Kyle Schruder Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I work across Creative Currency and EnterpriseHealth, using my experience working in design and healthcare to help create engaging strategies, compelling brands, and immersive experiences.

Toronto, Canada Area

My role at Coactuate included:• Leading teams in the implementation of communications design for both marketing and client deliverables, including planning, content development, editorial decisions, and final production• Taking on a leadership role across the design team, leading regular design team meetings, providing critical review and guidance for project deliverables• Providing individual design coaching to team members, including ongoing critique of work, setting personal learning goals, and tracking progress• Identifying resourcing gaps and leading recruiting, hiring, and interviewing of candidates.• Taking an active role in the Coactuate Leadership Team, supporting the CEO and LT in making decisions across the organization.• Representing Coactuate at industry events, client events, and more generally as a thought leader in strategic design

Toronto, Canada Area

In my role as Brand Experience Manager, I:• Managed brand and marketing efforts at Bridgeable• Led a multidisciplinary team, including a digital marketer, a writer, an event planner, and a designer.• Conducted regular performance reviews, including informal coaching, 1:1s, and end-of-year 360 reviews.• Liaised with an external vendor and internal stakeholders to rework our brand messaging, visual identity, website design, and more.• Conducted environmental scans to understand competition and best practices.• Supported sales teams to create compelling content and strategy that led to client conversations.• Mapped the Bridgeable client journey, including interviewing clients and creating our journey map of what the experience was like for clients working with Bridgeable.• Supported design execution across projects, coaching junior designers to elevate the level of execution.

Toronto, Canada Area

My role included:• Providing art direction and developing artifacts that effectively communicate strategic and tactical concepts in a visually compelling way.• Working cross-functionally with researchers, ethnographers, and service designers to help them refine and elevate the visual impact of their work.• Creating a “community of practice” for designers, helping them collaborate across project teams, stay inspired, and think creatively.• Creating content that resonated with potential clients and design practitioners, including blog articles, social media posts, and sales collateral• Supporting new business development, collaborating with everyone from our CEO to pitch teams in creating presentations, sales materials, and pitches for new work.

My responsibilities at Fresh Art & Design included:• Handling the production & design of magazines, reports and other graphic design materials from start to finish• Finding creative solutions for magazine layouts, covers, infographics and many other design challenges.• Working directly with clients, maintaining a positive relationship and managing key milestones and deadlines• Ensuring all files sent to print were preflighted, as well as reviewing proofs for final production accuracy• Managing freelance photographers and illustrators• Creating digital illustrations

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