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I’m a Lead Product Designer with 10+ years of experience shaping innovative, high-impact products across both Fortune 500 companies and fast-moving startups. I specialize in B2B SaaS, where I thrive on untangling complexity, aligning cross-functional teams, and driving product-market fit and business growth through strategic UX.

I blend deep user research with sharp product thinking to craft design strategies that deliver real outcomes — from discovery to delivery. My work has empowered teams to launch new products, scale core flows, and unlock new revenue streams.

This fall, I’m consulting with early-stage startups and teaching in the Design MBA program at California College of the Arts — but I’m actively seeking my next full-time role on a collaborative, mission-driven team that values creativity, clarity, and design excellence.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Open to hybrid or remote opportunities.

MY VALUES

🌎 Creating impactful experiences that enhance people's lives

🚀 Shipping fast and often

🥳 Collaborating with great teammates

📚 Continuously learning to stay ahead of the curve

🤗 Ensuring products are inclusive and accessible for all users

MY INTERESTS

🤖 Using cutting-edge technologies (especially powerful AI/LLMs!) to support new functionalities

📈 Understanding the business strategy to ensure design is as impactful as possible

🛠️ Always improving collaborative processes: Are we working efficiently? How can we do even better?

MY PROCESS

🕵️‍♀️ Research and Problem Definition: Understand our product goals/target metrics, target users, and business by running workshops, user research synthesis and interviewing stakeholders.

🗓️ Planning: Align on the roadmap, scope, timeline, and deliverables, and establish the user journey and information architecture.

✍️ Wireframing and Prototyping: From exploring with sketches and low-fidelity wireframes, build out the best possible layout and functionalities; solicit feedback early and often!

🎨 Visual Design: Use high-fidelity prototypes to test out interactions as needed, and build alignment and excitement with stakeholders; ensure visual identity aligns with brand/goals.

🤝 Handoff to Development: Gather the needed specifications and assets in conversation with the engineering team to ensure all edge cases are covered and quality can be executed as expected.

🔎 Testing and Launch: Run UXQA in close communication with development to ensure the product is being built out as hoped.

🔄 Continued Iteration: Learn from real product usage to inform improvements and continue to make the experience useful to people!

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  • I learned so much about the industry by joining — and winning — hackathons 🤠

    • Chegg Values Award Q3 2022 | Chegg honor for employees who most embody the company’s values, awarded to ~5 North America employees per quarter

    • Nominee, STEP Ahead Awards | Manufacturing Institute, 2020 — nominated by my manager to represent Goodyear as a female pioneer in tech in the company.

    • Conference Presenter | Traction Conference, 2020 — represented my team and product at an industry conference

    • Winning Team | American Heart Association Hackathon San Francisco, 2018

    • Lead Designer - Top Prize: Most Polished App | Stanford Treehacks Hackathon, 2017

    • Co-Director, Graduate Students' Alliance | California College of the Arts, 2017 — represented the interests of grad students to the Board and community

    • Graduate Merit Scholar & CCA Scholarship Awards | California College of the Arts, 2016-2018

    • First Place Team | HackSF, 2014

    • Team Lead - First Place and Popular Vote Winner | Startup Weekend San Francisco, 2013

  • Growing up around Berkeley, I was involved in local art and sustainability projects before moving to Montréal to study at McGill University (BA Anthropology ’12).

    After graduating, I managed the Students' Society's building and hundreds of student clubs and services as the student union Vice President, Clubs & Services, before moving back home to the Bay Area — where I soon realized I needed to learn about tech to make a home here. I attended all the tech events I could find, including my first hackathon, where I pitched a concept and led a world-class team to win the event.

    This crash course in entrepreneurship led me to the world of UX research and design — where I was thrilled to find the perfect blend of my passions for art, learning about people and making an impact — and I've now owned end-to-end full-stack product design processes at fast-growing early-stage startups as well as Fortune 500 innovation labs and large tech companies.

    Seeking more involvement in product strategy, visioning and roadmapping than I'd found as a burgeoning UI Designer, I attended California College of the Arts' innovative MBA program — as well as Product Management and Agile Project Management coursework from UC Berkeley Extension and Stanford Executive Education — to try the product management side of shipping software. Soon missing getting my hands dirty in design files, I now bring this business literacy and PM experience to support product strategy, roadmapping and visioning from the design team.

    I was most recently leading design projects in the AI-powered edtech space at Learneo; I’m excited about making an impact as a "full-stack" user-centered product designer, and looking to join a new team where I can keep growing, ship fast and build great products.

    For more of my work history, please see my Linkedin.

  • M.B.A., Design Strategy | California College of the Arts, 2018

    B.A. Honours, Anthropology | McGill University (Montréal), 2012, as well as coursework at Universiteit Leiden and UNAM

  • My diverse educational experiences demonstrate my passion for lifelong learning! 🤓

    • Applied Foresight Activator | Kedge - The Futures School (now TFSX), 2021

    • Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certificate | Stanford GSB Executive Education, 2020

    • Graduate Certificate in Transportation and Land Use Planning | San Jose State University, May 2021

    • Clean Energy Leadership Fellow | Clean Energy Leadership Institute (San Francisco), 2020

    • Climate Reality Leader | The Climate Reality Leadership Project, 2020

    • StartingBloc Fellow | StartingBloc Los Angeles, 2020

    • Agile Project Management: Facilitating a Product Development Team with Scrum | Stanford Executive Education, 2018

    • Managing Product and Go-to-Market Strategies | UC Berkeley Executive Education, 2018

    • Governing Board Member | 350 Bay Area Action, 2021-2023 — I recently finished my term in this leadership role supporting a climate justice organization; a great learning opportunity!

    • Mentoring junior designers | I love to give back by supporting junior designers through mentorship platforms and running Chegg’s UX community coffee chat event series

    • Pro bono design consulting | I’ve offered volunteer design services to climate/social justice organizations through my consulting project

    • Always learning | Keeping up with the design industry, reading and creating in other mediums — ceramic art, music and dance 💃

    • Also always happy to talk about exploring the Bay Area and beyond, sailing and other water sports, trying to keep up some French conversational skills, my favorite local taquerias, and my perfect little rescue pup Bambino 🐶