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.
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