Zillow Group / Operating model
CASE STUDY 01A shared way to get from brief to launch.
Shared intake, sprint planning, QA, and launch practices that helped teams coordinate delivery.
Nearly 600Jira tickets resolved by the team in 2024
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MY PERSONAL PORTFOLIOA little context. A real person.
Hi, I’m Nate Casimiro.
I make complex work flow.
Marketing Operations Manager (Contractor) at OpenAI.
Senior individual contributor in marketing operations, governance, and AI enablement.
Explore my work below, or try the guided portfolio — answers drawn from my experience.
Curated answers from my portfolio. This is a guided experience, not a live AI chat.
Explore my work belowA RECORD OF THE WORK
Systems built. Friction removed.
The foundations behind my work today: clear operating models, useful data, and automation that gives teams time back.
Zillow Group / StreetEasy / Lifecycle automation
CASE STUDY 02More effective messaging. Less unnecessary volume.
Event-triggered workflows connected requests, campaign production, and customer journeys—with controls built into the process.
35%lower inferred-search email volume in 2024
Zillow Group / Data & governance
CASE STUDY 03A clearer path to marketing data.
Workspace access coordination and self-service guidance helped marketing teams navigate Databricks.
Self-serviceguidance for marketing data access
Simpleview / Workflow coordination
CASE STUDY 04Shared tasks. Clearer delivery.
Shared project planning helped a growing marketing team coordinate work and stakeholder expectations.
CoSchedulefeatured customer story
Metrics describe the specific projects and organizations shown. Each case includes my contribution, approach, and outcome context.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE SYSTEMS
Hi, I’m Nate.
I’m Nathen (Nate) Casimiro, a senior individual contributor specializing in marketing operations, governance, and AI enablement. I lead complex work independently, connecting marketing teams with practical systems and clear operating requirements.
Marketing Operations Manager (Contractor) · OpenAICURRENT FOCUS / CONTRACT ROLE AT OPENAI
Governance at the AI frontier.
I support OpenAI as a Marketing Operations Manager (Contractor), operating as a senior individual contributor. I define role-based access and approval requirements for marketing teams, translating employee, contractor, and project-specific needs into IT requirements for group membership, provisioning, and exception handling.
Define role-based access
Account for employee, contractor, and project-specific access needs.
Specify approval requirements
Define the approvals required for marketing team access.
Translate needs for IT
Document requirements for group membership, provisioning, and exception handling.
TOOLS ARE PART OF THE PICTURE
How I work.
Marketing operations
Operating models, intake, prioritization, sprint planning, QA, and cross-functional delivery.
Jira · Airtable · Monday.comLifecycle & automation
Customer journeys, segmentation, preference management, and repeatable campaign workflows.
Iterable · HubSpot · Salesforce · FormstackData & connected systems
CRM and CDP integration, audience activation, data flows, reporting, and access practices.
Databricks · Hightouch · Looker · TableauAI & governance
AI-native workflow patterns, taxonomy, documentation, platform ownership, and cross-functional decision-making.
AI enablement · SaaS governance · Digital asset governanceA FEW USEFUL ANSWERS
My work, in plain language.
What opportunities best fit your experience?
My strongest fit is senior individual contributor work in marketing operations and marketing technology governance, with adjacent opportunities in AI enablement focused on business workflows, permissions, and adoption. I prefer hands-on ownership and leading complex work across teams. I previously operated at senior manager level at Zillow Group.
What does Nate Casimiro do?
I’m Nathen (Nate) Casimiro, a senior individual contributor specializing in marketing operations, governance, and AI enablement. I lead complex work independently, connecting marketing teams with practical systems and clear operating requirements. I support OpenAI as a Marketing Operations Manager (Contractor), operating as a senior individual contributor. I define role-based access and approval requirements for marketing teams, translating employee, contractor, and project-specific needs into IT requirements for group membership, provisioning, and exception handling.
