In 14 months, from SMM Manager to Head of SMM: a department of twenty built from zero.
- 6 yearsin social media
- 3+ yearsin iGaming: betting, casino and eSports
- 20Mviews a month from owned content
- FTD → ROItracked from reach to deposit: CPM, CTR, CPA, LTV
- 200K+subscribers on the flagship Telegram channel
- UGCa content factory and UGC creators as a separate stream
- 20people in the SMM and production team
- Seedingran seeding and wrote posts for the Telegram channel network myself
- Collabsplacements and partnerships with influencers and other companies
Paytable
Each symbol pays out in something done for real. The line you hit lights up here.
0 → 20×5people in the SMM and production departments, built from scratch and led today.
20M×5views a month from owned content, after building the production department from zero.
200K+×5subscribers on the flagship of a branded Telegram network, next to channels of 100K+ and 50K+.
$100K×5a month in paid social, from $20K to $200K at peak, scaled with media buyers.
14 mo×5from SMM Manager to Team Lead to Head of SMM.
HLTV×5eSports tournaments organised and listed on HLTV: platform, bracket, rules and event content.
5×5channels launched from zero: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, X and Discord.
AI×5built into production: scripts, editing and assets, from short-form to 15–20 minute videos.
Career
From copywriting and a first agency to running a twenty-person department in iGaming.
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2024 —
NowiGaming: betting, casino and eSports
Company under NDA · Dubai
- Head of SMM, since April 2025
- SMM Team Lead, from August 2024
- SMM Manager, from February 2024
- Built the SMM department from zero and lead a team of 20, with separate SMM and production workflows.
- Built production from scratch to 20M views a month, with AI tools in scripting, editing and asset creation.
- Run paid social with media buyers: creative testing, scaling and iteration on performance data.
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2023 — 2024
Copywriter, traffic arbitrage
KMA.BIZ · Remote
- Promo content and ad creatives with designers, optimised through A/B tests and analytics.
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2022 — 2023
CEO and lead copywriter
One Target KZ, own agency · Almaty
- Founded and ran a creative agency, hired and trained four copywriters, negotiated deals, delivered landing pages and ads.
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2021 — 2023
Senior copywriter
BOOM Studio · Part-time, remote
- Social content on Instagram and Telegram; commercial proposals for ERG, Greenwich and Beeline.
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2021 — 2022
SMM manager
Pinger.Pro · Almaty
- Content across platforms, influencer support, moderation of VK and YouTube live broadcasts.
Who is at the machine
Abylaikhan Satybaldinov connects content, paid growth and data.
- Based in
- Dubai, UAE. Open to relocation and remote
- Languages
- Russian, Kazakh, English
- Education
- MA Marketing, 2026; BSc Information Technologies, 2023
Cash out
Dubai, UAE. Open to relocation and remote work.
