# Julie Mills > Product Designer at Stripe | MS HCDE Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/juliemills www.juliemills.work I am inspired by human behavior that influences delightful experiences. As a product designer I seek to understand behavior, motivation and habit to create engaging experiences. After spending years in sales, I combine my customer first mindset with a Master's of Science in Human Centered Design and Engineering (MS HCDE) from the University of Washington, to listen & solve customer problems everyday. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Stripe Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Okta Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Greater Seattle Area Currently leading design and strategy for Okta Privileged Access Previously researched and designed a framework for Okta to GTM with Managed Service Providers ### Senior Product Designer @ Smartsheet Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Led design & strategy for Smartsheet's core navigation experiences ### Product Designer II @ Smartsheet Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 2021 - 2022: Designing Smartsheet's core experiences 2020: Modernized Smartsheet's Grid ### Associate UX Designer @ Smartsheet Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area Designed a scalable enterprise administration experience - Smartsheet Admin Center ### User Experience Apprenticeship @ Smartsheet Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 10 month contract where I was given the opportunity to explore both design and research practices. Conducted benchmark research and defined product roadmap for Smartsheet Admin Center. Aligned with stakeholders and shifted priorities on the product roadmap to focus on building a user centered, scalable and modern enterprise administration application. Designed V1 of Admin Center ### Strategic Sales Representative @ Smartsheet Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Bellevue, WA Empowering leaders to move from idea to impact — fast. Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 75,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. ### Business Development Representative @ Socrata Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area Socrata is the digital infrastructure of the public sector. Our solutions help public sector organizations improve transparency, citizen service, and data-driven decision-making. Our solutions are designed to deliver data to governments trying to reduce costs, to citizens who want to understand how their tax dollars are used, and to civic hackers dedicated to creating new apps and improving services. • Identify, prospect, and qualify target accounts to generate pipeline and drive revenue in the Northwest, Rocky Mountain and California territories • Develop scalable and repeatable prospecting processes in a developing open data market • Partner with Account Executive and management to develop strategies to accelerate sales cycle • Collaborate with marketing to build campaigns and programs and own follow-up from lead activity • Trained on the Challenger Sales methodology ### Account Manager/Technical Recruiter @ NuWest Group Holdings, LLC Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 WesTech, a division of NuWest Group, is a top specialty recruiting firm in the Seattle area. Quick response time, honest communication and excellent customer service have been the principal standards guiding our business. We provide excellent opportunities for candidates within manufacturing and engineering companies. We are locally owned and operated and take pride in leading the industry for temporary, temp-to-hire and permanent placements. If you are looking for work, please reach out to me. I'm here to help! -Partnering with engineering, operations and manufacturing managers as well as human resources associates to establish a relationship that fosters successful recruitment and placement of technically specialized candidates. -Continually building a network of relationships with talented candidates within the Engineering, Manufacturing and IT job market. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Human Centered Design Engineering University of Washington Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication University of Washington Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julie-mills-work --- Source: https://flows.cv/juliemills JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/juliemills/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30