# Olivia Anderson > Product Design and UX Research Leader Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/oliviaanderson Experienced team leader and product design strategist. With 10+ years at startups, I thrive as a player-coach able to lead design vision and operations while rolling up my sleeves when that's what the team needs. Being hands-on brings out the best in me as a leader, allowing me to provide actionable, practical coaching and elevate design quality down to the details. I am eager to join a product team that creatively integrates machine learning with scientific pursuits to drive meaningful change in people’s lives. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Rula Jan 2025 – Present ### Design Leadership Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Currently consulting with early- and mid-stage startups to define design strategy and deliver high-impact, scalable user experiences that drive business growth. Founding design partner for a stealth consumer wellness startup, leading product and brand for the beta launch. Delivered a personalized, high-converting experience with a 71% onboarding completion rate and strong early engagement. Design lead for new product streams at an ag-tech HRIS platform. Led customer research, established an org-wide prototyping standard with v0, and elevated the product and brand experience across a growing app ecosystem. Improved design velocity from bottleneck to a consistent two-sprint lead. ### Senior Director, Head of Product Design & UX Research @ Honor Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 Honor is a series E health tech startup delivering in-home care to seniors enabling them to live longer, healthier lives at home. Directed a team of 12+ designers and researchers, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration that scaled design operations to meet the demands of a growing Series E health tech startup. Aligned Design with cross-functional partners to streamline research, ideation, and iteration. For example, closely aligned Design with Data Science to integrate AI and ML into product solutions, driving innovations like personalized care plans and optimized staffing workflows resulting in improved operational efficiency, higher engagement, and enhanced customer and caregiver satisfaction. Partnered with leadership across Product, Engineering, and Operations to define vision and priorities, ensuring cohesive team execution and measurable business impact as the company hit a new level of scale and maturity. ### Director, Head of Product Design @ Honor Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Grew and managed a Product Design team of Leads and junior designers, delivering designs that increased margin per hour care delivered while improving customer SAT and caregiver longevity. Alongside R&D leadership, I set UX strategy, ensured quality execution, and evolved team processes and rituals for both product and design. ### Senior Manager, Head of Product Design @ Honor Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Leveled up team seniority, capacity, and breadth of skills to take on a broader set of product goals. Alongside R&D leadership, I set UX strategy, ensured quality execution, and evolved team processes and rituals to increase team output and impact. ### Manager, Product Design @ Honor Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Player-coach role, managing a small team of Product Designers working on 0-to-1 operations and customer-facing products while also leading design for all Caregiver experiences. As Caregiver Design Lead, I reduced care call-off rates by 20% and increased average hours worked by 14% through data-informed workforce management solutions. ### Lead Product Designer @ Honor Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 Operations Platform Design Lead, creating a suite of internal tools to support end-to-end care delivery (scheduling, task management, workforce management, and CRM). Built and scaled initial product from 0 hours to 1+ million hours served. ### Bridge Fellow @ Designer Fund Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Product Designer @ Indiegogo Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Designed and launched Indiegogo's first-generation iOS and Android apps, featured at Google I/O for its exemplary use of Material Design and spotlighted in the App store early adoption of Apple Pay. Collaborated with Design Director to design and launch Indiegogo Generosity, a 0-to-1 product that was later acquired by YouCaring and then GoFundMe. ### Web Designer @ Unknown Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 Contract design for Indiegogo, Zhena's Tea, American Sample. Web designs, social ads, print ads, brochures etc. ### Gallery Assistant @ Alexander Gray Associates Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | New York, NY ## Education ### Bachelors Degree in Major in Studio, Minor in Mathematics Pomona College ### User Experience Design Certificate General Assembly ### Front End Web Development Certificate General Assembly ### School of Professional Studies in Copyediting and Proofreading, Book Publicity, Book Business New York University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/oliviamuesse - Behance: http://behance.net/oliviamuesse --- Source: https://flows.cv/oliviaanderson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/oliviaanderson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13