Summary
As a collaborative partner, I work with cross-functional product teams to identify top customer pain points and product gaps through the use of design thinking and user research. Using deep customer empathy and best practice heuristics, I create seamless end-to-end workflows that empower users to achieve their goals through delightful, human experiences.
Work Experience
Principal Product Designer
Getty Images | 2022-2025
• Leads the end-to-end design of high-visibility generative AI initiatives, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints to deliver impactful, customer-backed solutions on tight timelines.
• Advocates for the user experience through rationale-driven design by identifying assumptions early, aligning stakeholders around shared goals, and ensuring that design decisions are data-backed, feasible, and solve key pain points.
• Researched complex AI features to become a subject matter expert and develop clear, concise walkthroughs, elevating team and stakeholder comprehension, enabling the design of user-friendly solutions.
Product Design Manager
Intuit – QuickBooks Time | Boise, ID | 2018-2022
• Leads cross-functional teams to prioritize high impact work that solves top customer problems through seamless, end-to-end experiences.
• Connects dots across QuickBooks business unit teams to encourage collaboration, remove barriers, and generate alignment around a common product vision.
• Creates customer and data-back solutions, owning the entire design process from problem definition and customer research to pixel-perfect spec hand-off.
• Coaches and advocates for the design team to support their personal growth, career goals, and craft development, promoting an environment of transparency and joy.
Product Designer
Bodybuilding.com | Boise, ID | 2014-2018
• Compiled market research, competitive analysis, user behavior, and research insights to ensure we solved the right problems.
• Created user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, to communicate proposed solution and promote product team alignment.
• Generated business results and increased customer satisfaction through a thoughtful, phased approach, focusing on the most impactful areas of the product.
• Analyzed funnel metrics to measure success and identify new opportunities.
Craft Skills
• Design thinking
• Storytelling and presentation
• Workshop facilitation
• UX/UI design
• Interaction design
• Visual design
• User research
• Wireframing
• Prototyping
• Detailed design handoff
• Storytelling and presentation
• Workshop facilitation
• UX/UI design
• Interaction design
• Visual design
• User research
• Wireframing
• Prototyping
• Detailed design handoff
Tools
• Figma / Sketch
• Mural / FigJam
• Adobe Creative Suite
• JIRA / ClickUp
• UserVoice
• Mural / FigJam
• Adobe Creative Suite
• JIRA / ClickUp
• UserVoice
Other Skills
• Leading complex project (IDEO U certified)
• Accessibility standards
• HTML + CSS
• System thinking
• Growth mindset
• Detail-oriented
• Fun-loving
• Dot-connector
• Accessibility standards
• HTML + CSS
• System thinking
• Growth mindset
• Detail-oriented
• Fun-loving
• Dot-connector
Education
Boise State university
2011-2012
GPA: 4.0
College of Southern Idaho
2007-2009
Associate in Computer Graphic Design
GPA: 4.0