Work with me
Producer for hire — campaigns, creative ops, and AI.
I take on freelance, contract, and consulting work with agencies and brand teams. Here's what I do and the questions people usually ask first.
Executive production
Campaigns, brand films, rebrands, and digital experiences — from the first idea through budget, vendors, and delivery.
Creative operations
Building and scaling creative teams: production workflows, resourcing, tooling, and the process that lets good work ship on time.
Brand and digital production
Rebrands, design systems, apps, AR, and web experiences for global brands.
AI production and consulting
Designing AI pipelines for creative work — generative image, video, and voice, plus agent workflows — with human approval and QC built in.
Questions
Who is Evan Kennedy?
Evan Kennedy is an award-winning executive producer and creative operations leader based in Long Beach, California, with 17+ years producing campaigns, rebrands, and digital products for Apple (at TBWA\Media Arts Lab), Crunchyroll, Adobe, and Hyundai — including Crunchyroll's Gold Clio-winning brand redesign. He also builds AI production pipelines.
Is Evan available for freelance, contract, or consulting work?
Yes. Evan takes on freelance and contract executive producer roles, creative operations engagements, and AI consulting projects. The fastest way to start is the contact form or an email to evanwkennedy@gmail.com.
What does a creative operations leader do?
Creative operations is the system behind the creative work: how projects are scoped, staffed, scheduled, budgeted, reviewed, and delivered. A creative operations leader builds that system so creative teams can focus on the work and still ship on time and on budget. Evan led creative operations for Crunchyroll's first global brand campaign across 15 markets.
What kinds of projects does Evan produce?
Brand campaigns, rebrands, brand films, apps, AR experiences, and digital products. Examples include the Crunchyroll global campaign and rebrand, Apple AirPods Pro "Jump," Adobe Firefly's "The Unfinished Film," Hyundai's on-demand test-drive app, and sending a Bitcoin private key to the Moon for LunarCrush.
Can Evan help an agency or brand team use AI in creative production?
Yes. Evan maps where AI actually helps in a production pipeline and where it adds risk, then builds the workflow: generative image and video, AI agents that handle repetitive production steps, automated QA, and the human approval points that keep work on-brand and publishable. His own builds are documented in the Lab.
What AI tools does Evan work with?
Claude Code and Codex for building software and agent workflows; the Claude API (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku) inside products for writing, judging, and grading; GPT Image, Runway, Seedance, and Kling for images and video; Deepgram, Azure Speech, and ElevenLabs for speech and voice; ComfyUI on RunPod for custom image pipelines; Real-ESRGAN for upscaling; Adobe Firefly; and Whisper for transcription — chosen per job, not per trend.
How do you keep AI-generated work on-brand and safe to publish?
The same way you keep any production on-brand: a written style guide the model follows on every generation, automated checks for drift and errors, a human approval on every asset, a log of who approved what, and clear labeling when people in an image are AI-generated.
Where is Evan based?
Long Beach, California. He works with teams in Los Angeles and remotely.
How do I start a project with Evan?
Send a note through the contact page with what you're making, your timeline, and where you're stuck. Evan reads every message himself.
Have something in mind? Let's talk — or see what I'm building with AI.