Benjamin Williams
Graphic Designer

Benjamin Williams

Previously from eBay and gotalk.

About

Benjamin Williams is a graphic designer who has created digital campaigns, brand elevation, and captivating motion graphics and images for brands and businesses across Australia. Working at eBay Australia for over six years, he has crafted on-brand creatives for owned channels across the eBay platform which consisted of homepage marketing, retail landing pages, email marketing, social assets, deals promotions, Solus emails, email triggers, advertising, and display. He has been awarded the 2012 Marketer of the Year for M2 companies as recognition of outstanding achievement in building the brand for ClubTelco, an Australian telecommunications and internet service provider.

Employment

6 roles
Feb 2019 - Present 7 years 3 months
Graphic Designer & Art Director
Independent
  • Provided services in digital design, creative direction, photography, and videography.
  • Created digital campaigns, brand elevation, and captivating motion graphics and images.
  • Worked with brands and businesses across Australia.
Sep 2017 - May 2019 1 year 8 months
Senior Manager Creative Services
eBay Inc.

eBay Inc. is American multinational e-commerce that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

  • Ensured that creative campaigns meet production deadlines, as well as providing general creative direction for the entire Australian business, on over 80 marketing campaigns per month across a wide range of communications and marketing for out-of-home, onsite, social media, mobile, in-app, and additionally partner and affiliation platforms.
  • Provided day-to-day leadership, development, and coaching support to a team of six digital designers, a copywriter, and a campaign traffic coordinator.
  • Lifted Australian creative regions ‘click-through’ rate to be three times higher than any of the other regions.
  • Built in-house photography and videography studio, directly saving eBay hundreds of thousands of dollars in agency fees per year.
  • Coached designers into a new skill set – resulting in the internal team developing into a nimble and progressive group. A direct saving on the bottomline in terms of minimizing outsourcing fees.
  • Lowered the ‘churn’ significantly within the team, resulting in a highly motivated, stable creative group of amazing individuals who love to work together to create results.
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016 1 month
Art Director
eBay Inc.

eBay Inc. is American multinational e-commerce that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

  • Oversaw the creative output for external agencies and also for the internal team.
  • Involved in conceptual work for ‘above the line’ campaigns, social, display, and owned channels including rolling out and guarding the eBay brand guides in Australia – both client and agency side.
Mar 2013 - Aug 2016 3 years 5 months
Senior Digital Designer
eBay Inc.

eBay Inc. is American multinational e-commerce that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

  • Worked closely with production agency.
  • Managed timelines and efficiencies.
  • Crafted on-brand creatives for owned channels across the eBay platform which consisted of homepage marketing, retail landing pages, email marketing, social assets, deals promotions, Solus emails, email triggers, advertising, display, etc.
Jul 2010 - Jul 2012 2 years
Web & Graphic Designer
ClubTelco

ClubTelco is an Australian telecommunications and internet service provider.

  • Crafted ClubTelco’s logo, brand documents, email marketing, campaign work, and social assets.
  • Single-handedly designed, and built, a 200-page telecommunications website without a content management system (CMS).
  • Awarded the 2012 Marketer of the Year award for M2 companies as recognition of outstanding achievement in building the ClubTelco brand.
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 1 year 11 months
Web & Digital Designer Team Lead
gotalk

gotalk is an Australian owned mobile virtual network operator brand held by publicly listed company Tel.Pacific Limited.

  • Rebuilt gotalk’s group of companies websites onto the SharePoint web platform and redesigned their point of sale creatives for their sister company, Cardcall.
  • Promoted after only two months from junior designer to design lead – managing three designers.

Portfolio

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