Get effective, reliable support for your creative team.
With an experienced, one-stop-shop expert to rely on, you can reduce your team’s stress and avoid the costly headaches of juggling scattered, inconsistent freelancers.
Supplement Your Team with a Seasoned Pro
Get High Quality Work
Leverage 20 years of experience and skills to ensure work is delivered accurately.
Optimize Your Workflow
Take advantage of best practices collected from working with 7 agencies.
Gain Fresh Perspectives
Outside eyes add valuable clarity and boost your team’s knowledge and creativity.
I’m Jess Vergano. Nice to meet you!
I help teams feel the relief of getting organized with experienced support, and I help execs level up with creative that gets results.
I can do the same for you, either on a project-by-project basis or as a fractional team member.
20 years of professional experience
Wide range of skills and knowledge to leverage
StoryBrand-trained messaging strategist
Award-winning graphic designer
High-performing websites that exceed business goals (one example: from 2 leads to 46 leads in 6 months)
Services
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I have experience across industries and a track record of success, from developing perfectly aligned concepts that empathize with the target audience’s pain points to producing pixel-perfect creative. One of my campaigns increased conversions by 700% over the prior year, advertising in the same publication.
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I’ve spent the last 7 years as a leader of small creative teams, developing a toolbox of coaching, art direction, and feedback skills to help your team level up their performance and get motivated to do their best work every day.
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Get everyone aligned and focused with clear, specific, smart direction informed by research and principles of behavioral psychology. Ensuring everyone is on the same page and excited about where the brand is headed is an investment that will pay off for years to come.
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My graphic design experience is deep. Get everything you need, from lead magnets and social graphics to perfectly coordinated event branding and press-perfect large-format displays. With over 20 years of experience working with web developers, videographers, trade shows, software engineers, and print vendors, you can rest easy knowing it will be delivered correctly.
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Whipping up a good-enough digital graphic in Canva in 10 minutes can give anyone on your team a jolt of confidence. But print work is different, especially when it’s large format. You need someone who has done it successfully before.
There’s significant room for error in everything from color accuracy and sharpness to optimizing for the material. Fortunately for your team, I can quickly prepare it for print perfection and ensure your brand looks great (and that the creative strategy will get results).
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Take advantage of what I’ve learned. In my work with 7 different marketing and creative agencies, I’ve gathered best practices for everything from operational efficiencies and project profitability to onboarding and performance reviews.
At one marketing agency, I refined website project tools and processes to increase profitability by over 88%.
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Ensure your websites and apps are built for conversions and have beautiful, consistent design systems. This will make your developers happy and improve your bottom line.
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Take the pressure off your team with experienced support for website projects from start to finish — functional, beautiful, and designed to perform and get the audience to act. I can work seamlessly in your systems or entirely on my own, from audience research to styling and even build.
I know from experience: sometimes hiring a freelancer just isn’t worth it.
Whether from Upwork, Fiverr, or your friend’s nephew, sometimes freelancers can be unreliable.
Especially if they’re less experienced, they can struggle with time management, take a lot of onboarding, or agree to projects they don’t quite know how to do.
As a Creative Director, I’ve been there more than I’d like to admit.
After multiple rounds of feedback and revisions, you start feeling the anxiety. A lot of time has been wasted. Now it has to get done fast, and you have a long night ahead.
But when you start working with someone experienced, you feel it right away.
After the first few deliverables come in fast, accurate, brand-aligned, and with some new creative perspectives, you realize you can take a deep breath.
You know it’s worth the investment. You’re not only taking pressure off your team, you’re leveling up your work.
Hiring me will feel like a weight off your shoulders.
Clients Include
“Creative genius.”
Agency Owner
Washington, DC
“You’re like a generational talent.”
Business Owner
New Jersey
“Feels good to know the team has extra support with someone of your experience.”
Agency Creative Director
New Jersey
Recent Work
More work and case studies are available in my portfolio and by request. I’m not able to share all of my work publicly. If there’s a specific example you’d like to see, please feel free to ask.
“Thank you so much for your efforts on the campaign creative for [national nonprofit]… their COO was emotional and nearly in tears while reviewing due to how impactful, beautiful, and perfect the messaging and imagery was.
They struggled for their entire 1-year engagement with their last agency with hitting the mark on messaging and creative.... kudos for a job very well done.”
Caitlin M.,
Senior Account Manager
