What You Get With
Peter
Lenz
Creative Production & Operations Leader. 15+ years turning ambiguity into work that ships at scale.
Figure it out. / Build it. / Make it matter.
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He goes into a situation full of unknowns, gathers information, organizes it, and sets up a clear path forward by distilling the chaos down to key steps and decisions.
"Peter has really flourished in the [brand] role, maintaining a great attitude and approach in a generally murky and uncertain environment. His communication skills are excellent — he has developed a great knack for communicating in a way that respects the roles of various teams and stakeholders, yet offers a point of view on what he believes should happen. Peter's organizational skills are outstanding — he's really one of the best we have at keeping trains on the tracks. He has earned the trust of many stakeholders, from legal to executive leadership."
VP, ECD — Yahoo · Former Manager
That is the job, on every track. Creative operations, brand, live production — different surfaces, same engine. Peter is the person leadership hands the murky, high-stakes problem to, trusting it comes back as a plan a team can actually run.
01 — Track Record

Production Powerhouse

Systems that made creative departments scale.

600–700projects / year

Built the platform the whole department runs on.

Implemented a centralized project management tool that created efficiencies for a team delivering 600–700 projects annually, plus a Creative Department dashboard for quarterly and annual reporting that gave leadership real visibility into operational efficiency.

SLAintake framework

Stood up the intake engine from scratch.

Established a proactive intake team to streamline creative requests — implementing SLAs, forecasting project volume, and optimizing team staffing to keep deliverables timely, efficient, and high quality.

+8% / +4%traffic / social

Turned brand strategy into measurable results.

Led the For Lovers Of OTT campaign, driving an 8% increase in new visitor traffic and 4% growth in social followers by translating brand strategy into efficient, end-to-end creative production.

02 — Track Record

Brand Builder

Strategy that got paid off in execution.

49 / 346markets / products

Led a global brand overhaul in 90 days.

Drove Yahoo's global brand transformation across 49 markets and 346 products in 90 days, launching a modernized brand strategy, architecture, and identity without missing a market.

6rebrands

Ran rebrands at organizational scale.

Orchestrated 6 company-wide rebranding initiatives, managing up to 12 cross-functional workstreams and reporting to executive stakeholders while balancing brand strategy against operational execution.

5–10%consistency, YoY

Made brand consistency measurable.

Achieved a 5–10% year-over-year improvement in brand consistency scores through refreshed guidelines, and built a brand review process that let partners submit work for compliance — keeping the brand coherent everywhere it showed up.

03 — Scale

Scale of Work

The numbers behind the wins.

01
600–700
Projects delivered per year through one PM system
02
90 days
To roll a global rebrand across the full portfolio
03
49 × 346
Markets and products moved in lockstep
04
6
Company-wide rebrands, up to 12 workstreams each
05
+8%
New visitor traffic lift on the For Lovers Of campaign
06
5–10%
YoY brand consistency gain from refreshed guidelines
04 — In Their Words

Leadership

The people who managed him.

"Peter excels in both brand strategy and operational execution, seamlessly bridging the gap between high-level vision and practical implementation. His deep respect for the creative process and his knack for problem-solving really set him apart."

ACD, Yahoo

"What stands out most about Peter is his ability to find a solution to any problem, identify the people and process needed, and get it done. He is an expert at navigating through change."

Head of Brand, Verizon Media / Yahoo · Former Manager
05 — In Their Words

Peers & Team

Cross-functional collaborators and his own direct reports.

"Peter is an amazing brand wizard and marketing leader. He is both thoughtful and decisive on what direction to take for various types of products. His leadership drove a seamless launch of the Hey Yahoo show on Game Show Network (2023) with a fantastic revival of the classic yodel and an awesome set design that really felt modern."

Director, Product Management, Yahoo

"Peter's expertise in program management is evident in his ability to seamlessly navigate complex tasks, while ensuring that every detail is meticulously handled and the overall strategic goals always remain in sight."

B2B Marketing Leader

"Peter is a strategy whiz, a problem solver, a process and systems improver, and perhaps most importantly, a connector. He knows how to bring people together, forge a plan, and get things done."

SaaS Marketing Leader

"Peter is an excellent communicator [and] so fully wired into external marketing and brand trends. His honesty, pragmatism and experience, coupled with creative optimism and ideas as well as support to collaborate makes him an excellent partner."

Peer

"Peter is a consummate team player. He has a 'we can' and 'we will' attitude always and is a pleasure to work with. He has helped prioritize his team's resources and needs and is always available to answer questions, provide helpful insight, and act as a bridge between our legal trademark brand protection needs and the creative side of brand work."

Peer

"Peter is extremely empathetic and understanding. He does a great job of being both a manager and someone who you can confide in with non-work related topics. He does a great job of managing projects and driving them to fruition and completion."

Brand Marketer · Former Direct Report
The murky problem,
the one nobody owns —
give it
to me.