Chris Kolmar

Digital marketing leader — SEO strategy, technical optimization, and scalable content production.

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Over a decade of experience leading cross-functional teams, crafting data-driven workflows, and empowering teams to produce high-impact, conversion-focused content.

Experience

ConsumerAffairs — Chief of Staff 2026 – Present
  • Driving company-wide initiatives across growth, content, and product.
  • Building AI-powered workflows (Claude Code) for SEO, research, and content operations.
  • Connecting executive strategy to execution across marketing and engineering teams.
Zippia — Head of Marketing & Co-Founder Apr 2015 – 2025
  • Grew organic traffic to over 7M visits/month through scaling SEO, social, paid, performance, and email campaigns.
  • Developed a programmatic SEO strategy generating 1,000,000+ dynamic, data-driven pages.
  • Built a content team of 20, creating a library of 2,000 articles driving 2M visits a month.
  • Managed 3 site migrations and integrations with no downtime and a net increase in traffic.
  • Partnered with product and engineering on technical SEO: site structure, schema markup, CMS optimization.
  • Wrote Python reports to monitor page-level SEO metrics and perform keyword research.
HomeSnacks — Founder (side project) 2015 – Present
  • Built a network of data-driven content sites solo — code, content, and promotion — peaking at 6M+ visits/month.
Movoto — Senior Director of Marketing Sept 2010 – Mar 2015
  • Increased traffic across Movoto properties from 2M+ to 20M+ visits/month via organic SEO, email, and social.
  • Implemented technical SEO, content strategy, SEM, and A/B conversion testing to 5x revenue.
  • Grew and managed a team of 20+ marketers, writers, and admins producing 5,000+ articles that drove 10,000+ links and mentions.
  • Acquired by Indeed's parent company.

Areas of Expertise

Education

Pomona College — B.A. Mathematical Economics 2005 – 2009