United States

Graphic Design

Branding and Identity Design

Joe Montefusco

Manager, Brand Identity Systems

Collaboration

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Brand positioning

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Asana

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Empathy

Communication

Presentation skills

Branding

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Brand design lead for the video infrastructure product, Mux. I helped lead a total rebrand of the company’s corporate identity while managing a team of brand-focused designers.

I started the brand design team, instituted best practices, made hiring decisions, and managed a team of designers focused on evolving the Mural brand. I also led early efforts to begin a complete redesign of the Mural brand by vetting and briefing agencies, bringing in executive stakeholders at key decision points, and rallying the team around the goal of defining, documenting, and evolving Mural's brand presence across both product and marketing touchpoints.

Art director on a small specialized team of brand leads. We worked to expand and define the Mailchimp brand in all areas– marketing, web, in-app, product marketing, and more. Led internal teams as well as agency partners in all manner of work including:

• Leading development of Mailchimp’s custom brand typeface, Means
• Audio and sound identity conception and development
• Integration and consideration of the Mailchimp brand in the app
•  Art direction and design of sub-brand identities like Mailchimp Presents, Mailchimp Developers, and Mailchimp’s Partner Program
• Mailchimp Presents social and web work
• System for branded intelligence used in-app and in marketing
• Onboarded 100+ designers, partners, and agencies to the Mailchimp brand

Key member of of the award winning 2018 Mailchimp rebrand team. Filled role as a key brand voice, design and illustration curator, and direct liaison between our in-house team and our agency partners.

In my role, I often worked with product folks, marketing peeps, design systems nerds, writing teams, and executive leadership to ensure the Mailchimp voice was thoughtfully applied and considered. I similarly worked to document the rules and decisions we made so that we could break them all later.

Designer working on a quickly growing team on brand and product marketing efforts. Helped support the launch of new products and features inside the Mailchimp app. Worked to integrate the brand more naturally into Mailchimp app experiences.

Lead brand designer and illustrator for the location-based social media app Yik Yak. Sole brand and marketing designer working on too many things at once. Responsible for brand strategy, brand design, illustration, brand and product marketing, and implementing the brand into the product experience.

Great times were had in this role until the company and product closed its doors.

Joe Montefusco🇺🇸