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Global Digital Design Director

Top Management

Creative Director and Creative Team Leader with over 14 years of professional experience working for some of the world’s most notable brands. First and foremost, I am a critical thinker and problem solver. Whether it’s finding an out-of-the-box creative solution or streamlining outdated processes and systems, I have the eye and experience to help companies thrive in today’s market. Moreover, I am a steadfast partner and strategic team builder who thrives in collaborative environments, knowing it takes a high-functioning team to create and launch extraordinary products and experiences.

CORE EXPERTISE:
• Creative Direction
• Digital Design Systems
• Omni-Channel Marketing Strategies
• Brand Building
• Creative Strategy
• Team Leadership
• UX Design & Research
• Design Thinking & Innovation
• E-commerce
• Digital Marketing
• In Store Visual Merchandising
• Events 
• Social Media Strategy and Marketing

• Established and led the implementation of a standardized global system for digital design and best practices across all Boardrider's brands, collaborating with cross-functional teams on various digital platforms including websites, paid media, social media, and email marketing.

• Analyzed the creative development process to identify global process inefficiencies, recommended and road-mapped long-term solutions that led to a 78% reduction in resource usage.

• Key partner in the creation and direction of an established design system including digital brand style guide, component library, and icon library to support the Quiksilver website redesign. 

• Spearheaded the creative direction, development and deployment of a global email design system for all Boardrider's brands,. This helped to streamline email production and ensured brand consistency across multiple teams and regions, resulting in a 63% increase in revenue per email.

• Led and coached creative and photography teams with a hands-on approach to visual direction and execution. Demonstrated exceptional creative direction skills, resulting in expanded responsibilities to oversee all omni-channel creative initiatives and launches.

• Key stakeholder working directly with executive team and agency partners on strategy, direction, and design for all re-branding and re-structuring of online and social landscapes. Key player in the website overhaul and re-platforming. 

• Introduced the development and implementation of a streamlined go-to-market process in collaboration with cross-functional teams and project managers. Achieved significant business growth by identifying process inefficiencies, optimizing work flow, and reducing project turnaround times.

Creative Digital Design Manager

Art direction of creative team in the ideation, design, and execution of campaign and brand collateral to ensure brand integrity and campaign consistency across all channels including Visual Merchandising, Sales, Education, PR, Events, Corporate, Digital, Online, and Social

Support the Executive Art Director/Creative Director with mood boards, stylized photography concepts, campaign logo/tag-line lock-ups, and brand guidelines

Manage, develop, and mentor a team of 20 including: Design Managers, Graphic Designers, Project Managers, Events Team, and Branded Collateral Team to institute processes to maximize department efficiencies and ensure deadlines are met

Provide support to the Project Management Team to ensure creative requests are reviewed, assigned, and meet all brief requirements

Work closely with cross-functional team leaders and company VPs to create and implement a go-to-market process to ensure successful product launches and ROI’s are met

Get “hands on” during the design process and present final assets to stakeholders for approval

Ensure creative deliverables follow all industry best practices in print production, visual merchandising, conversion marketing, and digital development


Director Creative Services

Art direct, visualize, conceptualize, and work with creative team to design cohesive campaigns and brand collateral across all print, digital, social, visual merchandising, PR, events, education, sales, and corporate channels

Manage, lead, and develop creative team to produce best-in-class creative consistently and guide them to make smart strategic creative decisions

Partner closely with cross-functional team members to present creative and facilitate effective feedback and implementation

Hire and manage external vendors to execute new and innovative print and digital techniques

Senior Manager Creative

Art direct, concept, create, and manage the Interactive Design Team to ensure brand integrity and campaign consistency across all digital platforms including experience/ interface design, website graphics, email marketing, social assets, and banner advertising

Elevate team development and provide quality assurance for creative deliverables that follow web/digital industry trends and best practices

Work closely with the PM team to map out execution of all phases of projects from start to completion ensuring deadlines are met

Interactive Design Manager


Lead and direct the design of interactive creative solutions across all areas of business including client projects, new business development efforts and internal branding

Provide senior-level design insights, best practices, and creative inspiration

Work closely with cross-functional team members to present creative and facilitate deliverables that follow web/digital industry trends and best practices

Interactive Art Director

Create dynamic, compelling, and compliant web and print collateral from concept through fruition to successfully communicate Too Faced identity and brand standards. Work alongside creative director and department managers to help lead the creative team from rough concepts into effective designs that visually reinforce project goals. Respected leader and mentor to junior team members. 


Graphic Designer

Clients include: GMAC Mortgage, Ditech, Enterprise Car Sales, Loan Depot, Specific Media, Galpin Automotive, and numerous automotive groups.

Art direction and design of West Houston Infiniti dealership website that was subsequently used as sales collateral helping the 10th Degree sales team increase business by landing 2 large scale auto groups, one of which boasts 24 dealerships under it’s umbrella. 

Designed and developed rich media ads for car dealerships nationwide that led to a dramatic increase in web leads with the launch 

Senior Graphic Designer/Art Director

Built cohesive, recognizable brand print and web collateral by designing, implementing, and expanding on a group of existing brand standards.

Freelance Graphic Designer

Extensive photo retouching and color correction. Design and layout of magazine style photo albums, company ads, brochures, and stationary.

Freelance

Helped increase retail sales by over 46% by designing and managing the production of retail merchandise that included screen-printed t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, hang tags, table top displays, and packaging.

Kristen Arimond is a Global Digital Design Director at Boardriders in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.

Kristen Arimond

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California State University-Fullerton