• Assist early stage startups design and prototype 0-to-1 release-ready products and features with a focus on document management business, and AI.

• Design user experience to optimize and simplify interface and user flows.

• Lead user experience audits and assessments and generate concrete recommendations to drive product maturity in alignment with business goals.

• Perform UX research and product discovery into competitive and parallel markets.

• As the Senior Product Designer, I led the user experience and visual design of the platform and designed major features from initial concept to release.

• Directly contributed to ongoing upward growth by focusing on adoption through intuitiveness and simplicity, retention through a responsive self-service approach, and upgrades through premium features and integrations.

• Conducted user research, interviews, prototype testing, competitive and industry research and analysis to develop customer personas to define and support business requirements.

• Collaborated across teams to finalize mock-ups, define product roadmap, identify future opportunities, and evaluate feature performance.

• Project managed, defined feature requirements, wrote specifications, determined success metrics, prepared customer training resources.

• Hired and onboarded designers and product managers and interns, monitored and evaluated colleagues, managed internal product training, documentation, and processes.

• As Senior User Experience Designer, I led the full design of a SaaS version control and code collaboration platform from concept to a live beta stage.

• Defined holistic product vision and ensured proposals were feasible and addressed customer and business needs in collaboration with leadership, product, engineering teams.

• Defined design system and visual aesthetic used across the entire product ecosystem.

• Created wireframes, high-fidelity mock-ups, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect assets.

• Championed design thinking, UX principles, and industry best-practices to streamline product management and engineering processes, using data-informed troubleshooting and problem solving.

• As the Lead Product Designer, I led the strategic UX design for emerging products and new markets with a focus on driving discovery and adoption through Network Effect.

• Hired and trained product designers to support the Vault Product teams.

• Advanced the design system and functionality of the platform user interface to serve all applications to be consistent, cohesive, intuitive, and exceed industry expectations.

• Evolved and matured product team processes to align with SaaS industry best practices and agile development.

• As the Visual Designer, I created the UX and UI solutions from concept to release and balanced many projects simultaneously in an agile, deadline-driven environment.

• Evolved the early visual design of the product into a mature, intuitive, and elegant business platform.

• Developed and implemented an intuitive design system component library, specifications, guidelines, and documentation to build a consistent experience and expedited design-to-development process in collaboration with the Engineering team.