Fox + Senior Creative Director

Building and Scaling Digital Experiences as a Creative Director at Fox

OVERVIEW

Prior to founding my agency, I served as Senior Creative Director at FOX in Los Angeles, leading design, editorial, and development teams across high-profile national brands. Hired initially to spin up FoxKids.com as a dot-com startup, my role quickly expanded to include digital oversight of the Fox Family brand. This experience sharpened my ability to lead large teams, manage complex stakeholders, and operate within the scale and expectations of major entertainment properties.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design team leadership
Editorial team leadership
Development team leadership

ROLE

Senior Creative Director

EMPLOYER

Fox
Los Angeles, California

BRANDS MANAGED

Fox Kids
Fox Family

YEARS

2000-2002

The Full Story

In 2000, leveraging my experience creating oKID.com, I joined Fox as a Senior Creative Director to lead the digital launch and expansion of FoxKids.com as a standalone dot-com initiative. I was responsible for managing multidisciplinary teams across design, editorial, and development—driving both creative vision and execution for a national, high-traffic brand competing directly with Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

A few months into the role, our team was also given responsibility for the digital presence of Fox Family. This expanded scope required navigating multiple brand identities, audiences, and internal stakeholders while maintaining consistency, performance, and creative quality. Working inside a large media organization taught me how to scale creative systems, manage complexity, and deliver under intense visibility and pressure.

In 2001, Fox Family Worldwide was acquired by Disney in a $5.2B transaction. Fox Kids content transitioned into Disney’s programming ecosystem, and Fox Family was rebranded as ABC Family. Our division was ultimately downsized from 50+ to six people, who officially sunset the digital brand in June 2002. Following this chapter—and leveraging the relationships and experience gained at Fox—I transitioned into freelance work, which quickly evolved into founding my agency, Riser.

Fox Kids

At the time, Fox Kids was a major competitor to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, supporting a lineup of globally recognized franchises including Power Rangers, Digimon, Spider-Man, X-Men, and multiple anime-style series. Early in my tenure, I led a complete redesign of the Fox Kids website along with its associated digital and marketing assets.

Over the next few years, we redesigned the site multiple times, produced advergames, created animated content, and developed robust editorial programming. A key achievement was the creation of an 85-page digital style guide detailing brand rules, interaction patterns, visual systems, and tone—establishing a scalable framework for Fox Kids across all digital experiences.

Fox Family

Fox Family originated from a joint venture between Haim Saban and Fox Broadcasting and featured a mix of original and syndicated programming, including Who’s the Boss, Freaks and Geeks, State of Grace, and Scariest Places on Earth. As Senior Creative Director, I oversaw all interactive and digital components of the brand.

In addition to managing websites and digital experiences, I created a comprehensive digital style guide and collaborated on a four-person team responsible for developing a unified brand system spanning digital, print, and on-air executions. This work ensured consistency across platforms during a period of rapid brand growth and eventual transition.