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Leticia F.

Brand Creative Strategist | Art Director | Visual Storyteller

Brazil15+ years experienceAvailable now$8,000/mo

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Notable Highlight

Built creative strategies connecting cultural trends, audience behavior, and brand objectives to produce campaigns with strong organic engagement and measurable business impact. Worked with globally recognized organizations including Bradesco, a previous company, Rock in Rio, Lollapalooza, Coca-Cola Brasil, Disney, Projeto TAMAR, Faber-Castell, Palmeiras FC, Brahma, and Turner. Combined strategic brand thinking with hands-on creative execution, enabling ownership of projects from research and concept development through production, animation, illustration, editing, and final delivery. Demonstrated expertise in both B2B and B2C environments, creating compelling creative solutions for financial services, fintech, entertainment, technology, conservation, education, and consumer brands. Collaborated with distributed international teams while managing multiple concurrent projects and consistently delivering high-quality creative work. EU dual citizenship.

Experience Summary

Creative Strategist and Art Director with over 15 years of experience developing creative strategies, brand positioning, and visual campaigns for global brands across fintech, banking, entertainment, technology, culture, and consumer products. Led projects from strategic insight and creative concept through art direction, motion design, illustration, video production, and final delivery across digital, social, print, and interactive platforms. Created social-first campaigns for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn while maintaining brand consistency across international markets. Combined cultural insight, audience behavior, and AI-enabled creative workflows to produce engaging, high-performing campaigns for both B2B and B2C organizations. Collaborated remotely with international teams across Europe and Latin America.

Key Achievements

Delivered an organic social campaign for Bradesco that generated more than 4 million views, over 15,000 shares, and 89% positive audience sentiment from a production budget of only $40 by identifying an emotionally driven video format that significantly outperformed the original campaign brief. Maintained brand consistency across more than 15 European markets during a three-year tenure with a previous company, translating complex B2B fintech messaging into clear, engaging creative assets while supporting a global brand serving over 2,800 clients across 70 countries. Led creative strategy, concept development, art direction, motion production, and asset creation for campaigns spanning financial services, technology, entertainment, music, education, and cultural brands, delivering high-quality work independently across multiple international time zones. Won first place in a national design competition with Projeto TAMAR, resulting in a nine-year creative partnership as the brand's primary illustration and visual identity contributor, producing nationally distributed seasonal product collections that strengthened brand recognition and commercial success. Directed and produced interactive digital experiences, including augmented reality filters, Facebook Canvas campaigns, and large-scale illustrated experiences for internationally recognized brands and events including Rock in Rio, Coca-Cola Brasil, Disney, Palmeiras FC, and Faber-Castell. Integrated AI tools including ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL·E, and Adobe Firefly into creative strategy and production workflows, reducing concept-to-delivery timelines by approximately 60% while maintaining creative quality and strategic effectiveness.

Skills

Brand Creative StrategyCreative ConceptingCultural InsightAudience Behavior AnalysisArt DirectionVisual StorytellingSocial-First Creative SystemsMotion DesignEnd-to-End Creative ProductionCampaign DevelopmentFormat HypothesisAdobe Creative SuiteAI-Integrated WorkflowsDigital CampaignsRemote CollaborationArt DirectionBrand Creative StrategyMotion DesignVisual StorytellingSocial-First CreativeEnd-to-End Creative ProductionAdobe Creative SuiteAI-Integrated WorkflowsDigital CampaignsIllustration

Work Experience

Senior Art Director & Designer (Freelance)

RIC · Nov 2022 - Present

  • Design static and motion creative for international clients, translating brand identity into platform-native assets for social channels.
  • Use AI tools (Midjourney, ChatGPT, DALL-E) to extend creative output and maintain brand guardrails across a growing volume of assets.

Senior Art Director

a previous company · Remote (Germany-based B2B Tech) · Nov 2022 - Oct 2025

  • Own the full creative pipeline-static and motion-for a B2B platform serving 2,800+ clients across 70 countries.
  • Build and maintain scalable production processes and brand guardrails that hold visual quality consistent across 15+ European markets simultaneously, working independently at high volume.

Art Director

DCPB · Mar 2016 - Nov 2022

  • Direct and personally execute a fully animated 2D campaign for Bradesco (110.5M+ customers) that generated 4M+ organic views on a $40 budget-proof of strong instinct for what earns attention and drives sharing on social platforms.
  • Create an educational motion series reaching 2.3M+ views, adapting brand tone into platform-native, hook-driven formats.

Art Director

DICA · 2011 - 2015

  • Produce static and motion assets for entertainment brands including Rock in Rio and Lollapalooza, developing platform-native content for young, digitally-native audiences under fast-paced, high-volume production conditions.

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