Operators Guild
A global community of senior operators across 22 chapters in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and London. I built the marketing function from scratch and own positioning, content, events, lifecycle, and reporting.
Brittany Renee King
I write the words and build the systems that get them in front of the right people.
Fractional content and lifecycle lead with 10+ years of writing for technical and executive audiences, from developers and engineers to CFOs and COOs.
Editorial strategyLifecycle emailCommunity and eventsAI workflowsCategory educationBrand voiceConservation storytelling
I've spent a decade writing for executives and engineers.
I got my start in journalism, which taught me that nobody owes you their attention. That lesson has carried through work for marketing leaders at Liveclicker and Sailthru, developers at DigitalOcean, CFOs at Vareto, and senior operators at Operators Guild.
Growing teams need content that's tied to a business case, written by someone who can wear a lot of hats and move fast. That's the work I love most, whether it's at a public company, a bootstrapped startup, or a PE-backed business, and from zero to one through hypergrowth.
Most marketing teams have more ideas than time. My job is to connect the dots, find the two or three moves that will make the biggest difference, and execute them to a high bar. You get strategy that shows up in your business results and work you'd be proud to put your name on.
Get to know me
Most of my week goes to leading marketing for a global community of operators and a few fractional engagements. The rest goes to parrots. I'm told that's unusual *shrugs* but it's my passion project — from hanging nest boxes in the Peruvian rainforest to building an app that helps people care for their birds at home.
When I'm not playing with parrots or leading marketing initiatives, I'm a mom, which might be my favorite job of all. That's how neli was born. We're building a postpartum companion, powered by AI, that supports new moms through the transition into motherhood.
Fractional content and lifecycle
Editorial strategy, SEO, newsletters, onboarding, and nurture, run as one connected system so what people read and what they receive next make sense together.
See packages and pricing →The Kya Project
Parrot education and conservation, from hanging nest boxes in Peru's Tambopata rainforest to a classroom program that brings ambassador birds into schools. I also built Kya & Co., the care app at the center of it.
More on Kya & Co. →Selected work
Ghostwritten thought leadership for finance and engineering leaders, features on senior operators and engineers, customer stories, and long-form guides.
Building Demo Day 2026
Case study · Operators Guild · Sep 2026
How I led a two-day virtual showcase for more than 850 senior operators, from the format and every email to vendor prep, running the Zoom, and the AI workflows that kept six events in sync.
Read the case study →Ghostwriting and thought leadership
The Chief Financial Officer Role Isn't Dead—It Has Evolved
Ghostwritten for Mitt Mehta · Forbes Finance Council · Jun 2026
Why the CFO keeps absorbing the next layer of complexity, and how finance leaders can tell whether they report performance or own it.
Read it →Effective Financial Models Provide These 7 Insights. How Does Yours Stack Up?
Ghostwritten for Jason Hershman · Vareto · Oct 2023
What the process of building a financial model reveals about a business, written for finance leaders at growing companies.
Read it →Transformative Leadership: What Sets Operating CFOs Apart
Ghostwritten for Sinohe Terrero · Vareto · Jun 2023
A CFO and COO on leading a company through the pandemic, from protecting runway to supporting people through uncertainty.
Read it →Strategic Finance Leaders Always Optimize for Trust
Ghostwritten for Becky Kulak · Vareto · Sep 2023
How finance partners earn trust with their business stakeholders through transparency, education, and better tools.
Read it →Data Analytics and the Future of Finance
Ghostwritten for Joy Zhang · Vareto · Sep 2023
A former Amazon Prime finance lead on scoping data projects, working within governance rules, and keeping data clean.
Read it →What's actually driving tech layoffs in 2026 (and what engineers should do about it)
Ghostwritten for Michael Novati · Formation · Jun 2026
Why profitable companies are cutting engineers, and how to respond whether you're in a role or job hunting.
Read it →AI upskilling isn't automatic. Here's how to help your team grow
Ghostwritten for Tala Huhe · Formation · Jun 2025
For engineering leaders: why AI adoption stalls even when the tools are there, and what builds real fluency.
Read it →Features and spotlights
How I went from FP&A to running 75% of the company, with Sabrina Yeh
Member spotlight · Operators Guild · Sep 2026
Five lessons from a CFO whose scope grew from finance to HR, legal, IT, marketing, and operations.
Read it →Two wins, one lesson learned, and a career built on doing the right thing with Rob Owen
Two wins and a fail · Operators Guild · Apr 2026
An operator's story of helping build two unicorns, and the lesson that changed how he partners with founders.
Read it →How Sofie Graham landed three offers from FAANG companies
Fellow spotlight · Formation · May 2025
A Q&A with a self-taught engineer who went from a rejected resume to three FAANG offers.
Read it →Content and case studies
What Harvard's secondaries sale teaches us about concentration risk in fund finance
Thought leadership · Finley · Jun 2025
A timely news hook turned into a clear-eyed look at hidden concentration risk for fund lenders.
Read it →Saving time and improving collaboration with Vareto
Customer story · Vareto
How Health Gorilla's SVP of Finance saved 10 to 20 hours a week and pushed back a new hire.
Read it →Three security risks of AI-augmented coding: what SWEs need to know
Technical content · Formation · Dec 2025
A research-backed guide for senior engineers on inference, supply chain, and integration risks.
Read it →Ebooks, lookbooks, and case studies
State of the Operator
Research report · Operators Guild
A survey of 159 senior operators at high-growth companies on how they're running the business as AI, automation, and integrated systems replace people-scaled growth.
