Build the design team your company needs next.
Growing a design team brings different challenges at every stage.
I work with founders, executives, and design leaders to figure out what their teams need next and help make it happen through fractional leadership, coaching, organizational advising, or support hiring the right leader.
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How I can help
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Fractional leadership
Senior design leadership for the stage you’re in now.
Your design team is growing and needs experienced leadership, but you may not be ready for a full-time VP or Head of Design. I can step in to help set direction, strengthen your leaders, raise the quality bar, and make sure design has a strong voice in product and company strategy.
This might be right for you if:
Your design team has outgrown its current leadership
You need senior design judgment at an important stage of growth
You’re developing managers who need experienced support
You’re figuring out what permanent design leadership should look like
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Team & leadership coaching
Help your design leaders become stronger leaders.
As teams grow, the job of leading them changes. I work with design managers and directors to help them set direction, develop their teams, navigate difficult conversations, influence across the company, and grow into bigger leadership roles.
Coaching can be one-on-one or designed for a group of leaders growing together.
This might be right for you if:
Strong designers are stepping into leadership roles
Your managers need help leading through growth or change
You want leaders who can operate effectively across product, engineering, and the business
You want to develop your existing leaders rather than immediately hiring above them
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Design organization advising
Get an experienced perspective on what your team needs next.
Sometimes you’re facing an important design organization decision and want someone who has been through it before. I work with founders, executives, and design leaders to understand what’s happening, identify the real gaps, and turn that into clear decisions and next steps.
This might be right for you if:
You’re rethinking how your design team is structured
Design, product, and engineering aren’t working together as well as they should
Your team has grown quickly and your ways of working haven’t kept up
You’re deciding what kind of design leadership or organization you’ll need next
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Hiring a design leader
Make a more confident design leadership hire.
Hiring a Head or VP of Design is a high-stakes decision that most founders and executives make only a handful of times. I can help you understand what kind of leader your company actually needs, define the role, shape the interview process, and assist with evaluating candidates or advising on a final decision.
This might be right for you if:
You’re hiring your first Head or VP of Design
You’re unsure how senior the role should be or what it should own
You want help evaluating leadership beyond interview performance
You want an experienced design executive involved in assessing finalists
What working together looks like
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We talk
You tell me about your company, your team, what’s working, and where you’re getting stuck. I’ll ask a lot of questions.
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We figure out what you need
We’ll get clear on the problem and what kind of support would be most useful, whether that’s fractional leadership, coaching, advising, or help with a leadership hire.
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We define the work
If there’s a fit, we’ll agree on the problem we’re solving, what success looks like, and how we’ll work together.
Then we get to work.