Spearheaded design for the company's new self-service SaaS product, working closely with two engineering teams from inception to completion

Took on additional role of design system lead, contributed to and maintained our design system, creating new components and writing documentation and guidelines to ensure consistency and clarity across the platform

Led the charge in optimizing our research practice with user testing and user interviews

Produced wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to maintain a uniform visual and interactive design language

Developed low-fidelity UI kits for efficient idea communication and feedback collection

Collaborated with developers to ensure precise design implementation, offering ongoing guidance and feedback

Delivered design concepts and recommendations to various stakeholders, including executives, product managers, and engineers.

Design lead for all employer features - helping women find jobs on Fairygodboss and show ROI to our paying employer partners

Built out the first design system - standardizing grids, typography, form controls, iconography etc. worked closely with engineering to create a consistent component library in react using story book.

Conducted user research to map out the typical Job Seeking customer journey, specific to how women search for jobs - which lead to a complete overhaul of job search.

Designed A/B and usability tests as part of design discovery to make sure we build features that meet intended goals for engagement, growth and conversion.

Conducted design reviews as part of acceptance testing - ensuring we delivered a consistent UX to our users

Worked with the Veteran Services Platform team doing UX design for internal tools to allow teams to build on VA.gov, as well as, DesignOps work on team's process and tooling.

Reviewed and approved design changes going into va.gov.

Collaborated and consulted with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, accessibility experts, content writers, and information architects

Partnered with team leads to map and refine our internal design processes

Worked in discovery sprints to come up with solutions for better tools for our users building on VA.gov

Handled end-to-end, design from user research, prototyping, testing, to design specs & iterative feature additions.

Worked with front-end engineering to author a definitive, living design system which helped speed up both design and development to ensure designers and engineers were all speaking the same language.

Interviewed clients, researched, and created the company’s first set of user personas to help guide design decisions.

Established a standard design process and workflow to drive projects from ideation to completion within the given constraints.

Led and ran the company’s first design sprints on major projects including their filtering system and mobile campaigns.

Collaborated with product managers, designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, marketing managers, and customer success managers on a regular basis