Portfolio · 2026 · Ed. 03

RaymondChizanga

Integrated marketing, brand and community professional with 7+ years across SaaS, ecommerce and consumer brands. Senior Marketing Consultant through DOGHAIR Technologies; grew Hostfully’s social audience 235%.

Integrated marketing lead
The full-stack generalist
Open to full-time roles
AI Hackathon Series
AI Hackathon Series2025
Customer success story
Customer success story2026
Vineland Estates
Vineland Estates2022
Pretty Apparel
Pretty Apparel2022
Hostfully · 12-month period to May 2026
+235%
Followers
+120%
Impressions
+200%
Review platform traffic
$72K/mo
Revenue generated from G2 leads
Worked with these brands directly on marketing campaigns, promotions, and feature launches
HostawayAirbnbHostfullyShopifyBooking.comVrboMarriott Homes & VillasGoogleStripeIntuit QuickBooksBoostlyUniversal Music CanadaWarner Music CanadaCommunity 54ExpediaVineland EstatesCrane ApparelCBC Street Cents
01 · Selected work

Star projects

Five projects, five disciplines. Hover a row for the visual, open it for the work.

Solo marketing lead · brand, social, review, partner

Professionalized social media channels, including LinkedIn, Instagram, X.

Increased review platform traffic by 200% across Trustpilot, G2, and Capterra.

Increased followers by 235% and impressions by 120% across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube.

Increased partner marketing efforts, creating projects with companies, including Marriott Homes & Villas, Airbnb, Expedia, and others.

Channels7 owned
Review platformsG2 · Trustpilot · Capterra
StackSalesforce
PartnersMarriott · Airbnb · Expedia
Partner integration launch
Partner integration launch
Feature promo · Devices
Feature promo · Devices
10-year anniversary
10-year anniversary
Webinar promotion
Webinar promotion
Customer success story
Customer success story
Customer success story
Customer success story
Conference sponsorship
Conference sponsorship
Direct booking site banner
Direct booking site banner
02 · Video

Motion

Scripted, edited and animated in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Everything here ran on owned channels.

Instagram reels

03 · Case studies

Hostfully AI Hackathon Series

Turning emerging technology into customer education, ecosystem adoption, and expansion opportunities.

Company
Hostfully
Industry
B2B SaaS / Short-Term Rental Technology
Focus
Customer Marketing · Partner Marketing · Customer Education · Expansion
Part 1 announcement
Part 1 announcementMay 2025
Partner and expert line-up
Partner and expert line-upMay 2025

As generative AI accelerated across the short-term rental industry, Hostfully’s customer community was trying to answer a practical question: was AI simply the industry’s latest hype cycle, or could it meaningfully improve the way property managers operated their businesses?

Hostfully was well positioned to answer that question. The company had an established customer base, an ecosystem of specialized technology partners, and internal Customer Success professionals with direct knowledge of how operators were beginning to use these tools.

The opportunity was to turn that expertise into a customer marketing program that could educate users while creating greater awareness and adoption of solutions available through Hostfully’s partner ecosystem.

Skills demonstrated

Customer Lifecycle MarketingCustomer EducationPartner MarketingCross-Sell StrategyWebinar ProductionCampaign StrategyB2B SaaS MarketingCross-Functional LeadershipPartner ManagementContent StrategySales AlignmentCustomer Success CollaborationRemote Event Production
04 · About

Who I am

I’m a marketing specialist and creative director based out of Mississauga, Canada. For over 7 years, I have cultivated skills in customer communication, design, video, and studio production, as well as team and influencer management.

These skills were developed through studying at Metalworks Institute as well as working with multiple creators, small businesses, and corporations, including Shopify, Universal Music Canada, Hostfully, Community 54, among others. From the travel industry to the music industry, storytelling that connects has always been and continues to be my passion.

Raymond Chizanga
Mississauga, ON2026

Past experience

Studied at Metalworks Institute in Business and Audio Engineering.

Trained internally at Shopify in customer systems and the development of internal marketing documents.

Developed an integrated marketing plan at Hostfully (SaaS), increasing their social media following by 235% and impressions by 120% in a 12-month period.

Trained in CRM tools of Salesforce, Hubspot, and others across industries.

Present-day skills

Trained in design and production tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, Premiere, Pro Tools, Figma, Canva, and Photopea, among others.

Managed multiple organizations spanning projects as well as single-team projects as a team lead in customer communications, marketing, and customer retention.

UX design and UI research across one web app and two mobile app projects with full back-end functionality, database structuring, and implementing payment processing systems.

