Director, User Experience Design
Current• Strategically oversees UX, design, and copywriting functions across multiple product areas, including Search, Group Travel, Restaurants & Bars, and Offers, managing 3 comprehensive design backlogs and roadmaps, resulting in streamlined project workflows, accelerated delivery timelines, and enhanced cross-functional collaboration• Collaboratively assesses business goals and user feedback with product managers, development leads, and stakeholders, aligning design strategies with corporate objectives, leading to user-driven improvements that increased revenue and conversion rates by focusing on business-as-usual (BAU) opportunities• Drives migration initiatives for technology stacks and design tools, including AEM and Sketch to Figma transitions, reducing standard user story time by 50%, enhancing team productivity, and contributing to a more standardized and reusable design component library across the Marriott ecosystem• Proactively partners with user research team to conduct usability testing, user interviews, and surveys, gathering and analyzing insights, directly influencing design decisions, resulting in a 1.5% improvement in mobile conversion rates post-redesign• Creatively orchestrates brainstorming sessions to synthesize customer feedback into innovative product features and functionality, ensuring continuous refinement and optimization of the user experience, leading to higher user satisfaction and engagement• Constructively conducts regular design reviews, providing actionable feedback and mentoring 3 UX team members, fostering growth and excellence, with 1 team member earning a Digital Organization Award for leveraging customer insights in design discovery• Systematically standardizes design review processes by creating and implementing templates that effectively communicate problem statements, hypotheses, and solutions, enhancing cross-functional alignment, and improving the efficiency of design communication