I’m a Product Design Manager with 15+ years leading end-to-end design for SaaS products—taking 0→1 ideas into shipped V1s and scaling them with solid design systems. I’ve led 3 designers across 5 agile squads, partnering closely with PM and Engineering to turn strategy into usable, accessible interfaces that move product KPIs. My background spans B2B platforms, health-related SaaS, and early-stage startups, with a consistent focus on discovery→delivery, IA, interaction, and Design Ops.
Highlights include building the first design team and culture at a SaaS company, standing up a modular design system from scratch, and coordinating multi-squad delivery to accelerate time-to-ship and raise UX quality. I’ve led V1 launches for multiple startups (web/mobile), owned research-to-handoff, and improved critical flows like onboarding and complex operations (e.g., claims/workflows). I’m used to aligning stakeholders, running workshops, and turning ambiguous problems into validated, shippable solutions.
I’m data-informed, accessibility-minded (WCAG), and comfortable balancing speed with rigor through tokens, component governance, and pragmatic research. As a visiting professor, I bring a coaching mindset—mentoring designers, refining processes, and raising the bar for execution. I’m exploring full-time Product Design Manager roles (industry-agnostic, onsite/remote), where I can build teams, ship outcomes, and scale products with clarity and care.More...