I’m an experienced leader across start-ups, design studios, and consulting, through which I’ve designed and built both teams and functions. For over a decade I’ve lead teams to launching some incredible experiences like taking Splice from an ecommerce site to a platform, bringing Polaroid back with Ammunition, and creating a whole new A.I. skillset for Huge.

Director of Product Design & Research - Bubble, New York, NY

Leading the Product Design and Research teams, focusing on creating thoughtful, user-centered experiences and building a strong design culture. Collaborating and bringing together cross-functional teams to align on goals, foster communication and simplify processes, so we can focus on bring ideas to life.

Focusing on big-picture thinking to ensure our products work together seamlessly while championing design excellence and a user-first mindset through continuous research practices and effective design rituals.

Senior Director of Product Design - Vimeo, New York, NY

Partnering with the SVP of product, I was responsible for building and managing the design teams, defining the vision of a unified platform and leading the efforts to integrate the user experience across the Vimeo products.

Growing and supporting a fully remote team. Guiding the team through new ways of connecting and communicating across product areas and cross-functionally while helping teams level-up quality and build delightful ways to “unlock a new enterprise creator class”.

VP Product Design & DEI Counsel Member - Splice, Brooklyn, NY

VP of Product Design, member of the company and product leadership teams. Responsible for building and running the design function, innovation and experimentation, and driving continuous discovery.

Design Principal, North America - ConsenSys, Brooklyn, NY

Hired and built the North American design teams, able to partner in Ethereum blockchain based ventures with clients from start-ups to enterprise level.

Defined the design practice within ConsenSys that establishes best practices for hiring and cultivating design talent within a tech company. I hire folks and make sure they’re happy.

Director of Product Experience - Hello Alfred, NYC, NY

Since being at Alfred I’ve helped establish the design system that has increased our release speeds, built a small but mighty design team and have lead design workshops helping the company and leadership understand the importance of the empathy in creating product.

Working with leadership, I’ve helped design and implement processes that help the product team ship with full stakeholder review and approval.

In addition to working as a UX leader, I led teams as a product manager through continuous releases.

 In 2018, Alfred was named one of Fast Company's most innovative companies in the world.

Product Design Director for AI - HUGE, Brooklyn, NY

At Huge, my role is to consult and educate my colleagues on the various uses and best practices for digital product design, specifically in research, testing and the application of AI technologies. In addition to this role, I am leading the design of Huge's internal AI that aims to make Huger's better through technology. 

Some of the clients I have worked on include; Nike 21 Mercer St store, Comcast Experience Stores, Walmart HR online, Madison Square Garden online and Dakota.

Notable Outcomes: Launch of the internal Huge AI Dakota. Read about her here.

Principle Experience Designer - Ammunition, San Francisco - Based out of Brooklyn, NY

At Ammunition I provide oversight to the complete product design life cycle from service / product design to packaging and out of box experience. Some mentionable clients include; Lyft, AT&T, and Savant. 

Notable Outcomes: Launched UNICEF's Kid Power Band. Designed a digital roadmap for Art in Action. Redesigned and launched Lyft's Amp . Relaunched Polaroids line of cameras.  

Teaching & Advisory Positions

Ongoing
Director of Product Design & Strategy, Contract & Advisory
Working with founders, leading product design and strategy while establishing foundational tools and processes that set them up for scale.

Clients include:

  • Trupo - Founder Sarah Horowitz

  • MLNP.tv - Founder Cindy Gallop 

2015 - 2016
Visiting UX Advisor – Cornell Institute of Technology - NYC
Advising Phd candidates on user experience considerations for their projects. 

2014 - 2016
UX Instructor - SVA, New York City
Teaching experience and product design to junior and senior students focusing on usability and research for digital products. In this class we spent 12 weeks building digital products from research to prototype. 

2013 - 2014
UX Instructor - Academy of Art, San Francisco
Teching the principles of interaction design to 3rd year design students by having them design ios apps from conception to design. The curriculum consisted of everything from user research to pixel perfect design principles.