As an experienced product design leader and UX/UI designer, I am driven to consistently produce work that is organized, focused, and good for the user. I guide my teams to create memorable designs, backed by user testing, design research, detailed discovery work, and empathetic decision making. I embody a growth mindset and a deep curiosity for the business, emerging technologies and human behavior to identify product opportunities.

I am currently working as a Lead Product Designer at Shutterstock where I am responsible for the e-commerce businesses. Leading a team of 3 designers, ensuring their work is cohesive and follows the strategy I set by creating design artifacts through discovery work, workshops, quantitative data, and user research.

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Experience

Shutterstock

09/2019 - Present

Lead Product Designer

  • Responsible for all Shutterstock owned marketplaces including Shutterstock, Premiumbeat, Pond5 and Turbosquid.

  • Leads a team of Senior Product Designers that consistently delivers impactful human-centered experiences that meet user needs and business goals

  • Brings a balanced perspective and thoughtful decision-making to strategic discussions, advocating for both user-centricity and needs of the business with my teams and my peers

  • Contributes to strategic decisions around the future direction of Shutterstock’s products. Establishes the vision for the longterm while ensuring the short term product features ladder up to a holistic user experience that delivers on the user needs and business goals

  • Provides design team the guidance and expertise to achieve effective stakeholder engagement and execute product goals

  • Drives project priorities in alignment with larger product goals, and coordinates allocation of resources within the design project

  • Guides team members to develop individual OKRs that ladder up to team and business OKR’s

  • Lead a full scope redesigned our e-commerce pricing pages resulting in a 20% lift in conversion and an 8% decrease in customer care calls/ cancellations.

  • Lead a large cross functional redesign and simplification of our global navigation.

  • Designed pay by credit card for enterprise business resulting in a 5% decrease in delinquent accounts and a significant increase in customer satisfaction as measured by our customer service agents.

  • Manage UX team interns by providing timely useful feed back on projects, showing best practices and helpful tips for not only design skills but soft skills as well.

  • Created two mentorship programs, one for the product/ux org and another for the employee resource group women@shutterstock. Adopted as a company wide mentorship program as of 02/2025.

Senior Product Designer

  • Responsible for Shutterstock business solutions (b2b) rebrand and user experience improvements.

  • Improved user experience for native apps team using design strategy, rigorous A/B testing, and user testing.

Priceline

Product Designer

  • Designed and strategized components for home, landing, checkout and customer account pages

  • Conducted and synthesized user interviews to develop company wide personas

  • Orchestrated design workshops

  • Created a design system for the email team

03/2015 - 09/2019

FactSet

Product Designer

  • Designed and managed complex visual identity systems within a desktop, mobile, and web environment

  • Designed for Responsive Web platforms, Android, and iOS

  • Created complex, multi-level infographics and data visualization from supplied financial data

2013-2015

Synergy Corporate Technologies

Web Designer

  • Conceptualized and designed intranets, extranets, and public facing websites for companies like Nintendo, Uncle Ben’s Rice and Oakleys

  • Maintained brand identity for clients as well as internally

2012-2013

The Lawyers Group

Web Designer

  • Worked primarily as a web designer; closely with our in house web developer to create and maintain the Lawyers Group websites and mobile campaigns

  • Designed all printed advertising materials as well as helped edit commercials

2011-2012

Education

University of Central Missouri

BFA in Communication arts

08/2006 - 12/2009

General assembly

Javascript certificate

2017

Skills

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

Invision

UserZoom

Google Analytics

Concept mapping

Personas

Storyboarding

Usability testing

Affinity mapping

Heuristic evaluations

Surveys

Journey mapping

User interviews

Design research

Business metrics

Writing OKRs

Team leadership

Collaboration

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

Juggling projects

Staying calm

Hobbies

Reading

Origami

Hiking

TV/Movies

Fitness

Painting

Travel

Friends/Family

Current Interests

Learning

Oil painting, pottery, pilates, origami

Reading

Project management for UX people by Christian Crumlish, Orchestrating experiences by Chris Risen and Patrick Quattlebaum, and The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Watching

History documentaries, Dark, Dr. Who, Great British Bakeoff

Listening

Lofi beats playlist, Black Atlass, 90’s Rock

Playing

The Witcher, Skyrim, Breath of the Wild, Hercule Poirot, The Last Campfire

Eating

Tacos, Salmon, Sushi, Cookies