Resume
KELLY SULLIVAN
ART DIRECTOR | SENIOR BRAND DESIGNER | UX STRATEGIST
K.Sullivan.0123@gmail.com
(530) 949-8459
KSullWork.com
linkedin.com/in/kellysull/
EXPERIENCE
TGD—Ten Gun Designs , San Francisco, CA (Remote)
Freelance Art Director, July 2025–Present
Clients: Clients: Adobe & Meta
Developed compelling digital campaigns for Meta & Adobe to enhance their value proposition and visual narrative.
Created digital marketing campaigns, including web banners, social media content, email content, and landing pages.
Set creative direction for retail and e-commerce experiences, including PDPs, templates, and marketplaces such as Walmart.
Developed high-impact visual strategies for product launches and seasonal promotions.
Pottery Barn, San Francisco, CA
Senior Designer, Web Creative, August 2021–June 2025
Developed branding guidelines and collateral for Pottery Barn by building brand systems and components, coaching junior staff and multidisciplinary creatives to execute fully integrated digital campaigns.
Designed cohesive digital marketing templates for Pottery Barn’s multiple collaborations, ensuring a unified experience across website, social media, and email.
Unified the company’s digital teams by creating standardized brand systems, components, and templates in Figma, enhancing workflow efficiency and cohesion across all deliverables, resulting in seamless collaboration.
Media.Monks & Chromadex Inc., San Francisco, CA (Remote)
Freelance Art Director, November 2020–April 2021
Championed brand standards for an array of clients in media, health, retail, and e-commerce.
Collaborated with account managers and copywriters to develop and design digital campaigns for LinkedIn, significantly increasing user engagement and brand revenue.
Directed brand guidelines and execution across digital, print, and packaging channels—maintaining brand integrity across web, email, social media, landing pages, print, and paid media.
EARLY CAREER
IRON Creative, San Francisco, CA
Associate Creative Director, April 2019–December 2019
Clients: Salesforce, Twilio, Slack
Directed design development, collaborated with account managers to understand and meet client goals. Developed eBooks, digital campaigns, event graphics and other core deliverables.
Real Chemistry (Formally W20 Group), San Francisco, CA
Sr. Designer, September 2015–April 2019
Clients: Verily, Merck, Medtronic, Pfizer, Dendreon, Takeda, Abbvie
Evolved and challenged brands to elevate their creative look and feel. Using an agile process, developed visual brand languages and guidelines that held up in a range of mediums including: Websites, landing pages, social media, marketing documents, posters, and event signage.
eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions, San Francisco, CA
Designer, July 2013—September 2015
Clients: StubHub, PayPal, eBay, Wells Fargo
Led the development and execution of digital campaigns across email, landing pages, social media, and display banners. Created original campaign concepts, illustrations, and iconography to enhance brand engagement. Designed and launched a PayPal eCommerce website, overseeing feature prioritization, functionality decisions, and user interface design.
PushPoint Mobile, San Francisco, CA
Lead Visual Designer, January 2012—January 2013
Developed a self-service mobile advertising platform enabling merchants to create custom, data-driven ads that linked user actions to measurable outcomes. Led product development, from concept and wireframing to prototyping and final launch.
SOFTWARE
Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office
SKILLS
Art Direction, Graphic Design, Advertising, Branding, Working with Cross Functional Teams, Visual Brand Language, People Manager, Social, Design & Strategy, Story Boarding, Identity, Logo Design, Concept Development, Digital Illustration, Photo Retouching, User Experience UX, User Interface Design UI , Icon Design, Web Design, Responsive Design, Mobile Application Design, Prototyping, Typography, Wireframing.
AWARDS
PM360 2019 Greatest Creators—Favorite Cover Submissions Runner Up for “Revelry”, March 2019
RX Club Award Show—Award of Excellence for W2O Event Promo Posters, November 2018
RX Club Award Show—Award of Excellence for Merck’s Your Cancer Game Plan Integrated Campaign, November 2017
RX Club Award Show—Award of Excellence for Verily’s Cultural Value Posters, November 2017
eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions Ignite Award—Nominated for outstanding work on various projects, May 2015
eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions Inspired Action Award—Nominated for going well above and beyond roles and responsibilities to substantively impact business, March 2015
EDUCATION
Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
BFA–Advertising Art Direction, Winter 2009