Hi, I'm Eric.

I'm a creative and content strategist working across AI, climate, and food. I've spent close to twenty years building brands, running content programs, and putting together marketing systems for pre-launch startups, growth companies, and Fortune 500.

01 / Current

Selected work

001

Fractional Head of Marketing · 2022 → Present

Burch Energy

Built and continue to lead the marketing function for a clean-energy startup, including positioning, web properties, sales collateral, campaigns, and LinkedIn. Awareness is up 60%, inbound doubled in six months, and the CEO's LinkedIn grew from 2K to 3.5K followers.

Burch Energy marketing and building performance dashboard illustration
002

Director of Content · 2020 → 2022

LIVEKINDLY

Led content and creative for a plant-based media brand operating across the US and EU. Grew social video to 2M+ organic monthly views and managed 20+ producers and editors. EP and creative lead on Collective Kitchen, a $1M+ branded campaign that combined chef ambassadors, a recipe microsite, long-form video, editorial, and social cuts across three brands.

Case study: Collective Kitchen
LIVEKINDLY · Collective Kitchen
003

Principal · 2015 → 2020

Hiatus Digital

Started a small creative studio making social ads, branded video, and original formats for agencies and brands. Created Assembly Line, a stop-motion how-to series that hit 25K+ subscribers over 60+ episodes without any paid promotion, then brought in brand partners.

Hiatus Digital · Assembly Line
004

Creative Director of Content · 2012 → 2015

Tastemade

Joined on day one and helped build Tastemade's video operation across originals and branded content. Directed and EP'd series for AB InBev, Bacardi, AMEX, Pepsi, Samsung. Created and shot Thirsty For, a tabletop drink series that won a James Beard Award. Managed 30+ creators and pitched in on UX and consumer testing for the iOS app.

James Beard Foundation Award James Beard Award · 2014 · Thirsty For
Local Flight — Tastemade
02 / Profile

About

Eric Slatkin

I make complicated ideas easier to explain and harder to ignore.

I started in digital video and editorial — directed 500+ pieces, wrote alongside it, built original series, led teams of producers and editors, and co-ran a mobile-filmmaking festival before most people had phones that could shoot decent video. Over time that work pulled me into content strategy, social systems, and eventually marketing end to end.

I'm UX-trained and tend to let data steer creative decisions, and am most useful to teams who move fast and don't have an obvious playbook.

03 / Trusted

Clients

  • AB InBev
  • Algorand
  • American Express
  • Bacardi
  • BeachBody
  • Brentwood Home
  • Buitoni
  • Carvana
  • Chowhound
  • Chronicle Books
  • CNET
  • Culinary Agency
  • Dreyer's
  • Fry Family Food Co.
  • Grey Goose
  • Harmless Harvest
  • High Wide & Handsome
  • Hyundai
  • Joie de Vivre
  • KitchenAid
  • Kraft
  • LikeMeat
  • LIVEKINDLY
  • Mobcrush
  • Mothersauce
  • Nokia
  • Oumph!
  • Pepsi
  • Reach Agency
  • Re.al
  • Samsung
  • SnackNation
  • Stella Artois
  • Tastemade
  • Ten Speed Press
  • Vimeo
  • West Agency
  • Whirlpool
  • Wohali
  • Yummly
  • Zipcar
04 / Origins

Projects

F.E.A.S.T. interactive satire
Interactive Satire

F.E.A.S.T.

A satirical, speculative interactive food project about bureaucracy, logistics, and algorithmic decision-making. Part game, part future artifact, it imagines a food system where personal taste gets processed through institutional rules.

Site coming soon
Artifact From the Future: HydroPac
Foresight Artifact

Artifact From the Future: HydroPac

A near-future concept: a portable atmospheric water generator for people displaced by climate events. Designed during Institute for the Future training.

Animal, On Es Mal original series concept
Original Series

Animal, On Es Mal

A secret community spent fifty years restoring Neanderthal bloodlines. Then the world found out. A 10-episode prestige limited series about science as scripture, belonging as ideology, and a civilization built on a lie.

In development
Disposable Film Festival
Film Festival

Disposable Film Festival

Co-founded a mobile filmmaking festival that ran for ten years. Screened at the Castro Theatre, drew 20K+ in-person attendees and 250K+ digital viewers. Sponsors included Nokia, Vimeo, and Zipcar.

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05 / Notes

Selected writing