Work Experience
Curie.Bio
Product Designer
November 2023 - Present
Sole designer leading 0→1 product development for an internal tooling platform used by a biotech VC to effectively scale hiring processes for critical roles at its portfolio companies.
Designed features from concept to launch to simplify how users manage the complex end-to-end recruiting process, contributing to a 70% decrease in time-to-hire for high priority roles.
Drove product adoption by soliciting user feedback and using analytics tools to monitor points of friction, informing regular feature improvements that contributed to increasing tool usage by 2x year-over-year.
Conducted user and competitive research to identify opportunities to make a search interface more intuitive and delightful, improving the overall experience and contributing to a 50% reduction task completion time.
Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to iterate on features, presenting potential designs, rationales, and tradeoffs to gather key inputs that I used to define impactful new product requirements.
Maintains a scalable design system in Figma, partnering closely with engineering to ensure consistent user experience and smooth implementation.
Sole designer leading 0→1 product development for an internal tooling platform used by a biotech VC to effectively scale hiring processes for critical roles at its portfolio companies.
Designed features from concept to launch to simplify how users manage the complex end-to-end recruiting process, contributing to a 70% decrease in time-to-hire for high priority roles.
Drove product adoption by soliciting user feedback and using analytics tools to monitor points of friction, informing regular feature improvements that contributed to increasing tool usage by 2x year-over-year.
Conducted user and competitive research to identify opportunities to make a search interface more intuitive and delightful, improving the overall experience and contributing to a 50% reduction task completion time.
Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to iterate on features, presenting potential designs, rationales, and tradeoffs to gather key inputs that I used to define impactful new product requirements.
Maintains a scalable design system in Figma, partnering closely with engineering to ensure consistent user experience and smooth implementation.
General Assembly
UX Design Apprentice
August 2023 - November 2023
HydroQuest x Cycleau | Client project: Designed a comprehensive e-learning platform to teach middle schoolers about water contamination and inspire them to advocate for safe water treatment in their communities.
Moleskine Social | Team project: Built a social networking experience to help artists and creative hobbyists connect and receive meaningful engagement on their work.
The Source Zero | Solo project: Redesigned the e-commerce website of a local eco-boutique with an emphasis on making the site more usable and creating a unique visual identity for their brand.
Product Trust Manager
February 2021 - November 2022
Led safety-by-design initiatives for Twitter Shopping; collaborated with product, policy, and ops teams to design accessible enforcement tools for agents, maintaining a user-report rate on shopping content at < 0.5%.
Improved user reporting experience by recommending UX writing changes to Twitter’s reporting flow that made policies easier for users to understand, contributing to a 50% increase in actionable reports.
Defined product requirements to enhance user safety in new features from the Trends team, assessing risk and sizing opportunities to reduce the rate of spam and abuse in trending content.
Established platform governance by launching internal policies to enforce against violating Trends content, driving cross-functional alignment and training content moderation teams to enforce the policy.
User Risk Investigator
July 2018 - January 2021
Investigated severe policy violations across Facebook's ecosystem and partnered cross-functionally to implement product, tooling, and operational solutions that mitigated their root causes at scale.
Launched proactive safety workflows that enabled agent teams to identify potential spikes in targeted harassment based on predictive signals, driving a 30% reduction in high-profile user reports.
Identified and resolved enforcement gaps in detection of violating Facebook Pages, resulting in the removal of 50k+ Pages and improving classifier accuracy to prevent future violations.
Led strategic analysis of user harm caused by COVID misinformation in Facebook Groups and presented findings to VP leadership, influencing policy updates that reduced prevalence of harmful content.
Curie.Bio
Product Designer
November 2023 - Present
Sole designer leading 0→1 product development for an internal tooling platform used by a biotech VC to effectively scale hiring processes for critical roles at its portfolio companies.
Designed features from concept to launch to simplify how users manage the complex end-to-end recruiting process, contributing to a 70% decrease in time-to-hire for high priority roles.
Drove product adoption by soliciting user feedback and using analytics tools to monitor points of friction, informing regular feature improvements that contributed to increasing tool usage by 2x year-over-year.
Conducted user and competitive research to identify opportunities to make a search interface more intuitive and delightful, improving the overall experience and contributing to a 50% reduction task completion time.
Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to iterate on features, presenting potential designs, rationales, and tradeoffs to gather key inputs that I used to define impactful new product requirements.
Maintains a scalable design system in Figma, partnering closely with engineering to ensure consistent user experience and smooth implementation.
General Assembly
UX Design Apprentice
August 2023 - November 2023
HydroQuest x Cycleau | Client project: Designed a comprehensive e-learning platform to teach middle schoolers about water contamination and inspire them to advocate for safe water treatment in their communities.
Moleskine Social | Team project: Built a social networking experience to help artists and creative hobbyists connect and receive meaningful engagement on their work.
The Source Zero | Solo project: Redesigned the e-commerce website of a local eco-boutique with an emphasis on making the site more usable and creating a unique visual identity for their brand.
Product Trust Manager
February 2021 - November 2022
Led safety-by-design initiatives for Twitter Shopping; collaborated with product, policy, and ops teams to design accessible enforcement tools for agents, maintaining a user-report rate on shopping content at < 0.5%.
Improved user reporting experience by recommending UX writing changes to Twitter’s reporting flow that made policies easier for users to understand, contributing to a 50% increase in actionable reports.
Defined product requirements to enhance user safety in new features from the Trends team, assessing risk and sizing opportunities to reduce the rate of spam and abuse in trending content.
Established platform governance by launching internal policies to enforce against violating Trends content, driving cross-functional alignment and training content moderation teams to enforce the policy.
User Risk Investigator
July 2018 - January 2021
Investigated severe policy violations across Facebook's ecosystem and partnered cross-functionally to implement product, tooling, and operational solutions that mitigated their root causes at scale.
Launched proactive safety workflows that enabled agent teams to identify potential spikes in targeted harassment based on predictive signals, driving a 30% reduction in high-profile user reports.
Identified and resolved enforcement gaps in detection of violating Facebook Pages, resulting in the removal of 50k+ Pages and improving classifier accuracy to prevent future violations.
Led strategic analysis of user harm caused by COVID misinformation in Facebook Groups and presented findings to VP leadership, influencing policy updates that reduced prevalence of harmful content.
Education
Cornell University
BA in Information Science
BA in Information Science
August 2014 - May 2018
General Assembly
UX Design, Immersive
UX Design, Immersive
August 2023 - November 2023
Education
Cornell University
BA in Information Science
August 2014 - May 2018
General Assembly
UX Design, Immersive
August 2023 - November 2023