Scaling Campaign Capacity: How Gem Operationalized Marketing Execution
Great B2B marketing organizations don't just generate high-level ideas—they execute at scale to drive consistent pipeline.
Accelerating growth without breaking internal capacity.
Gem provides an AI-first recruiting platform that unifies applicant tracking, candidate relationship management (CRM), sourcing, and scheduling into a single workflow. By utilizing AI to analyze millions of profiles and automate outreach, Gem centralizes pipeline management and analytics for modern hiring teams.
The business challenge.
Despite the company experiencing rapid growth and the marketing team doubling in size, Gem's internal team remained relatively small. A single campaign manager was responsible for running all campaign execution.
The workload was significant, requiring the management of three to four monthly webinars and several major quarterly campaigns. Because of this high volume of tactical execution, the internal team lacked the necessary bandwidth to focus on long-term, intensive strategic projects—such as building industry-specific nurture programs and maintaining a clean marketing database. Gem needed a reliable and flexible partner to support the moving pieces of their campaign execution.
Strategy-led execution & program build-out.
Gem engaged Demand Spring to strategically expand and optimize their marketing programs, focusing tightly on operational reliability and foundational health. Demand Spring integrated seamlessly within Gem's existing workplace processes to drive two core tracks:
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Reliable Campaign Deployment: Demand Spring provided consistent support for high-volume execution, managing weekly email sends and handling the complex communications required for Gem's monthly webinars and large quarterly campaigns.
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Strategic Program Build-Out: Demand Spring took ownership of time-intensive, foundational projects, executing critical database cleanup efforts and building comprehensive, industry-specific nurture programs.
An extension of the internal team.
By maintaining open communication and regular update meetings, Demand Spring stepped in to offer crucial capacity, operating as a fully integrated strategic partner. This level of support allowed the small in-house team to successfully deploy highly targeted campaigns and scale their email and webinar programs without burnout.
Testimonial
“The working relationship with the Demand Spring team honestly feels like an extension of our own team. We have two email sends each week handled by Demand Spring - it has been a crucial support resource and really the equivalent of hiring another person on the team.”
A foundation for measurable impact.
The strategic partnership consistently met and exceeded expectations, enabling Gem to successfully manage a high-volume campaign load.
Because of Demand Spring's ability to consistently return deliverables within agreed-upon timelines, the initial scope of building nurtures expanded significantly. Demand Spring is now utilized for ongoing, regular email deployment, and the partnership has broadened to include a new, enterprise-specific nurture project for a different internal team.
Testimonial
“I would absolutely recommend Demand Spring to other marketing organizations - the ease of working with the team, the open communication, the flexible processes, and the fact that they consistently and without question return deliverables within the agreed upon timelines has all made my job much easier.”
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