Philip Lowe

Creative should be accountable to more than applause.

Hi, I'm P.Lo. I build creative systems that bring brand, product, web, AI, and performance marketing together — helping teams make better work, move faster, and drive measurable growth.

Currently Head of Creative at Quicken. Previously Instacart, Headspace, and Disney.

Work That Moved the Business

Instacart Executive Creative Director • Growth Marketing • Creative Systems

Instacart's brand had evolved. Its growth engine needed to catch up.

I helped turn a new brand system into a scalable creative engine spanning CRM, paid media, lifecycle, seasonal campaigns, and AI-powered production.

The result: $445M+ in incremental GTV from lifecycle marketing, campaign creative that consistently beat evergreen, and a creative organization built to move at the speed of the business.

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Quicken Head of Creative — Current

Making financial marketing feel less like financial marketing.

At Quicken, I'm building a modern growth creative practice across brand, performance, web, lifecycle, and AI — pairing customer insight with rapid experimentation to find ideas that both earn attention and drive action.

One example: we turned stressed-out small-business owners into kids running tiny empires — creating a campaign that brought humor, humanity, and cultural relevance to a category better known for anxiety.

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Headspace Creative Lead • Growth Marketing

Turning category leadership into sustained growth.

I led creative across acquisition, onboarding, lifecycle, and seasonal campaigns — using experimentation to make every step of the customer journey work harder.

During that period, Headspace grew from 40M to 90M downloads, paid subscribers increased 169%, and annualized revenue grew from $100M to $220M.

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Soothe Creative Director — 2016–2019

Turning a growing service into a brand built to grow with it.

As Soothe expanded into new markets and services, I led a complete rebrand — from strategy and identity to product experience, photography, CRM, and physical touchpoints.

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"Go" — Soothe TV spot, via iSpot.tv

Beyond the Case Studies

A few more things I've made, directed, designed, produced, and occasionally obsessed over.

Disney | ABC — Network Video + Brand

Communication Design and Producer

Brand, broadcast, motion, and executive storytelling across the Disney | ABC portfolio — including a network sizzle celebrating ABC's first on-air LGBTQ+ representation.

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Events & Experiential

Creative Director

Experiences built for real life, not just the keynote deck. Creative direction spanning large-scale events, environments, conferences, and brand activations.

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Toyota

Lead 2D Experience & Graphic Designer

Making a global brand impossible to miss in a very crowded room. Environmental and graphic design for Toyota's major auto-show presence.

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How I Work

I've spent two decades sitting between creative, product, and the P&L.

I build creative organizations where brand and performance pull in the same direction. Where experimentation is part of the creative process, not something added afterward. Where systems create speed without creating sameness. And where AI gives creative teams more time to think — not fewer reasons to.

I've led designers, writers, strategists, producers, and cross-functional teams. I've built systems from scratch, scaled them globally, and jumped into the work myself when that's what the moment required.

Big ideas. Better systems. Measurable outcomes.

Philip Lowe

Featured / Recognized

Chief MarketerBake It Till You Make It: Inside Quicken's Kid-Run Small-Business Campaign — 2026

D&AD Yellow PencilInstacart Rebrand with Wolff Olins — 2023

Frank Growth PodcastGrowth Creative Isn't Art, and the Customer Is the Judge — Episode 231

Addy AwardHexagon Rebrand — 2010

Want to build something that grows? For creative leadership, growth marketing, or a disproportionately strong opinion about what airline to fly, say hello at philipdlowe@gmail.com.

Also findable on LinkedIn and, against my better judgment, on TikTok as @planezaddy — LA-based, earthbound, professionally obsessed with planes I am not on.

Philip Lowe