Summary
Brian Bensch is a growth marketing leader and founder with a decade of cross-functional experience scaling marketplaces and developer-focused products. He blends hands-on coding training with enterprise-grade marketing expertise from Google and Airbnb to build measurement-first growth systems that supported billion-dollar budgets and drove double-digit revenue impact. As Director of Growth at Hipcamp and now Fireworks AI, he has repeatedly turned lean teams and disciplined experimentation into sustainable GMV and bookings growth while cutting operating costs. He also founded Snow Schoolers, a profitable tech-enabled ski school that has taught over 35,000 students and revived an abandoned ski area—an example of his knack for combining product thinking with real-world community impact. Known for recruiting and aligning engineering, data science, and design around clear OKRs, he excels at shipping pragmatic growth infrastructure and incrementality experiments that improve marketing ROI. Based in Burlingame, he pairs startup scrappiness with large-company rigor to help developer and marketplace businesses scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Political Science at Dartmouth College
Italian, Spanish