Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Leading the global Experience Design organization through a transformation toward an AI-native, experience-led travel platform. Providing leadership across design, content, research, design operations, and customer advocacy, spanning a portfolio of 12+ global brands including Vrbo, Hotels.com, and Expedia. Leading design strategy across one of the world’s largest two-sided travel marketplaces, aligning traveler and partner experiences with company strategy. Elevating design as a strategic driver of growth, innovation, and long-term competitive advantage.

Jul 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Led a major product organization spanning Messaging, Customer Service, Content, Fintech, Payments, Booking, Service Design, Coaching, and Ratings & Reviews. Oversaw the Airbnb Design System team and stewardship of the company’s end-to-end experience design. Directed the systems design for Airbnb’s full product redesign in 2025, creating the structural foundation for a unified experience across the platform. Defined and launched Airbnb’s first AI strategy focused on self-serve capabilities and intelligent agents, reshaping how customer support and operational experiences were delivered at scale.

May 2019 – Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Design leadership across the Google Home App, Nest App, Ambient Computing + AI, Design Systems, Matter ecosystem, and Developer Platforms.
• Led the 2023 redesign of the Google Home App, delivering a cohesive experience across mobile, tablet, and wearables.
• Drove strategy and launch of next-gen automation products, including the visual editor, redesigned automation UI, and first GenAI feature, Home Summary.
• Orchestrated the first AndroidOS integration with Google Home, unifying mobile and ambient experiences.
• Directed Google’s first Matter ecosystem launch, establishing a scalable, cross-brand design framework.
• Built and scaled the Systems Design, Automation, and Developer/Ecosystem design teams.
• Led the redesign of the Google Home Developer Portal, improving UX and third-party engagement.
• Defined the vision for ambient computing and AI integration across Google Home and Nest.

Dec 2018 – Aug 2019 · 8 mos

• Lead the design systems team for Material Design, directing and launching the Material 2 launch at Google I/O, introduced theming and flexibility into the design system with a focus on bringing tokens into a modernized system.
• Introduced the first R&D team for Material with a focus on systems design across Google for ML and AI.
• Built the Material Expansion team, a tight group of designers looking at emerging tech and design systems
• Launched the first design system for Machine Learning / AI in collaboration with Adidas and IKEA on Android.

Dec 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs

• Design Lead on the Material Design team at Google building guidelines for Google and external products.
• https://material.io/guidelines/
• https://material.io

Jan 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• I served as the first Art Director and editorial designer on the Google Play team.

Sep 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Design director for Billboard.com; lead the 2011 redesign of Billboard.com, oversaw and led design for all new digital products and additional entities such as the Billboard Music Awards.
• Creative director for Billboard.com; introduced the original portrait video and photography studio to the company, lead direction and concept development of portrait, live, fashion and franchise shoots. This was the first original content studio for Billboard.
• Primary photographer for all in-studio performances and portraiture for Billboard.com.

Apr 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

• Primary photo director of Stylelist.com, Slashfood.com and KitchenDaily. Headed content development and strategy, production and post–production of photography, multimedia and audio pieces and managed hiring of freelance photographers.
• Directed Creative as the lead on Musica, AOL’s bilingual Latino channel: produced galleries, hired talent, art directed, photographed and constructed multimedia packages in Spanish.
• Directed the photography for the redesign of Stylelist.com and Slashfood.com.
• Directed the photography and defined the aesthetic direction for the launch of KitchenDaily.com.
• Launched AOL’s first fullscreen multimedia-enabled gallery experience and trained the photography staff on audio production and gallery programming.
• Shot exclusive food, fashion, music and portraiture photography for Slashfood, KitchenDaily.com, Stylelist.com, Spinner, AOL Music, AOL Latino and AOL News.