Get in touch: jack@jackmakes.com

Experience:

  • Senior Program Manager, Global Brand Experience (GXD) Team, Google — Aug 2024 - Present
    -Led a key product workstream through two global launch cycles for Pixel and Nest/Home, managing creative delivery across multiple markets.
    -Was the main link between creative teams in California and New York and an animation team in Europe, ensuring smooth, on-time deliveries.
    -Managed the full production process from brief to localization, supporting rollout across dozens of regions and markets.
    -Kept stakeholders aligned across Brand, Product, and Regional Marketing teams to maintain message consistency and quality. Balanced speed and scale while protecting creative vision and artists sanity in a fast-moving Global-launch environment. -Maintained multi-level communication through decks, documents and slides for project status throughout launch cycles.

  • Freelance Senior Creative Producer, Various Shops; San Francisco, CA — 2023 - Present
    -Including Jellyfish Global and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

  • Senior Creative Producer, Goodby Silverstein & Partners; San Francisco, CA — 2018 - 2023
    -Founding Member and Inaugural EP of the AI Department at G,S & P — 2022 - 2023
    Continuing to work with an absolutely amazing team of Editors, Motion Designers, Audio Engineers, Producers, Account People and Creatives to produce outstanding, award winning films, creative content and advertisements. Making commercial art pieces for Television, Social Media, Outdoor, Experiential, creative development and new technologies.
    Experimented with and tested AI tools to help maximize our new Hybrid-style production pipeline, worked with HugggingFace to establish and codify an agency manifesto defining our goals on utilizing AI in the most human-first way, as a tool in the hand of Creatives and Producers.

  •  Creative Producer, Goodby Silverstein & Partners; San Francisco, CA — 2015 - 2018
    -Worked with some of the industry’s best Editors, Motion Designers, Audio Engineers, Producers, Account People and Creatives to craft Broadcast TV spots, all manner of web, pre-roll and social videos as well as award show entries, pitch videos, case studies and sizzle reels in addition to project budget management and actualization.

  • Associate Post Producer, Various Shops; San Francisco, CA —2015
    -Supported Senior Producers on elements of production including casting, booking, audio recording, audio mixing, talent/agent communications for radio spots, and online/offline editing, color correction, conforming, music licensing and preparation for traffic for TV/Web spots. Maintaining weekly broadcast production status report, formatting and maintaining folder architecture for digital assets archiving, editing videos for in house use, recording and pre-mixing audio for creative development, edited and formatted case studies.
    (Shops including Venables Bell & Partners and Barett/Hofherr)

Education

  • Academy of Art University; San Francisco, CA – BFA Advertising (Concentration: Art Direction)  2015

  • Carrington College of California; Emeryville, CA — Certificate in Graphic Design 2010

Awards

  • Includes Cannes Lions, Apple AppStore App of the day, D&AD, ADC, Facebook Best-Use-of-Platform amongst many others, complete list available upon request.