Kshitij Patil | Creative Director and Strategist, Philadelphia

Creative strategy, brand design, and AI-assisted production for products people actually feel.

I am a creative director and strategist with 8 years across fintech, hospitality, entertainment, and agencies. I started as a communication designer, grew into leading teams, managing agencies, and owning go-to-market calendars, and I now pair that craft with a Master’s in Information Systems (Data Science) from Drexel.

I trained as a communication designer (BFA, Applied Arts) and spent the first half of my career making brand work for entertainment and agency clients. From there I moved in-house at Treebo Hotels and Tata Digital, where I owned content calendars, directed external agencies, led designers and copywriters, and presented brand strategy to senior leadership. Along the way I noticed that the best creative decisions came from understanding the whole system, from audience research to analytics to production workflow, so I completed an MS in Information Systems (Data Science) at Drexel to close the gap between designing an experience and building it. Today I work as a creative strategist and director: I set the idea, build the process around it, brief and QA the team, and use data and AI tools to ship faster without losing craft.

We live in a world where Product decides what we get, Marketing convinces us we needed it all along, and Design makes sure we enjoy every second in between. I’m fascinated by all three, and even more fascinated by the space where they overlap.

I’m looking for a team that’s building something worth obsessing over, especially where I get to own the full client relationship, not just the campaign. If that’s you, let’s talk.