Recommendations
“Steevy is one of the strongest UX directors I've known in my career.”
“At Google, I've hired her twice for critical roles on my team, and she's never failed to deliver extremely strong leadership, team management and UX strategic direction that has helped foster excellent teams and products. Most recently, Steevy led the strategy to completely reinvent the way we design and produce content using Gen AI. She's built incredible partnerships with XFN teams that have been critical to scaling out our abilities to create and produce strong experiences for users. Over her thirteen year tenure at Google, Steevy has become renowned for her leadership, and has been asked to serve on steering councils for both UX Writing and Gen AI. I highly recommend Steevy and would work with her again in a heartbeat!”
- Heather Cassano, Senior UX Director, Google Play
“Steevy has built several powerhouse teams at Google.”
“While her experience is rooted in Content Design, she works as an e2e UX strategist, thinker, doer, and leader. This rare combination can make the difference between a team that performs well and one that consistently knocks it out of the park. In her roles, she has expertly managed to balance user-centeredness with business goals, quality with scale.
Steevy was instrumental in defining and evolving UX Writing and Content Design discipline at Google; I've worked with Steevy on a Steering Council and other x-company groups, and her opinion and guidance has always been deeply thoughtful and widely influential.
Any team or company should jump at the chance to work with Steevy.”
- Toria Emery, UX Director, Head of UX Writing & Content Design, Google Privacy, Security, and Identity
“It's rare to find someone as genuinely respected as Steevy is at Google.”
“She's an exceptional UX leader and a force for positive change. She was a core founder of the content design discipline at the company, and championed its growth and success over many years.
I had the privilege of reporting to Steevy not once (!) but twice at Google, and I cannot overstate her impact on both my professional development and the success of the teams she led. She's a champion of user-centered approaches and has a notoriously high quality bar. Her deep understanding of the content design landscape ensured the team stayed ahead of trends and continued to innovate. Any team would be lucky to have her at the helm.”
- Erica Hoerl, Head of Consumer Content Design, Google Play
“I had the great pleasure of reporting to Steevy for years, and she’s an exceptional design leader with a rare combination of talents.”
“Her projects and programs are well-planned and flawlessly executed, resulting in consistently high-quality outcomes. She excels in building and empowering high-performance teams, and her open leadership style invites collaboration while encouraging individual growth.
Steevy was one of a small number of leaders who created the UX Writing and Content Design discipline at Google, turning a passion for words into a scaled, essential, and industry-leading design practice. Her vision for the discipline — just like her strategic vision for products — is based on her deep and intuitive understanding of people. She’s an outstanding leader, an apex practitioner, someone who deeply cares about her team and its impact, and someone I hope to work with again in the future.”
- Samuel Payne, Head of Creative & Content, Google Play
“Steevy is an exceptional UX leader with a profound commitment to the UX writing and content design craft, and user-centered design.”
“Steevy spearheaded the creation of a centralized UX writing and content design team for Play. This brought us together as a discipline, ensuring we felt connected, and helped us to align on consistency, quality, and our goals. Steevy tirelessly advocated for the importance of the role, collaborating with senior leadership to demonstrate our value through concrete examples and case studies. These efforts were instrumental in building a safe and supportive culture within Google Play that prioritized excellence in content design.
In addition to being a skilled leader, Steevy is also incredibly supportive and empathetic. I learned a great deal under Steevy's mentorship, and her considered guidance - through particularly challenging times, proved consistently invaluable. Her commitment to championing the importance of UX writing was especially evident in the way she aided me through my promotion cycle, which can be difficult as part of a smaller discipline.
I couldn't recommend Steevy more highly for any UX leadership role.”
- Ashley Marshall, Head of Developer Content Design, Google Play