Nathan Misutka
Austin, TX  |  nmisutka@gmail.com

CREATIVE DIRECTION & MOTION GRAPHICS

Creative marketing is about solving problems, and that's what I've spent the last 14+ years doing for Fortune 500 and energy-sector brands. Whether I'm behind the camera on a shoot or steering a team through a tight deadline, as Associate Creative Director I lead creative and video production for over 20 client accounts, working directly with clients and account teams from strategy through final cut. Experienced with building strong creative teams and guiding through rough waters, because good creative work starts with a team that trusts each other. I also built the in-house motion graphics capability from scratch, and mentored the creatives in our new capability.

SKILLS

  • Creative direction & brand strategy

  • Team leadership & mentorship

  • Video production & on-location art direction

  • Client & account partnership

  • New business & client pitch experience

  • Motion graphics direction and animation

  • Adobe Firefly (generative image editing & storyboard production)

  • AI-assisted concepting, brief review & output refinement

  • Prompt engineering & AI output review

  • Marketing KPI fluency

  • Resource & timeline management (Workday)

  • Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Photoshop, Premeire, Firefly

  • Claude AI, CoPilot AI, Adobe Firefly

  • HTML5, CSS, WordPress

EXPERIENCE

Associate Creative Director
CLEAResult, Austin, TX
2024–Present

Lead creative and video production across 20 client accounts, managing a team of 4 producers and creatives (previously led a full team of 4 creatives while mentoring 2 additional). Partner directly with marketing account managers and clients on creative direction, campaign concepting, and execution, while contributing creative strategy to new business pitches.

  • Guided the creative team through a major organizational restructuring while retaining 100% of team talent, with a second reorganization on the horizon.

  • Present creative direction and campaign concepts directly to clients, and work on-site with clients during commercial and testimonial video shoots.

  • Direct video production end-to-end, from concepting through on-location commercial and testimonial shoots.

  • Introduced AI-assisted concepting and storyboard workflows using Adobe Firefly and prompt engineering, cutting storyboard turnaround time.

  • Contribute creative direction and marketing KPI perspective to new business pitches, partnering with account teams on client-facing proposals.

  • Won a 2025 Gold MarCom Award for video work including Xcel Energy and FoE campaigns.

Art Director
CLEAResult, Austin, TX
2019-2024

Led a remote team of designers and copywriters, maintaining creative and brand cohesion across 25+ brands for energy providers nationwide. Owned campaign strategy and execution — from concept and storyboarding through motion graphics, direct mail, and social — for programs targeting the southern and northeastern U.S.

  • Built and scaled the team's motion graphics capability from scratch, bringing previously outsourced animation work in-house and winning industry recognition for the work.

  • Led first-pitch strategy and creative execution for all campaigns in an assigned region, partnering with copywriters to develop concepts from brief to delivery.

  • Ran creative review across the design team for all assigned regions, holding output to brand standard under tight deadlines.

Associate Creative Director
PulsePoint Group (now ICF Next), Austin, TX
2017-2019
Senior Designer 2014-2017
Graphic Designer 2012-2014

Led a small design team delivering multiple concurrent campaigns for Fortune 500 brands. Spearheaded the company's first major push into publishing and stood up new motion graphics capabilities that opened a new revenue line.

  • Introduced motion graphics as an in-house capability, eliminating a prior dependency on outside vendors and generating a new revenue pipeline.

  • Started and led weekly cross-location team calls, improving visibility into active work and resourcing across two offices.

  • Directed production of the company's first published book, a crisis-management guide, from concept to print.

EDUCATION

Texas State University
B.F.A., Communication Design 2013

Collin College
A.A., Applied Graphic Design Technology 2009

Alberta College of Art and Design
Scholarship study year 2007