Leadership style

Leadership through listening, coaching, engagement in design decisions, and just enough process.

Can balance between player-coach (for smaller teams) and dedicated management (for larger teams), catering to the skill and diversity of the team, and the relative priority between hands-on design work or organizational and designOps needs.

Assessing each team member's skill set, aptitude, craft, and passions to align with product and company priorities and helping with designer's career goals. Using coaching, mentorship, and training plans to fill current gaps, address future needs, and organizational succession planning. Ensuring the team has the right tools (AI and otherwise) and continuous skills sharing and training to perform at their best.

Experienced with all phases of management: recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, evaluations, performance management, promotions, recognition, remuneration, and transitions.

Consistently positive results in employee satisfactions surveys related to immediate manager.

Consistent delivery of designs and product releases.