About

I turn ecommerce potential into performance.

Damon Padron
Based
Denver, CO
Experience
7+ years
Brands supported
22+
Largest P&L
$10.5M+
Education
BS, FGCU
Work style
Hands-on-keyboard

How I got here

I’m an ecommerce strategist with more than seven years helping brands attract the right customers, improve their shopping experiences, and drive sustainable growth.

I started my career helping businesses get more out of their websites and digital marketing, which taught me how to work across channels and solve problems without relying on large teams or unlimited budgets. In 2022, I helped grow a regional retailer’s ecommerce business from $300K to $2.2M. Today, I support a $10.5M+ ecommerce operation and help guide the digital strategies that influence its growth.

More recently, I’ve focused on how AI is changing the way people discover products. By improving product content, structured data, and site architecture, I’ve helped turn AI-generated referrals into a consistent top-five traffic source with stronger revenue per session than other established channels.

Whether I’m working with a growing brand, an established retailer, or an internal team, my approach stays the same: understand the business, find the opportunities, and do the work that moves the numbers.

Experience

Sep 2024 - Present

Ecommerce Strategist

Nite Ize · Boulder, CO

  • Lead AEO/GEO strategy for a multi-million-dollar ecommerce business after identifying AI-chat referral traffic as a high-value, underoptimized channel.
  • Grew AI-chat traffic into a consistent top-5 source that outperforms social on revenue, at roughly 2× the revenue-per-session of the next channel.
  • Own core digital KPIs and a $65,000 monthly digital budget; improved ROAS to 3.1 and grew annual online revenue 17%.
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024

Ecommerce Manager

Guiry’s, Inc. · Denver, CO

  • Scaled ecommerce revenue from $300K to $2.2M in two years through retention strategy, promotional sequencing, and tighter marketing alignment.
  • Increased sitewide conversion rate from 1.9% to 2.6%; improved AOV 16% with cross-sell, bundles, and threshold messaging.
  • Owned a $720K annual paid media budget, scaling acquisition while improving CAC, ROAS, and overall marketing ROI.
May 2019 - Present

Freelance Ecommerce Growth Consultant

Self-employed · Remote

  • Improved storefront conversion by as much as 31% through PDP optimization, collection restructuring, and checkout friction reduction.
  • Built email and SMS automation programs generating over $300,000 in attributed annual revenue; improved organic traffic 28% across accounts.
  • Grew AI-referral traffic 600% and lifted AI’s share of total traffic from 1.2% to 7% through schema, product depth, and FAQ coverage.
  • Built custom business tools with AI coding assistants, cutting client admin work by 20+ hours per month.

Skills & tools

Platform & merchandising

  • Shopify Plus
  • Catalog & collection architecture
  • PDP & checkout optimization
  • Magento 2

Discovery & AI search

  • AEO / GEO strategy
  • Structured data & schema
  • Technical SEO
  • ChatGPT · Perplexity · AI Overviews · Copilot

Acquisition

  • Google Ads
  • Google Merchant Center & feeds
  • Budget & CAC / ROAS management
  • Paid social coordination

Retention & lifecycle

  • Klaviyo
  • Email + SMS flow design
  • Segmentation & personalization
  • Promotional calendar planning

Measurement

  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Automated reporting & dashboards
  • KPI definition & forecasting

AI & tooling

  • Claude suite (Code, Design, Cowork)
  • AI-assisted analysis workflows
  • Internal tool building
  • Liquid / HTML / CSS edits

If that reads like the person you’re hiring, let’s talk.