Copy and creative leader with 15+ years of experience.
Experience in building and scaling teams in tech, startup, and internal agency environments.
Superpowers: Making the complex simple. Creating and evangelizing a brand’s voice. Translating ideas into action.
Recent experience
Affirm
Associate Creative Director, Copy
Managing, coaching and leading a global writing team
Pushing the quality of our creative work by providing feedback and coaching to both internal
creatives and external agencies
Developing and refining the Affirm brand, including the personality and voice; creating copy
guidelines for company-wide use (including the first-of-its-kind messaging playbook); and acting as a messaging strategist, helping marketers refine briefs with a focus on consumer insights and storytelling
Writing and creative direction for high-profile work, including our brand tagline, OOH, manifestos and integrated seasonal campaigns
Balancing creative output with efficiency of operations by pitching new ways of working, including a seasonal campaign approach and ‘Agile-lite’ methodology
ASICS
Associate Creative Director (2019-2021)
Senior Copywriter / Copy Manager (2017-2019)
Managed an in-house creative team of 5 (3 designers, 2 copywriters)
Drove digital best practices and creative excellence through feedback and coaching
Created the global brand voice for the ASICS apps, Studio and Runkeeper, and developed
style guides and playbooks for global campaigns
Onboarded the Workfront project management tool (leading to 115% increase in team output
year over year)
Creative directed a Hermes Platinum Award-winning video campaign
Brownstein
Senior Copywriter (2017)
Brought on to lead copy for the IKEA USA account
Highlights included concepting and executing the Back to School campaign as well as a number of digital catalogs
Vistaprint
Senior Copywriter (2014-2017)
Copywriter (2013-2014)
Lead writer for the print and email channels
Concepted campaigns, mentored jr. writers, and literally wrote the book on the brand voice
Highlights included writing the Vistaprint catalog (3-4 editions a year), concepting and
creating the internal signage for the new office, and creative directing (and hand modeling!) for many photo shoots