David Smith

I'm a senior marketing and creative leader with three decades of hands-on experience across brand, design, web, video, email, and events. I've rebuilt dormant marketing operations from near-zero baselines, driven roughly 30% lead growth through large-scale email campaigns, and led branding and creative for 40+ corporate events and industry conferences.

I'm equally comfortable operating as a marketing team of one or leading creative within a larger organization, and I partner closely with sales, product, and engineering to take campaigns and creative from concept to launch.

My range spans the full marketing stack: multi-channel campaign strategy, marketing automation and lifecycle workflows, brand and identity development, experiential and event marketing, and responsive HTML email design. On the tooling side, I work fluently across Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite for design, and Klaviyo, Pardot, and HubSpot for automation.

What sets my work apart now is pairing that depth with fluent, current AI-assisted production—using tools like Claude and ChatGPT to accelerate content and design workflows without losing craft. It's a genuine edge, and one still relatively rare among marketers at my level.

I'm currently exploring senior marketing, brand, and creative leadership roles—open to remote and Los Angeles–based opportunities.