Jason Michaels

Current

Sales and Marketing Manager at RedBubble
Owner at Jason Michaels Marketing + Media

Past

Senior Marketing Manager at Lumens Light + Living
Senior Marketing Manager, Online Marketplace at Art.com, Inc.
Director of Marketing, Games at Future US

Principal at Jason Michaels, LLC (Self-employed)
Marketing Manager at Salu, Inc. (skinstore.com)
Director of Marketing at IGN Entertainment, Inc. (ign.com)
Director of Marketing at Snowball.com
Marketing Manager at Imagine Media, Inc.
Project Manager at Imagine Publishing
Public Affairs Assistant at Intel Corporation (intel.com)

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Education

UC Berkeley Extension
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz

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Recommended

12 people have recommended Jason

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Retail

Websites

Jason Michaels’s Summary

Jason Michaels is a multichannel product marketing professional with more than a decade of experience. He is known for his creativity, speed, budgeting, staff management and mentoring, and for quantifiable results/ROI. He's built teams, refocused employees, introduced new products, and turned around projects that needed a new approach.

Additionally, Jason Michaels has demonstrated patience and resolve in businesses undergoing intense periods of growth, initial public offering, restructuring, business model development, and C-Level management changes.

Jason Michaels’s Specialties:

Jason Michaels' areas of strength include:

- Management/P&L
- Product Introductions/Launches
- Product Marketing
- User Acquisition and Retention
- Partnership Development
- Integrated Marketing Program Development
- Hands-On Execution of SEO, SEM, Creative, and Social Media Marketing Programs

Jason Michaels’s Experience

Sales and Marketing Manager

RedBubble

(Retail industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

RedBubble is a website for people to share their creative passions. The site operates as a gallery, community and marketplace for a wide variety of art - including photography, graphic design, writing and digital art.

www.redbubble.com
Owner

Jason Michaels Marketing + Media

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Jason Michaels Marketing + Media creates integrated marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized firms that demand a quantifiable return on their marketing investments. Current clients include RedBubble, www.redbubble.com, and Selby Venture Partners.
Senior Marketing Manager

Lumens Light + Living

(Retail industry)

August 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 2 months)

I am responsible for managing the company’s online marketing function including developing, managing and growing SEM, SEO, Affiliate, Social Marketing and E-mail marketing programs.

www.lumens.com
Senior Marketing Manager, Online Marketplace

Art.com, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

December 2006 — May 2007 (6 months)

Consumer marketing and merchandising for Art.com's Artist Rising marketplace. Artist Rising is a top-tier destination for discovering original artwork, fine art prints, and limited edition art by contemporary living artists.

www.art.com
Director of Marketing, Games

Future US

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

February 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 11 months)

Direct the marketing department for Official Xbox Magazine, PSM: Independent PlayStation Magazine and PC Gamer Magazine, as well as their online properties - GamesRadar.com, CheatPlanet.com and Next-Gen.Biz.

www.futureus.com
Principal
Jason Michaels, LLC (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year)

Contracted Director of Marketing for Future US, Inc.
Marketing Manager

Salu, Inc. (skinstore.com)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years)
Director of Marketing

IGN Entertainment, Inc. (ign.com)

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Director of Marketing

Snowball.com

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

IGN Entertainment was a part of Snowball.com during my tenure.
Marketing Manager

Imagine Media, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LSE: FNET; Publishing industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Project Manager

Imagine Publishing

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LSE: FNET; Publishing industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Public Affairs Assistant

Intel Corporation (intel.com)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Hardware industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)

Jason Michaels’s Education

UC Berkeley Extension

Marketing Planning/Management 1998 — 1999
UC Santa Cruz

BA , Psychology , September 1991 — June 1995
UC Santa Cruz

BA , Studio Art , September 1991 — June 1995

Additional Information

Jason Michaels’s Websites:

Jason Michaels’s Interests:

PERSONAL > Studebaker Automobiles > Photography/Design > Travel > Baseball

Jason Michaels’s Groups:

> ESRB Advertising Review Counsel (Future US) (2005-2006)
> Board Member, Hillel at Davis and Sacramento (2000-2003)
> TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, conference assist. photographer (2002, 2003, 2009)
> American Marketing Association (2001)
> Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (2000)