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 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, 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