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Helped the privacy team at google, re-imagine one of their most used consumer tools.
- ✓Brought protection into Search, the Google app and Gmail, at the moment people are already worried
- ✓Rebuilt onboarding around a one-click import from Google
- ✓Turned a settings-style tool into a plain-language hub with LLM-generated summaries
Leading design for Airbnb's trust tooling and spearheading the introduction of AI into its workflows
- ✓Reduced average handle time (AHT) across customer support and safety queues
- ✓Part of a small product and engineering team that built one of Airbnb's first AI-native workflows: a tight loop where design, engineering, and product work all ran heavily on AI.
Led the effort to bring a large third-party sales tool in-house and rebuild it as AI-native.
- ✓Quotes went from 30 minutes and 40 clicks to pre-built and edited in under five
- ✓One app replaced the four tools reps used for a single deal, covering planning, quoting, signing and tracking
- ✓The full flow runs on laptop, tablet and phone, so a rep can close in front of the merchant
Lead Experience Designer · 2023–2024
- Data
- SQL
- Visualization
- Streaming
- Systems
Built an operational data platform from scratch
- ✓Millions in savings
- ✓Built a real-time streaming analytics platform from scratch
- ✓Set up a re-usable design system for information-dense tools
Worked with MOAB in their early days, shaping their rental operations platform as first customers started putting real demands on it, and designed a new website builder for the product
- ✓Helped MOAB win new customers and keep existing ones happy
- ✓Extended their platform around real customer needs
- ✓Designed their storefront builder
Designed a scrollable story documenting the siege of Mariupol, led by survivors' accounts and backed by supporting pages on the damage, the dead, and who's responsible.
Worked across WeWork's internal product teams to streamline Spacestation, the tool community teams use to run each location, and Mission Control, the platform behind every building in the portfolio.
Designed Variational's product, brand, and design system from the ground up, a decentralized, non-custodial RFQ platform for trading and clearing bilateral derivatives. Through a period of fast growth
- ✓Over $200B in trading volume across 50,000+ accounts
- ✓Peak days topping $4B+ in trading volume
- ✓Variational has since raised over $60M, including a $50M Series A led by Dragonfly