Andrew Wilson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

• Leads and manages all facets of creative and brand strategy, execution, and production at this Bessemer, Softbank, and Y Combinator-backed startup
• In first three months, designed, developed and implemented comprehensive rebranding strategy, owning the plan, design execution, roll-out, and vendor coordination
• Increased traffic to core company website by 33% and engagement by 10% by partnering with VP of Marketing to create visual and UX design to re-launch site with new product pages
• Provides end-to-end brand design and creative support to marketing team, sales team, product and implementation teams, and the leadership group
• Ensures all visuals are on-brand, consistent in terms of style, voice, quality, and optimized for clarity and user experience

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Served as Associate Creative Director, responsible for the overall quality of work and results produced by my team of five multi-disciplinary designers, as well as external agencies
• Increased speed-to-market of deliverables three-fold by focusing on higher value work through new methods, tools, processes, and streamlined design
• Quadrupled demand for my team in under a year by transforming disparate in-house UX and visual design teams into a unified design team producing agency-caliber creative work, demanding the attention of the C-suite
• Onboarded direct reports to new tools in order to improve and streamline design workflows and key assets
• Created scripts and documented best practices to empower direct reports to work confidently with clients
• Hired and onboarded new creative talent in a remote environment

Chicago

• Led multi-disciplinary team of designers and developers to create strategic digital and user-interface design across web, mobile, application, marketing and social media platforms, providing comprehensive insight on.
• Increased digital design and development speed-to-market by 25% across the corporation by establishing, applying and extending corporate-wide Digital Design System, brand identity systems, typography, photography.
• Increased client and prospect engagement by delivering imaginative, conceptual thinking to advance and elevate the brand, and ensured all digital touchpoints drove strategic customer acquisition and engagement through.

Chicago

• Led the design for the company website, blog, emails and responsive micro-sites, including maintenance, optimization, and lead generation best practices
• Developed innovative, creative, and results-oriented digital solutions by understanding and interpreting brand, user, and business needs
• Created prototypes, sketches, exercises, and workshops to validate ideas and to elicit feedback from both clients and internal teams
• Guided front-end web development through understanding the needs of the user and focusing on best practices in user experience, technical excellence, performance and accessibility

Chicago

• Led design and development for responsive web, mobile, app, video, interactive, print, display, and email products
• Scoped time and effort involved in design projects, serving as strategic UI design resource
• Created new and innovative visual approaches to print, digital marketing and branding materials

Chicago

• Developed design and branding for ad agencies, including Sponge Media and RPM
• Created and developed assorted interactive and print collateral for multiple client campaigns

Chicago

• Charged with custom branding development, logo, and web design
• Handled client consultation