
Andy Jordan
VP, Brand, Creative & Corporate Marketing. Brand, Creative, Corporate Marketing & AI Innovation leader. SF Bay Area.
Former CNN and Wall Street Journal reporter. Led brand, creative and corporate marketing at Splunk, Expanse, Spire Global and Eightfold AI: a new category, an acquisition, an IPO and an AI pivot. Builds the story, the team and the engine, and measures brand in the same funnel numbers as demand.
Headline numbers
- $40M→$100M: ARR at Spire Global, through the IPO window
- $100M→$1B+: Splunk's revenue while I built its brand studio
- +69.9%: MQLs at Spire, from a brand-led content engine
- 2 IPOs: Spire's IPO and Splunk's post-IPO scale-up, plus an acquisition exit
What I own
- Brand & creative: Positioning, identity, design
- Comms & PR: Press, exec voice, launches
- Investor narrative: IPO story, earnings scripts
- Web: Site, conversion, SEO
- Content & video: Newsroom-style engine
- Events: Flagship moments, field
- Customer marketing: Stories, advocacy
- Social: Brand and executive
- Employer brand: Culture, recruiting
Brand feeds demand
- +156% Organic traffic YoY (Spire)
- +163% CTA clicks YoY (Spire)
- +69.9% MQLs (Spire)
- +225% Site visitors after the rebrand (Expanse)
- +19% Demand-gen funnel completions (Expanse)
AI & Systems
The cost of making things hit zero. Taste is the moat. Anyone can generate a hundred assets before lunch. What's scarce now is judgment: knowing which one is true, on brand and worth shipping. I build creative operations where machines handle the mechanics and people own the story, the taste and the final call.
- +45%: creative team productivity with AI tools · Eightfold
- <90 days: to rebuild a full creative pipeline around AI · Eightfold
- 1st: generative-AI campaign, creative and measurement · Spire
How I build a brand system
- 1. One source of truth: Positioning, voice, visual standards and annotated examples of what not to do, in one place everyone links to.
- 2. Locked production templates: Decks, social, events and one-pagers that teams make themselves without rebuilding the brand each time.
- 3. An AI layer trained on the brand: Drafts that already sound like us, built on the brand corpus and its negative examples, so first drafts start close to finished.
Agents I build for the brand team
- Intelligence: Competitive landscape, Voice of customer, Press radar, AI answer tracking
- Creative: Creative builder, Video cutdowns
- Content: Content engine, Founder voice, Deck keeper
- Comms: Launch kit, Reputation watch
- Operations: Brand guardian, Request intake, Asset library, Brand-to-demand reporting
Principles
- Machines for mechanics. People for judgment. Resizing, versioning, cutdowns and first drafts go to the machines. Strategy, story and the final call stay with people.
- Systems, not prompts. One clever prompt helps one person once. A system with a source of truth, guardrails and feedback loops helps the whole team every day.
- Show your work. When AI helped make it, I say so. No invented customers, no fake quotes, no claims we can't back up. Trust is the product.
Stack I run: Runway · Veo · Kling · Higgsfield · Synthesia · Midjourney · Firefly · ElevenLabs · Descript · Lovable · Vercel · Claude Code · Claude Design · Gemini · Perplexity · Zapier · AirOps · Codex · ChatGPT
Experience
Spire Global: Global Head of Brand, Creative & Corporate Marketing (2020–2025)
Took a hard-to-explain satellite data company public. I repositioned Spire as the world's largest multi-purpose satellite constellation, rebranded it in three months, led an 8-person multinational team, and ran content like a newsroom, with a resident journalist doing investigative data journalism and an SEO and optimization specialist on the brand team so content moved the business.
