Jared Smith Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, US

inVest Ventures is a community VC fund supporting pre-seed, seed, & series A startups founded by LinkedIn alumni. With a community of 150+ execs, experts, and founders with LinkedIn ties, inVest Ventures is here to help build the next generation of LinkedIn-founded transformational startups.

San Francisco, CA, US

ExponentialX is a collective of independent senior marketing and growth advisors helping early to late stage startups building enterprise SaaS, PLG, marketplaces, and AI tools.I work with early stage startups on growth, content, and marketing strategy.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• At a16z, I built the first growth marketing program to scale a16z's brand reach and audience of tech founders and leaders. I drove the strategy and launch of the firm's independent media outlet, Future, and later led.
• Led channel strategy across web, search, social, email, YouTube, paid, and podcast.
• Optimized content for greater reach, engagement, and conversion.
• Own growth strategy for the firm's flagship a16z Podcast (Top 10 in tech) while launching new shows to expand podcast network.
• Scaled the a16z newsletter network, helping launch and grow vertical-focused newsletters.
• Developed core digital marketing foundation, including tooling, tracking, and analytics to better distribute and measure content performance.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Led content, thought leadership, and community teams for the Talent Solutions business, focused on creating demand and awareness through top and middle of funnel global campaigns. Worked cross-functionally with growth.
• Led the thought leadership team (reports, email newsletter, blog, social), launching LinkedIn's biggest annual report, Global Talent Trends, which was the largest driver of leads in 2019.
• Worked cross-functionally with LinkedIn executives across product, design, sales, HR and global marketing leaders on strategic initiatives (Talent Connect, Global Talent Trends, and more)
• Led the business through a transformation from siloed content initiatives to a global content strategy that mapped to business objectives and product roadmap while serving as the basis for nine teams' planning globally.
• Developed and chaired the Content Steering Committee to ensure strategic alignment and improve coordination and execution of content.
• Designed first insights-driven content program to demonstrate the power of LinkedIn data to ICPs.

Los Angeles, US

• Launched media and creator startup Impact Theory with Quest President Tom Bilyeu. Impact Theory became a viral podcast/YouTube show and content studio.
• Grew our audience from zero to half a million engaged followers, drove over 7.6M views on YouTube, generated over 3.4M podcast downloads, and earned a Top 10 ranking on Apple—all in first year.
• Built all first monetization channels, including sponsorships, events, merchandise, and affiliates.
• Developed brand identity, naming, positioning, and messaging.
• Produced and co-hosted After Impact, one of the shows in the Impact Theory network.
• Built and scaled marketing team from 2 to 7 people.

El Segundo, California, US

• I led all marketing and audience growth for Inside Quest, a branded content show produced by #2 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition. After incubating the show as part of Quest, I joined Quest president and co-founder Tom.
• Increase monthly views by 102% increase to 492,00 and total subscribers by 104% subscribers to 72,790 through strategic marketing campaigns.
• Built all analytics, tracking, and content reporting structure and presented metrics weekly.
• Oversaw paid media strategy for FB ads and Google AdWords.

Shelton, CT, US

• When Instant.ly was acquired by SSI, I was promoted to Director of Marketing leading demand gen, content, and communications. In six months post acquisition, I revamped the email marketing and content programs to.
• Rebranded Instantly properties, assets to SSI and led messaging and execution for all external and internal comms.
• Integrated two marketing teams, brands, and infrastructure.
• Overhauled demand generation strategy to improve lead quality and implemented new marketing automation tools.
• Increased blog sessions by 42% and doubled average time on blog by refining editorial strategy and calendar.

Shelton, CT, US

• I built the content marketing and social media program from the ground-up for Instant.ly a late stage B2B startup in the market research space. We were later acquired by SSI.
• Delivered roughly a quarter of all MQLs through content.
• Maintained robust email program of 15+ sends per month to 70,000 prospects.
• Achieved 40M media impressions, with coverage in The WSJ, Buzzfeed and Adweek, through data and insights content.
• Developed all messaging, awareness campaigns, and PR strategy for re-brand.
• Was a key stakeholder on cross-functional launch team for two new products, where I supported messaging and positioning.

El Segundo, CA, US

• At performance marketing agency Vantage Media, I produced content for Yahoo.com to drive qualified leads for top-tier brands in education.
• Increased traffic from Yahoo by 32% with over 118M sessions.
• Managed 20+ freelance contributors, collaborated with Yahoo news editors, and reported performance daily & monthly.
• Leveraged data to test headlines, thumbnails, images, and decks to increase conversions.

I ran a content marketing and copywriting consulting business while attending graduate school. I worked for brands and publications such as Beats by Dre, Walmart, Toshiba, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Rangefinder Magazine.

I lived abroad in South Korea for one year to gain more experience teaching and to prepare my applications for doctoral programs. It was an incredible experience that allowed me to make an impact as a teacher while traveling and learning about new cultures.

US

• I worked my way up the masthead from editorial assistant at two national photography magazines with a circulation of 70,000 while learning every aspect of magazine publishing. We won three MAGGIE awards during my.
• Developed and maintained editorial calendar,
• Pitched stories and reviewed pitches, building new editorial standards for accepting pitches that decreased production costs
• Oversaw entire production workflow
• Managed 25 freelance writers and editors
• Edited all features and columns for each edition

Los Angeles, California, US

My first role out of college was in communications for top food and beverage brands POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, and Wonderful Pistachios. In addition to writing content, press releases, and executive memos, I worked on several product launches for POM Tea, POMx, and Paramount Solar Farm. I also supported a agency search for international PR firms for FIJI.

B.A., English

M.A., English