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Senior design leadership, dropped into the moment you actually need it.

Fifteen years of product design across enterprise, scale-up, and agency — packaged as short, focused engagements. Bring me in when you need to land a critical build, raise the bar on a team, or move from idea to interface without losing months.

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Based
Los Angeles · Remote
Availability
From November 2026
Engagement size
2 weeks – 6 months
Capacity
Flexible — part-time or embedded
Rate
On request

01 · What I do

Four shapes of engagement

Each one tuned to a specific kind of need.

  • Embedded leadership

    Senior design partner for a critical build

    I embed alongside your product and engineering leads through a high-stakes window — a launch, a redesign, a fundraise milestone. I bring the design judgment, the team coordination, and the executive-facing comms that keep the work moving and credible.

    6–16 weeksPart-time · 10–20 hrs/wk

  • 0 → 1 design

    Idea to interface, fast

    When you have a thesis but no design partner yet. I work directly with the founder or product lead to translate a rough product idea into a credible, testable interface — flows, key screens, and the strategic decisions that come with them. The kind of work that usually takes a hire and three months, done in weeks.

    2–6 weeksSprint-paced

  • Design audit

    A senior eye on what's already there

    A structured review of an existing product, flow, or design org — with a written deliverable that names what's working, what's costing you, and what to do next. Useful before a redesign, after a leadership change, or when a board member is asking the questions you can't answer yet.

    2–3 weeksFixed deliverable

  • Team uplift

    Mentorship, rituals, and design culture

    For teams with talented designers but no senior layer yet. I work with your designers on craft, give your manager a thinking partner, and help install the rituals — critique, design reviews, the connective tissue with PM and eng — that make a team operate like one.

    3–6 monthsOngoing · light touch

02 · Why me

Not a freelancer. Not an agency.

What you get that you wouldn't get from either.

  1. i.

    A connector, not just a maker

    A CS background, fifteen years across PM and engineering tables, and a track record of getting cross-functional groups to agree on a path. The Figma file is the last deliverable, not the first.

  2. ii.

    Enterprise instincts, startup speed

    Nearly five years shipping to millions at Experian taught me how to design under real constraints — legacy systems, compliance, scale. Earlier years at startups and agencies taught me how to move when there isn't a process yet.

  3. iii.

    Senior judgment, day one

    You're not paying me to learn your domain on the clock. I read fast, ask the right questions, and turn ambiguity into a recommendation in the first week — which is usually where contract value lives or dies.

03 · Selected outcomes

Proof, not promises

+40%

Policies sold per 100k customers on a trust-critical flow

Confirm your vehicle — the data mechanic that turned an awkward verification step into the moment users felt the product working for them.
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Products, one cross-suite design review

Led design across Experian's PFM suite: set up the review where decisions that crossed product lines got made before launch, and mentored a senior designer to promotion.
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15+ yrs

Across startups, agencies, scale-ups, and enterprise

From consumer credit flows at Experian to compliance tooling for financial crime investigators — most of the shapes a product can take, and most of the ways they can stall.
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04 · How it works

A simple, predictable arc

Designed to make the first month productive.

  1. Week 0Intro call30 minutes. You walk me through the situation; I tell you straight whether I'm the right fit.
  2. Week 1Scoped proposalA short written proposal — scope, deliverables, timeline, rate. Fixed-fee where the work allows it.
  3. EngagementEmbedded workI work inside your tools — your Slack, your Figma, your standups. Weekly written check-ins so nothing is a surprise.
  4. Final weekHandoff that holdsDocumented decisions, walkthrough sessions, and the artifacts your team can run with after I'm gone.

05 · Honesty about fit

Who this is for

The shortest path to a good engagement is being clear about which ones aren't.

+Likely a strong fit

  • You need a senior design voice now, but a full-time hire is months away.
  • Your product has real users and real constraints — not a blank slate.
  • You have a designer or two who'd benefit from a more experienced layer above them.
  • You're between PM, engineering, and design and need someone to bridge them.
  • You value written thinking and weekly check-ins over status meetings.

−Probably not a fit

  • You're looking for pixel production at agency volume.
  • You need a full-time on-site presence or 40-hour weeks.
  • The decision-making is closed — you want execution, not judgment.
  • You're in pre-thesis exploration with no clear question to answer.
  • You need brand, marketing site, or pure visual design as the primary scope.