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Overview
Challenge
Approach
Outcome

Brand

Campaign

Relaunch

Gymboree

Gymboree

Bringing a beloved childrenswear brand back to market with creative that moved the numbers.

Role

Vice President Digital Creative

Years

2020–2025

Scope

Brand relaunch & campaigns

Parent

The Children’s Place portfolio

Family in matching plaid from a Gymboree holiday campaign

Overview

After The Children’s Place acquired Gymboree, I led the brand’s creative relaunch (the identity expression, the campaign system, and the site experience), rebuilding a brand parents genuinely loved for the way families actually shop now.

Client

Gymboree

Role

Vice President Digital Creative

Partners

CEO · CMO · Merchandising

Years

2020–2025

Gymboree "Spring is every wear" homepage design with kids' spring outfits

01 · The Challenge

Relaunch a brand parents loved, for parents who shop online.

Gymboree carried deep nostalgia but arrived with no stores, no team, and no digital playbook. The relaunch had to honor what families remembered while standing up an entirely new commerce presence inside the TCP portfolio.

Gymboree "Hop into Spring" and "Little Ladybug" homepage design
Gymboree "Hop into Spring" and "Little Ladybug" homepage design

02 · The Approach

Nostalgia in the brand, performance in the engine.

We rebuilt the brand expression around Gymboree’s classic optimism, designed a campaign system tuned for digital channels from day one, and launched the new gymboree.com experience on the portfolio’s commerce platform.

Gymboree email with a family in matching tropical prints
Gymboree email featuring girls' pastel dresses and outfits

03 · The Work

A relaunch that felt like a homecoming.

Girl in Gymboree holiday plaid decorating a gingerbread house
Girl in Gymboree holiday plaid decorating a gingerbread house
Gymboree "Little Summer Moments" email with kids' summer outfits
Collage of Gymboree summer campaign photography
Gymboree email with a family in matching white outfits

Outcome

What I delivered.

+30%

engagement on brand and campaign creative

0→1

digital-first brand relaunch

1 system

brand and campaign system built to scale

5 yrs

stewarding the brand inside the portfolio

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Digital Content · UX · +12% Repeat Visits

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