Marketing Director · Barcelona

I grow brands. Then I build the tools that grow them.

Marketing Director with 13+ years building and scaling acquisition across SaaS, fintech, luxury fashion and travel technology. From market research and growth strategy to paid media, team leadership, international expansion and measurement, I build the systems that turn strategy into scalable growth.

Kamal Shmaissani — Marketing Director & Growth Leader
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Trading Software
$2K → $1M+
Revenue growth · 18 months
Travel Technology
4× ROAS
Average performance
Marketing Experience
13+ Years
Growth · Acquisition · Leadership
Global Acquisition
5 Regions
US · EU · LATAM · APAC · MENA
Google Ads Meta Ads Bing Ads Reddit Ads YouTube Ads Programmatic DSPs Google Analytics 4 Google Tag Manager Looker Studio Offline Conversions Python FastAPI Chart.js Docker WordPress Google Ads Meta Ads Bing Ads Reddit Ads YouTube Ads Programmatic DSPs Google Analytics 4 Google Tag Manager Looker Studio Offline Conversions Python FastAPI Chart.js Docker WordPress

Growth strategy,
acquisition & measurement.

I lead growth from strategy through execution, combining market research, media planning, acquisition, experimentation and measurement to turn commercial objectives into scalable growth.

01

Growth & Acquisition Strategy

Market research, growth planning, international expansion, channel strategy, forecasting and budget allocation across the full acquisition funnel.

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02

Performance Media

Paid media strategy, planning and media buying across search, social, video, retargeting and programmatic, with channel mix and investment decisions driven by commercial performance.

03

Measurement & Marketing Technology

Attribution, offline conversion imports, GA4/GTM architecture, automated reporting and performance dashboards that connect media decisions to commercial outcomes.

04

Team & Execution Leadership

Leading cross-functional paid, organic, content and creative teams through clear KPIs, operating rhythms, experimentation frameworks and performance-led prioritization.

Growth,
measured.

Selected commercial outcomes across acquisition, international expansion and marketing leadership.

Trading Software
$2K $1M+
Revenue growth
Travel Technology
4× ROAS
Average performance across international acquisition
Acquisition Efficiency
-60% CPA
Improved acquisition efficiency while scaling conversion volume
Localization
+25% CTR
Improvement through localized advertising, landing pages and funnel alignment

Growth in
practice.

Selected challenges, decisions and outcomes from markets I've helped grow.

01
Global Trading Software

Changing How Traders See the Market

Challenge

Scale a subscription-based trading platform internationally while introducing traders to a fundamentally different way of reading market activity. The challenge was not only customer acquisition, but category education: showing traders why an additional layer of market data could improve the quality of decisions made before entering a trade.

Approach

Built a multi-channel acquisition and education strategy combining demand capture, paid social, retargeting, educational content, product use cases, localized creative and landing-page testing. Messaging focused on demonstrating the product's unique value and helping traders understand how the additional data layer could complement their existing decision-making process.

Outcome
$2K → $1M+ Revenue growth ~18 months
Channels Google Meta Bing Reddit YouTube Programmatic Markets US EU LATAM APAC MENA
02
International Travel Technology

Challenging Established Market Leaders

Challenge

Enter and grow across highly competitive international markets dominated by established travel and eSIM players while maintaining efficient customer acquisition.

Approach

Mapped audience behavior and demand market by market, concentrating lower-funnel investment where commercial intent already existed while using upper- and mid-funnel campaigns to build awareness in weaker markets. Localization, audience segmentation, funnel and landing-page testing, and budget allocation based on commercial performance kept acquisition efficient, with educated audiences re-engaged through remarketing and conversion campaigns.

Outcome
Average ROAS International travel acquisition
Markets US EU LATAM APAC MENA Tactics Localization Audience segmentation Funnel testing Landing-page testing Remarketing
03
Financial Services

Turning Lead Generation Into Qualified Pipeline

Challenge

Generate sales-qualified opportunities across personal loans, credit cards and a high-value wealth program, where strict eligibility requirements meant audience targeting, messaging and lead qualification had to be highly precise.

Approach

Built product-specific acquisition and qualification journeys, refining audience targeting, campaign messaging and lead forms around each product's eligibility criteria. For the wealth program in particular, form structure and qualification logic were repeatedly adjusted to improve lead quality and help sales teams prioritize prospects with stronger commercial potential.

Outcome
MQL → SQL Qualification framework Built to prioritize higher-quality sales opportunities
Focus Lead grading MQL → SQL Product-specific forms Audience segmentation Message alignment Sales-quality focus

Career
snapshot.

13+ years progressing from client and campaign execution into growth, acquisition and marketing leadership across international markets.

2024 → PresentGrowth Leadership
Travel technology · eVisa · eSIM
2022 → PresentAcquisition Leadership
Trading software · fintech
2021 → 2022Performance Marketing
Financial services
2018 → 2021Marketing Management
Luxury fashion · retail
2017 → 2018Account Management
Digital marketing

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Measurement built
for better decisions.

I use automation, attribution and performance data to give acquisition teams a clearer view of what is working, where investment should move and how growth is actually being generated. When existing reporting or workflow limitations get in the way, I build the systems needed to close the gap.

01

Live Performance Dashboards

Multi-user analytics dashboards pulling campaign data from Google Ads and Meta into live, filterable KPIs: Paid vs Digital splits, per-platform breakdowns, geography maps, anomaly alerts. The exact tool the acquisition team runs on daily.

Python FastAPI Chart.js Docker
02

Reporting Automation

Self-updating pipelines that pull spend and conversion data from the ad platforms, normalize it, and push clean reports to Looker Studio and Google Sheets. Removes the manual copy-paste from weekly reporting.

Python Looker Studio Google Sheets API GA4
03

Attribution & Offline Conversion Tracking

Offline conversion import and measurement setups that feed cleaner signals back into Google and Meta, so bidding decisions are made on real revenue, not modeled guesses.

Google Tag Manager Offline Conversion Import Measurement
Stack Python FastAPI APIs Chart.js Docker GA4

What I
work with.

Paid media
Google Ads Meta Ads Microsoft Ads Reddit Ads YouTube Ads Criteo AdRoll Programmatic DSPs
Measurement
Google Analytics 4 Google Tag Manager Looker Studio Offline Conversion Imports
Marketing technology
Python APIs FastAPI Chart.js Docker
Web & landing pages
WordPress Landing Page CRO Funnel Testing Tracking Architecture

Hi, I'm Kamal.

Hi, I'm Kamal, a Marketing Director and Growth Expert with 13+ years building acquisition across SaaS, fintech, luxury fashion, travel technology and B2B.

I started hands-on with campaigns, media buying and lead generation, and grew into strategy and leadership: market expansion, channel strategy, forecasting, experimentation and building the teams behind growth, across the US, Europe, LATAM, APAC and MENA.

Much of that work happened in policy-sensitive and restricted markets, where scaling depends on stable measurement, controlled testing and careful account governance. When reporting or workflow limitations get in the way of better decisions, I build the systems that close the gap.

Growth should be measurable, repeatable and commercially meaningful.

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Based in Barcelona, Spain
Years in marketing 13+
Markets US · EU · LATAM · APAC · MENA
Languages AR · EN · ES · FRNative · Professional · Professional · Basic
Timezone CET
Status ● Available

Let's talk
growth.

Whether it's scaling acquisition, entering new markets, building a performance team, improving measurement or solving a particularly difficult growth problem, I'm always interested in a good conversation.