Portfolio & resume

Emma Palatnik

Marketing strategist for financial services firms

Summary

Marketing strategist with 9+ years of experience developing content, communications, digital marketing, and brand strategies for financial services and B2B organizations, with hands-on experience across websites, email, social media, video, internal communications, and public relations.

  • Brand & content strategy
  • Digital & social execution
  • Financial services marketing
  • Email & internal communications
  • Analytics & reporting
Emma Palatnik headshot

Experience

May 2025 — Present
Miami, FL

Sunshine Digital Marketing Solutions

Head of Agency

  • Helps launch and build a startup digital marketing agency within a group of affiliated financial-services companies, and supports marketing strategy and execution across the businesses.
  • Drives business development, growing the agency’s client base from 0 to 4 clients across RIAs, accounting firms, and other financial-services businesses through outreach, networking, referrals, and inbound marketing.
  • Develops and executes integrated marketing strategies spanning content, copywriting, branding, graphic design, websites and SEO, email marketing, social media, advertising, public relations, events, and analytics.
Nov 2024 — Nov 2025
Boca Raton, FL

A.G.P. / Alliance Global Partners

Director of Prime Brokerage Digital Marketing

  • Led the entire marketing function for the prime brokerage business, owning strategy and hands-on execution across content, digital, social media, email, public relations, and events, and contributing to 20+ leads.
  • Developed content and marketing campaigns targeting hedge funds, family offices, professional traders, investment funds, and other institutional audiences.
  • Used analytics and reporting to measure performance, identify opportunities, and optimize campaigns.
Mar 2022 — Oct 2024
Chicago, IL

Lincoln International

Content Marketing and Internal Communications Coordinator · Jul–Oct 2024

Marketing Specialist · Mar 2022–Jun 2024

  • Supported marketing and communications for a global investment bank serving private equity firms, venture capital firms, and public and privately held companies.
  • Crafted content and copy across websites, email campaigns, press releases, articles, videos, awards, social media, and internal communications.
  • Led and executed internal communications strategy for 1,000+ employees, achieving 70%+ email open rates and 10%+ click rates.
  • Developed new content themes and formats and managed freelance writers and external vendors to deliver marketing and communications materials.
Jan 2017 — Oct 2024
Chicago, IL

Digital Marketing Firm

Marketing Consultant (Founder)

  • Founded and operated a digital marketing firm providing strategic and hands-on marketing services to small businesses and nonprofit organizations.
  • Built the business from 0 to 7+ client relationships through networking, referrals, direct outreach, and relationship-driven business development.
  • Developed integrated strategies across content, social media, email, websites, SEO, influencer marketing, events, and fundraising.
  • Created and managed content, websites, email campaigns, and organic and paid social campaigns across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X.

Education

Champaign, IL

Bachelor of Science in Journalism

University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign

GPA 3.81 / 4.0

Skills & tools

AI, ActiveCampaign, Adobe Creative Suite, Apollo, AP Style, Brand Strategy, Canva, ChatGPT, Claude, Constant Contact, Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Copywriting, CRM, Digital Marketing, Editing, Email Marketing, Google Analytics, HTML/CSS, Hootsuite, HubSpot, Internal Communications, Lead Generation, Mailchimp, Marketing Analytics, Marketing Automation, Marketing Communications, Poppulo, Project Management, Public Relations, Salesforce, SEO, Social Media, Squarespace, WordPress

Portfolio

Graphic design samples

Additional work samples available upon request.