Early Career at Spruce — Building a Fintech Brand From the Ground Up
Spruce was a fast-moving fintech startup where I learned how to build a brand in real time. With tight budgets and a small team, I took on a wide range of creative responsibilities — video, photography, print collateral, the website, and even our first brand guidelines. Spruce was also where I began to leverage and understand the value in creative operations, project management tools and DAMs.
It was a scrappy, energetic environment that taught me how to move quickly, think creatively, and deliver high-quality work with limited resources.
This section includes a selection of the work I created during that time — the hands-on foundation that shaped how I lead creative production today.
spruce /sprōōs/
noun: spruce; plural noun: spruces
a widespread coniferous tree that has a distinctive conical shape and hanging cones, widely grown for timber, pulp, and landscaping.
verb: spruce; spruces; spruced;
make a person or place smarter or tidier.
“the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings”
synonyms: smarten (up), tidy, neaten, declutter, order, clean,upgrade, renovate