Leading key strategic efforts to develop strategies around AI and integrate it into core experiences in the Facebook app.

Supporting many of Meta's messaging efforts across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. This includes an emphasis on privacy-centric features like end-to-end encryption and disappearing messages, in addition to core messaging features like calling, sharing and growth.

Managed creative for Google Assistant’s portfolio which saw 4x user growth and scaled to over a billion devices during that time. I contributed leadership for a 500+ design organization and supported global XFN partners across 15 concurrent 1p and 3p programs. We supported 80+ launches and evolved Google’s visual language for the brand and core products.

Accomplishments

✔ Design leadership for a 500-person team during 4x user growth (XX% DAU) and scaling to 1bn devices

✔ Support XFN partners with product design efforts across 15+ concurrent 1p & 3p programs

✔ Evolved Google’s visual language globally (80 countries) across Nest, Android, and NBU

✔ Led production efforts (assets, spec, QA) across 80 surfaces/implementations

✔ Drove organizational design thinking to evolve team structure, strategic contribution, and scale (10x)

✔ Recipient of a dozen patents related to AI/ML, near and far-field UX, and computational design

✔ Contributed thought-leadership for Google in the area of human-computer relationships

Global design director for teams spanning a dozen locations across disciplines in research, user experience and engineering. We developed brand guidelines for marketing, supported product roadmaps generating $1B in annual revenue and maintained design systems and component libraries for over 200 engineering teams.

Accomplishments

✔ Unified design teams across product, marketing, and engineering into a global COE

✔ Established the company’s first design department (roles, ladders, pay bands)

✔ Concurrently managed global, multi-site (12) operations across varying product & eng teams

✔ Accountable for BizOps, having operated $MM annual budgets amidst 600% growth YOY

✔ Launched a design system (standards, assets, docs) which supports 200+ dev teams

✔ Unified PLM across 6 countries & 10 locations for all SaaS product and eng teams

✔ Directed global rebrands (identity, guidelines, coll) through two major mergers & acquisitions

✔ Recipient of internal Innovation Award for 2016

As Design Director, I came onboard to spearhead the transition and evolution of product design and branding post acquisition; evolving agile & startup decision-making into global strategy and corporate compliance. I led all design efforts across both marketing, engineering, and product management teams. In under a year, my ability to set high-level strategy, manage processes, and communicate progress to various stakeholders led to my promotion to head up design efforts globally across the entire organization.

Accomplishments

✔ Responsible for product design for all SaaS products (CRM, BI, Marketing Automation)

✔ Directed visual language and UI refresh for a dozen products post-acquisition

✔ Partnered with marketing to rebrand products for B2B suite of commercial applications

✔ Led UI Audit and partner selection to evolve our client-side strategy for platform efforts

✔ Evolved product development lifecycle with PM/Engineering to optimize design engagement