What kind of governance do you work on?
My focus is marketing systems, digital assets, and data access: who owns a platform, how information is organized, who can use it, and how teams maintain it. At Zillow Group, I coordinated Databricks workspace and data-access requirements with Data Product and wrote self-service guidance for Marketing Ops.
What business problems have you helped solve?
I’ve helped teams coordinate work from brief to launch, automate repetitive campaign production, get usable marketing data sooner, and simplify connected platforms. At Zillow Group, I standardized intake and project tracking in Jira and coordinated data-access requirements. At Simpleview, I worked on shared project planning and marketing workflows.
Where can I see your public speaking and published work?
I spoke at Iterable Activate Summit 2022 about automating StreetEasy’s customer journeys with catalogs and data feeds. CoSchedule also featured my perspective as Simpleview’s Marketing Operations Manager in its customer story. The sources section links to those publications and identifies the scope of the team achievements they describe.
BEYOND THE OPERATING MODEL
Systems-minded. People-oriented.
My background spans interactive media, marketing operations, and military communications. The common thread is making complicated things useful to people.
Explore my experience and serviceRÉSUMÉ / EXPERIENCE & SERVICE
A career at the intersection.
12+ years connecting people, platforms, and processes across lifecycle automation, business systems, SaaS governance, and AI enablement.
OpenAI
2026–PresentMarketing Operations Manager (Contractor)
I support OpenAI as a Marketing Operations Manager (Contractor), operating as a senior individual contributor. I define role-based access and approval requirements for marketing teams, translating employee, contractor, and project-specific needs into IT requirements for group membership, provisioning, and exception handling.
Zillow Group
2021–2026Marketing Operations Manager / Sr. Marketing Operations Specialist
Operated at senior manager level, building marketing operating models, lifecycle automation, and data enablement practices for StreetEasy and cross-functional marketing teams.
Simpleview
2014–2021Digital Marketing Strategist → Marketing Operations Manager
Connected marketing platforms and delivery workflows, consolidated web properties, and grew into operations leadership.
Arizona Army National Guard
2019–2025Sergeant · Multichannel Transmission Systems Operator
Served in network communications, bringing a practical focus on technical reliability, accountability, and team coordination.
Three Army Achievement Medals; Army Cyber Center of Excellence Honor Graduate (2020).
Additional experience & service
Freelance Marketing & Web Development
Designed and delivered websites and marketing support for small businesses.
2014–2020WICN Public Radio
Marketing Intern
2013–2014City Year Los Angeles / AmeriCorps
Corps Member · 1,900+ service hours
2009–2010Education & certification
B.A. Interactive Media, Becker College · 2010–2014
Concentration in Computer Application Design
Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification · 30+ hours of advanced UX training
Speaking & recognition
- Speaker, Iterable Activate Summit 2022 — “Connect & Collect.”
- StreetEasy team — 2021 Iterable Expie Award, Best Use of Data.
- AAF Tucson ADDY Award, 2017.
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
More than my word for it.
Conference coverage, customer stories, and team recognition provide another perspective on the work.
SPEAKING / 2022
IterableConnect & Collect
My Activate Summit session on using automation, catalogs, and data feeds to power personalized customer journeys at StreetEasy.
Historical scale figures in the recap describe the StreetEasy operation, rather than my individual output.Read the session recapCUSTOMER STORY / SIMPLEVIEW
CoScheduleA better way to deliver
A customer story featuring my perspective as Simpleview’s Marketing Operations Manager and the team’s work to improve project planning and delivery.
Published during my time at Simpleview. The story describes the team’s planning and delivery practices.Read the customer storyTEAM RECOGNITION / 2021
The Iterable Expie AwardsBest Use of Data
StreetEasy’s 2021 team award from Iterable. The announcement features my perspective as a Senior Marketing Operations Specialist on the team.
The award recognizes StreetEasy’s team.Read the award announcementCONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
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