Hi, I'm a Sydney-based brand strategist and designer. I blend cultural insights with brand strategy and product design, applying agency-level thinking to deliver rigorous analysis and engaging storytelling. I’m proud to have won the 2024 Frost Prize for design excellence and to have been a Top 9 finalist in UNSW’s New Wave entrepreneurship program. With over 3 years of experience in marketing, I’ve helped brands connect with their audiences through strategic insights, design leadership, and hands-on delivery. I love turning cultural trends into brand positions and product experiences, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to turn ideas into impact. I’m work across brand identity, product design, and tech-enabled strategy, and I enjoy collaborating with government and university leads to create meaningful outcomes.

Carina C. Cunha

Hi, I'm a Sydney-based brand strategist and designer. I blend cultural insights with brand strategy and product design, applying agency-level thinking to deliver rigorous analysis and engaging storytelling. I’m proud to have won the 2024 Frost Prize for design excellence and to have been a Top 9 finalist in UNSW’s New Wave entrepreneurship program. With over 3 years of experience in marketing, I’ve helped brands connect with their audiences through strategic insights, design leadership, and hands-on delivery. I love turning cultural trends into brand positions and product experiences, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to turn ideas into impact. I’m work across brand identity, product design, and tech-enabled strategy, and I enjoy collaborating with government and university leads to create meaningful outcomes.

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Hi, I’m a Sydney-based brand strategist and designer. I blend cultural insights with brand strategy and product design, applying agency-level thinking to deliver rigorous analysis and engaging storytelling. I’m proud to have won the 2024 Frost Prize for design excellence and to have been a Top 9 finalist in UNSW’s New Wave entrepreneurship program. With over 3 years of experience in marketing, I’ve helped brands connect with their audiences through strategic insights, design leadership, and hands-on delivery.

I love turning cultural trends into brand positions and product experiences, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to turn ideas into impact. I’m work across brand identity, product design, and tech-enabled strategy, and I enjoy collaborating with government and university leads to create meaningful outcomes.

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Language

English
Fluent
Portuguese
Advanced
French
Beginner

Work Experience

Technology Consultant at Protiviti
February 1, 2025 - November 9, 2025
Audited competitor media to identify gaps for potential thought leadership content and contributed to social media content. Designed presentation reports and structures with strategic insight to enhance storytelling for the client. Supported facilitation of client workshops to identify the core problem. Analyzed client documents and supported identifying improvement opportunities for client policies.
Marketing Associate (Brand & Design) at Metamorph Marketing
February 1, 2025 - February 1, 2025
Developed co-branding material between sub-brand Young Wisdom and Macquarie Incubator, used as collateral to promote their program to 6,000 students. Advised and developed brand identities for four startup cohorts, managing stakeholder relations between James Ruse, Monte Sant’Angelo College and Macquarie Incubator. Designed brand identity and identified improvement opportunities for a biotech startup’s pitch deck, used to improve their storytelling as a Top 6 finalist for the global Hult Prize competition.
Digital Customer Success Intern at NewsXtend / NewsCorp Tutor & OpenWisdom
December 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022
Collaborated across five teams, including Customer Success, Pro Accounts and Creative, assisting $5-20k clients. Initiated and designed paid ad creatives for three clients during the Click Frenzy and Black Friday sale season, managing multiple projects within a tight deadline. Redesigned a paid ad creative for a brief by strategic implementation of key brand features, gaining approval from the client to go live three days earlier than planned. Analyzed multiple datasets assessing campaign progress, leveraging strategic communication skills to explain correlations and causations of three to six months of performance to clients within a five-page report.
Graphic Design & Ecommerce Intern at Forcast
February 1, 2024 - February 1, 2024
Developed ghost images, deploying attention to detail to ensure on-screen colour and textures matched with real-life product, allowing product releases to go live earlier to an online audience of 2,000 daily. Pitched social media strategies to improve the Forcast Instagram profile to retain engagement of 40k followers during pandemic, exploring brand communication solutions in response to unprecedented crises.
Customer Service Assistant at Campion Education
February 1, 2024 - February 1, 2024
Initiated strategic implementation of design tools based on customer feedback. Conducted user journey analysis and wireframed strategic solutions to optimise sales and training processes. Developed branded presentation decks for IT management presentations.
Designer & Illustrator at UNSWeetened
October 1, 2023 - October 1, 2023
Illustrated UNSWeetened’s front cover, reaching audience of 300+ at launch.

Education

Bachelor of Design & Bachelor of Media (PR and Advertising) at UNSW Sydney
February 1, 2020 - December 1, 2024
Learn to Lead Program at UNSW Leadership Foundations
January 11, 2030 - November 9, 2025
Google Ads Measurement Fundamentals of Digital Marketing at Google
December 1, 2019 - August 1, 2020

Qualifications

Google Ads Measurement Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
December 1, 2019 - August 1, 2020

Industry Experience

Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Education, Government