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New York, Ny, Us

Product Design Director for New York Times Audio, guiding strategy, managing four designers, and helping create listening experiences that offer a new, accessible mode of engaging with Times journalism. Our work extends across multiple surfaces and native applications, and involves a diverse ecosystem of podcasts, narrated articles, automated voice stories, and more. We also designed and launched a zero-to-one product, the NYT Audio app, which is now available as a subscriber-only benefit.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Spun up and scaled the startup's first in-house Product Design capability, with the goal of creating digital products that supported a more equitable, affordable community for women beyond the walls of a coworking space. Hired and managed a team of design and research, served as in-house liason to contractors and agencies, and supported product development by setting strategic direction and executing as a lead contributor across web and iOS.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Served as Product Design squad lead in the Consumer and Growth missions, working on the core streaming product across iOS, Android, and web. Shaped discovery, end-to-end execution, delivery, and experimentation. Contributed to a unified design language and documentation around Spotify's first web design system. Designed and shipped the first mobile web player experience, iterations to sharing, sign up, and onboarding flows, and features within various beta apps like Spotify Kids and Stations.

New York, Ny, Us

Drove qualitative research and designed digital experiences aimed at making finding the perfect specs fun, easy, and frictionless both online and in-store. Contributed within cross-disciplinary teams tackling consumer-facing, internal, and vision tech products. Re-designed the company's website to be responsive, worked on improvements to the Home Try-On, PD Measurement, and Prescription Check tools, and created components and templates for a variety of collection pages and conversion flows. Coordinated and facilitated usability testing within the organization. Now own too many pairs of glasses.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed architecture, flows, and interfaces for clients, with a specialization in mobile and social platforms. Primary clients include L'Oréal Paris, Armani, Lancome, Tiffany&Co., JCPenney, Logitech, and Equinox, with a handful of pitches and R&D tinkering tossed in for good measure.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Assisted and collaborated with a team to conceptualize, construct, and install numerous intricate store displays, creating unique retail environments from unconventional and reclaimed materials.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Worked with a local eight-person studio to assist with concepting, asset production, digital, and print work. Responsibilities included site mockups, IA, logo development, and QA.