Vetted Creative Directors in California

“Marketing designer/creative lead who builds scalable Figma-based systems for high-volume growth and community creative. Led a Recurly campaign aligned to a brand refresh (including creative testing like light vs dark), and served as the sole designer for Grow Therapy’s inaugural “Grow Forward” summit producing a full suite of event assets plus modular community templates for ongoing programming.”

“Video editor with 15+ years of experience across major NLEs (Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci, Sony Vegas) and a strong focus on longform YouTube retention through pacing, audio, and recurring hooks. Produced end-to-end, graphic-heavy weekly content for the Ditto Music Channel (self-filmed/edited/narrated/scripted), contributing to a library of 30–40 videos reaching ~5K–200K views each.”

“Senior/brand designer with portfolio work spanning fintech and AI SaaS, including leading the Daylight Grow launch for an LGBTQ+ audience across multiple channels (web, social, email, events, merch, OOH). Expanded Cleanlab’s Figma design system in close partnership with engineering and led visual QA to support fast, high-volume iteration without quality drift; also drove direct mail + landing page redesigns for Happy Money to improve acquisition performance.”

“Candidate declined to proceed with the text-based/AI screening format and did not share portfolio details, stating a preference to walk a human through their work and assess role/culture fit in a two-way conversation.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketer with healthcare/practice-operations domain fluency who built highly targeted campaigns for a premium insurance-claims product, using customer data signals to find best-fit accounts and generating roughly $800K in incremental revenue. Experienced as a central hub coordinating sales, product, legal, design, pricing/billing, and leadership to deliver consistent messaging without overwhelming customers.”

“Growth creative specialist who builds and iterates high-volume, platform-native paid social ads for an AI app (Smarter Chat), using performance analytics (hook/hold rates) to engineer creative improvements. Developed a POV/"hidden camera" confrontation concept around infidelity that achieved a $2 CPA and influenced broader creative strategy toward more authentic, unscripted-feeling social content.”