● Creative Director, OKX

Hi, I’m Hubert.

I’m scaling brand creative with high-impact campaigns and leading world-class teams at OKX, Coinbase, MoonPay, and Chainlink.

  • lead OKX’s brand design team and the global creator program, with 100+ direct creator relationships including WallStreetBets, Scott Melker, and Anthony Pompliano.
  • oversaw the next iteration of MoonPay’s brand design system with Adam Ho and hired the team that ran it, lifting brand awareness +90% through a crypto downturn.
  • ran the creator push behind OKX’s MiCA switch, credited with a $2B lift in 30-day inflows, and directed Coinbase’s first TV commercial for the $COIN listing, 80M+ impressions.
Brand Systems Motion & Design Campaigns & Launches Creative Team Leadership
Hubert Lamela
OKX
550+
Creators onboarded through OKX’s creator program
OKX
~$2B
Lift in 30-day inflows behind the MiCA creator push
Chainlink Labs
500+
Creative assets shipped in one week of live production at SmartCon
MoonPay
6
Designers and motion artists hired to run the refreshed brand system
MoonPay
+90%
Brand awareness growth during a crypto downturn
Coinbase
80M+
TV impressions — one campaign, 20 networks, 162 airings
Coinbase
$28.5M
Revenue contribution from Coinbase Earn, in one year
YouTube Channels
3.07M
Combined subscribers across seven channels

Selected Work

MoonPay — Director of Creative, Content & Production

MoonPay: Brand Refresh

Oversaw the next iteration of MoonPay’s brand design system, run as a close collaboration with Adam Ho, then built the team that carried it through a crypto downturn. Set the creative direction, kept the process moving across marketing and product, and brought in Web3 design talent and outside partners to raise the standard.

Design system refresh, with Adam Ho
6-person design team, hired and led
+90% brand awareness, in a downturn
Top Google rankings, global
Social YoY: +872% YT · +365% IG · +138% X

The refresh

Type
New type system and the guidelines that govern it.
Identity
Brand identity expression: the elements, the style, and how they get used.
Structure
New grid system, plus new secondary and tertiary palettes.
Social
A social creative system that kept the brand consistent at posting volume.
Motion
Motion guidelines, anchored by the MP_Motion reel.
Team
Hired 3 designers, 1 motion artist, and 2 contract designers, then brought in Web3 talent and outside partners to raise the standard.
Rollout
Carried it into product marketing, enterprise partnerships, and the flagship moments: NFT.NYC, NYFW, Flamengo, Art Basel, Artists in Residence.

Coinbase — Head of Production, Brand Video Lead

$COIN Direct Listing

Directed Coinbase’s first TV commercial and owned creative for the first crypto exchange to go public, working directly with the C-suite through a pandemic and a last-minute brand refresh. Hired the contractor bench that got every piece of listing content to air.

80M TV impressions / 20 networks
38K new followers on launch day
57.7K YouTube live uniques

Chainlink Labs — Head of Production, Brand Design & Content

Chainlink Reserve

Art-directed the Chainlink Reserve launch, the brand’s most-watched campaign to date. The hero asset had a three-day deadline. Built it, iterated, and shipped on time. Leading up to it, built Chainlink’s motion design and video framework from scratch, and finished every piece of the brand’s social creative for 12 months.

5M+ views across channels, Reserve launch
188% YouTube growth in 6 months
Chainlink @chainlink

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Chainlink Reserve, a new upgrade centered on the creation of a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens.

4.9M views6,686 likes1,314 reposts

Supporting assets

Chainlink Labs — Live Production, SmartCon

SmartCon Production

Ran live production for SmartCon, Chainlink’s flagship event. Designed all motion collateral: IRL stage animations, hype promos, and livestream assets. Built the on-site pipeline that turned a live stage schedule into finished creative, cut and delivered while the event was still running.

500+ assets shipped in 1 week
5.7M+ views on X
Keynotes · panels · same-day recaps

Midjourney Explorations

12 frames / personal R&D

Collabs

45+ brands across crypto, finance, culture & consumer

Crypto & Web3

  • Aave Labs
  • Aptos Foundation
  • Arbitrum Foundation
  • Celo Foundation
  • Chainlink Labs
  • CoinDesk
  • Compound Labs
  • EigenLayer
  • Ledger
  • Magic Eden
  • Ondo Finance
  • OpenSea
  • Uniswap

TradFi

  • ANZ
  • Broadridge
  • Deutsche Börse Group
  • DTCC
  • Euroclear
  • Fidelity
  • Fireblocks
  • Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
  • Mastercard
  • Misyon Bank
  • SWIFT
  • Sygnum
  • Taurus
  • 21.co

Culture & Sport

  • Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
  • Inter Miami CF
  • Live Nation
  • Madhappy
  • NBA
  • Universal
  • Virgin Atlantic

Consumer & Tech

  • Alo
  • Axentwear
  • Flowcode
  • Geico
  • General Assembly
  • Harmless Harvest
  • HubSpot
  • HustleCon
  • Indiegogo
  • Smucker’s
  • Wearhaus
  • 6 Pack Fitness
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Collage of Hubert Lamela on set: directing shoots, interviewing founders and artists, and on location with crew

About

I build brand design teams and the systems they ship with: templates, pipelines, and standards that hold up when a campaign is already on a deadline. I came up through production, which is why the work gets made.

Written up in Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, and TechCrunch.

Learning Vietnamese. Picking the alto sax back up. Best work trip so far was NBA All-Star 2022, where I ended up onboarding LeBron’s agent Rich Paul into crypto.

Tools

Craft
After EffectsPremiereCinema 4DFigmaPhotoshop
AI
ClaudeChatGPTMidjourneyHiggsfieldFalGrokBot

Track record

  • Ran OKX’s global creator program across crypto, AI, prediction markets, and perpetual futures.
  • Onboarded 1M+ new users through Coinbase Earn & Learn, $28.5M in revenue contribution.
  • Owned Chainlink’s SmartCon live production: 500+ assets in a week, 5.7M+ views on X.
  • Shipped Chainlink’s most-watched campaign to date, 5M+ views for the Reserve launch.
  • Grew a network of seven YouTube channels to 3.07M combined subscribers.

Previously: Coinbase · MoonPay · Chainlink Labs

● Inbox open

Let’s Talk

Creative Director at OKX, based in Miami on Eastern time.

hello@hubertlamela.com