Experience, Creative & Product Strategist

Joshua
Teixeira

Make Stuff. Work Better.
makestuffworkbetter.com · linkedin.com/in/joshuateixeira
Brooklyn, NY · 917.488.3690 · teixeiraisthereason@gmail.com
Joshua Teixeira

I'm an experience strategist who loves turning tough problems into possibilities.

For 25+ years I've helped brands like Visa, Google, Levi's, IBM and Nike connect brand, marketing, product and service into experiences people actually use, across digital, mobile, ecommerce and in-person brand activations.

Most recently I led Experience Strategy for Digitas North America, growing a national team of 20 and an agency-wide way of working. I start with behavior, ground the work in customer research, and partner with executives to turn insight into roadmaps, launches and measurable results.

With early roots in music and storytelling, I've designed campaigns, built digital products and services, led and grown teams, and helped design a school and a bus (somehow unrelated).

Leadership
  • Team building and mentoring
  • Executive and C-suite partnership
  • New business and pitches
  • Organizational change and transformation
Strategy
  • Experience strategy
  • Customer journeys and CX
  • Brand strategy and positioning
  • Integrated campaigns
  • Go-to-market
  • Loyalty and CRM
  • Innovation and AI enablement
Design & Product
  • Digital product strategy and roadmaps
  • UX and service design
  • Mobile and ecommerce
  • Content strategy and governance
  • Design thinking, workshops and prototyping
Insights
  • Customer, user and stakeholder research
  • Usability testing
  • KPI frameworks and analytics
IndustriesB2C and B2B across financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, technology, sports, entertainment and gaming

Experience

Current
Consulting Experience Strategy Lead — Independent
04/2025 – Present

An embedded strategy lead for agencies, consultancies and startups that need to make stuff work better.

Gather — Creative, Experience & Strategy Lead
04/2025 – Present

Helping transform businesses from the inside out.

  • Shaped a demand-generation innovation engagement for WeWork.
  • Led marketing transformation, creative strategy and content for the Sports Fishing Championship League.
  • Helped Riot Games' global social team rethink how they work, using design thinking to uncover AI-powered efficiencies.
  • Helping launch a new Gather offering for non-profits and institutions.
Athletics — Consulting Experience Strategy Director
08/2025 – Present

Collaborating with an iconic brand design studio.

  • Lead experience strategy for the digital presence of Axiom, a new critical-infrastructure company building the smart grid of the future.
communities.inc — Fractional Experience Lead
04/2025 – Present

Helping build a new marketing channel where communities are the real influencers.

  • Lead experience strategy for communities.inc, a first-of-its-kind platform that connects brands directly with passionate, niche communities and fandoms.
  • Helped shape the brand partnership model and its in-person activations, including the WAX launch with Aslin Beer Company and skate legend Alex Corporan (with partners Shut Skateboards and Grillo's Pickles), and Tumblr's sponsorship of Brotaku, a passionate live gaming and stand-up comedy community I also help produce.
Parallel Atlas — Founder, Strategy Lead
04/2025 – Present

A new creative collective focused on helping brands win the attention economy.

  • Helped scale Brotaku, a live competitive-gaming and comedy roast series, across multiple cities and partners.
  • Led go-to-market innovation for Averent, a student-led indie game discovery platform.
  • Creative and social support for podcasts including You Know Too Much and the forthcoming People Aren't Pixels (from former Hollywood executive Mary Erickson).
  • Brand strategy and social creative support for The Grand Cook, high-end executive-chef caterers.
Prior
Digitas North America — SVP, National Head of Experience Strategy
04/2021 – 03/2025

Grew a nascent, siloed practice into a national superpower for one of digital's original pioneers.

  • Led a national team of 20 experience strategists building digital, hybrid and in-person experiences for Visa, Goodyear, RaceTrac, Kellogg's, Victoria's Secret, Sephora and more.
  • Brought experience practitioners across Strategy, Design and Technology from every office together for an experience summit, then wrote the agency-wide playbook for winning, scoping and running experience work.
  • Turned Visa's 162 scattered web properties across 180+ countries into a 3–5 year north star and a roadmap of 60+ initiatives, built from conversations with 150+ stakeholders across B2B and B2C.
  • Took Visa's Fortnite x NFL game off the screen and onto the Super Bowl floor, and brought Victoria's Secret's ICON launch to life with an AR lens in 526 stores.
  • Reinvented RaceTrac's loyalty program and mobile app, delivering a roadmap and design system the internal team could keep evolving.
  • Reimagined Memorial Sloan Kettering Giving's digital ecosystem to support a $5B fundraising goal, unifying fragmented sites, simplifying navigation and donation flows, and building a storytelling system that turns visitors into donors.
  • Helped roll out Digitas AI, putting enterprise AI tools to work across strategy, design and content.
Consulting Creative, Experience & Content Strategy Lead — Fantasy, Gather, Ueno
01/2020 – 04/2021

Defining digital products with the best in the game, and helping Gather make IBM a part of culture.

