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DesignOps & Creative Operations Leader --- I build the systems, workflows, and design infrastructure that let creative teams scale

I partner with digital product clients in regulated and high-growth industries (fintech, healthcare, SaaS) building or scaling their design and creative operations — bringing the systems, governance, and team infrastructure that these environments demand.

From early-stage to growth, I bring structure to complexity—connecting design, product, and marketing through systems that drive speed, clarity, and impact. Available for full-time DesignOps and Creative Ops leadership roles, and select fractional engagements.

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CASE STUDY

Simplifying Complex Messaging for Real Users

Developed behavior-based messaging frameworks for complex user scenarios—improving engagement and conversion through personalization and iterative testing

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CASE STUDY

How I Scaled Creative Operations Across a Multi-Client Fintech Platform

New clients were onboarding regularly, each bringing unique brand guidelines, compliance requirements, and content needs. The creative team — a small, remote group — was fielding requests from multiple stakeholders simultaneously, with no formal way to capture, prioritize, or track work. It was up to me to fix it.

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Building the Systems Behind Consistent Marketing Execution

Built a flexible, compliance-ready design system that unified design, development, and accessibility standards—reducing rework, accelerating delivery, and enabling consistent execution across multiple financial services clients.

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Connecting Brand, UX, and Marketing into a Cohesive Experience

Disconnected brand, UX, and marketing efforts were creating friction across the customer journey. By aligning strategy, messaging, and experience design, we built a cohesive system that improved clarity, consistency, and conversion across every touchpoint.

Building the Operations Behind Great Creative Work

As a DesignOps and Creative Operations leader, I build the infrastructure that lets creative teams scale — intake processes, design systems, SLAs, workflow governance, and the team frameworks that keep quality consistent as organizations grow.

This isn't about managing projects. It's about building the operational foundation that makes great creative work repeatable, measurable, and sustainable.

DesignOps & Creative Operations

  • Build and scale the systems that power design and creative teams—from intake and workflows to capacity planning, tooling, and cross-functional alignment

Design Systems & UX Infrastructure

  • Create scalable design systems and component libraries that standardize experiences, accelerate production, and improve product consistency

Customer Experience & Lifecycle Strategy

  • Design end-to-end user journeys across product, email, and messaging—driving engagement, activation, and retention through data-informed iteration

AI-Enabled Workflows & Automation

  • Integrate AI tools and automation into design and marketing operations to reduce manual effort, accelerate delivery, and scale output without sacrificing quality

+300% 

increase in CTR through lifecycle messaging strategy

+70% 

lift in open rates across email + SMS

-30%

decrease in time-to-market via workflow optimization

-75%

reduced UI bugs 

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Built for Creative Teams That Are Scaling

I partner with early-stage and growing companies whose creative and design teams have outgrown informal processes — and need someone to build the infrastructure that lets them scale without losing quality.

Your creative team is reactive instead of planned

Design requests have no consistent intake or prioritization

Your design system exists in theory but isn't consistently adopted

Leadership has no visibility into creative capacity or delivery timelines

Why Teams Bring Me In

I'm an operator first — structured, collaborative, and comfortable building in ambiguous, high-pressure environments.

I start by understanding what's actually broken: where work is getting stuck, where quality is slipping, where the team is spending time they shouldn't be. Then I build the systems that fix it — and make sure those systems get adopted, not just documented.

I've done this in regulated environments where compliance constraints are non-negotiable and the cost of inconsistency is real. Strong processes don't slow creative work down. They're what make it scale.

Increase in Email Engagement

Redesigned omnichannel messaging journeys for 20+ fintech clients — drove 300% lift in CTR and 70% increase in open rates across regulated B2C audiences

Reduction in Time-to-Market

Built creative intake process, SLA framework, and Agile workflow from scratch — reduced time-to-market by 30% across a multi-client fintech platform

Reduced UI Bugs

Established design system governance and cross-client component library in Figma — reduced UI bugs by 75% and time-to-prototype by 40% across 8+ fintech clients

AI Integration

Actively integrating AI into DesignOps workflows — using Asana AI Studio for intake automation, Figma AI for component workflows, and LLMs for brief development and research synthesis

Operations That Actually Get Adopted

Most creative ops problems aren't a lack of ideas — they're a lack of infrastructure. Designers know what good looks like. They just don't have the systems, the intake process, or the workflow structure to get there consistently.

My approach connects design systems, operational workflows, and team structure so your creative function isn't just aligned in theory — it's equipped to execute at scale, in a regulated environment, without burning out the people doing the work.

Design system governance that gets maintained, not just built
Creative intake and SLA frameworks that eliminate reactive work
Agile workflow structures adapted for creative team environments
AI-assisted automation that accelerates production without replacing judgment

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Let's Build Something That Scales

If your creative team is outgrowing its processes — or you're building DesignOps from scratch — I'd love to talk. The right operational infrastructure changes everything.

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