Hello! I’m Scott, a Product Designer driven by the belief that great design exists at the intersection of user empathy, business logic, and technical feasibility.
Experience
2025 — Now
New York, United States
Driving Strategy for Workspace Labs-scale Complexity: Led the end-to-end design lifecycle for high-traffic web channels, transforming ambiguous business requirements into intuitive, multi-step interaction models and service flows.
Systemic Innovation: Championed the evolution of a global design system, ensuring component scalability and accessibility (A11y) across omni-channel ecosystems to accelerate engineering velocity.
Evidence-Based Design Leadership: Directed UX research and conversational analytics initiatives to validate product hypotheses, using data-driven insights to pivot strategy and optimize user conversion/retention.
Cross-Functional Influence: Partnered as a peer to Engineering and Product leads to embed human-centered design within Agile pods, bridging the gap between technical feasibility and user delight.
Executive Storytelling & Advocacy: Socialized long-term design roadmaps and "Future Vision" concepts to C-Suite stakeholders, securing buy-in for user-centric initiatives that align with billion-dollar business goals.
2025 — 2025
2025 — 2025
New York, United States
Architecting Scalable Systems: Leading the innovation of underlying systems and connective frameworks that support the end-to-end PayPal ecosystem, ensuring a unified user journey across diverse global domains.
Engineering Alignment via Prototyping: Leveraging advanced prototyping and product design methodologies to bridge the gap between design vision and technical implementation, bringing clarity to engineering goals and accelerating development velocity.
Systemic Experience Design: Utilizing system design to "connect the dots" across complex product landscapes, articulating customer-centric journeys that maintain interaction consistency across all platforms and form factors.
High-Fidelity Craft & Interaction: Directing the creation of flexible Figma components and interaction patterns, utilizing auto-layout and motion to define high-standard UI for web and mobile applications.
Strategic Influence & Mentorship: Partnering with cross-functional leads in Engineering and Product to drive strategic design initiatives, while mentoring a diverse team of designers to elevate the organization's collective design maturity.
Evidence-Based Iteration: Leading workshops and design sprints to navigate product ambiguity, using research-grounded points of view to influence company-wide product direction and strategy.
2022 — 2025
2022 — 2025
New York, United States
Android & Pixel (System UI)
Pioneering Expressive Craft at Scale: Spearheaded the interaction model for System UI on Pixel, balancing expressive "Material You" aesthetics with meticulous craftsmanship to define the visual identity of the Android ecosystem.
Architecting Design Systems: Advanced the Android design language by both leveraging and extending internal design systems; created new, reusable components that streamlined the design-to-development pipeline across multiple hardware surfaces.
Cross-Functional Product Vision: Orchestrated deep collaboration between UX Research, Engineering, and Product Management to translate user insights into high-fidelity interaction patterns, directly impacting brand differentiation in a competitive global market.
Systemic Problem Solving: Solved complex interaction challenges for OS-level features, ensuring seamless transitions and accessibility compliance across the Pixel device portfolio.
Google Wallet
Design System Foundational Lead: Established and governed the end-to-end design system for Google Wallet, empowering partner teams to ship consistent, scalable, and secure digital payment experiences globally.
Navigating Early-Stage Ambiguity: Acted as a core design lead during the foundational stages of the product, synthesizing complex regulatory and technical constraints into intuitive user-facing frameworks.
Hardware-Software Integration (Pixel Fold): Led the UX strategy and execution for the Google Wallet launch on the Pixel Fold (2023), architecting adaptive layouts and multi-state interactions specifically optimized for foldable form factors.
Strategic Stakeholder Management: Managed cross-functional alignment across high-stakes organizational boundaries to ensure the Wallet Design System met the needs of diverse internal and external ecosystem partners.
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Scaling Global Consumer Experiences: Leveraged advanced UX principles and enterprise-level design systems to architect seamless end-to-end journeys for high-volume consumer electronics.
Full-Stack Usability Engineering: Spearheaded iterative usability studies and research initiatives, translating complex behavioral data into actionable UI architecture and design requirements.
Technical Software Mastery: Applied expert-level proficiency in UI architecture and prototyping tools to bridge the gap between conceptual design and production-ready engineering specifications.
International Cross-Functional Leadership: Orchestrated collaboration across global business units—including Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Legal—to ensure design alignment with international compliance and brand standards.
Data-Driven Product Refinement: Directed the analysis of research reports to influence product roadmaps, ensuring that final visual and interaction models were grounded in rigorous user testing.
2021 — 2021
2021 — 2021
New York City Metropolitan Area
• Work alongside the founder to create the first impression of KitchenOS, creating visual designs and prototypes on the Apple iOS application.
• Conducting user research and usability testing to meet the stakeholder’s needs and usability requirements for accessibility.
• Finding creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g., usability, discoverability)
Education
FIDM