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Van Riker
Van Riker

Product Marketing Leader — Engagement & Adoption

Actively looking · Member since 25 Aug 2026
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Location
Seattle, United States
Desired salary
125k–200k USD/yearly
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Contract, Temporary
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a product marketing leader with more than 15 years of experience driving feature adoption, activation, and sustained engagement for digital products. I specialize in connecting in-product experiences, onboarding, and lifecycle marketing to help customers realize value quickly.

I use behavioral and adoption data to develop engagement strategies, experiment at scale, and improve conversion pathways. My work includes translating customer insights into repeatable playbooks for discovery, positioning, messaging, and retention.

At Microsoft, I lead engagement strategy for Xbox Game Pass across acquisition, activation, and retention. I partner closely with product, engineering, design, and data science teams to identify friction, prioritize improvements, and deliver measurable commercial impact.

I have experience leading cross-functional launches and go-to-market programs across consumer products, subscription services, games, mobile, console, PC, and social platforms. I bring operational rigor, clear feature sequencing, and strong stakeholder alignment to complex initiatives.

I am also an experienced communicator and community leader. I enjoy synthesizing customer insights, presenting strategic recommendations to executives, and mobilizing teams around meaningful customer and business outcomes.

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11 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Design

Development

Mobile

Experience

Career history

Senior Marketing Program Manager Microsoft

I defined and presented a new experimentation strategy for Xbox Game Pass, leading 94 controlled experiments and 16 shipped improvements across in-product engagement, messaging, and conversion pathways. This work delivered $30M in annualized revenue impact and $5.4M in loss mitigation.

I own customer-lifecycle engagement strategy for Xbox Game Pass, defining acquisition, activation, and retention moments across in-product and out-of-product touchpoints. My work contributed to a projected $7M annual revenue increase and 200K new subscribers.

I lead cross-functional teams spanning engineering, product, design, and data science to identify customer friction and prioritize targeted improvements. I also accelerated a major cross-platform launch from approximately 18 months to approximately 2 months, increasing its first-year revenue forecast from $20M to $80M.

Partner Marketing Vendor Derflan, Inc

Supported go-to-market planning, positioning, and launch communications for more than 50 partner applications.

Worked on launches that included apps from NFL, Netflix, and Spotify, delivering all planned launches within their scheduled timeframes.

Franchise Marketing Manager PopCap / Electronic Arts

Owned worldwide messaging and campaign execution for a flagship consumer franchise. Coordinated cross-functional launches across mobile, console, PC, and social platforms.

Achieved the number-one app ranking on iOS and Android for Plants vs. Zombies 2 for three consecutive weeks.

Senior Marketing Manager GameHouse – Real Networks

Drove engagement and subscription-enrollment strategy for first-party and third-party game franchises. Developed a lifecycle-management program that increased average game revenue by 50% through improved retention and repeat engagement.

Conceived the Premium product line and its supporting in-product value-proposition messaging, resulting in a threefold increase in revenue per unit.

Education

Learning history

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

Bachelor of Science, Advertising

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