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London, England, United Kingdom

Worked with clients such as HSBC, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Principality Building Society, Santander, FitFlop, Agilio, and Giacom.• HSBC: worked with a cross-functional team on a new app feature intended to get 1m customers to invest via mobile. I was responsible for all design activities including running workshops, wireframing, user journeys, interaction design and visual design, and contributed to strategic product decisions.• Principality Building Society: Contributed to PBS’s rebrand by designing desktop and mobile pages and components that elicited exceptional client feedback: “Aaron’s concepts followed our design system and patterns and required almost zero work to hand over to our dev partner, which undoubtedly saved us hours.”• NCSC: designed a new cybersecurity service from 0-1 that successfully encourages 46.5% of users to complete at least one cybersecurity test and helps thousands of users identify security vulnerabilities each month. I was responsible for concept development, user flows, wireframing and user interface design.• NCSC: led an evidence-based redesign of the NCSC's phishing reporting service, resulting in an increase in scams reported and a decrease in scam-related support requests.• Agilio: accelerated and streamlined app development — positioning them for growth in the healthcare industry — by designing page templates, components and a design system (including typography, colours and icons).

Berlin Area, Germany

• Developed content concepts and strategies that secured high-value deals with top-tier brands like adidas, American Express, Dropbox, Mercedes-Benz and Nike, resulting in increased revenue and significant business growth.• Collaborated with product, design and development teams to create and execute content campaigns, that consistently achieved client KPIs (e.g. increasing purchasing intent for PUMA by 11%).• Wrote and edited hundreds of editorials, regularly meeting client stakeholders to understand their needs and gather feedback, giving constructive feedback to other writers, and conducting research to understand new domains.• Won Digiday’s Best In-House Content/Brand Studio award in 2018.

Berlin Area, Germany

• Wrote, edited and published editorial and social media content for Highsnobiety's branded content campaigns featured across highsnobiety.com, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat.• Worked to client campaign deadlines and discussed content feedback and edits with clients.• Curated and edited imagery in Photoshop to meet visual standards for highsnobiety.com and Highsnobiety's social channels.• Used Wordpress and third-party social media scheduling tools to create and publish posts.• Set up and published paid social posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

London, United Kingdom

• Worked with River Island’s digital marketing team on menswear content for Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and blog.• Pitched content ideas to senior stakeholders.• Worked on video production, briefing external production teams, hair and make-up artists and talent managers, creating call sheets, organising shoot day logistics and assisting on set.• Produced four YouTube videos that acquired over 120,000 views.• Grew the @RiverIslandMan Instagram account from 0 to over 50,000 followers.• Wrote press releases, media mail outs, scripts, social media and blog copy.• Analysed data to create fashion trend and competitor reports supporting marketing strategy.• Organised events for press and influencers.

London, United Kingdom

Yin&Yang was a lifestyle blog turned online magazine and consultancy with a team of contributors from London.• I worked with international brands such as Nike, adidas, Booking.com, Dr. Martens, Levi’s & New Amsterdam Vodka to create engaging content campaigns.• Produced copy and photography for fashion, travel, lifestyle, music and design content.• Managed and developed social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, growing Yin&Yang's online presence and following.• Built a network of personal and professional relationships with relevant people in the industry.• Managed content production alongside a top-class team (location and talent scouting, liaising with brands and talent, planning travel, styling, art direction, etc.)

Master Of Science - Msc, Human-Computer Interaction Design, Distinction (80%)

During this course, I learned the foundations of HCID and UX, including interaction and visual design, information architecture, user.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature, 2:1