Michelle Sanchez
Brand, Creative & Experience Design Leader

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Jared
Brand elevation
2021–2023

Familiar jeweler to modern luxury.

Jared campaign sizzle, opening frame: a couple in an intimate residential interior

Fig. 01 — Campaign sizzle, :45. One expression of a two-year brand evolution spanning campaign, content, digital, social, CRM and retail.

Over two years, I helped shape Jared’s evolution toward a more modern expression of luxury—across strategy, creative direction and omnichannel storytelling. Through seven campaign productions, we built a more cinematic, editorial and emotionally distinctive brand world designed to remain recognizable across consumer touchpoints.

Client
Jared
Role
Senior Creative Director
Scope
Brand strategy · creative direction · campaign development · film + photography · content strategy · omnichannel experience

02

The brand
challenge

The opportunity wasn’t awareness. It was evolution.

As an established national jeweler with strong familiarity, Jared had an opportunity to evolve its creative expression into something more elevated, contemporary and emotionally distinctive—without losing what made the brand recognizable.

The mandate

Move the brand from familiar fine jewelry toward a more modern expression of luxury without losing accessibility or recognition.

03

Strategic
influence

One brand, not a collection of channels.

Paid and owned channels had historically operated against different product priorities, which meant customers could encounter different stories depending on where they met the brand. Each channel had a job to do, but together they weren’t reinforcing one recognizable brand experience. 

I proposed a more cohesive approach to Jared’s marketing directors: align channels around one overarching campaign priority and creative language, then adapt that idea to each touchpoint’s role in the customer journey. 

The shift created a shared creative foundation across touchpoints, helping the brand feel more connected while giving each channel room to do its job.

Before — channel-led

  • PaidWomen's Fashion, Le Vian
  • OrganicBridal, Pnina Tornai
  • EmailBridal, Brilliant Moments
  • WebMen's Fashion, Italia D'Oro
  • RetailBridal + Fashion

Different priorities. Different stories. Fragmented brand expression.

After — brand-led

One campaign platform

Expressed as

  • Film
  • Paid social
  • Organic
  • Email
  • Web
  • Display

One brand story. Channel-specific expressions.

One language,
five placements

Paid — campaign frame
Jared email, 8-26 “Choose Forever with Chosen” — Chosen ring hero and “Curated By Us, Chosen By You” headline
Email
Jared Chosen landing page, mobile — Chosen hero, the Chosen Process, Chosen Reserve, and wedding band collections
Web

Fig. — The same creative language, placed by channel role. 

04

The conditions

Building the conditions for great work.

My remit extended beyond creative direction into senior client partnership, scope and delivery. Working closely with production, I helped establish a more disciplined global operating model—aligning incoming demand with team capacity, improving collaboration between onshore and India teams, and giving Jared greater visibility into priorities and scope before work began.

Prioritization

Demand aligned to available creative capacity.

Global delivery

Clearer collaboration across onshore and India teams.

Client visibility

Priority and scope decisions made before work began.

05

TWO YEARS / FIVE PRODUCTIONS

Five productions. One evolving brand language.

Creative direction
Film · photography · social

Each campaign answered a different business or seasonal need, but together they helped establish an increasingly recognizable point of view for Jared—cinematic, intimate, polished and grounded in human connection.

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Five of the seven campaigns I directed across two years, each evolving the same broader ambition for the brand.

Building the world.

Casting
Chemistry and character over conventional jewelry-ad perfection.
Styling
Elevated without feeling untouchable.
Environment
Intimate, lived-in settings with an editorial sensibility.
Product
Jewelry integrated into gestures, relationships and moments.
Motion
Cinematic pacing that allowed emotion to carry the product story.

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Selected
productions

Selected campaign stories.

Two campaigns show the range: the shoot that set the tone, and the shoot that pushed the language into short-form. The final campaign, further down, is where both arrive.

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Production 06 — Love Brilliantly
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The opportunity

Modernize the brand and position Jared as a luxury retailer.

Creative decision

A shift to effortless, quiet luxury—carried through styling, casting, concept and talent.

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Production 05 — Everyday Moments

Extending the language into short-form.

Bridal · 2023

The opportunity

Jared needed to bring its bridal collections to the forefront—showing it had everything for the wedding, from the ring to the wedding party. We positioned the campaign around Jared making every moment along the way, intimate or not, unforgettable.

The culmination

Bringing the elevation into one campaign world.

The final campaign gathered two years of evolution into a single world—the casting, styling, environment and pacing developed across the preceding productions, now built to run as one connected system.

The idea

A world where every expression of love feels extraordinary.

Jared campaign film frame: a couple photographed in an intimate residential interior
Jared campaign: a woman in a white draped dress seated among houseplants in a sunlit room, wearing a diamond necklace, drop earrings and rings
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In-house
content

Every collection, in one visual language.

Jared carried a wide range of collections, and every one of them needed content. Sourced piecemeal, it was difficult to hold the quality and aesthetic control the elevated brand depended on.

I built efficiencies into our campaign shoots—capturing additional short-form and social content alongside the hero work—and brought directing, styling and editing in house, so every collection could carry the same elevated point of view.

Directed

In house, on set

Styled

To the campaign world

Edited

For every channel

Fig. — Collection content directed, styled and edited in house.

The shift

A more cinematic, cohesive and emotionally distinctive Jared.

Over two years, the work evolved beyond individual campaigns into a more connected approach to building the brand—uniting creative direction, channel strategy, motion and production around one increasingly recognizable point of view.

Chosen still life: diamond engagement rings and loose marquise, oval and round stones beside orange ranunculus on a warm stone surface