Work / Personal Capital
Brand · Product · Campaigns · 2015–2024

From growth-stage startup
to a $1B acquisition.

Nine years inside Personal Capital, building brand systems, designing products, running national campaigns, and communicating to investors. This is what that looked like.

Years9
RoleSr. Visual Designer
Outcome$1B acquisition
Users3M+
It's not money, it's Personal Capital

Nine years · Brand system

How the role grew, and the visual language it built.

From early design hire to Sr. Visual Designer, building the brand system from scratch and shipping it across every channel at scale.

2015 Joined
2016–2018 Brand & digital
2019–2022 Product & growth
2022–2024 Empower
Visual Designer 2015

2015: Joined

Visual Designer

Joined the in-house design team of a fast-moving fintech startup. Building a visual language from scratch, identity, colour, typography, direct mail, OOH.

Brand identity

2016–2018

Brand identity & digital

Led the first full rebrand, a complete visual identity overhaul covering typography, colour, iconography, illustration, and photography guidelines.

Product & growth

2019–2022

Product & growth

Led visual design for the new brand platform, creating a full national campaign, then shifting focus toward growth campaigns and acquisition programs.

Acquisition rebrand

2022–2024: Empower

Acquisition & rebrand

Navigated the $1B acquisition by Empower. Helped lead the brand transition, bridging two identities while keeping the work consistent.

"The tool to beat."
The app that changed how Americans think about money.

The New York Times

Personal Capital dashboard

9

Years at one company

$1B

Acquisition value

3M+

Users served

50+

Product launches

12

National campaigns

1

Brand voice, built from scratch

Campaigns

National reach, human message

Led creative for national campaigns across digital, OOH, and broadcast. The brief was always the same: make a fintech brand feel like a person. The "It's not money, it's personal" platform reached millions of Americans across billboards, print, and digital.

Featured project · Campaigns

Meet Cashius.

Helped bring Cashius, the brand mascot, to life from initial sketches. Applied the character across marketing channels to promote Personal Capital Cash, a high-yield savings account, driving awareness and adoption at launch through digital ads, magazine spreads, email, and landing pages.

Brand mascot Digital ads Magazine Email marketing Landing pages
Cashius outdoor campaign

Product design

Design that shipped

Every major product release from 2016 to 2024 had a visual design layer I owned or contributed to, onboarding, dashboard, mobile app, and financial planning tools. Working closely with product and engineering to make complex financial data feel intuitive.

Financial dashboard
JM · Personal Capital → Empower · 2015–2024