📧 josh@josh-rubin.com

I build brands that sell.

I've spent my career doing it from both sides: first at agencies like BBH, Saatchi, and R/GA, then inside the companies themselves, building a creative department for Jaguar Land Rover, AI products at Accenture, and an entire brand from scratch for Royal Caribbean. These days I work with founders, CEOs, and CMOs, bringing big-brand creative judgment to companies moving at startup speed.

The job is always the same underneath: turn complexity into clarity, and clarity into growth.

I'm also a writer beyond the day job: two humor books with HarperCollins, and the 2025 James Patterson, PEN America, Authors Guild, and Iowa Writers' Workshop grant for my novel The Basin, a satire of startup culture. Yes, I've been taking notes.

The hardware: Cannes Lions, One Show, Effies, Andys, Addys, and the Chris Award for Human Rights.