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Mateo Santacruz

Miami,FL

Summary

Dynamic creative director and brand owner with strong knowledge of the jewelry industry and business with established experience in e-commerce and social media marketing.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

President & Creative Director

Infamous Branding
Miami
01.2022 - Current
  • Hands on e-commerce operations including website management, product listings, and online store optimization.
  • Handle and direct all product photography and videography, ensuring consistent, high quality visual according to brand standards.
  • Direct marketing campaigns across multiple channels, focusing on brand growth, engagement, and sales performance.
  • Edit photography and video content tailored to specific outlets such as website, ads or social media.
  • Manage Meta ad accounts, continuously testing creatives, products, and strategies to improve campaign performance.
  • Developed visual strategies tailored for advertising campaigns to improve conversion and brand positioning.
  • Engaged in clienteling by communicating directly with customers and providing personalized service and support.
  • Manage packaging and product presentation to maintain a consistent and elevated brand experience for customers.
  • Design jewelry pieces and coordinate production distribution from concept development through final manufacturing stages.

Jewelry Specialist and Marketing

Haimov Jewelers
Miami, FL
10.2018 - 12.2025

Jewelry Production

  • Assisted in building and organizing the diamond setting factory.
  • Hands on in production and specialized in pave and prong diamond setting.
  • Provided in store customer service by assisting clients with jewelry selections, custom orders, and product questions.
  • Trained and guided employees on proper jewelry production techniques, ensuring accuracy and high manufacturing standards consistently.
  • Optimized production efficiency and workflow; ensured all custom jewelry pieces successfully passed quality control before every production set and customer delivery.
  • Worked closely on custom jewelry pieces from concept to execution, refining designs, detailing layouts, and supporting diamond shape and sizes.
  • Contributed to custom and stock jewelry designs; assisted with concepts and diamond setting styles.

Marketing and Social Media

  • Assisted the marketing team with videography projects, capturing promotional content and BTS production footage.
  • Developed social media storytelling concepts and wrote scripts tailored for engaging short form jewelry content.
  • Helped create captions and finalize edits before publishing across multiple social media platforms.
  • Collaborated with the marketing department to develop creative campaign concepts and innovative promotional content ideas regularly.
  • Analyzed social media trends and emerging audio tracks for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YT shorts.
  • Improved website content, visuals, and overall online brand presentation.
  • Implemented short form content strategies across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts to increase engagement.
  • Assisted with planning and organizing YouTube video concepts and outlines.
  • Recorded videos and photographed celebrity interactions, in store moments, and promotional events.
  • Contributed to jewelry photoshoots and video production.

Education

High School Diploma -

Miami Dade College
Miami, FL

Associate of Arts - Business Administration And Management

Miami Dade College
Miami, FL

Digital Marketing -

University of Miami
Miami, FL

Skills

  • Social media trend analysis
  • Photography & videography
  • Photo & video editing
  • Social media marketing
  • Branding
  • Shopify management
  • Website development
  • Jewelry expertise
  • Jewelry production
  • Project management
  • E-commerce
  • Jewelry sales
  • Content creation
  • Meta advertising
  • Organic marketing
  • Canva editing

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

President & Creative Director

Infamous Branding
01.2022 - Current

Jewelry Specialist and Marketing

Haimov Jewelers
10.2018 - 12.2025

High School Diploma -

Miami Dade College

Associate of Arts - Business Administration And Management

Miami Dade College

Digital Marketing -

University of Miami