# Kelsey Kamm > Pattern Seer. Dot Connector. Complexity Whisperer. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kelseykamm I build clarity where ambiguity once lived—translating systems, stories, and signals into direction. Rooted in curiosity and driven by connection, I bring a systems-thinking mind and a human-centered lens to complex challenges. With experience in consulting, foresight, and enterprise transformation, I partner with product, engineering, and executive teams to modernize legacy platforms, scale insight-led decision-making, and build adaptive, values-aligned organizations. At Kohl’s, I helped lead the end-to-end integration of Sephora—bridging customer experience, loyalty, and fulfillment across digital and operational systems. Whether reimagining supply chains, guiding cross-functional pilots, or aligning leaders around a shared vision, I design for clarity, care, and long-term impact. ## Work Experience ### Senior Manager Product Design - Supply Chain, Marketing Technology and Research @ Kohl's Jan 2022 – Present | Remote I manage an ever-growing group of awesome designers and balance teams, leading the company in lean agile transformation with design strategy tools. ### Sr. Manager Product Design Supply Chain @ Kohl's Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leader of product design within Kohls supply chain. I lead a team of awesome designers in a design strategy approach to supply chain product design. We are seeking to create a state of the art supply chain providing products to our customers through their channel of choice, I am endlessly inspired by the interconnectedness of retail systems, putting our customers first and modernizing platforms to meet our customer's desires in a sustainable way. ### Consultant @ Slalom Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 6,500 employees. We were named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2019 and are regularly recognized by our employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com I work with our clients to create meaningful experiences and build products that customers love. I believe you must understand the problem or need before you can find an effective solution. Projects Examples Digital Therapeutics / Patient engagement strategy for digital therapeutic startup — Conducted interviews and used empathy mapping to gain insights on patient experiences and the need for client developing a prescription app, to treat chronic pain. Created patient segmentation and personas. Developed comprehensive backlog and user stories for unique product features designed to gather data and build customer loyalty. Client feedback: “We had a shell of a product and you just poured the heart into it.” E-Commerce Competitive Analysis trends and delivered actionable UI, UX recommendations for site overhaul for Silicon Valley tech giant — Facilitated workshops with clients UX, Brand, and Design teams to build internal support with key stakeholders. Results: Secured executive approval, for funding, and resourcing. Workshop and MVP product development for major U.S. retailer — Brought executives, planners, buyers, and supply chain experts together in a workshop to identify major problems, build empathy for each role and develop solution for major global retail company. Client Feedback: “I have never seen different divisions of the company work so well together to find a solution… it’s that Christmas morning feeling.” Learning and Development Course Design — Transportation, Course development and design of interactive animated modules. Client Feedback: Client immediately hired Slalom team for additional L+D work… ### Sr. Designer @ Institute for the Future Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto Guided Fortune 500 companies, governments, and foundations in anticipating 5–10 year futures through strategic foresight, visual storytelling, and scenario planning. Delivered insight-driven research, frameworks, and immersive media (VR, video, maps, images) to help executive leadership experience potential futures and plan based on data-backed realities. Clients included: Mercedes-Benz, Stanford, Meta (Oculus), Salesforce, Courseral, and California Community Colleges. ### Sr. Designer @ Accenture Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Ca ### Client Relationship Strategist - Designer @ Accenture Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked with the Accenture’s largest internal client account teams to help them win new business pitches. Our team uses design thinking methodology in workshops to bring teams together with their clients to better understand their needs. Operating as an internal design agency, we help them create a story and campaign to use in RFPs RFIs and executive meetings; we bring the human story into complex data driven solutions. ### Design Consultant @ Freelance, self-employed Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area » Created branding and VC pitch strategy for startups. Presentation design for internal corporate teams, keynote speeches and experiences including large environmental displays; print and video. Consulted and facilitated design thinking workshops with creative teams solving complex problems through design thinking. » Clients | Deckhand, MKGT, Open IDEO, WhichWinery, Google Branding, The X-Prise, Facebook and Burning Man, AutoDesk, New Minimalism ### Designer @ Deckhand Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Keynote Speech Coaching & Decks Creation Created branding, business model GTM strategies, and VC pitches for startups seeking investment. Designed presentations for corporate teams (including Google's initial slide template), keynote speeches, and final showcase experiences for incubator teams. Clients Included: Google, The X-Prise, Facebook ### MBA in Design Strategy @ California College of the Arts Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area A New Kind of Business Program: Master the Tools to Make Change and Move Beyond Profit Rethinking Business The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only profitable, but also sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful. http://designmba.cca.edu ### Lead Designer @ Base Beyond Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Launched marketing campaign, created product renderings in sketchup. Established need & go to market strategy for event specific shipping container housing startup. Base Beyond caters to the adventure providing spaces for individuals & temporary communities dedicated to self-expression & self-reliance. We create shipping Container housing units designed to transport users to any environment. Custom made, style infused, mobile units built for dreams that take you beyond. ### Design Strategist @ Podiuum Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area UI Strategist on small team building video exchange platform for brand consumer engagement. Responsible for wireframes, prototypes, beta testing & mockup interfaces for mobile app. Worked closely with developers to create comprehensive UX. Created promotional videos & marketing material. - Availiable in App store - Created and ran team, in response to market demand for a consumer facing model, in developing new app based on the existing Podiuum App. Identified an opportunity to adapt existing platform into a new app with a new purpose. Conducted qualitative user & market research to establish need. Developed user workflows, wireframes, and built production-level interfaces for the first iteration of new app. - Currently in development - http://www.podiuum.com/ ### Design Associate @ Minted Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Oakland Customized designs proofs of crowd sourced greeting cards using the Adobe Suite for a design marketplace brings access to artists. ### Project Manager @ Partners & Sutro Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 - Generate new business specifically in the commercial real sector in San Francisco. - Plan and execute staging projects, including installing finishes, custom lighting and furniture, aimed at improving real estate sales. - Create presentations for the partners and created promotional material for web. ### Design Associate @ Minted Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Using the Adobe Suite I: • Created customer proofs • Created and edited design files • Created print-ready files and fulfilled customer’s orders • Edited and color corrected photos for optimal print quality ### Development Intern @ The Commonwealth Club of California Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Developed one touch and twelve touch mailing campaigns. Produced written and graphic content designed to grab readers attention, communicate information clearly and solicit donations. Integral part of a team responsible for annual fundraising dinner, at which we our doubling expected income. Event attended by 200 major donors, at the Palace Hotel, featuring Jed York (owner of the 49ers) and Michael Krasny (host of forum on NPR.) Facilitated educated conversations between acclaimed speakers and members at smaller member socials. The Commonwealth Club of California is a member supported, nonpartisan pubic affairs forum that produces more than 400 inspirational and educational lectures and panel discussions each year on a wide variety of issues. A few of the notable and well versed individuals that have spoken recently include: Hillary Clinton (US Secretary of State), Al Gore (Environmentalist and Politician), Nora Ephron (director of Julie and Julia), Howard Schultz (CEO of Starbucks), Condoleeza Rice (Former Secretary of State), Colin Powell (Secretary of State, US General) Cecil Richards (President of Planned Parenthood), Jack Dorsey (entrepreneur: Square, Twitter), and Michio Kaku (physicist). ### Production Assistent to Isil Bayraktar @ Digiturk Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bodhgaya India Assistant to Isil Bayraktar, Turkish television host, as she shot a documentary program about the Kalachakra Buddhist celebration in Bodhgaya India. Produced 12 part tv documentary series about Buddhist Kalachakra Celebration, the Tibetan New Years celebration. Lived amongst Tibetan refugees following the 13th Dalai Lama across the subcontinent. - Aired in Europe summer 2013 - ### Graphic Design and Social Media Intern @ International Forum on Globalization Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 I developed an interactive online map to illustrate the subject of IFG's publication, Outing the Oligarchy. Outing the Oligarchy is an expose on the network of power and influence wielded by the Koche brothers over American business and politics. ### Property Management Assistant @ Seagate Properties, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 I worked in an administrative position for the building management team of 44 Montgomery street, one of the largest buildings down town San Francisco. My responsibilities included facilitating positive relationships between tenants and ownership. Specific skills included - -answering phones In addition to admin responsibilities. -Report any problems that violate building safety -Coordinate building deliveries -Facilitating relations and access for third party contractor projects for building renovations and remodels. - Assigned duties to housekeeping personnel. - Oversaw incoming and outgoing shipments from loading dock areas, managed the inventory for the distribution of keys, furniture and space. ### Study on Effectiveness and Efficiency of NGO's, Bahia, Brazil @ Anthropology Department at Colorado College Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Bahia Brazil -On sight observation of daily activities at 15 different NGO's -Evaluated the performance of individual organizations in comparison to the others. -Compiled data into a final report and submitted it to the anthropology specialist on Bahia. One examples of the NGO's we worked with are Projeto Axe - Projecto Axe is a nonprofit art and education organization founded and directed by the independent curator France Morin. It organizes projects in the form of long-term collaborations between artists and communities that are deeply rooted in the rhythms of everyday life. These projects demonstrate how an artist’s gift to open up new ways of seeing, to forge connections between persons from diverse backgrounds, and to inspire positive change might contribute to the process of reconsidering the potential of contemporary art as a socially grounded practice. ### Peer Resources @ Marin Academy Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 Facilitated relations between student body and administration Facilitated relations between student body and parental organization ### Office Assistant @ NAI BT Commercial Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 Performed administrative tasks including copying, filing, and sending faxes Database management ## Education ### Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Design Strategy California College of the Arts ### Bachelor of Arts in Political Science; International Relations + Studio Art; focus on Design Colorado College ### Professional Sequence in Graphic Design in Graphic Design University of California, Berkeley ### Marin Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kpkamm - Portfolio: http://www.kelseypkamm.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/kelseykamm JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kelseykamm/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13