Jon Setzen Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

San Francisco, California, Us

- Kandji's first creative hire enlisted to build an internal agency responsible for branding, web, video, copy, and visual design.- Led, executed, and implemented Kandji's rebrand in early 2022.

Pasadena, California, Us

• Lead global rebrand of successful AEC brand to align with global expansion goals. In the past four years, revenue has grown more than $100m.• Grew the Creative team from seven to 20 employees in three years. Hired, managed, and mentored a team of Designers, Video Producers, UX Designers, Web Developers, Writers, and Project Managers.• Lead all strategic non-product creative initiatives across the company working with Executive, Marketing, Product Marketing, and Sales team.• Ideated, presented, and produced Global ad campaigns, website and e-commerce redesign, and brand updates across all of our digital properties.• Developed and expanded our creative capabilities by hiring local agencies in our key markets, as well as producing and directing key campaigns in our local markets.• Led creative direction and design for our annual 1000+ person, multi-day user conference.• Focused on brand scalability and consistency, implementing tools like a Voice and Tone Guide, to ensure quality control and ease of scale across many offices.

Pasadena, California, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Lead the first-ever rebrand of the popular hosting company in its history. The rebrand ensured Media Temple’s good standing with the design community after an unpopular acquisition by GoDaddy. • Implemented all aspects of the rebrand across our customer touchpoints, including a website and e-commerce redesign, leading to improved revenue of millions of dollars.• Grew our Creative team from five to 15 people in a two year period. The team consisted of Designers, Developers, UX Designers, Videographers, Writers, and Project Managers.• Conceptualized and implemented a Webby's nominated video series profiling Media Temple customers.• Extended our team’s capabilities by partnering with agencies and freelancers.• Collaborated with team across the company to apply our brand’s message through all customer experiences, including Customer Support, Events, Sales, and more.• Oversaw and directed redesign of Media Temple’s self-help center used by 150,000 users daily, which resulted in a drop in a support call volume by more than 30%.• Led creative and design direction for all Media Temple SXSW events including the SXSW Interactive Closing Party at Stubb's.• Acted as Brand Ambassador for Media Temple by speaking at design conferences around the U.S. and Europe.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• First Creative Director for independent advertising agency, where I led creative pitches, built an offshore team in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires, and managed a team of in-house designers and developers.• Created and implemented a joint Summer Movie campaign between Yahoo! And Regal Cinemas which added more than 1m fans for Yahoo! Movies Facebook page and was their most successful social campaign of all time.• Clients I pitched and won: Scion, Sony Pictures, Disney, MoMA, Black & Decker, X Prize, Netquote, Quiznos, Regal Cinemas, Kartell, and many more.

• Founded a small design studio in Brooklyn, NY with three internal employees and freelance resources in Chicago, London, Frankfurt, and Romania.• Conceptualized, pitched, directed, designed, and built countless campaigns, websites, and branding initiatives with various companies around the U.S. and U.K.• Spent 10 months in the studio with Alicia Keys documenting and the making of her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys.• Clients included: Sony Music, RCA Records, Columbia Records, Maroon 5, The Oregon Symphony, Municipal Arts Society of NY, Showtime, American Photo Magazine, and more.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead Design at the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle where I architected the redesign of the paper’s website, as well as special sections including: Sydney Olympics, Oscars, SF Bar & Neighborhood Guide, SF Giants, and more.. At the time, SFGate.com was the number six most trafficked newspaper website in the America.