I am a creative leader, in other words, a business oriented artist. I bring brands to life through art direction, storytelling & design.
www.dianaroen.com
Managed a team of designers in creating marketing assets, campaigns & visual systems for site, product, social & advertising.
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Continually evolve the brand, while maintaining brand standards for the US & global markets.
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Managed projects from strategy to completion while staying on schedule, overseeing a budget of $500k+.
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Planned and art directed photo shoots, post-production, and asset management.
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Mentored, inspired, and developed my team, resulting in promotions for all of my direct reports.
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Led the product team in redesign of book pages, enhancing subscriptions and SEO, resulting in a 2.5X improvement in account creation.
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Identified inconsistencies, collaborating with developers and the conversion team to implement updates and optimize the site, ensuring it adhered to brand standards and remained effective and user friendly.
∙ Collaborated with founders, CEO, and cross-functional teams, including marketing, research, and finance, to craft compelling investor pitch decks.
∙ Owned the design and maintenance of the website. Optimized homepage and landing pages through redesign, resulting in over 2 million newly created consumer and educator accounts.
∙ Led the redesign of landing pages and ads for paid campaigns, resulting in a 25% increase in web sign-ups.
∙ Spearheaded strategy for brand redesign, concepting, organizing, and art directing multiple photo shoots; established guidelines for usage.
∙ Built new design system components, resulting in evolved brand identity that increased brand awareness.
∙ Optimized customer journey flows and tested new designs, increasing conversion rates by 28%.
∙ Art directed and designed emails, social ad campaigns, banners, wireframes, prototypes, user flows, promotions, animations, in-product app & responsive web landing pages, experiences & media assets.
∙ Played a key role in driving Epic’s growth into the world’s largest reading platform for kids, engaging 75 million readers who consume over 1 billion books annually, ultimately leading to a successful acquisition.
∙ Strategized & created style guides to support CRM & social media strategy.
∙ Defined & developed customer journey flows; identified pain points & drop off points in journey.
∙ Designed emails, landing pages, promotions, social media, look-books, web banners & pop-ups.
∙ My email designs resulted in a 20% increase in user engagement.
∙ Collaborated with designers, art directors, photographers, social media specialists, acquisition strategists, analysts & marketing team.
∙ Coordinated and executed photo shoots, overseeing planning, production and styling.
∙ Designed the “We Believe” campaign that brought attention to companies and nonprofits supporting kids in our community, driving conversions and increasing revenue.
∙ Wrote copy for marketing emails.
∙ Assisted in on-boarding designers, art directors, producers and marketing team members.