  • Shaped product and positioning strategy for ByteDance's Lark Suite as it entered the US productivity market against Google and Slack, grounded in global user research.
  • Helped launch iPondr, a new content platform for the BIPOC community.
  • Made IBM Watson tangible and fun for ESPN Fantasy Football players, and extended the Grammys experience for music fans through Watson insights.
  • Redesigned the digital toolkit for SBM, a building-services company that keeps campuses running for some of the world's biggest brands.
Deutsch LA — EVP, Group Strategy Director (internal IPG transfer)
07/2019 – 12/2019

Helping H&R Block win back the people who'd gone it alone.

  • Led strategy for "Better with Block," a national integrated campaign to win back DIY and competitor tax filers, featuring the brand's iconic "Lisa" character.
R/GA San Francisco — Group Director, Experience Strategy
09/2018 – 07/2019

Helping R/GA SF become the special forces for the new economy.

  • Led experience strategy for Grow with Google, helping small business owners navigate Google's tools through an experience designed to work like a tool, not a landing page.
  • Shaped experience strategy for Fair, a new app-based car subscription startup, and for Nike's in-store content and storytelling.
  • Rearticulated the mission and positioning for the R/GA SF office.
AKQA San Francisco — Group Strategy Director
08/2016 – 08/2018

Using the customer journey to align campaigns, products and services.

  • Designed the holiday the 501 deserves: Levi's 501 Day, a global always-on campaign that unified regional teams under one framework across in-store, social, ecommerce, concerts, parties and film.
  • Designed Caterpillar's first direct-to-customer ecommerce experience, using field research with small operators in Richmond and Dallas to build a mobile-first way to find the right part fast.
  • Helped set the stage for Audi's move to electric.
Hit Reset — Founder, Experience Strategy
08/2014 – 07/2016

Helping brands and businesses evolve in real time.

  • As part of Gather, joined the inaugural wave of strategists at IBM Design Studio, transforming a technology giant from the inside out.
  • Helped lead IBM eSchool, teaching IBM's global marketers design thinking, content strategy and Agile, and served as product owner for its digital learning platform.
  • Led marketing transformation and experience strategy for Aetna's iTriage, steering patients to the right level of care at the right time.
  • Helped Steinway & Sons bring Elton John into every home.
  • Other clients: Point72, Factory Labs, Gin Lane.
BEAM Interactive — VP, Director, Experience Strategy
08/2013 – 07/2014

Making MINI feel like one brand everywhere you meet it.

  • Led strategy for MINI USA across media, digital experience, CRM and loyalty, connecting every channel into one customer and brand experience.
Big Spaceship — VP, Product Strategy
02/2010 – 06/2013

Making a digital maverick into a heavy hitter.

  • Grew from leading strategy to founding a new Product Strategy offering, and built its multidisciplinary team across product design, strategy and digital innovation.
  • Helped Chobani manifest the promise of a transformative brand by designing their digital and social footprint, launching their children's brand Chobani Champions, designing Chobani Home (their internal collaboration and culture platform), and helping inform the design of the first-ever Chobani cafe.
  • Helped design Spotify's first-ever ad units by treating them like products, designing experiences that were useful rather than intrusive.
  • Helped create OneHP, a social, mobile-first platform connecting HP's global workforce.
  • Reimagined the BMW owner's manual as BMW Genius, a premium, intuitive mobile app for new drivers.
  • Architected GE healthymagination's digital presence, including the Morsel health app and partnerships with WebMD, Howcast and GOOD that drove millions of healthier actions across the brand's ecosystem.
  • Other clients included McKinsey, Skittles, Shake Shack and more.
Bond Art & Science — Partner & Senior Content Strategist
05/2007 – 02/2010

First hire at a digital start-up founded by Razorfish's original leadership.

  • Helped build the digital content strategy practice, leading content, experience and brand strategy for W Magazine's luxury shopping platform W Desires, Nike's Sportswear brand launch and Microsoft Zune's editorial presence.
  • Produced editorial and video content for sister publication Cool Hunting.
Bank of America — Communications Consultant
09/2005 – 04/2007

Communications design to empower global technology leadership.

  • Led communications strategy for executive leadership in Global Trading Infrastructure, and launched new digital channels to reach teams at scale.
Credit Suisse First Boston — Assistant Vice President
02/2001 – 09/2005

Helping transform the enterprise through digital design.

  • Equipped bankers with the right tools to serve clients, through early digital transformation, UX writing and training in regulated environments.
Education
Syracuse University
B.S., Production for Electronic Media
Culture
COOL HUNTING
Contributing Editor & Producer · 2007 – Present
Let's make stuff work better.
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