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Dakota Topf

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Director, Paid Media Marketing at (ISSA) International Sports Sciences Association
📍 Greater Pittsburgh Region, United States

Dakota Topf is the Director of Paid Media Marketing at ISSA, where he is building an in-house team. He has extensive experience managing large-scale SEM campaigns with budgets over $20M annually and is a graduate of PennWest Clarion. Colleagues describe him as strategic, creative, and results-driven.

Outside of his marketing career, Dakota is a self-published childrens book author. He wrote a book for his son, and more recently, co-authored a book titled "Girl Purple" with his son for his daughters second birthday, turning family experiences into creative projects.

He co-authored and published a childrens book with his young son.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director, Paid Media Marketing
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Pittsburgh Region, United States
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Paid Media Strategy
His career has focused on managing large, multi-channel paid media campaigns, including search, social, cTV, and programmatic display for companies like ISSA and Care. com.
In-house Team Building
He is actively hiring paid social and search marketing specialists to build out his internal paid media team at ISSA.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Director, Paid Media Marketing
(ISSA) International Sports Sciences Association
5-2024 - 6-2025
Sr. Media Strategist
Care.com
10-2022 - 5-2024
Sr. Marketing Manager - Paid Search
Care.com
6-2021 - 9-2022
Marketing Manager - Paid Search
Care.com
10-2019 - 6-2021
Associate Manager, Paid Search
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Education
2015 - 2017
Bachelor’s Degree
PennWest Clarion
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