Stephanie Maillet
Creative Manager :: Boston office
Stephanie has been managing creative people for almost 20 years. After graduating college, she formed her own production company and managed musicians, produced albums and concerts, ranging from Boston indie rock bands to a Grammy nominated composer.
In 2000, she decided she wanted paid vacations and a 401k, but wanted to remain in the creative field. Advertising! She started working at Arnold and invented a unique creative management system for the Volkswagen group. A system of this kind had never existed before and because of its effectiveness was eventually adopted by the entire agency.
In 2008, Stephanie was hired to work with her friends at the Barbarian Group, serving as the director of the creative department across all three Barbarian offices in Boston, New York and San Francisco. Reporting to Benjamin Palmer, she essentially serves as the left brain of the creative department. She works with the creatives to ensure proper career development and encourages cross pollination within disciplines and across disciplines. She keeps the creatives happy, sticks up for them, gets them projects that are right for them and broaden them. And by keeping an eye on their happiness and their careers, she ultimately helps them become better creatives. She also recruits new talent so the department is staffed with awesome people.
Stephanie has an unhealthy office relationship with Twizzlers and Diet Dr. Pepper. She loves Halloween so much that she spends most of the Fall organizing the epic Brickyard Halloween party. As far as shoes go, Stephanie mostly just wears the black Chuck Taylors she bought for her 2005 Billie Joe Armstrong costume. The other 74 pairs are on rotation.
Stephanie and her boyfriend, Christian, posses a small mysterious creature from the Ozarks they bought online using Paypal. Although classified as a dog, her son Sawyer believes it is really an alien warrior from the planet Gloog, and possibly a descendent of the Ewoks.
Stephanie has a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Emerson College.
