# Rebecca M. > Product Design Director, Design Foundations at Superhuman (Formerly Grammarly) Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rebeccam Rebecca is an accomplished design leader that has enabled high-performing, award-winning teams to drive impactful product outcomes across diverse sectors, including consumer e-commerce marketplaces and B2B SaaS enterprise businesses. With a focus on elevating design quality at scale, she has reduced business operating expenses by over $38M annually, while simultaneously increasing go-to-market velocity by 30%. With a commitment to inclusion, Rebecca leads teams that are adept in growth and engagement strategies, accessibility improvements, design systems and tooling development, service design strategies, prototyping and motion integration, design operations, qual/quant research, experimentation, content and visual design practices. Zeroheight Design System Awards: Best Collaboration, Best Article and People's Choice Award Travel + Leisure Award Winner: Best Travel App Webby Award Travel App Honoree ## Work Experience ### Product Design Director, Design Foundations @ Superhuman Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Driving AI-Native product transformation through design systems, brand expression and accessibility teams. ### Director of Product Design, Foundations @ Grammarly Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading the Design Foundations organization that drives our Design System, Brand Experience and Accessibility teams to create a cohesive and accessible product experience. ### Design Director, Foundations @ Pinterest Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead the Foundations team that defines the core product experience to enable quality at scale through the award-winning Gestalt Design system, Platform and Motion design functions. We delivered the tools to expedite go-to-market velocity by 30% saving $38 million annually. ### Design Director, Design System and Developer Experience @ Pinterest Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead the Gestalt Design system and Platform design teams at Pinterest to build product efficiencies, improve cross-functional collaboration, and increase product quality with aligned Accessibility best practices. ### Head of Design Platform @ VMware Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto • Led the direction for the Clarity Design System; a hybrid team of UI design and engineering; developing components and patterns for VMware products and the open source community • Scaled the Accessibility team from 2 to 17 creating in-house US and India based SME's to audit and prioritize remediation efforts. • We built the foundation for inclusive products by training our community on Accessibility best practices through our documentation, Advocates program and incentivized analysis. ### Senior UX Design Manager, Design System @ Workday Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Pleasanton, California • Led managers of 4 teams comprising the Design System team for desktop and mobile in the US and Europe; an org of 23. ### UX Design Manager, Design System @ Workday Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Pleasanton, California • Managed and led the design strategy for the Design System Team; a team of 12; including 10 product designers, a content strategist and UX researcher. • Oversaw the design development of product-wide components, flows and pages, including content strategy and research for the Workday ecosystem, including the Canvas Design System and Workday Design Site to ensure consistency and efficiency between all platforms. • Drive experience focused initiatives in product roadmap planning with cross-functional product and engineering leaders. ### Senior Product Design Manager, Demand @ TripAdvisor Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Crafted the product experience vision through a fully responsive replatforming to scale the Viator and TripAdvisor point-of-sale. • Aligned company goals by defining key results for 5 product designers; prioritizing team needs, managing velocity and performance. • Evolved the brand and built a design system by redefining style and pattern direction to align teams from London to Sydney and drive efficiencies. Employed qualitative research, competitive analysis and experimentation to develop the updated UI. ### Product Design Manager @ TripAdvisor Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Scaled the team through ongoing recruitment efforts, managed four product and two marketing designers • Instituted an Agile process to the design team with daily stand-ups , weekly sprints and retros building efficiencies in our process. • Reported team velocity and status with weekly rollups to the executive team. • Supported design and brand needs for every team within the company including product, marketing, merchandising, sales, business development, supplier and internal communications. ### Senior Designer @ Viator Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area • Creative lead on UI redesign for Android / tablet, iPhone, iPad apps and Mobile Web. These apps hit over 2 million + downloads with average 4+ user ratings. • Produced a 300% surge in iPhone downloads and led the app to be featured on iTunes; named an Honoree for the 2015 Webby Awards and voted the Best app for Travelers by Travel + Leisure in 2014 • Developed management strategies for the Design team from ground up • Produced a three-fold increase in asset production through the direction, training and coaching of in-house designers and contractors. ### Senior Designer @ walmart.com Jan 2006 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area • Managed and reviewed vendor creative for print and online. Consulted with vendors such as: RGA, Organic, Triad and Proctor & Gamble • Led design campaigns and design site marketing assets, oversee and train production junior designers. Onboard and train new designers and production artists. • Built-out designs for all walmart.com related packaging and in-store signage. Created and built style guides for new walmart.com logo and shipping platforms: site-to-store and home free. • Produced site audits and create new designs and site flows for higher conversion and engagement. • Brand liaison for creative department; consult between the site and stores branding divisions; UX liaison and consult to advertisers • Presented to vendors, marketing and cross-departmental leaders. • Built out UX integration of national Site-to-Store delivery service, creating wireframes, working with UI and engineering teams. Creating a variety of iterations refined by user testing and implemented site wide. • Created new user flow for photo site checkout, taking learnings from user testing removing several steps to a simpler and faster checkout process. ### Freelance Art Director / Designer @ Consumer Friendly Creative Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 | New York City, San Francisco Contract designer for a variety of clients such as iDeutsch, Laspata/Decaro, Rho Ventures, Tommy Hilfiger, Heike Jarick and Bare Escentuals. • Designed corporate identity, created, coded and maintained marketing website for luxury fashion label • Created lookbooks, posters and other marketing materials; shot photography for site and print usage • Designed and coded monthly editorial email marketing promotions and sitewide assets • Redesigned, coded and maintained investment firm website • Designed and produced 100+ page print investment brochure • Designed luxury fashion and jewelry catalogs and ads for clients Saks 5th Ave., and Dana Buchman ### Graphic Designer @ Kinney + Kinsella Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | New York City • Designed websites for diamond manufacturers Avi Paz and DDM Clients include: Jaeger Le Coultre, Fortunoff, Daniel K, Penny Preville • Designed and produced print ads, collateral, brand guides and concepts for luxury jewelry, beauty and fashion client presentations ### Creative Director @ Boutique Y3K Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | New York City • Built and managed creative and production teams from ground up for venture backed design agency • Design direction of marketing and branding materials as well as creative strategies for clients • Defined agency workflow process, describing roles/responsibilities and approval process • Presented to clients, managed department budgets and schedules Clients include: Nine West, Jones New York, Easy Spirit, Baby Gear ## Education ### Graphic Design School of Visual Arts ### BA in Literature, Film, Theater New York University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rebeccamcmillin - Portfolio: https://consumerfriendly.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/rebeccam JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rebeccam/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13