Patrick Kagenaar

Patrick Kagenaar

Digital Marketer | Product Owner

patrick@kagenaar.net

+31 6 3802 0337

Zuidland, the Netherlands

25 July 1990

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Personal profile

My name is Patrick Kagenaar, a Digital Marketer / Product Owner with a passion for optimization. With experience on both the agency and client-side, I have worked for countless B2B and B2C brands (Backbase, Exact, KNGF, BPD, Walibi and more). Focussing on search engine optimization (SEO), (Web) Analytics, Conversion optimization (CRO), Tag Management, Personalization and advanced website migrations.

Work experience

Senior Product Owner

Backbase Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Full time Nov. 2021 - now
  • Responsible for the vision and realization of the global websites and underlying platform on backbase.com.
  • Setting up and managing a multidisciplinary team (development, design, content)
  • Stakeholder management between Marketing, IT, Security and external development agencies.
  • Prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog.
  • Consulting in Data Measurement, SEO and Conversion optimization.

Product Owner Web

Exact Delft, the Netherlands
Full time Jul. 2018 - Oct. 2021
  • Responsible for the concept and realization of the multilingual websites and underlying platforms of exact.com.
  • Continuous optimization of organic visibility (SEO) in the Netherlands and Belgium, resulting in 15% growth per year.
  • Stakeholder management between board, marketing, sales and customer success departments and creating user stories.
  • Creating a support base for conversion optimization and continuously launching A/B tests & personalization scenarios.
  • Analyzing data and providing insight into various dashboards for monitoring KPIs.

Works Council member

Exact Delft, the Netherlands
Secondary activity Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2021
  • Consulting with the director on behalf of the personnel about company policies and personnel interests.
  • Advising and/or agreeing to acquisitions, reorganisations and changes related to labor agreements.
  • Validating financial decisions regarding budgets, loans and KPIs.
  • Communicating initiatives from the Works Council and sharing insight into specific requests for advice.

Growth Hacker

Exact Delft, the Netherlands
Full time Jun. 2016 - Jul 2018
  • Optimizing and creating landing pages on the (inter)national websites of Exact.
  • Conversion optimization through A/B testing on Product Awareness and Lead Generation pages.
  • Analyzing, interpreting and providing insight into Hard and Soft Data.
  • Researching and applying the latest digital trends and developments for the website.

Online Marketer

TamTam (Part of Dept) Rotterdam / Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Full time Jun. 2014 - May 2016

As an Online Marketer I was involved in measuring / analyzing online results and behaviour, I gave advice for new development releases & conversion optimization and performed A/B tests. In addition, I advised our clients for better SEO performance, maintained and built SEA campaigns and used User Feedback tools to provide the client insight in the opinion of her target group.

Online Marketer / Web specialist

D-Hosting Rhoon, the Netherlands
Part time Jan. 2011 - Feb 2020

As an Online Marketer / Web specialist I was involved in analyzing user data within Google Analytics and developed / optimized the websites. In addition, I was the technical point of contact after office hours.

Journalist

GSM Helpdesk Nederland Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Part time Mar. 2012 - Feb 2017

As a journalist, I wrote about the latest product announcements of smartphones, tablets and wearables. In addition, I created reviews on test samples and filmed & edited the footage for our video channel.

Education

Google Mobile Academy

Google Mobile Academy 2017 Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017 - 2017

HBO Communication & Multimedia Design

Hogeschool Rotterdam Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010 - 2014

MBO Niveau 4 - ICT Administrator

Zadkine Spijkenisse, the Netherlands
2006 - 2010

Skills and competences

  • Google Analytics (360)
  • Google Optimize (360)
  • Google Tag Manager
  • SEO
  • Dashboarding
  • HTML / CSS / JS
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Analytical
  • Leadership
  • Presenting
  • Creativity
  • Dutch
  • English