opportunities from ABM accounts
½
~0%
of pipeline from ABM accounts
¾
~0%
of ARR from ABM accounts

These were my quarterly targets at Pendo, hit consistently. Built from zero: no inherited playbook, no list. Just ICP, intent data, sales alignment, and coordinated plays.

Why I'm the right hire

ABM discipline is what fine-tunes an enterprise demand engine.

Cresta's engine isn't broken. Programs are spun up, channels are firing, creative ships in a week. What enterprise needs is sharper account selection, tighter intent orchestration, and measurement at the account level. That's the muscle I've been building for 7 years.

1

ABM target discipline becomes enterprise campaign targeting.

At Pendo I built the ABM field in our CRM as the single source of truth so marketing, SDRs, and AEs all reported against the same list. Same move at Cresta: every quarterly enterprise campaign points at the same tightly defined accounts, not a re-derived list per channel.

2

Intent tiering becomes channel orchestration.

Low / no intent gets thought-leadership ads and nurture. As intent climbs, accounts shift to bottom-of-funnel content, ABM direct mail, and SDR-led outreach. Persona-split above and below the director line. This is how a multi-channel program stops being a broadcast and starts compounding.

3

Sales partnership becomes program adoption.

The reason my ABM programs hit a third of opps, half of pipeline, and three quarters of ARR at Pendo is that sales actually used them. With 46 SDRs reporting to you and AEs aligned, I'd build sequences and lists reps trust on day one, not after a quarter of selling them on it.

4

Account-level measurement becomes pipeline accountability.

Channel dashboards tell you what fired. Account-level reporting tells you what closed. I'd stand up attribution that ties every enterprise campaign to opportunities and ARR in the same view marketing and sales review weekly.

Channel mix

How I'd build the quarterly program mix.

Segment by industry or region, then tier by intent. Different branches for low-intent and high-intent, different messaging for director-and-above vs senior manager. Every channel coordinated to the same account.

Email + SDR sequences

Marketing nurture for low intent. Switch to sales-led outreach as intent climbs. Sequences I help build, not throw over the wall to your 46 SDRs.

Webinars as account activation

Webinars only pay back when you wrap an account play around the top enterprise registrants. Pre-event targeting, mid-event SDR alerts, post-event opportunity follow-through, all tied to the same target list.

Direct mail

Personalized, high-value sends to tier-1 accounts at key moments, triggered by intent signals or event follow-up. Have managed Sendoso and Reachdesk programs. Know how to tie physical sends to measurable pipeline, not just brand impressions.

Events + field

Already your #1 channel at ~33% of pipeline. My role: pre-event ABM activation and post-event SDR follow-through tied to the same target list.

LinkedIn + connected TV

LinkedIn thought-leader ads for awareness on the no-intent tier. Connected TV is a high-trust air cover layer for enterprise.

Sales partnership

ABM field in our CRM as the single source of truth, AE-priority aligned. One list marketing, SDRs, and AEs all trust and report against.

The play I'd run in Week 1

I ran this at Pendo. Here's what it produced.

1
40 target enterprise accounts
2
Personalized SDR sequence + high-value AI-themed incentive
3
6 meetings booked
4
4 opportunities created — 10% opp rate
The first 90 days

What success looks like in my first quarter.

You said it yourself: first quarterly enterprise campaign live and customized to segment. Here's how I get there, plus the structural work that compounds.

What I'd build

  1. 1Ship the first enterprise-customized quarterly campaign. Industry segmented, multi-channel, SDR sequence integrated from day one.
  2. 2Stand up the ABM single source of truth in our CRM. AE-priority field, marketing + sales aligned on one list everyone reports against.
  3. 3Build intent tiering (low/no vs high) with separate campaign branches and content tracks for each.
  4. 4Launch the retail vertical play. You named it as whitespace. I ran retail enterprise campaigns at Pendo and know the persona shift.
  5. 5Stand up campaign attribution reporting so pipeline contribution is visible to marketing and sales weekly, in the same view.

SDR partnership

You have 46 SDRs, 4 frontline managers, reporting through a senior director to you. One leadership chain, one set of goals. Most demand gen marketers spend half their time negotiating alignment across silos. With your structure, I'd spend that time executing. I've built my entire ABM methodology around the sales-SDR handoff: I know how to write sequences reps will actually use, surface intent signals that sharpen their outreach, and give them account-level visibility that makes every conversation more relevant.

Built for your speed

You said creative ships in a week. That's the environment I want. At Pendo I felt the bottleneck of creative friction. At Cresta I'd run campaigns the way they're supposed to be run: idea Monday, in-market Friday, learnings the week after.

Vertical whitespace

Retail is your whitespace. Here's how I'd approach it.

You named retail as an industry with room to grow. I've run retail-focused enterprise campaigns before. I already have a point of view on the vertical play, the persona, and the content angle. That's one of the first campaigns I'd put on the calendar.

I'm ready to build this.
Let's talk about next steps.