Thomas Zukowski Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Promoted to unify and restructure two industry-leading creative teams during the Liftoff and Vungle merger while supervising campaign development and related projects.• Manage up to 8 staff with a full reporting tree of 30 across the Liftoff Creative Studio overseeing more than $1 million in ad spend per day across the globe.• Recruit, hire, manage, motivate, and empower teams to share innovative ideas.• Partner with product, engineering, ad-ops, and business development teams to facilitate innovation and provide white glove service for largest accounts.• Manage $200 million in accounts annually including TikTok, Amazon, Nike, and Skillz.• Tapped into network of independent production companies to execute storyboarded videos that generated 60% improvement in Skillz’ installs.• Contribute to UX/UI design projects by developing wireframes, templates, and workflows for complex ad experiences.• Saved $400,000 annually by integrating third-party vendors and negotiating contracts with studios/independent artists to provide bespoke videos and ads.• Captured and prioritized quarterly roadmaps as the team product lead.• Launched 1,000+ mobile app campaigns throughout tenure (re-targeting, user acquisition, and app-to-web) and delivered $90 million in revenue.• Drafted PRDs for product and engineering review, and oversaw testing.• Represented the creative studio at various in-person and streaming events including webinars, lunch and learns, pitch meetings, and bi-weekly syncs.

Built and scaled a multidisciplinary creative team from 3 to 30 global professionals across US, UK, LATAM, and APAC with a 100% employee retention rate.• Collaborated with C-level leaders to scope out a LATAM team expansion.• Introduced Creative Coordinator and Motion Design positions to Liftoff.• Creative Coordinators enabled an increase in completed volume of deliverables (ads) by 14x during a period of 3x headcount.• Designed a career ladder to promote clarity and prioritize career growth.

Oversaw all creative projects, as well as internal and external task distribution to fulfill SLAs and quarterly targets.

Conceived, produced, and launched effective user acquisition campaigns for mobile apps. • Developed/tested copy, imagery, animation, and themes to increase active users.

Greater New York City Area

Established Likeable’s multimedia department, and guided teams through the acquisition of five Fortune 500 clients and over $400,000 of incremental revenue within the first year.• Launched #Because video series for Citrix that generated over 60 million views. • Featured in AdAge Best Practices: How to Improve Brand Metrics with YouTube.

Greater New York City Area

Collaborated with cross-functional teams of product, marketing, and e-commerce staff to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to creative development.

Greater New York City Area

Served as the creative lead on video and digital media projects, and guided them from brainstorming to pre-production to final cut and distribution.

Greater New York City Area

Transformed data driven insights and ideas into fun, innovative, and compelling executions in collaboration with the creative team.

Los Angeles, Ca

Sample Projects:Lost Nomad Media (2011-2013)• Directed all animated and web-related projects for this science-based media company. • Organized the major sponsorship of ScienceOnline 2013, USA’s premier conference on scientific communications. • Directed the conference’s first-ever multi-camera livestream broadcast, viewed in over ten countries including Serbia and Denmark. Structureless Studios (2012-2013)• Created and integrated all visual components of “Gears of Time”, a 4-star-rated Android App, downloaded by over 700,000 users.Assistant Prop Stylist 2012-2013• Designed and manufactured props that were featured in print advertisements for Old Navy, Volkswagen, Apple, and TNT. ABC Television / Art Trout Studios 2008• Co-developed renderings for an open call to design the new set of Jeopardy!, incorporating Sony‘s state-of-the-art HD technology. Our proposal was selected over several other artist’s submissions and continues to be the current set.

Los Angeles, Ca

● Designed and produced hundreds of props for productions including “Boardwalk Empire,” "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," and "Anchorman 2." ● Developed a tight-knit working relationship with clients, becoming the company’s most requested Project Manager.● Performed under strict deadlines with quick turnaround at the accelerated pace of network television production.● Managed international purchases and deliveries, client accounts, file archiving, and digital server maintenance; onboarding lead for new hires.