Damien Terwagne
Senior Creative Director | Brand & Product
Salary / Daily rate
Annecy, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Creative Director with 15+ years transforming raw visions into powerful brands for companies like Whale, Loctax, and Airtasker. Expert in brand strategy, visual identity, and cross-channel campaigns that drive market impact. Ready to elevate your brand with strategic design thinking and proven leadership experience.
Work experience
Lead Brand, Product & Marketing Creative
Whale (usewhale.io)
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 4 months
Annecy, France
Whale is the knowledge-transfer and training platform that connects your team to their every process, best practice and procedure, in the moment of need. https://www.usewhale.io
Lead Brand Designer
Loctax
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
11 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Loctax is the first-ever collaborative tax governance platform for global in-house tax teams. It helps to achieve full control of compliance, projects, audits, transfer pricing, and all other tax responsibilities. One source of truth that enables organisations to prepare for the ESG era. At Loctax, I am leading brand design initiatives to help define, maintain and expand on the visual brand for Loctax by crafting consistent visual narratives across sales, marketing and product.
Founder
DawnFreelance
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
1 year 1 month
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Making project management more human by building a tool that not only allows you to be productive but also takes care of the people on your team. Making them work better hours, rather than more hours. Making sure they're working on the right tasks and the right amount of them. Making sure you have an idea of what lies ahead whilst tackling what is important now.
Owner/Workshop Facilitator
Sprints in the Alps
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
10 months
Annecy, France
We work and collaborate with companies of all sizes, through design sprints or brand worshops, on solidifying their strategy, improve their products, innovate on completely new verticals or simply to better build their brand.
Creative Director/Co-Founder
NonzeroFreelance
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year 2 months
69340 Francheville, France
Working with a wide variety of clients (from big companies through to startups) around the globe to further their brand initiatives (branding, strategy, campaigns), improve or grow their web presence (web design + development) and eventually help them meet their market's expectations.
Lead Brand Designer
Sleeknote
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
1 year 5 months
At Sleeknote, I will be leading various brand/marketing design initiatives to create a strong, unique brand for our multiple channels.
Airtasker
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years 1 month
London, UK
Brand Design Manager
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
10 months
London, UK
In the UK, being a very small team of 5, what I do on a daily basis is a lot more hands-on. I’m in charge of making sure everything we create is carrying the Airtasker touch and quality both from a visual + brand perspective. To this day, I’ve worked on: - Creating strong visual concepts to establish our social media presence prior to and after launch. - Found reliable partners to work with in the UK from a merchandising, print and audiovisual point of view. - Have worked hand-in-hand with HQ to flesh out our new photography guidelines. - Have organised and designed “care packs” we sent out to high-profile journalists. - Am working on “Tasker Portraits”: photoshoots I’m organising to get to know the people making our community in order to tell their stories.
Design Lead
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 3 months
Région de Sydney, Australie
When joining Airtasker in Sydney, I started off working within a unified design team and tackled a variety of projects that were sitting on both the product and brand side of things. With the team growing rapidly, I initiated and worked closely with the VP of Design on establishing design processes and creating a strong design culture that would be extremely valuable for the whole design team moving forward. After a few months, we created the Brand Team, a team focusing purely on everything brand related: from icons, to illustrations through to landing pages, merchandising, photography, videography, ATL marketing, but also Product Marketing initiatives (for/with product teams) or internal initiatives (supporting the People Operations team etc). During my time in the Sydney office, I led all aspects of design for the Brand Team, working closely with extremely talented folks (designers, illustrator and copywriters) on pushing the boundaries and the quality of design for the company whilst helping them grow on a professional and personal level as much as possible. I also initiated and worked on what was going to become our Design Language (for web), re-designed the Blog and the Homepage, created a brand new set of 50+ icons (for use in the product), created/designed a flexible extension of our branding for what is now known as the Airtasker Community Summit (+ all collateral) and everything in-between.
Senior Digital Designer
Campaign Monitor
Jun 2014 - Jul 2016
2 years 2 months
Région de Sydney, Australie
Working as a Senior Digital Designer on the Marketing team, helping to market the product our engineers build. As part of my job, I need to consistently find better ways to talk about our product and help the existing and potential customers understand how to leverage it in the best of ways. I see my work to be facilitating our customers - and therefore company - to succeed in many ways.
Designer / Art Director
Pollen Digital
Sep 2011 - Jul 2014
2 years 11 months
Région de Sydney, Australie
Cutting-edge art direction, digital design and website design
Designer/Front-End Developer
Datanegativ
Sep 2009 - Jul 2011
1 year 11 months
Région de Bruxelles, Belgique
This was my freelance venture during which I did some work for agencies as well as for direct clients in various industries such as photographers, restaurants, a music label, a yoga teacher, an art gallery, and a couple music bands. I mostly did graphic design, art direction, web design and a bit of front-end development (html & css).