Meet the
SmartBugs!
Meet the team at SmartBug Media: a fully remote, fully connected crew of full service digital professionals.
Located Worldwide
300+
SmartBugs
We are a team of 300 experts (and counting!) in marketing, sales, revenue operations, customer success, e-commerce, and web.
48+
States
Remote hiring opens the door to the best talent there is. We're not limited by geography, so we hire in nearly every state in the U.S.!
6+
Countries
We have SmartBugs who live in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and El Salvador—and many of us travel to work in other countries, too.
550+
IRL Meetups
With SmartBugs everywhere, it’s easy for us to connect and stay social. In fact, we average around 552 IRL meetups a year!
We do remote best—because we've been doing it since before it was cool.
SmartBug Careers
Ready to take the next big leap in your career? We'd love to hear from you. Explore our open roles to get started.
Our People
No matter what you're into, you’ll find someone here who's into it too.
We hike 14ers. We do happy hour. We're avid skiers and boarders. We're coffee enthusiasts, plant parents, CrossFit junkies, HubSpotters, pet lovers, musicians, and artists. We’re family people, single people, working parents, microbrewery lovers, and whiskey connoisseurs.
The Leadership Team
Ryan Malone
Global Chief Executive Officer
Ryan is SmartBug's founder and Global CEO. He created the company to provide its clients with game-changing results while offering his team a challenging career and the headspace to make a lifetime of memories. Ryan has led SmartBug to seven consecutive Inc. 5000 awards and three acquisitions. Ryan enjoys basketball, biographies, live music, meeting new people, and cherishing every possible memory with his wife and two daughters. He lives in Orange County, California.
Favorite Food
Ethiopian
Favorite Movie
Hoosiers
Jen Spencer
Chief Executive Officer, U.S.
Over Jen’s career, she has built several demand generation and sales enablement programs from the ground up and has experience working within tech startups, publicly traded companies, mid-market organizations, and the not-for-profit space. Jen subscribes to the notion that “we’re all in this together” and that great communication leads to great partnership. She loves animals, technology, the arts, and really good Scotch.
Most-Quoted Movie
Elf
Favorite Scotch
Aberlour 16
Mark Diment
Chief Financial Officer
Mark has over 14 years of accounting and finance experience and is an entrepreneurial and analytical critical thinker with a concentration in automation, innovation, and design thinking. Mark is based in Los Angeles, California but has traveled all over for consulting engagements. When he’s not working, you can find Mark in the mountains (with his dog, if it’s summer.)
Been 3 Times
Oktoberfest
Cats no, but
Dogs, yes!
Damon Yerian
Chief Delivery Officer
Based in Springfield, MO, Damon brings more than 18 years of agency experience in creative development and team management. Originally from Chicago, the majority of Damon's career was spent in Houston on innovative B2B and B2C marketing, advertising, and public relations campaigns. Damon and his husband, Alex, are the proud papas of a Yorkie-Chihuahua named Zimba.
Favorite Musical
Rent
Favorite Addiction
Big Brother
Lael Vaughn
General Counsel and VP of Administration
Lael is General Counsel bringing experience from both in-house roles and private practice managing complex national litigation. She has a passion for collaborating with business stakeholders to approach problems and find solutions that maximize efficiency, collaboration and certainty for the leadership team. She loves to travel and is always in search of great restaurants.
Favorite Vacation
Santorini
Book Genre
Historical Fiction
Mark Kelly
VP, Paid Media
Mark is passionate about helping businesses drive growth through digital marketing. He’s been leveraging pay-per-click advertising for clients since before Google Ads existed (anyone remember Overture?). He loves learning what defines success for clients, and building and leading teams to exceed those goals. Mark balances work with watching lots of his kids’ sports teams, distance running, and pickup basketball.
Hobby
Basketball Play-by-Play
Favorite Music
Anything 80's!
Aubreigh Blair
VP, Client Strategy and Growth
An alumnus of Michigan State University, Aubreigh has over 10 years of marketing and revenue operations experience. She has a passion for coaching individuals and helping clients grow their businesses through marketing, sales, and customer success strategies. Outside of SmartBug, Aubreigh loves live music and exploring national parks with her family.
Favorite National Park
Banff National Park
Favorite Musician
James Taylor
Stephen Lackey
VP of Marketing
With a track record of leading teams, growing revenue, and maximizing efficiencies in marketing and sales, Stephen thrives on identifying and executing boundary pushing methods of product and company growth.
Favorite Coffee
Cortado
Probably Wearing:
A Tank Top
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