# Jessica Gates > Creative Director | Experiential & Event Design · Executive Presentations · Brand Systems Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jessicagates Hi. I'm Jess. I help brands visually tell their story and leaders perform on the world's biggest stages. I've led creative across event design, executive presentations, and brand systems. I grew up in an event business, got my early start designing film sets in Hollywood, and spent my formative years in industrial design learning the intricacies of bringing physical things to life at a global scale. That spatial foundation, natural curiosity, and deep systems thinking shapes how I see and work today. Thanks for stopping by, LinkedIn. ## Work Experience ### Creative Director | Experiential Design & Executive Presentations @ PushupCo Jan 2012 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Independent creative practice spanning event design, executive presentations, and brand systems. Recent Work Brex — For Brex Mode, the Intelligent Finance Summit across San Francisco and New York, I worked directly with internal teams to design all event touchpoints. Every surface was heavily considered — from stage design to environmental graphics, digital, social, and print. We poured over every detail and documented thoroughly to ensure our fabricators nailed delivery. Finance even took notes. CrowdStrike — On-site executive presentation design for Fal.Con, CrowdStrike's European conference in Barcelona. Hands-on creative support with C-suite speakers under live event timelines. AWS — Presentation and event creative for AWS's enterprise conference series, translating complex cloud and AI concepts into high-stakes keynote environments. Cognition AI, Harness, Observe (acquired by Snowflake) — Sales deck and brand system development, executive presentations, multiple SKOs, and go-to-market creative for high-growth AI and enterprise tech companies. Client Experience: 20th Century Fox, Afterpay, Audi, AWS, Brex, Cognition AI, Collective Health, CrowdStrike, Disney, Harness, Metaview, Observe, Personal Capital, RH, Williams-Sonoma, XOJET ### Senior Design Manager, Experiential & Brand @ Navan Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area At Navan I owned creative across executive presentations, global events, brand systems, and strategic partnerships. I worked directly with C-suite to translate complex technical narratives into presentations for major stages across finance and tech — Slush, Davos, WebSummit, Fortune Brainstorm and Money20/20. I led creative for partnership campaigns for Citi, Citizens, Uber, and Brex, which included multiple Times Square billboards, a few London-wide campaigns, and one very memorable NYC subway takeover. Still recovering. ### Brand Strategy Consultant @ Personal Capital Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Personal Capital is a digital wealth management company redefining how people relate to their money. I worked with the agency Novio and internal teams on research and brand strategy to help Personal Capital reimagine their identity for a brand refresh. ### Brand & Experience Design Consultant @ Collective Health Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Collective Health is on a mission to build a better US healthcare system. I worked with internal brand, marketing, and dev teams to evolve their brand for the next stage of growth. I refreshed the full brand system, partnered with the data science team to turn the website from a brand showcase into self-serve sales tool, and built conference environments and recruiting collateral. Parts of the system are still in use today. ### Brand & Product Design Consultant @ Brinc Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Hong Kong SAR Consulted across a portfolio of early-stage hardware and consumer tech startups at the tech accelerator Brinc in Hong Kong. Work spanned brand identity, packaging, manufacturing, app UX, visual design, and go-to-market strategy for founders building wearables, connected audio devices, and smart home products — all from one of the world's most electric cities. ### Research & Brand Strategy Consultant @ XOJET Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Joined Novio's strategy team for the XOJET rebrand. We interviewed clients and ran internal workshops to uncover what made the brand genuinely different. The resulting "Take Command" campaign ran in the New York Times and across major financial media. The research also included one very necessary private flight. For the work. ### Product Designer @ Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Lead designer for tabletop, barware, textile, and home at the San Francisco culinary institution. Translated trends into seasonal stories and learned the intricacies of bringing physical products to life across global supply chains. ## Education ### BA in Industrial Design, Joint Degree Program California College of the Arts ### BA in Industrial Design and Business, Joint Degree Program University of San Francisco ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-gates-7418a241 - Portfolio: https://www.pushupco.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jessicagates JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jessicagates/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13