Capabilities

Email & lifecycle marketingAudience segmentationA/B testingCampaign analyticsOrganic social strategyPartner & co-marketingCommunity buildingEvent productionReview & reputation managementSalesforceZohoHubSpotG2TrustpilotPhotoshopIllustratorFigmaCanvaPremiere ProFinal Cut ProDaVinci ResolvePro ToolsAdobe AuditionLogic ProHTML & CSSPhotographyPrompt engineeringWorkflow automation
05 · History

Experience

Oct 2026 — Present
Current

Senior Marketing Consultant

Durham Family & Cultural Centre · Ajax, ON · via DOGHAIR Technologies

Engaged through DOGHAIR Technologies as Senior Marketing Consultant to Durham Family & Cultural Centre, a charity in Ajax serving Black and racialized families in Durham Region.

Wrote the website assessment: crawled every live page (32 pages, 198 sitemap URLs), checked all 384 links and 211 images, and read the analytics — 79% bounce, ~76% of visitors on phones, ~63% arriving from Instagram and Facebook.

Restructured the Squarespace site: unified the two event calendars, merged About Us, Board and Contact, and built All Services, Parents Hub, Sponsorships and Work With Us pages with URL redirects.

Set the redesign direction, replaced AI-generated imagery with real DFCC photography, and took all 16 linked pages through a WCAG contrast check on desktop and mobile.

Sep 8 — Sep 15, 2026
Contract

Social Media & Content Marketing Consultant

Edsby · Hybrid

Led social media, content marketing, SEO, AI-search optimization and digital growth for a K-12 education technology company serving districts, educators, students and families.

Owned multi-channel social and editorial strategy across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, Bluesky, YouTube, Reddit, Quora and Medium, producing and repurposing written, visual and video content.

Developed foundational SEO and answer-engine visibility through keyword and topic strategy, on-page and technical SEO, internal linking, content architecture, FAQs, schema and indexing.

Monitored social, content, website and search performance while researching customer pain points, competitor positioning, K-12 trends and emerging conversations.

Dec 2023 — May 2026
2 yrs 6 mos

Community & Integrated Marketing Manager

Hostfully · Remote

Owned brand presence across LinkedIn, Meta, YouTube, X, Bluesky, TikTok and email, increasing followers 235% and impressions 120%.

Built email and lifecycle campaigns using audience segmentation, messaging and performance analysis on a Salesforce-based marketing stack.

Led review-platform strategy, increasing organic G2 and Trustpilot review traffic 200%, while managing partner marketing, customer stories, digital programming and events across Canada and the United States.

Produced end-to-end creative across copy, graphic design, video and event production, using analytics and A/B testing to improve performance.

Apr 2020 — Present
6 yrs 5 mos

Founder / Creative Director

Pretty Perfect Media · Toronto, ON

Founder and lead Creative Director, specializing in content creation and event production.

Produced content for independent sports leagues throughout the GTA.

Merchandise and content production for influencers ranging from 15,000 to 1 million social followers.

Partnered with Warner Music Canada and Universal Music Canada for events.

‘A Lovely Day Party’ — a day party and culture event celebrating two years — sold out in one week and four days, with catering and alcohol services provided by Pretty Perfect Media.

Oct 2022 — Jan 2024
1 yr 4 mos

Senior Support Advisor & Technical Content Writer

Hostaway · Toronto, ON

Managed concurrent merchant support workloads while troubleshooting platform issues and translating customer patterns into feedback for product, content and retention initiatives.

Led software onboarding and staff training while producing technical and marketing content for internal teams and prospective customers.

Oct 2021 — Jul 2022
9 mos

Support Advisor & Internal Copywriter

Shopify

Supported ecommerce brands ranging from sole proprietors to enterprise merchants across live service channels.

Wrote technical copy for internal software and app integrations, onboarding documentation, staff training and product-launch communications.

Aug 2017 — Apr 2019
1 yr 9 mos

Store Manager, Brand & Community Operations

Community 54 · Toronto, ON

Progressed to independently managing the Toronto storefront, overseeing daily operations, sales, Shopify ecommerce, opening/closing, customer experience and visual merchandising.

Worked directly under co-founder Daymon Green, gaining hands-on experience in streetwear curation, brand development, retail buying, merchandising and community-led marketing.

Produced and operated Finale Fridays, Community 54’s recurring platform for emerging designers, coordinating promotion, in-store execution and brand/customer engagement.

Identified and onboarded new brands while managing stock ordering and vendor relationships across independent labels and major brands including Nike, adidas and Supreme.

Studied
Music management and studio post-production (coursework)
Institution
Metalworks Institute
Year
2019
Coursework GPA
4.0
06 · Contact

Let’s work
together

Open to full-time integrated marketing roles. Fastest route is email.

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Best fit

Integrated or lifecycle marketing roles at SaaS and consumer brands.

Brand and content functions that need one operator across strategy, production and reporting.

Teams where marketing, support and product signals have to talk to each other.