Paul Ruxton
Creative Director
Never stop learning.
Balancing between design and music, I have spent most of my life as a creative professional, starting with my first paid job at age 16 as a session player on a McDonald’s ad. Since landing my first design gig at Hitachi as a web designer, I have worked in design leadership at LinkedIn, Bizo, and most recently Creative Director and Head of Brand at Checkr.
As a designer, I have many years of experience developing strategy, concepts, and designs for a wide range of brands. As a design leader, I have nearly 20 years of experience leading and building cross-functional, multi-disciplinary, in-house creative teams in both global enterprise and SMB startup environments.
I have collected life lessons and valuable skills at each journey step. The diversity of my coworkers, teammates, brands, mediums, and projects has informed who I am as a creative professional and leader.
Brands: LinkedIn, Hitachi, Motorola, Checkr, Denon, EFI, Seagate, Bizo, Qwill, Olive Garden, Papa Johns, Applebees, Universal Music Group, and Talking House Records.
Specialties: Leadership, creative direction, strategy, brand growth, brand design and identity, integrated marketing communications, and visual communications.