- $40M→$100M: ARR
- +156%: organic traffic
- +69.9%: MQLs
- Beyond Visible: https://spire.com/beyondvisible/
- We Hear You Earth: https://spire.com/hear/
- The Promise of Space Is Here: https://spire.com/promise
- The brand narrative: https://spire.com/blog/company-culture/spire-global-brand-narrative/
- Manufacturing commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBP9bi2CzNo
- Resident journalist: wind & climate: https://insights.spire.com/wind-climate-change-for-the-future
- The promise of space is here:
- Wildfire prediction with weather data:
- Wildfire data technology:
- Aerospace engineer: Spire culture:
- All Spire films on YouTube ↗: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbH-RQDSysjpNEPHjIxA5UA
Expanse: Head of Brand & Creative · acquired by Palo Alto Networks (2019–2020)
Positioned a security company for its acquisition. I led the designers and animators behind all corporate design and brand: website, collateral, event and field creative, video, sales decks and culture assets. A full brand, identity and narrative redesign in three months for commercial and government buyers, a video engine built for pipeline, and support for a new category, Internet Operations Management, on a marketing team that drove 200% ARR growth.
- +225%: site visitors
- +66%: homepage engagement
- +19%: funnel completions
- A Syntropy of Beauty: the redesign story: /__l5e/assets-v1/6a1e3eae-c411-4b4b-bd3c-82c6d4aecb69/Expanse_Redesign.pdf
- Brand video concept: https://vimeo.com/682366213
Eightfold AI: VP, Brand & Corporate Marketing (2025–2026)
Repositioned an AI talent platform, whose customers include about a third of the Fortune 500, for the agentic economy. I owned brand, creative, design, events, customer marketing, social and comms, delivered a full AI-assisted rebrand in under three months, and partnered with demand gen and product marketing on the global story. The brand film was ideated and led by people and executed with generative AI, launching a full campaign across events, web, out-of-home, social, content and video, with every key metric up and to the right.
- <3 months: full rebrand, every touchpoint
- +45%: team productivity with AI tools
- This is Eightfold AI:
- How AI can unlock human potential:
Splunk: Senior Director, Brand Video & Multimedia Studio (2013–2018)
Built the in-house brand studio of storytellers, animators and editors, and was part of the team that made Machine Data and Operational Intelligence into categories as Splunk scaled past $1B, part of the storytelling team that took the stock price from the 30s to over 100.
- $100M→$1B+: revenue
- 500K→2M+: video views a year
- A Million Data Points: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/resources/videos/a-million-data-pointssplunkers-share-their-stories.html
- Brand & Culture Playbook: /__l5e/assets-v1/fe7dff9b-5287-4334-9530-2dbb8716900e/splunk-brand-culture-playbook.pdf
- Customer success story:
Needle Space Labs: Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer (2018–2020)
A visual-content incubator for commercial companies and social-good organizations: accessible brands and video built to move people to act. “An agency about creating agency.” With The Thread, we helped commercial companies build highly accessible visual brands, combining data insights with a journalist’s rigor to inspire action, move pipeline and influence investors.
- Being Patient: Alzheimer's:
- COVIDeo: https://vimeo.com/416947670
Journalism
- The Wall Street Journal: The Journal's first video reporter. A one-man band who shot and edited everything, from the Olympic Games (including Michael Phelps) to Europe's financial crisis.
- CNN: Reporter and producer on the science, technology and space beat.
- PBS: Science and technology reporter. The job was making hard things clear to everyone, and it still is.
- WSJ video archive: https://www.wsj.com/video/browse/tech/andy-jordan
- Journalism highlights: https://andyjordan.org
Testimonials
- "I worked with Andy at Expanse and the traits that most stood out to me about his approach, engagement, and work product was his unselfish dedication to getting it right. He is focused, works hard, is not scared to make difficult decisions, fights for his team, yet is committed to helping the greater cause of marketing beyond his teams' remit. Andy is a pleasure to work with, is an excellent brand builder, a better storyteller, and is passionate about authenticity." — Skip Rudolf · VP of Demand Gen, Expanse
- "Andy brings the unique ability to leverage his deep reporting instincts to distill even the most complicated products into easily accessible narratives, through video, content, design and brand activations, so that prospects, investors and press immediately get the technology, and the value props." — Sherry Lowe · CMO, Expanse
- "I loved working with Andy. His creativity and passion is matched with how much he cares for his team and works hard to bring out the best in them." — Peter Platzer · Chairman, Spire Global
Contact
- Email: vervengroove@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asitwere
- Phone: +1-917-803-9478