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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Hiring, scaling, and leading a fully remote team of 8 designers during a critical period of growth from 20 to 200+ employees following our Series B.Responsibilities include establishing remote-based design workflows, reviewing and critiquing design deliverables, leading regular design workshops and team meetings, mentoring team members through different phases of their careers, and contributing individual design work as needed.I report directly to our Chief Product Officer, and evangelize the role of product design across the company. I also play a key role in defining our product development cycle, spearheaded the creation of a cohesive company onboarding process, and continuously strive to create a healthy and balanced company culture.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Played a key role in company-wide strategy and planning conversations, mentored and interviewed new employees, established and iterated on a scalable design system, and ensured a high quality user experience bar was being met across all teams. This is in addition to continuing responsibilities from my role as a Product Designer, detailed below.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Led projects spanning all disciplines of design on Desktop, Responsive Web, iOS, and Android. Regularly created and presented design specifications, user flows, mockups, and other deliverables to leadership, including the CEO. Enumerated key use cases to drive useage of our app by both Hosts and members. Worked closely with engineering to create acheiveable scope, and ensure all projects were delieved to a high quality standard.

Us

Enhancing the user experience of searching for a job by updating existing designs and creating new ones for both internal and external use. Seeing designs through all phases of the product process, including initial brainstorming, creating wireframes and mockups, fine tuning HTML and CSS, and QA testing. All designs include a responsive version for mobile and tablet.

Boston, Ma, Us

Working with a small remote team of engineers and managers to create wealth management software. Responsibilities include meeting with potential clients, creating wireframes and visual designs, and any other tasks across the team that need to be completed.

San Francisco, California, Us

(Formerly Prosperworks) Working with a small team of engineers and designers to create CRM Software for small businesses. Responsibilities included conducting user research, defining product features, creating wireframes, and working with engineers to ensure the product matches specifications.

Portland, Or, Us

(Merged with Prosperworks in 2013) Consulting design firm working with companies of all sizes to create an easy and beautiful user experience for their products. Focus on creating intuitive information architecture, creating detailed and annotated wireframes, communicating with clients, and occasionally adding visual UI design. Clients include Serials Solutions, LinkedIn, eBay, and Yahoo.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Working with a team to redesign the interaction of military procedural software for use as an Android application. Also creating and managing a standard icon repository for use in present and future projects.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Converting mock up images of main consumer and business facing web pages into HTML and CSS, critiquing designs, creating business cards, compiling a style guide, and completing various other design tasks.