Defining and implementing an innovative product vision during a critical period of growth following our Series B. Continuously pushing our product's user experience to be more focused, more delightful, and more meaningful as we aim to bring People Magic to online communities.

Contributing individual design work on critical projects, while supporting a healthy team environment. Spearheading the creation of a cohesive cross-platform design system for mobile and web applications, evangelizing the strategic role of product design across the company, implementing human-centered design methodologies across all projects, and collaborating with C-Suite to define product strategy and development cycles.

Hiring, scaling, and maintaining a design team as large as 8, establishing remote-based design workflows, reviewing and critiquing design deliverables, mentoring team members, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

Played a key role in company-wide strategy and planning conversations, mentored and interviewed new employees, established and iterated on a scalable design system, and ensured a high quality user experience bar was being met across all teams. This is in addition to continuing responsibilities from my role as a Product Designer, detailed below.

Led projects spanning all disciplines of design on Desktop, Responsive Web, iOS, and Android. Regularly created and presented design specifications, user flows, mockups, and other deliverables to leadership, including the CEO. Enumerated key use cases to drive usage of our app by both Hosts and members. Worked closely with engineering to create achievable scope, and ensure all projects were delivered to a high quality standard.