Manager of Digital Strategy in the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Adjunct Instructor at WVU IMC and Immediate Past President of the American Marketing Association - Pittsburgh chapter
Robert J. Thompson, MFA, SMS, CDMP ("RJ") is an award-winning marketing, communications and graphic design professional based in Pittsburgh, Pa. Currently, Thompson is the Manager of Digital Strategy in the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He was most recently the Director of Digital Marketing at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh.
Before joining Pitt, he was a tenured Assistant Professor of Graphic + Interactive Design in the Department of Art at Youngstown State University. Previous to Youngstown State, Thompson taught at Carnegie Mellon University, La Roche University, and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Continuing his career in education, Thompson has been an Adjunct Professor of Graphic & Interactive Design at Point Park University since 2019 where he was responsible for writing and teaching the interactive design curriculum. In 2020, he began teaching at the Community College of Allegheny County and the College of Business Administration and Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.
Outside of marketing, design, and teaching, Thompson is also the Co-Principal and Creative Strategist for +Public, a Pennsylvania-based social enterprise that focuses on cultivating community and economic development impact through the creation of branded communication platforms, creative place-making and storytelling initiatives for communities-in-revival.