Senior Product Designer - Iru (formally Kandji) - Coral Gable, FL
(2024-12)
Platform level design ownership with org wide scope across 3+ product teams. Parallel track: design systems leadership + hands on AI powered prototyping.
- Design systems rebuild: Led the full migration to ShadCN, aligning 3 product teams on a single themeable foundation, cutting cross team redundancy by 60% and establishing the shared component language now used across every product surface.
- Conversion & monetization: Owned onboarding and plan management end to end, lifting conversion 47% through a simplified user journey that simultaneously unlocked multi SKU and multi product expansion architecture.
- AI-powered prototyping tool: Among the first two designers to adopt an in house AI tool that pulls live GitHub code, enabling prototype to production testing of micro interactions before any engineering push. Fast tracked 3 projects that would have taken a full quarter, cutting delivery time by 50%+, while coleading the design system rework needed to ensure the tool's output meets production grade code standards.
- Platform UX: Overhauled the core dashboard, unified information architecture and reduced cognitive load, producing a 37% gain in task completion speed.
- Design operations: Established Figma to dev handoff workflows adopted company wide, becoming the de facto design ops standard and meaningfully accelerating review cycles across teams.
- Executive alignment: Served as the strategic design voice in leadership discussions, directly shaping platform roadmap and product strategy decisions.
Design Manager - eMed - Miami, FL
(2021-11 - 2024-12)
Full management scope: hired and led a 5 person team, owned org wide design standards, and drove cross functional strategy across Product, Engineering, Research, and CX.
- Team building: Hired, structured, and grew a 5 person design team, established rituals, a feedback culture, and a performance bar that lowered turnover and raised output quality across every product line.
- Org wide standardization: Created shared design patterns and documentation used across all products, eliminated duplicate work, raised consistency, and measurably increased team velocity.
- Business impact: Led a platform wide UX overhaul producing a 20% increase in user satisfaction scores, which directly shaped the next two quarters of executive roadmap priorities.
- Stakeholder alignment: Built and ran cross functional cadences across 4 departments, reduced decision lag and accelerated feature launches company wide.
- Strategic voice: Served as design's primary liaison to executive leadership, translating research into roadmap ready recommendations that influenced C level planning.
Senior Product Designer - YieldX (Acquired by FNZ) - Aventura, FL
(2019-10 - 2021-11)
Zero to one design lead for an institutional fixed income platform. Partnered with founders. Platform acquired by FNZ supporting $2B+ in managed assets.
- Zero-to-one ownership: Sole design lead from concept to launch, defined interaction models, design system, and component library for an enterprise grade financial platform built for acquisition.
- Complex domain design: Translated institutional fixed income workflows into intuitive experiences serving both advisor facing and institutional users with fundamentally different mental models.
- Acquisition impact: Contributed directly to $18M raised and $2B+ AUM pre acquisition, the design system and architecture held through FNZ's full platform integration.
- Scalable systems: Built a component architecture enabling enterprise white labeling and multi product flexibility, designed to outlast rapid early stage iteration.
Senior UX/UI Designer - Norwegian Cruise Line - Miami, FL
(2019-01 - 2020-01)
eCommerce UX lead in partnership with VP and Director level stakeholders.
- eCommerce conversion: Led redesign of core conversion flows, improved usability and conversion across the primary web experience.
- Research-driven execution: Ran user research and competitive analysis that directly shaped design decisions; delivered high-fidelity prototypes for major site updates.
Digital Designer - Cosmofrance | Total Mortgage | Bad Elf - Connecticut / Florida
(2014-01 - 2019-12)
Foundation years across agencies and startups. Built the craft, brand, and cross functional instincts that now inform leadership decisions.
- Full-stack visual range: Responsive web, brand systems, packaging, mobile UX, marketing assets, and corporate branding manuals, shipped across industries in fast-moving, resource-constrained environments.
