Ibotta – Senior Product Designer, Sep. 2024 to Present
At Ibotta, I led design strategy for the enterprise-facing Ibotta Performance Network (IPN), partnering with product, engineering, and data teams to bring clarity, cohesion, and scale to a complex B2B platform.
Design Strategy & System Leadership: Led design strategy for the enterprise-facing Ibotta Performance Network (IPN), shaping platform experiences, design systems, and research to bring clarity and cohesion to a complex B2B ecosystem.
Information Architecture: Drove the evolution of the internal B2B design system and led a multi-phase information architecture redesign, improving consistency, adoption, navigation, and discoverability across teams and core enterprise personas.
Custom Reporting Solutions: Owned experience strategy for custom enterprise reporting, partnering with data teams to deliver AI-enhanced insights that enabled faster, more confident decision-making at scale.
The Trade Desk | Senior II UX Design Lead, 2019 to 2023
As a Senior UX Designer and Team Lead at The Trade Desk DSP, I drove large-scale app experiences through UX strategy, information architecture, interaction design, and design system leadership.
Product Design Lead: Spearheaded the Solimar release, redesigning site architecture, navigation, homepage, reporting, and campaign flows, which raised the Q2 Net Promoter Score to 55——a 50‑point increase from Q2 2021.
AI-Powered Experience Strategy: Led cross-functional efforts to integrate AI-driven campaign optimization and audience targeting into the platform, standardizing UX patterns in partnership with product, UX directors, and the CTO to drive scalable design solutions.
Design Team Leadership & Career Growth: Managed the End‑to‑End Experiences team, overseeing the Trade Desk Design Framework (Solimar) and the Lingo Design System, and mentored four designers who earned promotions within three years.
Executive & Product Strategy Alignment: Collaborated with product and business leaders to align design work with corporate innovation goals, presenting design direction to the CEO, CTO, and senior directors and strengthening global stakeholder collaboration.
Information Architecture Innovation: Invented a contextual navigation framework that earned U.S. Patent 11,354,142‑B1, advancing information architecture for deep hierarchy flattening.
patents.google.com/patent/US11354142B1/en
CareerBuilder | Lead Designer, 2015 to 2019
During my tenure at CareerBuilder, I shaped web and native mobile experiences using UX strategy, interaction design, usability testing, and cross-platform design systems.
Mobile Mastery: Led the mobile platform team to deliver native iOS and Android apps that complemented the web product, resulting in a 20–30% year‑over‑year increase in total and new mobile users.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with product and engineering teams across global locations to enhance enterprise features such as search, data analytics, applicant tracking, and HCM tools, improving feature adoption and cross‑team efficiency.
Mentoring Excellence: Managed and mentored junior to senior designers remotely and on‑site, building a cohesive UX team that increased design output and supported multiple product initiatives.
MY EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts • Visual Communication • Georgia Southern University • Cum Laude
CERTIFICATIONS
Stanford: UX/UI Design for AI Products (2025) • MIT Sloan School of Mangement: Mastering Design Thinking (2024) • Harvard Business School Management Essentials
PATENTS
US Patent 11354142-B1
Computing Network For Implementing A Contextual Navigation And Action User Experience Framework And Flattening Deep Information Hierarchies
Tools
Figma & Make • ChatGPT • Lovable • v0 • Miro • Pendo • Material Design • SalesForce Lightening Design • Adobe Creative Cloud – Photoshop, Illustrator • Atlassian – Jira, Confluence, Slack • Usertesting.com • UserInterviews • UserZoom • Office 365 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
