Leadership & Career Coach

I help creative leaders grow, redesign their careers and reimagine their lives

Travel Team

Took a year off from work to recharge and recenter myself personally and professionally. I spent most of the year off traveling in Europe and North America.

Director of Product Design

I led a team that was focused on evolving the core product beyond FSS (file sync and share)

Senior Design Manager

Led a design team that focused on Dropbox’s Personal line-of-business. My team worked on file syncing and adjacent products for individuals and families. Our objective was to help customers centralize their physical papers, digital stuff and everything else in their life into one organized place. We launched Automatic Computer Backup, Vault and Dropbox Passwords.

Product Design VP

In my last year at The Times, I lead a new team which was tasked with making The Times’ digital products more essential in readers’ daily lives. I built the design team and lead them to deepen engagement and loyalty for NYTimes.com and The Times’ iOS app.

Director of Product Design

I co-led Beta, the internal incubator that was charged with bringing in new audiences and growing loyalty. I also cultivated a design culture for The Times, including implementing a process that aligned cross-functional teams and career ladders for designers. I led a design team of 14 and was part of a multi-disciplinary leadership team of 100+ that attracted new audiences and increased subscriber engagement. We mapped user wants with business goals to find on-brand, revenue opportunities, and evangelized a user-centered, agile product design and development process. Our team conceptualized and built out products that all beat their targets for engagement and revenue, including: NYT Cooking, Crossword & Games, Watching, and dozens of health and wellness guides. I also led strategic planning for the acquisition of Wirecutter and then its integration.

Director of Product Design

Founder & Creative Director

My two co-founders and I prepared publishers for changes in digital book distribution, implemented strategies for editorial clients moving into digital first publishing and led businesses in the use of design for long-term growth. Our work was in websites, identities, exhibitions and books. Our clients wanted a different point of view and often needed hand-holding through change. They included: ReadyMade, Rookie magazine, Melville House, Verso, The New York Times Magazine, AIANY, The Canadian Center for Architecture, Commercial Type and Forbes.

Senior Interaction Designer

I led design for iconic museum exhibitions.

Designer

I designed user-focused websites for educational and cultural institutions.