Anton Zelenin
@antonzelenin
I build autonomous marketing teams and scalable growth engines without founder bottlenecks.
What I'm looking for
At Tapfiliate, I lead marketing vision and thought leadership for affiliate and referral marketing, growing brand search by 60% year over year, increasing marketing’s revenue contribution 5X, and reducing marketing investment by 50%.
Over 20 years, I’ve built sales and marketing engines across Affise, Artics Internet Solutions, and digital agencies. I use the A.N.T.S. Protocol to turn chaos into strategic clarity, help teams take initiative, and create playbooks that let growth systems run without the founder.
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My mission is to position Tapfiliate as the definitive thought leader in the affiliate and referral marketing space. I lead the marketing vision, transforming our brand presence from a simple tool into an industry-defining voice.
My focus is on Market Creation by:
(1) Setting the Marketing Vision: Defining and communicating a strategic vision that builds a strong, defensible brand and drives sus
Senior Growth & Demand Marketing (User Acquisition & Demand Gen)
May 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 1 month)
Led omnichannel growth strategies, shifting focus from pure acquisition to market education.
• Market Education: Partnered with Product Marketing & Content to create strategic assets (webinars, whitepapers) that educated the market and built brand authority at every stage of the funnel.
• Strategic Vision: Designed and executed complex, full-funnel customer journeys that established our voice ac
Senior User Acquisition Specialist
Mar 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 2 months)
• Created complex omnichannel strategies and user chains across various advertising channels
• Planned, launched, maintained, and analyzed advertising campaigns on Google Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Twitter, Bing Ads, etc. around the world, including the US, EU, Asia, CIS, etc.
• Participated in the formulation of KPI and reporting
• Operated with a full range of targeting settings: gender, a
Managed a key B2B/E-commerce division, fostering a culture of data-driven creativity and continuous learning.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Led my division, mentoring specialists and aligning their efforts with broader business goals.
• Strategic Vision: "Saw the Big Picture" by digging deep into customer lifecycle data to identify new market trends, gaps, and strategic growth opportunities.
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• Spearheaded multi-channel Digital ads campaigns (across paid search, display, and social media channels) through a combination of creative strategy, campaign optimization, and on-site growth tactics
• Maintained channels performance, highlighting successes, misses trends, and opportunities.
• Designed customer funnels with attention to customer LTV (lifetime value) and CAC (customer acquisition
• Developed brand promotion strategies in paid search ads
• Increased the number of customers from paid search ads
• Reduced customers acquisition costs
• Created, A/B tested, and managed paid search ads
• Collected and analyzed statistics to compile monthly achieving reports
Achievements: During the first 2 months, I achieved a 15% reduction in CAC (customer acquisition cost)
• Created and Implemented digital strategies (SEO+Paid Ads)
• Performed search engine optimization (SEO) to promote sites in search results
• Carried out conversions rate optimizations tasks
• Created, tested, and managed paid search ads
• Collected and analyzed statistics to increase achieved results (number of purchasers/qualified leads/revenue)
• Made decisions on ads results based on data
• Increased turnover for existing customers by providing best in class Customer Support
• Expanded the customer base and stood out from competitors
• Made outbound sales
• Negotiated with executives of customers
• Controlled customers' liabilities
• Monitored compliance with contractual obligations
• Resolved conflicts
• Supervised and mentored teammates to outperform KPI
• Coached the team with n
• Was in charge of developing new lines of products (found/signed the supply agreement/delivery to customers) to increase the company`s Revenue
• Expanded the customer base and participated in the bidding
• Conducted negotiations with executives of companies
• Concluded contracts for planned/permanent deliveries.
• Supervised compliance with contractual obligations
• Controlled customers' liabilit
Head Of Sales Operations
Oct 2008 - Mar 2011 (2 years 5 months)
• Set and Supervised the carrying out of a sales plan for sustainable revenue growth
• Searched and Performed new ways of getting customers and staying ahead of competitors
• Signed contracts with key clients
• Monitored compliance with contractual obligations
• Mentored and shared skills and experience with teammates
Achievements: Developed 3 additional areas from scratch: (1) Wooden Windows, (2
• Over-fulfillment of monthly sales plans by implementing new sales techniques
• Mentored, trained, and guided the team through the implementation of new sales tactics to exponentially grow revenue
• Monitored compliance with corporate standards
• Resolving problematic situations
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