Lead a team of talented designers and researchers working to drastically improve the user experience in Series C logistics startup.
•Established team rituals including design sprint planning, critique, demo and retro for continuous process improvement, learning and mentorship.
•Instituted team health metrics to gauge organizational impact and internal satisfaction.
•Maintained demonstrable high levels of intra design team satisfaction and perceived impact from C-Suite stakeholders in evolving pandemic work environment.
•Introduced custom research and design templates to empower product designers to understand complex business problems and demonstrate impact of solutions.
•Grew team from 2-10 members while increasing core design team competencies across UX strategy, UX research, interaction design, and visual design.
•Designed features enabled 150% YOY revenue growth in two year span.
•Managed C-Suite and Engineering relationships to implement R&D Principles and an innovation process for business ideas.