Daniel Antony
Digital Marketing | Performance | SEO | MarTech | Automation
Digital Marketing leader with 11 years of experience driving growth through performance marketing, SEO, MarTech, web infrastructure, and digital platforms. Currently leading marketing for the Smartworks group of companies across two countries, spanning paid media, organic growth, MarTech, and digital infrastructure.
Summary
- Proven track record creating paid media strategies, SEO playbooks, content frameworks, and marketing tech stacks for B2B and B2C markets.
- Highly skilled in building teams from scratch, leading functions across performance marketing to MarTech teams.
- Hands-on experience in leveraging AI, no-code automations, cloud platforms, and APIs to solve digital marketing problems.
- Deep knowledge of managing Search Engine Optimization for JavaScript-based and tech-heavy websites.
- Highly skilled in orchestrating multi-million dollar budgets across Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Taboola & OutBrain.
- Experienced in architecting and deploying analytics platforms across varied tech stacks, ensuring reliability and integrity.
- Extensive experience in scaling demand generation and lead generation programs across small and mid-scale companies.
- Skilled in creating data tracking, reporting, analytics, and dashboards for marketing insights.
- Experienced in deploying MarTech stacks, automation platforms, and email marketing systems to meet business goals.
- Proven ability to direct teams in executing AI-driven product-led, programmatic, and technical SEO strategies.
Experience
Smartworks
October 2025 β PresentAssociate General Manager β Performance Marketing
- Lead the digital marketing function across two brands and two countries, building and scaling teams in performance marketing, MarTech, SEO, and website operations to drive revenue and market expansion.
- Own the paid media P&L and investment strategy across two markets, directing team execution on campaign strategy, creative development, audience strategy, and revenue optimization.
- Own the MarTech and data strategy end-to-end, building teams that deliver CRM integration, lead qualification, attribution modeling, conversion tracking, and cross-platform automation.
- Drive organic growth and website strategy across both brand properties, directing teams on technical SEO, content strategy, site performance, and conversion optimization.
- Established lead qualification and audience suppression frameworks integrated with CRM, reducing wasted spend and improving lead-to-customer conversion rates.
- Led the AI and automation roadmap, delivering autonomous campaign optimization, automated reporting, and cross-platform data orchestration that reduces manual work and accelerates decision-making.
- Established a first-party data strategy that feeds qualified conversion signals back to ad platforms, shifting bidding optimization from raw form fills to actual business outcomes.
- Transformed reporting from manual to automated, giving leadership real-time visibility into cross-account, cross-currency performance and eliminating reconciliation delays.
Leap Finance
April 2025 β October 2025Senior Manager β Digital Marketing
- Built and led an 8-person digital marketing team spanning SEO, content, product, and technology, reporting directly to the founders and setting the growth roadmap.
- Directed the recovery strategy from a Google algorithm penalty, restoring organic visibility and traffic for Leap Scholar.
- Established the inbound marketing strategy, expanding full-funnel visibility and driving qualified conversions.
- Scaled product-led SEO across key page categories, leveraging AI to accelerate content production and organic reach.
- Launched a user-generated content program fueled by product data, strengthening SEO and AI search visibility.
- Established partnerships with AI visibility vendors to secure brand presence across generative search platforms.
- Built an automation layer connecting platforms and scaling operations to accelerate SEO and digital growth.
- Established an AI-first content process that scaled traffic and reduced content production turnaround time.
Miles Education
July 2024 β April 2025Digital Marketing Lead
- Built and mentored a 10+ person team across SEO, performance marketing, data analytics, and technology.
- Launched multi-channel digital marketing strategies across Accounting, Healthcare, and MBA Abroad verticals, driving performance in the US and Indian markets.
- Transformed paid media performance, increasing lead volume by 300% and reducing cost per acquisition by 30% across a mature vertical.
- Led SEO strategy, delivering 400% organic traffic growth through academic resources and interactive content.
