Experience
I’m a UX and Content Design leader with 20 years of experience, including 13 years at Google where I was a UX Director leading teams designing trusted and well-crafted products and experiences for billions of global users.
I have deep expertise creating high-performing content design teams, and I’ve also led multidisciplinary teams and company-wide design programs.
My user-centered approach and empowering leadership style unlocks impact for products and potential in people.
I love helping and delighting users, collaborating across complex organizations to create holistic experiences, building products and teams from scratch, and setting teams and individuals up to thrive.
DESIGN LEADERSHIP | DESIGN STRATEGY | CONTENT DESIGN | 0 TO 1 TEAMS AND PRODUCTS | PEOPLE MANAGEMENT | CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT
Specialties
Empathetic, inclusive, and empowering people management that grows next-generation leaders
Building products and teams from 0 to 1
Creating GenAI strategies and principles
Scaling quality and impact through design systems, frameworks, and team rituals
Driving collaboration across matrixed organizations
Developing holistic solutions accounting for the user experience across complex ecosystems
Designing coherent cross-surface experiences
Planning, processes, and principles that ensure strategic impact on top priorities
Fostering learning, culture, community, career development, craft, and well-being
Journey
Before joining Google, I was an early employee at startups and agencies driving rapid growth. I built and led cross-functional creative teams delivering work for clients that included American Express, T-Mobile, Mastercard, and Coca-Cola. These years were wonderfully chaotic, really hard (and fun), deeply rewarding, and gave me a get-things-done mindset I carry today.
At Google, I felt fortunate to work on a variety of products used by billions of global users that were also critical to the company. I was a key design leader on several product launches and I/O announcements, including Android Pay (now Google Pay), Google Wallet, editorial summaries for Maps, GenAI features for Google Play, Google Play Games for PC, and Google-wide account components.
I worked on internal products too, shaping experiences relied on daily by Google employees for productivity and safety. I’m particularly proud of leading the content design team that rapidly pulled together company-wide tools to immediately pivot Google’s entire workforce to work from home when COVID-19 began, then designed a suite of products to support returning to the office and hybrid work.
