Creative Strategist | MAZAKALI
2018-2019
Served as Creative Director at a cannabis fintech startup, leading the development of all creative assets across brand, marketing, and investor communications, including spearheading a company rebrand. Worked closely with executive leadership, including the CEO, CFO, and Chief Marketing Director, to design high-impact presentation decks for national and international conferences and develop compelling investor materials to support capital raise efforts.
Responsibilities & Contributions
Project Management
Creative direction
Marketing and Strategy
Slide Deck & Presentation Design
Led Creative Team Strategy Meetings
Logo & Branding
Marketing | One Pager handout
Icon Design & Infographic
Responsibilities & Contributions
Led Creative Team Strategy Meetings
Present completed ideas to clients/team members
Website User Experience
Produce sketches, storyboards, roughs to visualize ideas
Consult with business partners to understand their challenges and verbally provide smart solutions
Project Management
Generate clear ideas and concepts to communicate with the rest of the creative team across different types of media
Managing projects and working within a budget
Manage and delegate responsibilities to other designers and provide directions
Partner with department team, project managers, account managers, proofreading, art directors, and print production manager
Re-Branding
Understand marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience
Logo Design, Creation of Style & Branding Guide
Marketing and Strategy
Design of Marketing Material Design, Print and Web
Stay on top of all trends and maintain best practices
Working on designs to produce effective advertising campaigns
Adhere to brand style and standards while creating effective designs
Slide Deck & Presentation Design
Take work from concept to final execution within deadlines
Design of infographics
Communicate information visually with the use of color, typography, photography, animations, charts, graphs and diagrams
Develop creative concepts transforming sometimes complicated text-heavy presentations into concise, visually engaging experiences