Jun 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

• As the founding designer at Motif I am responsible for leading projects across the entire design lifecycle, including supporting lead generation through building our brand and marketing, educating and activating our current user base through content and outreach, designing a powerful and intuitive user experience for expert users, and finally to facilitating the feedback loop from our prospects and customers through user research.
• Nearly every inch of what you see and interact with in our marketing and product experience is my fault err responsibility (the double-edged sword of being a founding designer).

Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Lead the Product Design team at Radar designing location infrastructure for Operations, Product, and Developer users. Responsible for hiring and managing the product design team to execute against strategic projects, contributing to the product design lifecycle to be focused on the user, collaborating with PM and Eng leadership peers to define strategic initiatives for the company, and executing on strategic design initiatives such as improvements to the overall IA and setting up a research practice.
• Some of my accomplishments include setting up the hiring process for both marketing and product design hiring, managing the design team to deliver on commitments quarter over quarter, acting as interim Creative Director while supporting hiring of the Marketing and Brand design team (now fully staffed), running Radar’s first qualitative user research study, and designing and delivering improvement to Radar’s Dashboard IA and Analytics offerings.

Nov 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Leading UX on Google Maps data quality tooling for the past 3+ years supporting creation, moderation, maintenance, and scaling of all maps data from roads and buildings to points of interest and their attributes such as hours and categories.
• Responsible for prioritizing and scoping the teams work, evangelizing design and securing resources within a traditionally engineering heavy team, e2e user centered design process for large strategic projects, and managing contractors for short term project support. Some of my accomplishments include founding the design team and growing it from just myself to 6 UXers across design and research, driving experimentation for ML tooling and delivering a tooling strategy for ML labeling in Google Maps, leading concept development and strategy for a comprehensive data processing workflow manager, and supporting various new capabilities and feature improvements to data processing tools (map editors).

Aug 2016 – Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Previously UX lead for Partner platforms with Google Cloud enabling partner operations, sales, marketing, and support.
• Responsible for the entire design process including scoping and prioritization, user research, visual design and end implementation. Some of my accomplishments include building a team of 4 UXers across research and design, pitching and delivering a unified partner platform, conducting generative user research for the partner sales lifecycle, and redesigning legacy applications to meet Material design standards.

Jun 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Ramon, California, United States