Michael M.
Associate Creative Director, Cinematographer, Photographer
I’m Mike, an Austin-based creative director, shooter, and editor who loves turning big ideas into engaging visual stories, all while utilizing AI-enabled tools to help get things done. Right now, I’m putting those skills to work as a Senior Content Creator at Indeed. My career has been a mix of agency leadership (ACD at Drumroll/BondX) and production house know-how (Creative Director and Cinematographer at Row One Productions). Because I can both lead the strategy and physically shoot/edit the content, I know what it takes to get a project across the finish line, whether it's a social campaign, a web ecosystem, or a feature-length documentary. Outside of work, it's pretty much all Formula 1, top 10 lists, and pastries. Career TL;DR: 🎥 Shot and edited a feature-length documentary 📈 Helped raise $4M+ for an Austin nonprofit 📧 Led design for Microsoft Store's CRM (campaigns scaled to 12M email subscribers) and helped launch 5 products 🎨 Art directed covers for Harper’s Magazine 🤖 Part of an AI enablement team to help streamline workflows at Indeed Let's talk about: Creative & Art Direction, Cinematography, Photography, Video/Photo Editing, AI-optimized workflows Brand Experience: Indeed, Prime Video, Amazon, Capital One, Microsoft, AMD, Bing, Xbox, LinkedIn, Church’s Chicken, Upliv, Expressable, HostGator, Epicor, Dell Children’s Medical Center, Center for Child Protection, Jacob Bromwell, Macerich, Certified Employee-Owned, Susan G. Komen, MDS Foundation, Christy Maz Network, MIT Technology Review, Harper’s magazine, The Sporting News
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $121k
Billed in all: $536,883$537k
$121k in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: #1 in 3 skills of 15
Rarest: top <0.01% in Photo Editing, of 10,456. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- Photo Editing10,456 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top <0.01%🇺🇸#1 of 1,471
- Art Direction1,623 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.06%🇺🇸#1 of 477
- Cinematography770 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.13%🇺🇸#1 of 323
- UI/UX Prototyping6,982 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%🇺🇸#1 of 593
- Animation6,859 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%🇺🇸#1 of 903
- Photography5,410 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.04%🇺🇸#1 of 1,875
- Creative Direction2,705 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 0.07%🇺🇸#2 of 1,039
- Social Media Imagery1,915 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.10%🇺🇸#1 of 227