Mar 2024 - Present2 yrs 9 mos
Manager, Design & UX, Design Systems
Mindbody
- Lead the team managing Playlist's design systems - Mindbody's Elements Design System (built on Material UI) & the ClassPass design system - and scaling them across Playlist's other product spaces, growing the practice from a component library into an organization-wide operational function with squad cycles, QA workflows, & cross-functional rituals
- Balanced individual-contributor design work across two product areas (Design Systems & ClassPass) during a first year as people manager, bringing organization & rigor to how the systems function collaborates with feature teams
- Drove platform-level modernization, including landing product-critical components & interaction patterns, CSS modernization, & dark-mode infrastructure, improving UI consistency across legacy & modern surfaces
- Built design-engineering alignment through a Frontend Platform partnership & recurring engineering forums, establishing shared infrastructure & roadmap coordination
- Introduced AI-assisted design & engineering workflows and new tooling, expanding team capability & efficiency
- Joined the company Accessibility employee resource group board & was elevated to Co-Lead, running accessibility workshops including screen-reader exercises presented at company All-Hands