Mona Desai Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

•Led design across all channels (product, branding, and marketing). Prioritized a holistic and consistent experience no matter where the user was on the Revel journey.•A key partner with the CEO and VP of Engineering in developing roadmaps and strategies to help meet business goals, all while advocating for the user; ensuring roadmaps take into consideration the overall user flow.•Hired freelance designers to help execute the UI and also tackle design debt.•Demonstrated strong leadership and communication skills; with the ability to clearly and consistently communicate about vision, status, goals, and impact to team members. •Facilitated healthy collaboration amongst stakeholders to ensure successful product direction.•Created and executed on design strategy. Advocating for the user and ensuring a consistent and intuitive experience. •Maintained and continuously improved the design system.•Established strong, collaborative relationships with leaders across the organization; working closely with Product, Engineering, and Business teams.•Educated team members on a user-first mentality and design principles through company-wide workshops.

San Francisco Bay Area

As Make School's first full-time design hire, I led product, branding and marketing design. Having owned the design process from end-to-end, I balanced design, engineering, and business goals, without compromising on providing user-centric experiences.Make School is redesigning higher education for the 21st century. Students earn a Bachelor’s in Applied Computer Science with alumni working at companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Lyft and more. Students pay tuition as a percentage of earnings once they are employed. Make School is funded by Learn Capital, Y Combinator, Kapor Capital, Fresco Capital, Tim Draper, and Alexis Ohanian.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area