Thaddeus Kilo | Product & Marketing Creative Designer
Arlington, TX · Remote
thaddeuskilo@gmail.com | thaddeuskilo.design | 301.273.8995
linkedin.com/in/thaddeuskilo

PROFILE
Marketing creative and brand systems designer with 15+ years building color libraries, style guides, and cross-channel brand materials at Google, Rexel, and federal scale. Led Head Designer work for Google People Ops—internal rebrand touchpoints, accessibility-forward guidelines, and global media libraries. Ships color tooling in public via weableColor (Figma + VS Code). Comfortable partnering with stakeholders, translating RGB/HEX into print, digital, and environmental applications, and redesigning collateral from ads and sales kits to swag and uniforms.

EXPERIENCE

Founder · Product & brand design — weableColor / Moonshot Studio | Remote | Jan 2023 – Present
• Built weableColor—a live color library engine (RGB, HEX, WCAG + APCA) with Figma plugin, VS Code extension, and weable.pro documentation.
• Own end-to-end brand and product design: style patterns, marketing surfaces, and designer-ready export workflows for contrast audits.
• 900+ VS Code marketplace downloads; Figma Community launch in progress.

Head Designer — Google · People Operations | Mountain View, CA | May 2020 – Oct 2022
• Brand design leader for internal People Ops communications—on-brand, accessible, and inclusive experiences for a global workforce.
• Launched Googler Media Library and Work From Home Media Library; redesigned Noogler virtual onboarding and hybrid-work launch collateral.
• Partnered with HR, comms, and vendor teams on stakeholder reviews; 16+ Peer and Spot bonuses for accessibility leadership and launch partnership.
• Published People Ops Accessibility Guidelines—brand integrity and inclusive design for internal marketing creative.

Brand Designer — Google · People Operations | Mountain View, CA | Oct 2019 – May 2020
• Designed timely, trusted internal content experiences—logos (xWS, Workforce Pro), templates, and campaign-ready assets.
• Launched WFH Media Library during COVID—dynamic collection of Googler-submitted imagery for internal storytelling.

Senior Visual Designer — Rexel | Dallas, TX / Paris, France | Jan 2015 – Aug 2019
• Authored Rexel’s latest corporate style guide and color library—RGB/HEX palettes, typography, and application rules across 90+ sub-brands.
• Directed UX, web, and mobile teams on Hybris eCommerce for 37 countries and 9+ languages.
• Redesigned sales collateral, distributor kits, and digital campaign templates.

Visual Communications Developer — USGCRP / White House OSTP | Washington, DC | 2011 – 2014
• Congress-facing publications and decadal strategic plan—print and digital as one coordinated brand system.
• Evolved USGCRP web presence and corporate identity; science communications for 13+ federal agencies.

BRAND & COLOR LIBRARY PROOF
Cool Cones — Full identity: color library, brand book, cups, bags, straws, print collateral (2024–present).
Rexel — Corporate style guide and multi-market color library for 90+ sub-brands.
Google People Ops — Internal brand systems, media libraries, accessibility guidelines (NDA-safe process case study).

EDUCATION
Academy of Art University, Chicago — A.A.S. Visual Communications, Multimedia & Web (2010)
MIT xPRO — Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality (2021–2022)

SKILLS
Color libraries · RGB/HEX · print & digital specs · Brand style guides · sales collateral · ads · swag · environmental mockups · Figma · Adobe Creative Suite · HTML/CSS · Accessibility (WCAG, APCA) · stakeholder reviews · WordPress · Hybris