Pervaiz Production Group Toronto, Ontario · EST. 2015

Nabeel
Pervaiz

Creative Producer · Consumer Brand & Live Event
Available for contract, including short-notice
01Positioning

Complex creative work rarely stalls for lack of good ideas. It stalls when the brief keeps moving, ownership blurs, approvals slip, and no one holds the whole picture.

That’s the job I do. I take complex creative work from first brief to final delivery, holding the crew, the budget, the stakeholders, and the deadline together. Ten years across consumer brand and live-event work, most recently five and a half years inside Shopify’s Brand Design Studio, where I led flagship launches end to end: the Shopify.com redesign, multi-city video shoots with external agencies, and campaign pages delivered against hard external deadlines.

I came up through photography and still shoot, which means I read a creative brief the way the creative team does, not just the logistics around it. Before production, a decade in health-sciences research that still shapes how I move through complex, technical, or regulated work.

Pervaiz Production Group is my independent production practice, assembling the right crew and partners around each brief.

The Shopify.com homepage, headline: Be the next store they line up for.
Flagship · Shopify.com
75M+
Annual visitors to the site
3 yrs
As the homepage's producer, redesign through ongoing updates
30+
Merchants secured for launch, from 50+ outreached across 9 markets
30+
Global locales localized and transcreated

Producer on the full brief-to-launch redesign of Shopify's homepage and its ongoing evolution. The launch A/B test drove a +3.11% conversion lift and a projected $5.5M in annual gross profit, and was recognized publicly by Shopify's CEO, VP of Design, and VP of UX.

02Selected Work

Credits

Shopify
Senior Creative Producer
Homepage redesign and its ongoing evolution. Growth and conversion pages including the Start page and Sell page. AI-commerce launches including Sidekick, the Universal Commerce Protocol (brief to global launch in two weeks), Agentic Storefronts, and the ChatGPT partnership page. Developer-platform video case studies for Hydrogen & Oxygen, including the Denim Tears × Kamp Grizzly case study, shot across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland.
2020–2026
Manifesto Festival
Documentation Producer
Led documentation production across two festival cycles: budgeting and staffing crews of up to 20 photographers and videographers for events from 150 to 15,000+ attendees, and the direct line between festival leadership and sponsors.
Consumer Brand
Photographer / Content Producer
Produced and shot brand campaigns for Lively, Assembly New York, Nalata Nalata, Roka, Best Self, The Detox Market, RELM Cannabis. New York, Austin, Toronto. Additional production for Samsung Canada, BeatRoute Media, and RPM Records / ImagineNative.
2015–2020
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LOUIX LOUIS & CODE
Community & Content Producer
Produced launch content and social build for LOUIX LOUIS at The St. Regis Toronto, and CODE, a North American wellness brand, on behalf of Navigate Group.
2018–2019
Frisson Radio
Producer & Co-Host
Producer and co-host of a weekly syndicated broadcast on Canadian FM and streaming platforms, sustained for seven years.
2018–present
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In practice
Manifesto Arts & Music Festival recap
Manifesto Arts & Music Festival, 2018. Documentation production, crews of up to 20 across events to 15,000+ attendees.
Judgment under pressure

On a three-city Shopify shoot, the featured founder withdrew mid-trip with travel already booked and a hard delivery date closing in.

Rather than lose the deliverable, I convened the stakeholders, repositioned the creative agency itself, Kamp Grizzly, as the subject, and stood up an entirely new shoot within days. The work shipped on schedule.

Knowing what isn't working, changing course, and protecting the creative intent is most of the job.

Behind the scenes on the Kamp Grizzly shoot: an interview setup with camera, boom, and crew. Behind the scenes on the Kamp Grizzly shoot: the styled set seen from above.

Kamp Grizzly, Portland. Behind the scenes on the replacement shoot.

03Scope

Where I work best

Complex stakeholders

Launches with many hands on them, design, engineering, marketing, legal, localization, external agencies, kept moving toward one fixed date. I hold the through-line so the brief survives the number of people touching it.

Evolving briefs

Work where the brief changes mid-flight: a subject falls through, a scope shifts, a market gets added. I re-plan without losing the creative intent or the deadline.

Global and technical

Multi-market programs across 30+ locales, and subject matter most producers need translated for them: developer-facing, regulated, and clinical. I can sit in those rooms and keep the work accurate and on schedule.

Work already in motion

I’m comfortable stepping into work that’s already underway: parental-leave coverage, a high-volume launch stretch, a studio between hires, or a project that’s drifted off track. I read what’s happened, find where it’s exposed, and move it forward, without making everyone start over.

In practice
Nalata Nalata store interior, New York, photographed by Nabeel Pervaiz.
Nalata Nalata, New York. Produced for Shopify.
04Background

The pivot is the point

Different rooms, same job: complicated work, many stakeholders, a hard deadline, and no room for surprises.

Nabeel Pervaiz, portrait by Amira, 2021.

I came to production from clinical research, and ran both at once for several years, across clinical trial operations and health-economics writing for pharmaceutical clients. The research background runs deep enough that a first-author oncology meta-analysis I wrote is still cited more than 1,300 times.

That background isn’t a detour from the production work; it’s the engine underneath it. I’m fluent with clinical, regulated, and technical subject matter, the kind of material most producers need translated for them, and I bring the habits research builds: read the whole brief, find the real constraint, protect the deadline.

The through-line from a Phase II trial to a festival shoot to a homepage launch is the same discipline. The rooms just look different.

05Working together

What it's like

Clear

You’ll always know what’s happening, what’s needed from you, and where a decision is waiting.

Calm

Pressure is often part of the work. It doesn’t have to become the culture of the work.

Direct

I raise risk early, name the tradeoff, and help you decide, before it’s expensive.

Creatively literate

I came up shooting, so I know which details are just logistics and which ones are the idea. The structure serves the work, not the other way around.

06Engagement

Available for contract and interim production engagements.

You don’t need a perfectly resolved brief to start. Tell me what you’re trying to make, why it matters, when it’s due, what’s already in motion, and where it feels uncertain. We’ll work out the rest.

Typical engagements  campaign and launch production, brief to delivery · multi-market production programs · interim production leadership · event and festival production · individual shoots
Rate  quoted on scope; let’s talk about what’s in motion Based  Toronto · available to travel