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Austin is a creative leader passionate about bringing ideas to life with designs that makes the technical feel human and authentic.

He specializes in driving impact and building exceptional teams.

12+ years experience of leading creative teams.

Creative Director
2022 - Present

Mentors a large team of UX, motion, and visual designers while managing agency vendors to create a collaborative team culture.

Develops compelling creative solutions that drive key measurable impact.

Leads the global small business marketing team’s email design system.

Design Lead, SMB Signals
2022 - 2023

Oversees the end-to-end of multiple large-scale projects while still willing to get hands-on.

Champions diversity and inclusion in marketing to ensure representation feels authentic and free of harmful stereotypes.

2022 Awards:

Design Lead, SMB Advertiser Onboarding
2019 - 2022

Built the creative team and developed the designer’s strengths.

Created a scalable and seamless operational model for design across small business marketing. (80+ person org)

Exceed the expectations of my cross-functional partners by consistently delivering creative that outperformed benchmarks.

Developed 130+ creative campaigns and two large-scale hubs each year. Traveled globally to film 15 global SMB success stories.

Sr Designer
2017 - 2019

Developed ways of working for the performance marketing creative team.

Mentored designers and led the end-to-end creative strategy on projects.

Increased the paid MAUs 4x and owned 6% of Yelp’s overall MAUs.

Sr Marketing Designer
2014 - 2017

Managed a team of 4 junior designers in developing assets for campaigns across a broad web, social, and product range.

Founded the design culture and identity for multiple e-commerce brands at a startup tech company.

Drove around $11MM in yearly revenue.

Production Designer
2012 - 2013

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