Ross Clare

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ROSS CLARE

Over a decade of success in harnessing creativity and directing it towards fulfilling everything from business goals to creative design projects to academic research. Working-class boy with a PhD. Told on multiple separate occasions I have \"a kind face.\"I started out as an academic, receiving my PhD for fully funded research into digital media before publishing two books and several journal articles across a range of research projects I conceptualised and executed. Ambition is the key theme in my professional life: I simultaneously operated as researcher, university teacher, and project manager for a school & community outreach program, finding within myself a natural talent for forging stakeholder relationships, coordinating events, mentoring, supervising, team leadership, and communicating with people from just about every background you can imagine.Upon moving into the private sector I headed straight for the content and communications environment, finishing a short contract at an e-learning education firm before landing at a multinational game development studio. I had the privilege of working with teams from Ukraine to Canada, researching and devising fresh digital assets, engaging in data-led UI/UX design, and writing all manner of characterful narrative texts. Outside the games themselves, I contributed significantly to marketing campaigns (writing everything from landing page text to web & article copy), wrote brand guidelines for new projects, and supported the production of a major web TV series.I took the game industry going apocalyptic as an opportunity to expand my horizons into the wider tech sector, copywriting for a public sector-adjacent B2B SaaS organisation - and receiving a promotion within a few short months to Communications & Content Partner. Alongside taking the lead on sourcing stories, writing articles, insights, reports, and press releases, and collaborating with subject matter experts, I helped establish a company brand and narrative and refined the organisation\'s tone and voice.