Creative director. ✍🏼
explorer. 🌎
believer in the arts.🎭

I’m a passionate storyteller with over 15 years of advertising, brand, strategy, and business experience. Having worked as a Creative Director on both the agency and brand sides, I understand the strengths and weaknesses of both and synthesize that into an informed creative approach that both innovates and solves problems. I have a background in art direction, concept development, and creating big organizing ideas for brands. I have worked across all integrated media including broadcast/content production and post production, digital, on-platform, social, interactive, and experiential. I carry a tool belt of strong relationships with directors, editors, visual effects artists, and designers. I still believe in the craft of advertising and building brands through smart, simple, effective work.

Most recently, I’ve been in-house at Google / YouTube for the past 4+ years. I’ve worked on creative campaign development for Google’s Pixel line of products and before that helped launch YouTube’s award-winning in-house agency, Brand Creative Studio, where I’ve worked as a Group Creative Lead [Director]. There, I have spearheaded campaigns around tentpole brand initiatives such as Pandemic response, Sustainability, Pride, Media Literacy, and Artist Breakthrough Moments on the newly-launched YouTube Shorts.

As a creative leader, I strive to cultivate a work environment where people can feel safe in their ideas, included, inspired by their peers (and not just creative peers), and bring their boldest thinking to the table. Creativity at its finest is often at our most vulnerable.

I am also a father of both human and dog. I am a duel citizen of the US 🇺🇸 the UK 🇬🇧.
I sing mostly on-key. I collect oddities and ephemera. I garden. I once climbed the Great Wall. And fell from a great plane. I am often awake at all hours scribbling down random ideas - like opening a drag queen bagel shop. (Name suggestions welcome.)

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about me. I’d love to learn more about you. Feel free to reach out at andrewjaz@gmail.com or at +1 (917) 208-3395.