Executive Design Leader with 20+ years of experience building new futures.

Designing for possible futures.

I'm a design leader and meaning-maker who helps growing teams cross the hardest threshold: from knowing they can build, to knowing what's worth building. And doing it with joy.

I think of that work as defining what a company's relationship to humans actually is, and how that relationship feels. Not just shaping how something looks. The deeper question of what it means.

I think in transitions. The moment someone is in. The moment they deserve to reach. And the feeling, specific, named, and designed for, that moves them from one to the other. Not as a layer on top of the work. As the work itself.

Across two decades at Google, IDEO, Hinge and beyond, one question has stayed constant: why this, out of everything we could make? As building gets easier, that question only gets harder and more valuable. It has nothing to do with which tools we use to answer it.

I believe delight is load-bearing. That curiosity is a design material. That the teams who still treat these things seriously make the work that actually lasts.

The best decisions I've been part of didn't just have context and rationale. They had a clear answer to: what do we want this person to feel, and why does that matter?

Starts with
the feeling.

Makes
to think.

Delight is
load-bearing.

Knows what
not to build.

Experiments
with process.

Relevant Experience

  • VP of Product Design Hims Hers 2025 to Current
  • Head of Product Design Hinge 2023 to 2025
  • Design Director Google Creative Lab 2021 to 2023
  • Design Director IDEO.org 2017 to 2021
  • Design Lead Veryday/McKinsey Design 2016 to 2017
  • Design Lead Doblin/Deloitte 2014 to 2016
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