PROFILE
Product Designer with extensive experience leading initiatives across startups and large tech companies. Passionate about building AI-powered tools and driving meaningful impact through customer-centered design. Thrives across all stages of product innovation, focusing on new interaction paradigms, mobile apps, accessibility, and emerging technologies. Highly adaptable collaborator skilled at moving fluidly between scrappy startup environments and large-scale team operations.
CORE STRENGTHS
AI & Agentic Design: AI-powered workflows, agentic design patterns, and generative tool integration
Product & Project Leadership: End-to-end product vision, roadmap planning, and cross-functional team leadership
Design Systems & Architecture: Scalable system design, component tokenization, and multi-platform consistency
Core UX & UI Craft: Customer-centric features, interaction design, visual design, and accessibility design
Execution & Research: User research, user flows, wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes
Team Development: Mentoring, coaching, and community enablement across mobile and web environments
TOOLS
Figma (FigJam, FigmaMake), Framer (Framer AI), VS Code, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, Google Stitch, Sketch App, Zeplin, Lingo, Abstract, Principal, Photoshop, Illustrator, JIRA, Confluence
Meta · Menlo Park, CA (Remote) · 2020–2026
Lead / Product Designer
Led product design for enterprise investigation tool, protecting Meta's family of apps against complex threats across 190 countries with 15,000 MAU.
Led AI-first product strategy that consolidated fragmented internal tools into a unified investigation platform.
Defined Meta's first AI-led investigation workflow, reducing cognitive load while preserving human decision-making.
Owned end-to-end UX, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, and front-end engineering using AI-assisted development workflows.
Launched a live pilot in 3 months, reducing investigation handling time by 95% with zero critical issues.
INTUIT · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA · 2017–2020
Lead / Principal Product Designer
Led end-to-end product design for QuickBooks flagship products, delivering a complete rollout across 12 enterprise and market tools using the QuickBooks Design System.
Scaled the design language across a 250+ member community through contribution models, workshops, training, office hours, and design governance.
Architected a scalable component and design-token system that accelerated and empowered engineering and product delivery.
Released 52 redesigned components with 90% design-team adoption, establishing a single source of truth.
Samsung · mountain view, CA · 2017
Lead / Staff UX Designer
Led product design for Samsung+, an Android customer-support application with 50M+ downloads.
Guided product strategy direction.
Led product UX quality processes via quality audits and measurements.
Trained and mentored designers on craft and best practices.
LINKEDIN · SUNNYVALE, CA · 2012–2016
Lead / UX Designer
Served as design lead and sole product designer for LinkedIn's native Job Search app on iOS and Android with about 15M+ downloads and 8M+ MAU.
Partnered with product management, engineering, research, design, and Google teams to maintain feature parity through agile sprints.
Led redesign initiative across iOS and Android for LinkedIn Job Search app that was featured in Google Play Store in 2015 and ranked #1 in category with 10M+ downloads and 3.5M monthly active users.
ANCHORFREE · 2013–2014
Lead / Senior UX Designer
Led end-to-end UX/UI design and redesign initiatives for Hotspot Shield VPN across desktop and mobile, supporting a product with 200M+ downloads.
Delivered cohesive user experiences across iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, web applications, landing pages, browser plugins, and marketing collaterals.
Partnered with product, engineering, and marketing to align on strategy and roadmaps.
TANGO.ME · 2012–2013
UX / Visual Designer
Led product design for Tango iOS and Android features for a social messaging platform with 200M+ downloads.
Designed and shipped Address Book Import, onboarding, and video-sharing experiences, and marketing collateral.
Streamlined production workflows through automating redline and asset export and while onboarding and training new designers on production processes and best practices.
Supported redesign initiatives for iOS and Android and worked closely with design and engineering on implementation of new design language.
SHMOOP · 2012
Lead Designer
Led UX/UI design for digital educational publishing company with over 400K MAU.
Partnered with executive, engineering, and project stakeholders to define redesign strategy, goals, and roadmap.
Led all design initiatives across websites, applications, and micro-sites.
ISSIO SOLUTIONS · 2011–2012
Lead Designer
Founding designer led end-to-end product design for Issio EMR across iOS and web.
Collaborated with executives and key stakeholders to design and build a cohesive design language and scalable brand experience.
Successfully launched a beta product in six months, driving 100% adoption across seven HCA Healthcare surgery centers and replacing manual workflows with real-time digital experiences.
Onboarded and mentored incoming designers, streamlining workflows and production processes to accelerate design team velocity.
STEVENPIXELS.COM · 2007–2012
Freelance Designer
Led the end-to-end design lifecycle for client projects across e-commerce, social media, retail, informational platforms, and non-profits, owning everything from initial discovery to final deliverables.
Translated complex user research into comprehensive flowcharts, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups while partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
Designed cohesive brand identities, custom logos, apparel graphics, and multi-channel marketing collateral.