Jesse Wood

Senior Visual Designer & Creative Lead

A decade in creative roles proved one thing: brands only become memorable when one person owns the complete vision. I've spent my career mastering strategy, design, digital, video, animation, and everything in between to earn that 'I know that brand anywhere' moment.

Jack of all trades

A full hand of creative skills — and I know exactly when to play each one.

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Branding & Strategy

Branding, Logo Design, Brand Guidelines, Brand Audits, Creative Strategy, Campaign Planning, Asana, Zapier

Illustration of diverse people cheering and playing guitar around a phone screen showing a social media giveaway post for a PayByPhone Block Party event.

Digital Design

Social Media Content and Templates, Website Assets, Digital Advertising, Illustrations, Icons, Digital Promotional Content

Open magazine spread showing a mountain biker riding fast through a forest with blurred background and text titled 'Tunnel Vision' describing the experience.

Print Design

Marketing and Event Collateral, Signage, Catalogues, Business Cards, Training Materials, Packaging, Billboards

Laptop on white desk displaying a webpage titled Simplify Your Summer with a focus on San Francisco, featuring navigation buttons for Seattle, San Francisco, and Miami.

Web Design

Webflow, Figma, WordPress, HTML5 & CSS, Unbounce, Landing Pages, Mailchimp, Email Campaigns

A person in a striped sweater holding a smartphone to make a contactless payment to a cashier in a blue apron.

Video & Animation

Product, Lifestyle, Training Materials, Promotional, Animation, Motion Graphics

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Photography

Lifestyle, Product, Photoshop, Compositing, Commercial Photo Shoot Planning

Experience

Global Senior Visual Designer
PayByPhone
2024 - Current
  • Led complete creative campaigns from concept to delivery—branding, print, digital—making sure everything aligned with business goals and brand standards.
  • Built design systems and templates that kept every touchpoint consistent, because brands fall apart when pieces don't connect.
  • Presented concepts to clients and stakeholders, then turned their feedback into solutions that improved the final work.
  • Delivered 600+ projects across marketing campaigns, signage, print, and social media—work that drove real client satisfaction and measurable app adoption.
  • Managed the global ticketing system and implemented automation that actually sped things up instead of creating more problems.
Freelance Multimedia Designer
Jesse Wood
2013 - Current
  • Provide complete creative services—branding, design, web development, photography, videography—handling everything clients need.
  • Delivered end-to-end creative solutions without the agency overhead, managing projects from initial strategy through final delivery.
  • Streamlined creative processes to deliver professional results faster than traditional agency timelines, proving one focused expert can outperform entire creative teams.
Multimedia & Digital Designer
PayByPhone
2021 - 2024
  • Handled complete North American branding projects—print, digital, everything—making sure it all connects with business goals and brand standards.
  • Built templates that keep every touchpoint consistent.
  • Delivered marketing campaigns, signage, print materials, and social media assets that move the needle on client satisfaction and app adoption.
Graphic Designer
Sugoi Performance Apparel & Sombrio
2018 - 2020
  • Created everything they needed—catalogues, flyers, social media graphics, email templates—keeping it all visually connected.
  • Worked directly with marketing and sales to build campaigns that looked cohesive and drove real sales results.
  • Handled a complete product commercial from planning through final edit, managing videography and post-production myself.
  • Utilized creative problem-solving to save the company over $10,000 by creating content in-house.
Multimedia Designer
Allegra.ca
2015 - 2017
  • Mastered InDesign and built expertise in print, event, and custom packaging design—everything a print shop throws at you.
  • Handled 20+ projects daily while hitting every deadline, because in print there's no "we'll fix it later."
  • Learned to solve design problems fast when clients walked in with impossible requests and needed it yesterday.