wf. WES FINLEY
PRODUCT MARKETING · GO-TO-MARKET · AI

Wes Finley.

Product Marketing & GTM Leader / AI, Brand Safety & Growth

With 20+ years across digital journalism, product marketing, and global growth, I turn complex technology into clear market stories, successful launches, and measurable results. My work spans AI-driven advertising, brand safety, enterprise software, and developer ecosystems.

$14M+Paid media scale
at Meta
150K → 650KFilecoin social audience
in 12 months
192Markets supported
at Coca-Cola
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Core expertise

Product MarketingGo-to-Market StrategyAI & GenAI AdvertisingBrand Safety & SuitabilityProduct LaunchesTechnical Product CommunicationsAd Technology & APIsCross-Functional LeadershipPartner ManagementGrowth & Paid MediaDeveloper & Community MarketingCrisis & Escalation CommunicationsMeasurement & AnalyticsGlobal Marketing Operations
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Experience

2025 — PresentRemote

Meta CURRENT

Product Marketing Manager, Brand Safety & Reels Monetization

  • Lead go-to-market launches and product announcements for brand safety controls, including AI-powered advertising experiences and GenAI surfaces.
  • Manage third-party verification partnerships across API development, suitability scoring, and quarterly business reviews.
  • Partner with product and engineering to evaluate AI classifiers, recommendation systems, and content filtering coverage; identify control gaps across monetization surfaces.
  • Investigate advertiser ad-adjacency escalations using AI-assisted root-cause analysis; own reactive communications and cross-functional escalation playbooks.
  • Apply AI-native workflows to accelerate research, GTM analysis, messaging, and stakeholder coordination.
2024Remote

Polyhedra Network

Head of Social & Community Marketing

  • Led a global team of 20 moderators and ambassadors serving developer, financial, and token-holder audiences.
  • Built partner campaigns, live programming, and community initiatives for zero-knowledge proof technology.
2022 — 2024Remote

Protocol Labs / Filecoin

Head of Social Marketing & Strategy

  • Led content, social, and community marketing strategy for decentralized storage and developer ecosystems.
  • Expanded Filecoin's primary social audience from 150K to 650K followers in 12 months, and helped coordinate more than 50 communities.
  • Directed audience programs and event communications for developers, storage providers, and ecosystem partners.
2021 — 2022Nashville, TN

Recurrency

Head of Marketing

  • Built and managed a cross-functional team of five marketers, solutions engineers, and designers, plus agency partners.
  • Owned messaging, category positioning, and integrated go-to-market strategy for an enterprise software startup.
  • Contributed to a SaaS website recognized as a 2021 Awwwards Design Finalist.
2016 — 2021Menlo Park, CA

Facebook (Meta)

Product Marketing Manager → Head of B2B Social Marketing

  • Scaled paid media investment from an $80K trial budget to more than $14M over two years, building a global B2B marketing operation.
  • Led product launch communications for business integrity, advertising, and platform products, collaborating with engineering, sales, policy, and communications.
  • Championed development of an advertising specifications API connecting product requirements to advertiser-facing experiences.
  • Earned multiple internal awards recognizing cross-functional partnership and exceptional performance.
2010 — 2016Atlanta, GA

The Coca-Cola Company

Global Operations Director, Social Connections

  • Directed global social marketing operations, governance, agency coordination, and platform strategy across 192 markets.
  • Managed social publishing, measurement, moderation, platform access, vendor relationships, and paid-media operations for global brands.
2010 — 2013Atlanta, GA

360i

Global Social Media Supervisor

Led digital marketing teams across social strategy, content production, enterprise publishing, analytics, and campaigns for national brands.

2003 — 2011Atlanta, GA

CNN

Webmaster · CNN.com Live Digital Content Manager · CNN Tech Writer

  • Developed and maintained CNN.com and partner sites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and XML, supporting high-traffic journalism and live-news experiences.
  • Helped deliver CNN.com Live and its transition from a paid subscription product to an advertising-supported streaming service; oversaw multiple concurrent live-video feeds.
  • Managed development of an internal control application for live online video production and pioneered virtual-correspondent interviews for broadcast.
  • Reported and published technology stories for CNN.com's SciTech Blog, partnering with newsroom, production, and engineering teams on digital storytelling.

Selected journalism awards

  • Peabody Award (2005) — Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  • duPont–Columbia Award (2005) — South Asian tsunami coverage
  • Edward R. Murrow Award (2009) — CNN.com digital journalism

Recognition for CNN coverage and digital work during this tenure.

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Education

University of Georgia

B.A., Telecommunication Arts / Journalism