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JASON WALKER

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Give one strategic idea a complete creative life.

I lead ideas from strategic premise through campaign, identity, film and experience. My role is to align teams around one customer truth, protect the idea through execution and make every touchpoint feel born from the same belief.

01The beautiful solution

Fight for the beautiful solution.

Surprise. Appropriateness. Elegance.

Practice

How I direct the work

Creative direction gives the strategy a form people can feel, then protects that idea across every discipline and channel.

Begin with the strategic premise.

A campaign should be the most visible consequence of the strategy, not a separate layer placed over it.

Fight for the beautiful solution.

Beautiful work pursues three qualities: surprise, appropriateness and elegance. Surprise is the innovation that catches and holds attention. Appropriateness turns that attention into resonance instead of simple provocation. Elegance makes the solution economical and meaningful enough to stick with the customer.

Protect the idea.

Every frame, line, transition and channel either clarifies the central idea or weakens it.

Work across disciplines.

Bring design, writing, film, motion, interaction and experience into one creative grammar without erasing what each discipline does best.

Know when the work is finished.

Creative leadership requires enough conviction to keep refining and enough judgment to stop before refinement drains the life from the idea.

02Knowing when to stop

Stop before refinement drains the life from the idea.

Outcomes

Selected creative outcomes

Creative direction earns attention, makes strategy tangible and keeps the idea intact everywhere the customer encounters it.

  1. Frontline21

    An integrated identity, campaign and live experience.

    Built Frontline21 across positioning, narrative, film, email and conference activation. The campaign exceeded its lead-generation target by 3×, produced roughly 180 accounts from one email and reached 6,000+ attendees.

    See the work (Frontline21)

  2. Flagship agency campaign

    $1.2M engagement and 18× the previous best result.

    Represented the brand through the company’s first major agency engagement and protected the strategic and creative intent through execution.

  3. Victory identity system

    Rebrand the product to rebrand the customer.

    The category had attached shame and surveillance to the customer. Directing the 2025 Victory identity meant making every choice express becoming and formation instead, so the form carried the strategy rather than decorating it.

    See the work (Victory)

  4. Colossal Man

    A recovery message became an entertainment property.

    Used superhero mythology, film, animation, game and comic storytelling to make accountability memorable while preserving the customer’s dignity and agency.

    See the work (Colossal Man)

  5. Radiant Mobile campaigns

    Made the hidden effect of technology visible.

    Directed Technology Changes Us and Chaos Not Included around one strategic position: technology shapes the household, and intentional structure gives people the ability to shape it back.

    See the work (Technology Changes Us)

Experience

Where the responsibility was carried

Fractional Marketing Leader

Radiant Mobile

Remote · May–June 2026

A short fractional engagement with America’s first Christian mobile wireless service. I led positioning, messaging, onboarding and lifecycle strategy, translated the network technology into language customers could understand, and began building the company’s first integrated marketing operating system.

  • Turned a differentiated network capability into a position customers could understand.
  • Designed the company’s first integrated marketing operating system, connecting workstreams to ownership, reporting and the customer journey.
  • Used AI-assisted workflows to accelerate research, comparison, writing and system development, with every output judged and released by a person.

Director of Creative Marketing

Covenant Eyes

Remote / Owosso, Michigan · 2018–May 2026

Creative and brand leadership inside an enterprise SaaS company, across eleven years with the company (2015–May 2026). In its first Creative Director role, I resolved a four-year strategic deadlock, led the 2020 Covenant Eyes rebrand, and went on to lead the 2025 Victory brand strategy and the portfolio architecture organizing Covenant Eyes, Victory, Five Stones and the supporting content brands.

  • Developed Frontline21 across identity, campaign, film, email and live experience.
  • Represented the brand inside the company’s first $1.2M agency engagement, protecting the strategic and creative intent through execution.
  • Directed Colossal Man across film, animation, game and comic storytelling.
  • Led The Healing Church identity, book design and campaign.
  • Directed the 2025 Victory identity system so every choice expressed becoming and formation rather than monitoring.
  • Directed a multi-brand portfolio without collapsing the brands into one visual voice.

Earlier experience

  • Senior Graphic Designer / UX (PRN) Tektonux · Remote / Huntsville, AL 2020–present
  • Lead Designer / Brand Strategist Covenant Eyes 2015–2018
  • Senior Technical Illustrator Yulista Aviation · Huntsville, AL 2013–2015
  • Staff Illustrator Archer (FX Network) 2013
  • Graduate Assistant & Lead Designer Georgia Southern University · Statesboro, GA 2012–2013
  • Instructor & Tennis Coach Screven County High School · Sylvania, GA 2006–2012
  • Designer Southeastern Marketing · Statesboro, GA 2006
  • Art Director / Designer Statesboro Herald · Statesboro, GA 2003–2006
  • Designer Spyglass 2003
  • Freelance Designer & Illustrator Clients incl. Valiant, Marvel, Upper Deck, White Wolf 1999–2003
  • Designer / Printer Neal Graphics 1999–2000
  • Designer Signs by Steve · the first one 1997–1999

04Leadership

Protect the idea without diminishing the people.

Creative direction should make the central idea clearer and the contributors stronger. The director holds the line while giving each discipline enough room to improve the work.

Education

Education and credentials

Education

  • M.F.A. Graphic Design Georgia Southern University 2010–2014
  • M.A.T. Teaching & Learning Georgia Southern University 2006–2008
  • B.F.A. Graphic Design Georgia Southern University 2004–2006
  • A.A. Fine Arts East Georgia College 1999–2002

Credentials

  • Certified Brand Architect Level C / Liquid Agency · Neumeier program 2022
  • Certified Brand Strategist Level C / Liquid Agency · Neumeier program 2021
  • Certified Brand Specialist Level C / Liquid Agency · Neumeier program 2020
  • Customer Experience Design Georgia Southern, Z-School Executive Program In progress

Learning

Study widens the creative range

Strategy, visual culture, storytelling, interaction, motion and emerging tools all expand what an idea can become. The discipline is knowing which possibility belongs to the work.

Contact

Give the idea the form it deserves.

If your organization needs strategic creative direction across brand, campaign and experience, let’s talk.

jasonwalker850@gmail.com

Email
jasonwalker850@gmail.com
Based
Wrightsville, Georgia
Working
Remote. Comfortable with appropriate travel.
Site
jasonwalker.design

© 2026 Jason Walker