Jon Hingston
Emmy-winning Group Executive Producer with 15+ years leading innovation pilots, connected experiences, enterprise platforms, and global brand campaigns for Apple, Mercedes, Samsung, Shiseido, and Nike. Experience spans R/GA, Wunderman, and Valtech, along with embedded roles at Google, Goldman Sachs, and Volvo. I bring strategy, creative, and technology teams together to deliver innovation from pilot to international scale.
Connected Retail Experiences
- MAC Cosmetics: Connected retail store with virtual try-ons and mobile saves, featured in Forbes and by Microsoft’s CEO.
- Universal Studios: Interactive wands and Power-Up Bands linking physical play to mobile rewards and upsell.
- Samsung: Connected-home ecosystem uniting appliances, mobile and retail environments.
- Shiseido: Chat Beyond Time, an installation at Shiseido’s Innovation Museum blending VR, storytelling and design to explore time, identity and beauty.
Emerging Technology Pilots
- GenAI Content: Pilots exploring lux-level image, video, and text generation (Midjourney, Firefly, RunwayML) to reduce production time and expand creative output.
- LLM Concepts: Explored the potential for secure, private language-model environments focused on internal knowledge retrieval and customer-service use cases.
- Virtual & Augmented Try-Ons:: Evaluated custom and off-the-shelf VTO technologies to assess feasibility and implementation readiness.
Enterprise Platforms & Applications
- Volvo: Global .com redesign & replatform and owner applications across 30 markets.
- Goldman Sachs: Trading simulator apps helping clients stress-test investments and cut deal cycle timelines.
- Dolby: Optimizely migration and scalable website factory enabling faster global launches.
- Sub-Zero: Adobe AEM replatform and redesign for five markets, reimagined owner and trade tools, and AI roadmap with active pilots.
Integrated Brand Campaigns
- Love Has No Labels: Emmy–winning diversity campaign featuring the live x-ray activation, reaching over 170 million views and shared by the Obamas.
- Beats by Dre: “Straight Outta” campaign extension in Shanghai, and Show Your Color launch for Japan introducing the brand through TV, OOH, interactive retail, posters and social content.
- Mercedes-Benz: Photo Pass campaign activating a nationwide creator network, producing over 2 million user-generated assets and redefining how Mercedes engaged younger audiences.
