Josh Mcleod Email & Phone Number

Redondo Beach, Ca, Us

Torrance, California, United States

As a member of the leadership team, I drive strategic vision, make critical decisions, and foster a collaborative and innovative culture. I am responsible for guiding the company's direction, building strong teams, ensuring financial health, and upholding ethical standards. My role involves engaging with stakeholders, managing change, and navigating challenges to achieve organizational success for the future of Pelican 2.0

Torrance, California, United States

- Strategic Vision: Setting and maintaining the creative direction aligned with the company’s brand strategy and business goals.- Team Leadership: Leading and mentoring a team of designers, copywriters, and other creative professionals to produce high-quality work.- Collaboration: Working closely with marketing, product development, and sales teams to ensure cohesive and effective branding and communication.- Innovation: Driving creativity and innovation in product design, packaging, advertising, and digital media.- Brand Consistency: Ensuring that all creative outputs are consistent with Pelican Products’ brand identity and standards.- Project Management: Overseeing the creative process from concept to completion, managing timelines, budgets, and resources.- Market Research: Staying updated on industry trends and competitors to keep the brand relevant and competitive.- Work on brand guidelines and the overall revamp of Pelican to push into Pelican 2.0

Orange County, California Area

- Develop world class creative strategies and design executions for all of VANS action sports.- Work within a creative team to deliver campaigns on tight rotating global deadlines.- Art Direct external vendors for all of VANS holiday campaigns.- Sound design / Jingle composition for VANS commercials.- Art Direct elevated product photography

Los Angeles

-Develop creative strategies through conceptualization and execution.-Partner with copywriters, designers, web developers and creative executives to create best in class interactive marketing campaigns.-Develop user experience strategies, creative conceptualization and execution of industry leading online experiences including interactive and offline marketing campaigns.-Ensure that marketing goals, user insights, industry trends and best practices are leveraged, interpreted and infused in all integrated creative campaign components.-Partner with creative agencies to ensure content standards and user experience excellence.-Build and manage graphics and visual design efforts for one of Hollywood's most established and respected studios. Working within a highly competitive creative industry with creative advertising executives, publicists, editors, and writers to create high-level graphic integration for all major motion-picture advertising campaigns from initial concept through completion.-Research and gather materials for competitive studio analysis.-Assist creative executives in reviewing vendor proposals and making recommendations for selection.-Participate in theatrical website creation and strategy with marketing team.-Provide and submit weekly Creative Ad Report to Senior Management.-Assist in preparation of budgets and administration for own projects.

- Managing all marketing creative and design direction for MySpace Music.- Day to day includes working in an ultra fast paced environment for multiple managers in different divisions, leading design in the marketing department, and creating templates for jr. designers to use for production.- Online ads, offline ads, banners, promotional items, page layout, profile designs, program designs, and brand development are always high on the list of priorities.

B.F.A., Graphic Design

Aa, Art