Areas of Expertise

Creative Direction
Brand lead and guardian
Video production
Digital
People leader and development
Authenticity

/// Austin Maguire, Creative Director and Brand Lead

“I say, if your knee’s aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” - Calvin (& Hobbes of course)

To me adventure truly is everywhere. I’m a heart-on-my-sleeve Creative Director and Brand Lead with 15 years industry experience and a great sense of adventure, looking to join an innovative team to build on our passions together.

Core skills:

  • Creative team leader and pro-active coach who thrives at empowering designers, copywriters, video editors, producers, directors of photography, photographers, and more.

  • Inclusive leader—understanding the needs of others—to foster respect, and promote genuine collaboration across teams and agencies.

  • Brand development, direction and guardianship—extensive hands-on experience in managing stakeholders, establishing brand standards and guidelines, and their application across all corporate touchpoints.

  • Active champion of design and execution quality through design critique and review processes.

  • Problem solver with a passion for building scalable systems and brand toolkits to give creative teams and partners the freedom and clarity to succeed.

  • Departmental head experienced at establishing and maintaining client and key management relationships.

  • Campaign expert for branding, awareness and demand campaigns, and internal and operational programs to achieve business objectives.

  • Executional leader with extensive experience in video production, packaging and product design, brand merchandising, presentation scripting and environmental and experiential branding for large-scale event production.

  • Holistic thinker who brings an integrated, multi-channel approach to tackle marketing challenges, spanning the full customer life cycle, leveraging research and first-hand experiences to craft strategies, briefing documents, and the tactical programs that deliver.

For recommendations, skill endorsements, awards and more, please visit:
www.linkedin.com/in/austin-maguire/

To get in touch, email
austinmaguire@gmail.com