- Partnered with C-level leadership to improve ROAS from 2 to 3.5 in three months while reducing spend by 20%.
- Established end-to-end tracking, CRM infrastructure, and technical SEO capabilities for JavaScript-based sites.
- Built automation tools and AI workflows that scaled SEO, PPC, and marketing operations.
Signeasy
December 2020 β April 2024Manager β Digital Marketing, Growth & MarTech
- Led digital marketing for the B2B SaaS business, doubling ARR from $5M to $10M and building a team of 5+.
- Worked directly under the guidance of the CEO to create growth strategies and GTM motions.
- Managed a $1.5M multi-channel budget delivering a 3x pipeline increase while maintaining a ROAS of 3 via targeted competitor campaigns and a comprehensive Google Ads overhaul.
- Oversaw a $1.2M performance marketing budget, reducing CAC by 30% and expanding the performance pipeline 5x.
- Boosted organic traffic by 400% through optimised SEO strategies using product-led SEO and content strategy.
- Oversaw implementation of Hubspot CRM and end-to-end Go-to-Market system.
PositionΒ²
June 2020 β December 2020Senior SEO Specialist
- Developed and executed SEO strategy and technical implementation for US-based B2B and B2C clients.
- Led the SEO strategy for Thales e-Security, successfully migrating over 18,000 pages without indexing issues.
- Managed 40+ local business listings for Gentle Dental, increasing organic traffic by 40%.
- Implemented On-Page, Off-Page & Technical SEO for sparrows.co achieving a 10x increase in traffic in 3 months.
- Directed SEO initiatives for NICE Satmetrix, offsetting 40% of Google Ads spending.
Sportskeeda
October 2019 β April 2020Manager β MarTech & eSports
- Increased the eSports category's organic traffic by 3x in 3 months through technical SEO and content strategy.
- Improved organic and PPC performance, 4x increase in conversions for Unlock11 in 2 months.
- Built a Google Sheet-based web-scraper for Olympics coverage to automate website content curation.
- Handled all large-scale and programmatic technical SEO for Sportskeeda across 1M+ pages.
- Strategized and implemented all MarTech requirements for Sportskeeda.
- Collaborated with product and tech teams on CRM, CMS, DMP, Tag management, analytics, web scrapers, and technical SEO.
Full Creative
January 2015 β October 2019Marketing Analyst
- Managed a budget of over $1.5 million for a B2B SaaS product across the US, Canada, and UK markets.
- Managed a 7+ member team of front-end and back-end developers along with PPC and SEO specialists.
- Executed CRO activities across various campaigns and touchpoints, resulting in a 30% reduction in CPL.
- Led a team overseeing 7 blog and website migrations across multiple platforms and tech stacks.
- Implemented Google Tag Manager across various websites.
- Built the marketing team from scratch.
Technical Skills
- Paid Channels β Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Meta Ads, Gartner Ads, Taboola, OutBrain
- SEO & SEM Tools β SEMrush, Ahrefs, Conductor, Tenscores, Lunio, KW Tools
- Organic & Content β Technical SEO, Product-led SEO, Programmatic SEO, Content Strategy, Email Marketing, GEO / AI Search
- MarTech & Analytics β Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Hubspot, Hotjar, VWO, Optimizely, CallTrackingMetrics, CallRail, Factors.ai, Rb2b, Google Cloud Platform
- CMS & Platforms β WordPress, CraftCMS, Webflow, Next.js, Ghost, Strapi, Joomla
- AI & GEO Tools β Profound, Relixir, SuperOps
- AI Coding Agents β Kimi Code, Claude Code, agentic development, code review, MarTech automation
- Data & Automation β Python, Google Apps Script, Google Ads Script, BigQuery, SQL, Google Looker Studio, Excel, Google Sheets
- CRM β Hubspot, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign
- Dev & APIs β HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, JSON, XML, Command Line
- Outbound β Klenty, Reply.io
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