John Slater
Chief Brand Officer at The TARA Group
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Slater is a seasoned brand and creative leader with 20+ years building global identities and high-impact marketing programs for companies from startups to Meta-era giants. As founding marketing hire at Nexus he scaled a visual system and community growth to multi-million users and six-figure social followings, and he’s led brand transformations at Facebook, Twitter, Mozilla and Airbnb. He combines big-picture brand strategy with pixel-level craft, shipping integrated campaigns, product identities, and launch systems that drive measurable user engagement. Known for building disciplined, happy creative teams and practical processes, he also brings hands-on UI/UX sensibility from a background in copy and product-driven design. Based in Oakland, he maintains a public portfolio (slater.fyi) that surfaces both strategic work and detailed execution.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., History/English, B.A., History/English at Rhodes College
Github Skills (7)
paypal10
icon-pack10
payment-gateway10
svg10
png10
credit-card10
klarna10
Github contributions (5)
slaterjohn/payment-logos
Nov 2015 - Nov 2020
Downloadable set of payment gateway and credit card logo icons. 50 icons, 3 sizes, 2 styles and a bonus set.
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
payment-gatewaycredit-cardpayment-logospaypaliconset
slaterjohn/barry
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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