Product Design Leadership

Build the team. Raise the product bar.

I lead design by making the work clearer, the system stronger, and the team more capable. I stay hands-on enough to challenge the product, not just manage the calendar.

5designers on my current team
22designers contributing to APEX
4direct reports managed at Fiserv
14products supported by APEX
How I operate

Leadership is a product discipline.

The goal is not to be the loudest design voice. It is to create enough clarity, trust and system leverage that better decisions happen without everything routing through one person.

Direction without theater

I translate fuzzy asks into a product problem the team can actually solve, then make decision rights and next steps explicit.

Systems that teams can use

Design systems, review practices, documentation and working agreements only matter if they reduce ambiguity in real delivery.

Coaching inside the work

I coach through critique, pairing, discovery and decision-making rather than separating “people leadership” from the product itself.

Cross-functional clarity

I spend a lot of time making Product, Engineering, Brand and design constraints visible enough to resolve, not just escalate.

Background

Hands-on depth with organizational range.

The same career history supports both paths. The difference is which part of the evidence matters most for the role you are filling.

Papa Johns

Product Design Manager / Head of UX

Lead five UX designers across web, iOS and Android while staying hands-on with complex flows, prototypes, design-system decisions and product direction.

Papa Johns

Design System Language Manager / Lead End-to-End UX

Built The Ingredients and led end-to-end ordering UX across shared product surfaces.

Fiserv

UX Senior Advisor / Principal-level Designer

Led 22 designers contributing to APEX across 14 products, managed four direct reports and designed enterprise banking experiences.

Consulting + product work

Slalom · Nine Labs · HatchWorks · ICP

Enterprise and consumer UX across sports, hospitality, identity, banking, connected products, motion and storytelling.

Allure Global Solutions

Lead Digital Media Designer

Digital, motion and interactive work across entertainment, retail and hospitality.

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