Teams at Darkroom

Own end-to-end consumer growth for a mobile AI app, including acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, lifecycle marketing, paid media, creative, organic social, SEO, CRO, and app-store optimization. Lead the external agency of record, manage budgets and performance, establish measurement and attribution frameworks, guide positioning and launches, and partner cross-functionally on segmentation, experimentation, and future team growth.

Senior client leader embedded with a founder-led consumer technology company, owning the executive relationship, operating rhythm, escalations, scope, budgets, and cross-functional delivery. The role requires deep media fluency, mobile app measurement knowledge, and the ability to translate founder priorities into actionable plans across media, creative, social, creator, and lifecycle teams. The leader will diagnose performance issues, manage strategic decisions, protect team capacity, and identify opportunities for expanded client work while working onsite in San Jose four to five days weekly.

Leads Darkroom’s Paid Search practice across Google, YouTube, Microsoft Advertising, Shopping, Performance Max, and emerging AI search platforms. Owns strategy, performance, commercial health, P&L influence, client retention, service development, and a $3M–$10M+ monthly portfolio. Builds and manages a team of six or more, develops leadership talent, oversees hiring and organizational design, advises executive clients, manages platform partnerships, establishes measurement standards, and drives AI search innovation.