Creative leader with 18+ years of experience leading brand, design, and marketing initiatives for global companies and early-stage startups. Skilled at aligning creative work with business strategy, developing scalable systems, and producing consistent, high-impact creative across channels.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
• Led a full rebrand of a legacy photography company, establishing a visual and verbal identity rooted in emotional clarity and strategic category positioning.
• Built and deployed a modular brand system, complete with a comprehensive standards guide, to align visual design, marketing, and product across every customer touchpoint and support future brand expansion.
• Developed messaging and positioning guidelines that connected product truths, customer pain points, and audience segments, bringing all brand and marketing efforts into strategic alignment.
• Repackaged 12 disconnected products into 4 clear collections, streamlining the customer journey and increasing average order value by 17%.
• Led prototyping of future products, including a next-generation image capture app with social and collaborative features, grounded in qualitative user feedback and category-wide market research.
• Explored and integrated generative AI tools into brand and marketing processes, unlocking faster iteration, richer content development, and smarter creative decisions.
• Built and led a high-performing creative team and optimized campaigns through data-driven insights, raising CTR by 22% and lowering CAC by 18%.
2017 — 2024
2017 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
• Drove substantial brand growth through design and marketing collaborations with prominent companies including Dropbox, Adobe, and The School of Life, enhancing brand visibility and expanding market presence.
• Led and mentored creative teams to deliver cohesive and impactful brand solutions, spanning branding, marketing, UI/UX design, and photography, fostering a collaborative environment that nurtured creativity and innovation.
• Spearheaded the creation of brand standards guides and conducted comprehensive brand audits, establishing clear, scalable systems that strengthened brand identity and marketing effectiveness across channels.
• Organized and curated brand design systems, optimizing ease of use and cross-team collaboration. These efforts reduced time-to-market and costs, while ensuring brand consistency and fluidity in all creative outputs.
2012 — 2017
2012 — 2017
Oakland, CA
• Built and led a multidisciplinary creative team across brand, UI/UX, and marketing, scaling the studio into a full-service agency trusted by clients like PetSmart and LinkedIn.
• Expanded the marketing division and led strategy-informed creative across campaigns, digital experiences, and brand activations.
• Served as the lead on pitches and presentations, translating business and stakeholder input into compelling creative that consistently won buy-in and delivered results.
2010 — 2012
2010 — 2012
San Francisco, California, United States
• Led and managed a diverse creative team to deliver effective and refined branding and marketing design solutions for clients in both B2B and B2C sectors, driving measurable improvements in brand engagement and market presence.
• Directed a team of designers to produce targeted, high-impact solutions, leveraging thorough research and direct feedback from stakeholders to align designs with strategic goals and client needs.
• Conducted in-depth brand audits to uncover growth opportunities and areas for improvement, providing actionable insights that significantly enhanced client brands' positioning and market differentiation.
• Led UI/UX research efforts, gathering qualitative and quantitative data, developing user personas, and producing wireframes and user flows to ensure products were designed with user needs at the forefront, driving more intuitive user experiences.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz