( Marvin James )

A strategy director with a decade of experience working with brands, creative agencies, and strategic consultancies whose curiosity-driven practice focuses on developing businesses, crafting narratives, building products, or creating experiences that empathize, inspire, and provide.

1. Empathize - “meet me where I am, take the necessary time to listen”
2. Inspire - “teach me something new, spark something in me, make my understanding and pursuit of this human experience richer”
3. Provide - “fulfill a need state, give me something; I’m not just a consumer help me facilitate the production of my life.”

select project outcomes

Smashbox Open Studios | 360° Strategic Development ^»

Roblox | Brand Repositoining & Mission Statement ^»

Polaroid | Product Strategy & Creative Brief ^»

Oakley x UNINTERRUPTED | Partnership Strategy ^»

Manual | Brand Development & Cultural Strategy ^»

select agencies

Wolff Olins, Imprint Projects, FNDR, The Springhill Company, phenomenon, Dendro, Opus, Decoded Advertising, The Woo, Tool of North America, DDB San Francisco, Hammer Creative

select brands

Farfetch, SONOS, Polaroid, Manual, Rent The Runway, Roblox, Activision, Manual, General Motors, ASICS, Oakley, Daily Harvest, TheSkimm, Smashbox Cosmetics, Snapchat, UNINTERRUPTED, Mr. Cooper, Sprite, Champs Sports/Eastbay, Springhill Copmany, Hennessy, HP, Nova Credit, Intuit, Private Medical, Visa, T-Mobile

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