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Kubernetes Adoption Journey for Startups and SMBs
Ebook · DigitalOcean
A 45-page guide that walks technical teams from discovery to scale.
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Preparing for the New Normal in Beauty
Ebook · Liveclicker
How beauty brands can scale digital customer communications when stores close.
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Unlock the Power of Blockchain
Guide · DigitalOcean
An introduction to blockchain and what it asks of cloud infrastructure.
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2020 Holiday Lookbook
Lookbook · Liveclicker
Personalization tactics to help retail marketers reinvent a very different holiday season.
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Architecture for Sustainable Growth
Lookbook · DigitalOcean
A lookbook of three streaming businesses and the architecture behind their growth.
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How a Happy Birthday Helped NASCAR Increase Revenue by 308%
Case study · Liveclicker
A customer story on interactive, personalized birthday emails and what they did for revenue.
Open the PDF ↗75%Year-over-year blog traffic growth for a developer cloud platform
80%Of closed-won deals driven by inbound for a finance software startup
1,000+Keyword rankings added for an engineering career platform
22Chapters supported across a global operator community
~10KTikTok followers for a parrot education brand
Full case studies and references are available on request.
Kind words from people I've worked with
Brittany can get up to speed on any technical topic and turn it into content that's informative, enjoyable to read, and builds brand authority. She drives content strategy at speed and scale without lowering the bar, and it shows in our readers and our rocketship SEO growth.
I'm near speechless at how well the spotlight is written. It's surreal to see my opinions reflected back in such a polished, clear, takeaway-driven format. I absolutely love it.
Brittany was first-class all around. She teed up thoughtful topics, listened well, turned my stories into a superb draft, and was collaborative through every revision. You see the finished product, but not the work she puts into it.
You cover the right amount of detail without getting bogged down. Your paragraph structure is compelling and makes for an easy read. It's a very well-written piece.
I loved the session you led today. You knew when to let a conversation keep going and when to move the group to a new area of discussion.
Brittany led content for us and did fantastic work while I was there.
AI systems I've built
On small, scrappy teams, every email, landing page, and project plan ends up waiting on the same two or three people for review, edits, and approval. I built these systems so the rest of the company can make their own on-brand work, and so marketers can spend their time on what matters most. Each one grew out of a need on a team I led, and you can add any of them to your own Claude.
Brand voice kit
Marketing defines the brand voice once: audiences, rules for each channel, approved phrasing, and the generic AI language to strip out. From there, sales, customer success, ops, and founders can draft their own emails, invites, and landing pages that sound like the company, without sending every request through the marketing queue. When a marketer edits a draft, the change goes back into the profile, so the next draft needs less editing.
- Stays human
- Defining the voice, and anything involving pricing, press, legal claims, or the full customer list
Claude skill · Works for any team
Event operations
Writes event pages and invites in house voice, rebuilds new events from past ones, and keeps multi-session events in sync, like all six Demo Day sessions at once.
- Stays human
- Event details, vendor relationships, and final approval
Claude skills · Gatsby
On-brand artifacts
Captures the design system (colors, type, components, and the do's and don'ts) so anyone can build a one-pager, event page, or report as a Claude artifact that looks like the brand, even when design is booked.
- Stays human
- New components, logo use, and anything high-visibility
Claude skill · Claude artifacts
Project plan builder
Turns an event, launch, or campaign into a dated plan with owners, dependencies, and review time, builds it in the tracker the team already uses, and writes the weekly status update.
- Stays human
- Priorities, trade-offs, and who owns what
Claude skill · Notion, Airtable, Asana, Monday, or a spreadsheet
Drip audit
Reads email workflow definitions and lines up enrollment timing against conversions to show which emails in a sequence do any work.
- Stays human
- The redesign and every word of copy
Claude skill · Works with any email platform
To add a skill, download the ZIP, then upload it in Claude under Customize → Skills (or Settings → Capabilities). Each skill's How it works page covers what it does, what you need, and the prompt to set it up, and the same guide is in the ZIP as a README. Skills need code execution turned on in your settings. The first time you use one, it asks a few questions to tailor it to your team, then shows you how to use it.
Other things I'm building
Projects I've built from the ground up, where I get to be the strategist, the marketer, and the operator all at once.
The Kya Project
A parrot conservation and education project I run end to end, from classroom visits with ambassador birds to the website, community, and content that tie it all together.
Kya & Co.
A shared care record for every bird in the household, from daily weigh-ins to health checks, plus a monthly letter charting each bird's progress. Live on iOS, Android, and the web.
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neli
A startup supporting new moms through the transition into motherhood, built around an AI-powered postpartum companion app that checks in, tracks what she needs, and coordinates her village.
About this human
Equal parts writer, operator, and bird person.
I've spent the last decade writing for audiences that are hard to impress. That includes leading content at DigitalOcean and Vareto, spending three years inside lifecycle marketing (marketing to marketers) at Liveclicker and Sailthru, and building the marketing function at Operators Guild from zero to one.
The through line is that I like knowing why something works. That curiosity is what got me building AI workflows, and what pulled me into solving problems in conservation and parrot care.
A desire to make a difference, and to understand the world and the people in it, is why I love to travel and bring the stories I learn back home, into parrot education and my work rescuing and rehabilitating difficult parrot cases. It's why I mentor with The Brandon Foundation to invest in the next generation, and why I encourage others to explore the world with the same curiosity.
Need someone to own it?
I take on a small number of fractional engagements at a time. Tell me what stage you're at, what you need owned, and when you'd like to start, and I'll reply within two business days.
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