Led strategic vision for product and brand from MVP through series C. Started as solo designer, building out a multidisciplinary design team and defining processes to build quickly at high quality.
• Took product from MVP to configurable platform including a suite of products for individual employees, HR and admin users — contributing over 60% of IC work while also building team
• Shaped leadership and XFN ideas and objectives into cohesive, focused product vision of “what’s next” every 4-6 months
• Interim responsibility to to define and drive alignment on product direction. Then established goals and built process to hire first PM
• Coached XFN partners (engineering, science) on product process and thinking to empower them to act as project leads in PM-like roles
• Led and deployed 2 internal rebrand efforts, driven by stakeholder workshops and validated with research.
• Built and managed high-impact team of 3 full-time designers, 3 contract designers across both product and marketing
• Evangelized for and hired first UX Researcher
• Managed an engineer (at their request) who wanted coaching on how to build great product
See some of our work at https://humu.com and https://dribbble.com/humu
