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Sarah Stepic Pisani

Summary

As a leader passionate about design, I direct creative projects across
multiple platforms and teams. I create on-brand concepts and strategies, guide generation of sophisticated and engaging visual content, and deliver production-ready print, digital and social assets for large scale marketing campaigns.

Experience

Senior Art Director of Global Brand and Creative Services
Commvault 
| 2015 - present

  • Create, direct and guide high-performing, on-brand visuals across multiple platforms including print, web, email, social, experiential, and promotional products with quick turnarounds and budget constraints

  • Lead productive and creative collaboration across various internal and external teams, including brand and digital agencies, comms, marketing, dev, and C-suite

  • Manage, prioritize and delegate department’s agile workloads; guide junior designers and provide creative feedback for efficient project flow

  • Oversee and approve compliance with corporate brand guidelines and strategy across all graphic deliverables created internally and externally

  • Managed creation of new corporate brand portal and established process; developed partner guidelines and steered collaboration with stakeholders

  • Key contributor to rebranding campaign; lead efforts across vendors and internal teams to create a variety of digital asset templates ensuring visual consistency

  • Coordinated with C-suite to create main stage presentations for international conference

Principal
Stepic Design formerly refineDzine | 1998 -2016

  • Created cohesive brand identities that successfully translate business mission statements into visually pleasing and memorable icons

  • Carried corporate identity through to printed and digital marketing collateral, including websites, banner ads, Eblasts, newsletters, presentations, programs, printed ads, posters, corporate invitations, and convention signage

  • Managed, maintained, and updated a non-profit website, oversaw registration
    campaign, managed registrants, and created categorized email distribution lists;
    monitored analytics

  • Developed concepts for event-driven direct mail campaigns for legal publishing
    company with limited resources and budgets

  • Successfully managed simultaneous projects and coordinated with multiple suppliers and printing resources with acute attention to details

  • Created client-driven, high-end, custom, couture invitations and engineered unique
    dimensional solutions for upscale stationery

Senior Art Director
Harrison & Star
| 1994 - 1998

  • Developed ad campaigns for pharmaceutical clients, including Abbot, Bracco,
    Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cephalon, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and Sanofi

  • Collaborated with writers on concept development and designed collateral for new business pitches

  • Developed brands; designed logos and a multitude of materials, including journal ads, sales sheets, patient kits, visual aids, and packaging

  • Managed commissioned artists and directed photoshoots

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Microsoft Office
Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Education

New York University
BA with a Concentration in Graphic Design | Graduated Cum Laude

American Graphics Institute
UX Design Certificate​

School of Visual Arts
Graphic Design Classes

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