Dan Antony

Daniel Antony

Digital Marketing | Performance | SEO | MarTech | Automation

Digital Marketing leader with 11 years of experience driving growth through performance marketing, SEO, MarTech, and website operations. Currently leading a two-brand, two-country marketing function across paid media, organic growth, 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 – Present

Associate 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 – October 2025

Senior 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 – April 2025

Digital 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 – April 2024

Manager 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 – December 2020

Senior 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 – April 2020

Manager 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 – October 2019

Marketing 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, Siftly
  • 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