A strategic design leader building 0-to-1 & beyond
Most recently a Product Design Manager at Teachable, with 10+ years across ed-tech and commerce. I've been the only designer in the room building a product from zero, and the manager setting direction for a team at scale.
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Zero to one, then one to ten.
I started at SchooLinks as its first designer, where the job had no edges: research, IA, UI, front-end tweaks, and the calls about what we would and wouldn't build. Over six years I took the product from a handful of screens to a platform used by school districts across the country, and learned that in 0-to-1, the hardest design work is deciding what deserves to exist.
At Teachable I owned checkout as a Senior Product Designer, the single surface where the company's revenue and our creators' revenue meet. As Product Design Manager I led the migration to Stripe's embedded checkout that lifted conversion from 18% to 23%, and set direction for designers across commerce and business solutions.
How I work
Four case studies, two companies.
Strategic leadership across Teachable's commerce surface, and 0-to-1 foundations at SchooLinks.
Two companies, over ten years.
When I sign on to solve a problem, I stay with it until it is actually solved: through launch, messy iterations, and the often overlooked follow-ups.
The toolkit, a decade in.
A decade of sharpening the same set of tools, and still finding methods I've been doing the slow way.
Thanks for sticking around.
Let's talk!
If you need someone comfortable with both starting something and finishing it, I'd love to get in touch.
The full history is on this page, but if you need a document for the file, here it is.