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Insight

Google Ads isn't one thing to design for. It's a product people have to learn, a brand people have to trust, a workplace people show up to, and increasingly, a set of promises around privacy and sustainability that carry real weight. Creative for a portfolio like that can't live in one lane. It has to move fluidly between product, brand, space, and policy, and it has to hold up under scrutiny every time.

Idea

Instead of treating each of these as separate disciplines with separate teams, I built a creative practice that could flex across all of them. Product launches got the same craft as brand campaigns. Personalization got treated as a creative problem, not just a data one. The physical workspace became part of the brand story. And trust-critical work, privacy and sustainability, got handled with the care those topics demand. I also sat on the review team that set the bar for what shipped, so the standard wasn't just something I asked of others. I held it myself, across everyone's work. And when the question got bigger, what Google Ads should even be next, I led the team that took it on: figuring out how the product should evolve and how customers and the industry should see it, distinct from every competitor doing the same thing.

Role

At Monks, I led the Google Ads creative team as Creative Director, overseeing a team of 10 to 25 across a wide range of work. I owned creative for major product launches including the Google Ads Migration Tool and Google Customer Solutions. I led email campaigns that used machine learning to build personalized creative at scale. I directed the workplace branding for the Google Ads space in Redwood City. I supported and launched the Google Privacy homepage and contributed to Google Sustainability initiatives. I also sat on the Google Ads Creative Review team, reviewing all work shipped on behalf of Google. On top of that, I led the Google Ads Refresh Team, tasked with creatively solving the next evolution of Google Ads and how customers and the industry perceive it, and separating it from competitors.

That leadership has carried forward. I now oversee the creative team at Thedas supporting Google Maps, including Google Earth, carrying the same standard from one agency partnership to the next.

role

At Monks, I led the Google Ads creative team as Creative Director, overseeing a team of 10 to 25 across a wide range of work. I owned creative for major product launches including the Google Ads Migration Tool and Google Customer Solutions. I led email campaigns that used machine learning to build personalized creative at scale. I directed the workplace branding for the Google Ads space in Redwood City. I supported and launched the Google Privacy homepage and contributed to Google Sustainability initiatives. I also sat on the Google Ads Creative Review team, reviewing all work shipped on behalf of Google. On top of that, I led the Google Ads Refresh Team, tasked with creatively solving the next evolution of Google Ads and how customers and the industry perceive it, and separating it from competitors.

That leadership has carried forward. I now oversee the creative team at Thedas supporting Google Maps, including Google Earth, carrying the same standard from one agency partnership to the next.

Impact

This was creative leadership across some of Google's most visible and highest-stakes surfaces at once: the products people use to run their business, the emails that reach them at scale, the space their own employees work in every day, and the pages that ask users to trust Google with their data and the planet. Sitting on the Creative Review team meant I wasn't just producing that work, I was one of the people accountable for the quality bar across all of it. That range, and that trust, is the throughline that's carried into leading creative for Google Maps and Earth today.

Impact

This was creative leadership across some of Google's most visible and highest-stakes surfaces at once: the products people use to run their business, the emails that reach them at scale, the space their own employees work in every day, and the pages that ask users to trust Google with their data and the planet. Sitting on the Creative Review team meant I wasn't just producing that work, I was one of the people accountable for the quality bar across all of it. That range, and that trust, is the throughline that's carried into leading creative for Google Maps and Earth today.

role

At Monks, I led the Google Ads creative team as Creative Director, overseeing a team of 10 to 25 across a wide range of work. I owned creative for major product launches including the Google Ads Migration Tool and Google Customer Solutions. I led email campaigns that used machine learning to build personalized creative at scale. I directed the workplace branding for the Google Ads space in Redwood City. I supported and launched the Google Privacy homepage and contributed to Google Sustainability initiatives. I also sat on the Google Ads Creative Review team, reviewing all work shipped on behalf of Google. On top of that, I led the Google Ads Refresh Team, tasked with creatively solving the next evolution of Google Ads and how customers and the industry perceive it, and separating it from competitors.

That leadership has carried forward. I now oversee the creative team at Thedas supporting Google Maps, including Google Earth, carrying the same standard from one agency partnership to the next.

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