Finland

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Content Design

Branding

Project Management

Content Strategy

Content Creation

Santi Fox

Creative Director

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Leadership

Content creation

Tiktok

WordPress

Youtube

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

ChatGPT

Figma

Mailchimp

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

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

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

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

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

Presenting your work with impact

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

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Working in productions as director of photography as well as Creative Director for the company.

• Collaborated with the marketing team and executive teams within K-Swiss Global Brands on creative concepts and briefs for seasonal campaigns and internal projects
• Art & Creative Direction, Photography, Retouching, Video Editing, and Videography, for Key Initiatives, Collaborations, and Performance Tennis for select projects
• Production of new concepts, recurring on-brand templates, and execution of marketing collateral for branded emails, social media, web banners, advertising, look books, OOH, etc.
• Oversaw companies creative vision, working with internal team and vendors to ensure a high standard of visual execution across all media and campaigns
• Manage the company’s internal file sharing service via Dropbox, One-Drive and Adobe Creative Cloud and build an intrasystem based on WordPress, direct the process of keeping files organized, uploaded and updated globally
• Inspire and motivate the marketing team to be creatively progressive, through the application of fresh and inventive visual work
• Uncover new ways to incorporate emerging and new media formats into campaigns on the homepage using microsite designs, and social media activations
• Management of a team of vendors which may include: Freelance Graphic Designers, social media agency, photographers, and more. Partner daily with Marketing Managers, Copy Writers, Business leads, Footwear, and Graphic Designers, 
• The visual direction of kswiss.com and all global websites where possible, and management of online marketing assets, including microsites, web banners, etc.
• Provide creative direction for K-Swiss in-store and tradeshow presence, create or direct assets for events as well as mockups before production
• Budgeting responsibilities including monetary negotiations with outside vendors, agencies and talent in concert with legal and HR

• Worked with the internal design and development department and our advertising agencies to come up with creative direction and stories to match our product to successfully create marketing assets for the brand's seasonal asset needs.
• Produce high-quality user experiences and visual designs in collaboration with the e-commerce team to reach the goals set for improving sales
• Approve and modify all the creative content that the brand produces.
• Hiring of creative professionals to work with projects with the in-house content
production team.
• Experience level matches required for the role, as well as current work tasks.
• Innovate and inspire effective internal productivity.
• Work to create strategies to achieve higher conversion rates for our e-commerce business.

Develop, through the use of computer graphic systems, the designs, art, sketches and copy layouts for material to be presented by visual communications media. Responsible for the design and production of sales and marketing collateral, this includes but is not limited to national trade show graphics, POP, premiums, special events, catalogs, packaging, advertising and other print creative. Also responsible for producing the photo and video digital assets needed within marketing, sales, and e-commerce multimedia communications

• Digital production including project plans and presentations, communicating project status to management, product and campaign photography in studio or at the location, retouching images for e-commerce and social media, graphic design, direct marketing, social media marketing, videography/directing and editing, help developing marketing strategies for digital media platforms and technical direction.

Photographed products for e-commerce, tradeshows, marketing and the official Holiday 2013 campaign. Filmed and directed videos to represent the brand in its marketing through Instagram and YouTube. Designed direct marketing sent out to the customer base via email.

Various responsibilities for concepts relating to nightclubs, nightclub marketing, social media and graphic design. I got promoted from Graphic Designer to Art Director in 2011. Worked on projects for Playboy, One Piece, Microsoft, Live Nation, Citroën, Rihanna, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, James Bond - Skyfall and Cirque Du Soir.

Event and talent hosting for the venue. Project coordination and planning promotion with the internal teams and executives.

Producing creative projects including but not limited to documentary films and series, multimedia projects, web design, photography for editorial and advertising, short film, and music videos.

While serving in the military for 9 months in Finland. I was chosen to work on several classified projects. Received a honorary award for my work with the Naval Academy of Finland.

Hosted events around the country and represented the company at the events. Organized contests and giveaways with the partnering brands including Acer, Creative, Logitech, Jimms and Microsoft.

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