Resume

Emersyn Caulder, Creative Marketing Manager

I lead brand strategy, marketing operations, creative direction, and multi-channel campaigns. With a background in design and hands-on marketing experience, I turn strategy into clear, consistent execution and build processes that help brands scale.

Experience

Apr 2026 to Present

Sacramento, CA (remote)

Creative Marketing Manager

Capital Rivers Commercial

  • Lead marketing for a multi-division commercial real estate firm across brand, creative, digital, content, operations, and campaigns.
  • Led a company-wide rebrand, from positioning with the CEO and COO through a three-month rollout across digital and print materials, templates, signage, email, events, and internal resources, delivered on schedule.
  • Direct creative execution and manage the graphic design function, setting priorities and keeping the brand consistent.
  • Serve as the internal lead for the website redesign, directing content, messaging, UX, and visual direction with an external design partner.
  • Build scalable marketing systems, templates, and workflows for brokerage, development, asset management, and economic development, including property brochures, listing signage, email campaigns, and social graphics.
  • Help plan and run networking events, and prep and order branded merchandise and materials for conventions and industry events.
  • Partnered with the AI and automation team to launch a centralized marketing request and production workflow, improving intake, prioritization, and visibility.
  • Own multi-channel marketing across email, web, social, SEO content, property campaigns, newsletters, press releases, quarterly market reports, and thought leadership.
  • Maintain and evolve company-wide brand standards, guidelines, and resources.

Feb 2025 to Mar 2026

Sacramento, CA (hybrid)

Content Marketing Coordinator

Capital Rivers Commercial

  • Managed Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn: created content, scheduled posts, and engaged the audience.
  • Wrote SEO-focused blog posts that improved search rankings and built thought leadership.
  • Planned and ran email campaigns in Mailchimp to keep the audience engaged.
  • Designed and updated marketing materials in Adobe Creative Suite with consistent branding.
  • Tracked and analyzed marketing performance to refine strategy.
  • Promoted properties by posting listings on key platforms for maximum exposure.

Jun 2023 to Nov 2024

San Diego, CA

UX/UI Designer and Graphic Designer

Agramont Worldwide Logistics

  • Planned the company's international trade shows and networking events, and designed the booth for DIMBC, a large international transportation and logistics trade show in Rosarito, Mexico.
  • Refreshed the brand guidelines and carried them across the website, trade show presence, and social media for three sister companies.
  • Created photo, video, and illustrated social content for three company accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
  • Led design of the Forward and ForwardWMS web apps, from storyboards to a full design system and Figma prototypes. See the Forward case study.
  • Designed three customer-facing websites, improving usability and increasing traffic through user-centered design.
  • Ran user research and usability testing, and created user flows, wireframes, and UI mockups for web and mobile.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to align design with user needs and business goals.
  • Partnered closely with software developers to make sure designs were built accurately.

Oct 2022 to Mar 2023

Santa Clara, CA

UX Researcher

Santa Clara University

  • Led UX research for the SCU Mobile app, running interviews and user testing that informed design improvements.
  • Turned research findings into clearer information architecture and more intuitive designs with cross-functional teams.
  • Wrote research proposals with actionable recommendations that shaped product strategy.
  • Reviewed UX research literature and completed case studies to support user-centered design.

Jun 2022 to Present

Remote

Freelance UX, Web, and Graphic Designer

Independent

  • Deliver end-to-end design projects for clients including Persist AI, Merritt Lane Ranch, and Franklin High School, from logos and websites to brand and event materials.
  • Design in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, aligning every piece with client goals and audience engagement.

Skills and tools

Marketing and brand

  • Marketing strategy
  • Brand development
  • Brand storytelling
  • Campaign management
  • Content strategy
  • Copywriting
  • SEO
  • AEO
  • Email marketing
  • Social media
  • Market research

Creative and design

  • Creative direction
  • Brand systems
  • Graphic design
  • Web design
  • Motion design
  • UX research
  • UX/UI design

Operations and leadership

  • Marketing operations
  • Marketing automation
  • Workflow optimization
  • AI workflows
  • Project management
  • Team leadership
  • Data analysis

Design tools

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Figma

Marketing and analytics tools

  • Mailchimp
  • Meta Business Suite
  • Metricool
  • WordPress (Elementor)
  • Yoast
  • Semrush
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Search Console

Workflow tools

  • Airtable
  • Notion
  • Trello
  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace

AI tools

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT

Education

Santa Clara University

Bachelor of Science, Psychology and Studio Art

Magna Cum Laude

Have a project in mind?

Get in touch about a new brand, an upcoming campaign, or a role on your team. Tell me what you’re building.

emi.caulder@gmail.com